Nominations for the Academy Awards
January 23, 2008
The nominations for the 80th Annual Academy Awards were announced early Tuesday morning by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis and Oscar winner Kathy Bates.
The winners of the previously announced Scientific and Technical Academy Awards will be presented their awards on Feb. 9. The award show for the 80th Academy Awards will be at 7 p.m. Feb. 24 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood and televised on ABC. 9.
ACHIEVEMENTS IN FILM
Motion Picture
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Directing
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
Juno (Jason Reitman)
Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Lead Actor in a Leading Role
George Clooney (Michael Clayton)
Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street)
Tommy Lee Jones (In the Valley of Elah)
Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises)
Actress in a Leading Role
Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth: The Golden Age)
Julie Christie (Away From Her)
Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose)
Laura Linney (The Savages)
Ellen Page (Juno)
Actor in a Supporting Role
Casey Affleck (The Assassination of Jess James by the Coward Robert Ford)
Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Charlie Wilson’s War)
Hal Holbrook (Into the Wild)
Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton)
Actress in a Supporting Role
Cate Blanchett (I’m Not There)
Ruby Dee (American Gangster)
Saoirse Ronan (Atonement)
Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone)
Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton)
Adapted Screenplay
Atonement (Christopher Hampton)
Away From Her (Sarah Polley)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Ronald Harwood)
No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Original Screenplay
Juno (Diablo Cody)
Lars and the Real Girl (Nancy Oliver)
Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
Ratatouille (Brad Bird (Screenplay); Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobionco and Brad Bird (Story))
The Savages (Tamara Jenkins)
Original Song
“Falling Slowly” (Once)
“Happy Working Song” (Enchanted)
“Raise It Up” (August Rush)
“So Close” (Enchanted)
“That’s How You Know” (Enchanted)
Original Score
3:10 to Yuma (Marco Beltrami)
Atonement (Dario Marianelli)
The Kite Runner (Alberto Iglesias)
Michael Clayton (James Newton Howard)
Ratatouille (Michael Giacchino)
Foreign Language Film
Beaufort (Israel)
The Counterfeiters (Austria)
Katrn (Poland)
Mongol (Kazakstan)
12 (Russia)
Animated Feature Film
Persepolis
Ratatouille
Surf’s Up
Art Direction
American Gangster
Atonement
The Golden Compass
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
There Will Be Blood
Cinematography
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Atonement
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Costume Design
Across the Universe
Atonement
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
La Vie en Rose
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Film Editing
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Makeup
La Vie en Rose
Norbit
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Sound Editing
The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
There Will Be Blood
Transformers
Sound Mixing
3:10 to Yuma
The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
Transformers
Visual Effects
The Golden Compass
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Transformers
Doumentary Feature
No End in Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Sicko
Taxi to the Dark Side
War/Dance
Doumentary Short Subject
Freeheld
La Corona (The Crown)
Salim Baba
Sari’s Mother
Short Film Animated
I Met the Walrus
Madame Tutli-Putli
Méme Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)
My Love (Moya Lyubov)
Peter & the Wolf
Short Film Animated
At Night
Il Supplente (The Substitute)
Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)
Tanghi Argentini
The Tonto Woman
TESTIMONIAL AWARDS
Honorary Award
To Robert Boyle in recognition of one of cinema’s great careers in art direction.
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNIVAL AWARDS
Academy Award of Merit
To the Eastman Kodak Company for the development of photographic emulsion technologies incorporated into the Kodak Vision2 family of color negative films.
Scientific and Engineering Awards
To Dr. Doug Roble, Nafees Bin Zafar and Ryo Sakaguchi for the development of the fluid simulation system at Digital Domain.
To Nick Rasmussen, Ron Fedkiw and Frank Losasso Petterson for the development of the Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) fluid simulation system.
Technical Achievement Awards
To Christien Tinsley for the creation of the transfer techniques for creating and applying 2D and 3D makeup known as “Tinsley Transfers.”
To J”rg P”hler and Rüdiger Kleinke of OTTEC Technology GmbH for the design and development of the battery-operated series of fog machines known as “Tiny Foggers.”
To Sebastian Cramer, for the invention and general design and Andreas Dasser, head of development at P&S Technik GmbH, for the mechanical design of the Skater Dolly and its family of products.
To Victor Gonzalez, Ignacio Vargas and Angel Tena for the creation of the RealFlow software application.
To Jonathan Cohen, Dr. Jerry Tessendorf, Dr. Jeroen Molemaker and Michael Kowalski for the development of the system of fluid dynamics tools at Rhythm & Hues.
To Duncan Brinsmead, Jos Stam, Julia Pakalns and Martin Werner for the design and implantation of the Maya Fluid Effects system.
To Stephan Trojansky, Thomas Ganshorn and Oliver Pilarski for the development of the Flowline fluid effects system.
John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation
David Inglish
Gordon E. Sawyer Award
David A. Grafton
Award of Commendation
To Jonathan Erland in recognition of his leadership and efforts toward identifying and solving the problem of High-Speed Emulsion Stress Syndrome in motion picture film stock.