Oscar Nominated Movies 2008

Daniel Day LewisHere’s a list of the Oscar nominees and Oscar nominated movies for 2008:

Best Actor Nominees 2008:

George Clooney in “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)
Daniel Day-Lewis in “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
Johnny Depp in “Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)
Tommy Lee Jones in “In the Valley of Elah” (Warner Independent)
Viggo Mortensen in “Eastern Promises” (Focus Features)

Best Supporting Actor Nominees 2008:

Casey Affleck in “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” (Warner Bros.)
Javier Bardem in “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Charlie Wilson’s War” (Universal)
Hal Holbrook in “Into the Wild” (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment)
Tom Wilkinson in “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)

Best Actress Nominees 2008:

Cate Blanchett in “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” (Universal)
Julie Christie in “Away from Her” (Lionsgate)
Marion Cotillard in “La Vie en Rose” (Picturehouse)
Laura Linney in “The Savages” (Fox Searchlight)
Ellen Page in “Juno” (Fox Searchlight)

Best Supporting Actress Nominees 2008:

Cate Blanchett in “I’m Not There” (The Weinstein Company)
Ruby Dee in “American Gangster” (Universal)
Saoirse Ronan in “Atonement” (Focus Features)
Amy Ryan in “Gone Baby Gone” (Miramax)
Tilda Swinton in “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)

Best Animated Film Nominees 2008:

“Persepolis” (Sony Pictures Classics): Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
“Ratatouille” (Walt Disney): Brad Bird
“Surf’s Up” (Sony Pictures Releasing): Ash Brannon and Chris Buck

Best Director Nominees 2008:

Julian Schnabel
“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
(Miramax/Pathé Renn)

Jason Reitman
“Juno”
(Fox Searchlight)

Tony Gilroy
“Michael Clayton”
(Warner Bros.)

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
“No Country for Old Men”
(Miramax and Paramount Vantage)

Paul Thomas Anderson
“There Will Be Blood”
(Paramount Vantage and Miramax)

Best Documentary Nominees 2008:

“No End in Sight”
(Magnolia Pictures)
A Representational Pictures Production: Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs

“Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience”
(The Documentary Group)
A Documentary Group Production: Richard E. Robbins

“Sicko”
(Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company)
A Dog Eat Dog Films Production: Michael Moore and Meghan O’Hara

“Taxi to the Dark Side”
(THINKFilm)
An X-Ray Production: Alex Gibney and Eva Orner

“War/Dance”
(THINKFilm)
A Shine Global and Fine Films Production: Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine

Best Picture Nominees 2008:

“Atonement” (Focus Features) A Working Title Production: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster, Producers

“Juno” (Fox Searchlight) A Dancing Elk Pictures, LLC Production: Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick and Russell Smith, Producers

“Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.) A Clayton Productions, LLC Production: Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox and Kerry Orent, Producers

“No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) A Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Production: Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers

“There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) A JoAnne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company Production: JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Lupi, Producers

Best Adapted Screenplay Nominees 2008:

“Atonement”
(Focus Features)
Screenplay by Christopher Hampton

“Away from Her”
(Lionsgate)
Written by Sarah Polley

“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
(Miramax/Pathé Renn)
Screenplay by Ronald Harwood

“No Country for Old Men”
(Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen

“There Will Be Blood”
(Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
Written for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson

Best Original Screenplay Nominees 2008:

“Juno”
(Fox Searchlight)
Written by Diablo Cody

“Lars and the Real Girl”
(MGM)
Written by Nancy Oliver

“Michael Clayton”
(Warner Bros.)
Written by Tony Gilroy

“Ratatouille”
(Walt Disney)
Screenplay by Brad Bird; Story by Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird

“The Savages”
(Fox Searchlight)
Written by Tamara Jenkins

For the rest of the nominees go to http://www.oscar.com/nominees/.

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Posted by neal on January 23rd, 2008 filed in 2008 Academy Awards |


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