All of us Once fans got very good news this week when the Academy ruled that Once’s Falling Slowly is eligible for the Academy Award for Best Original Song 2008. The Academy was considering pulling Falling Slowly out of the running because there was some question whether it was truly original (which, when you look at its competition seems like a very silly question.) [Continue Reading "Once's 'Falling Slowly' Still Nominated for an Oscar"]

Who will win this year’s Oscar for Best Picture? Really, you could make a case for all of the Best Picture nominees of 2008. Variety has a nice article breaking down all the Best Picture nominees chances this year. Here are some excerpts from the piece: [Continue Reading "Oscars: Best Picture Nominees 2008">]

Here’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) [Continue Reading “Oscar Nominated Movies 2008″

The Oscar nominations came out this morning and here are the Oscar nominated songs for 2008:

“Falling Slowly” from “Once”
(Fox Searchlight)
Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
[See the rest of the nominees after the jump]