The Online Film Critics Society has announced it's nominations for the best films of the year. I'm not going to be so churlish as to discuss them, or point out where I agree or disagree with these, or mention who my own nominating votes were for. That would be disloyal. I'll point out that three of the Picture nominees are in my top five, and two are not in my top 20.
Best Picture
Atonement
Juno
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Zodiac
Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Joel & Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
David Cronenberg, Eastern Promises
David Fincher, Zodiac
Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Actor
George Clooney, Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Emile Hirsch, Into the Wild
Frank Langella, Starting Out in the Evening
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises
Best Actress
Julie Christie, Away from Her
Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
Angelina Jolie, A Mighty Heart
Laura Linney, The Savages
Ellen Page, Juno
Best Supporting Actor
Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse 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
Best Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There
Jennifer Garner, Juno
Kelly MacDonald, No Country for Old Men
Saoirse Ronan, Atonement
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
Best Original Screenplay
Before The Devil Knows You're Dead
Eastern Promises
Juno
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
Best Adapted Screenplay
Atonement
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Zodiac
Best 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
Best Editing
Atonement
The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Zodiac
Best Score
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Atonement
Into the Wild
Once
There Will Be Blood
Best Documentary
In the Shadow of the Moon
Into Great Silence
The King of Kong
No End in Sight
Sicko
Best Foreign-Language Film
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Host
The Lives of Others
The Orphanage
La Vie En Rose
Best Animated Feature
Beowulf
Paprika
Persepolis
Ratatouille
The Simpsons Movie
Breakthrough Filmmaker
Ben Affleck, Gone Baby Gone
J.A. Bayona, The Orphanage
John Carney, Once
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
Sarah Polley, Away from Her
Breakthrough Performer
Nikki Blonsky, Hairspray
Glen Hansard, Once
Sam Riley, Control
Carice Van Houten, Black Book
Tang Wei, Lust, Caution
03 January 2008
2 comments:
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1) i am so frickin' glad that Zodiac hasn't been forgotten here, and i hope hope hope that it is not forgotten for future awards, either. i worried about that literally all year long. i am sad to see that none of its actors were nominated, though.
ReplyDelete2) i'm going to ask, because i have no idea and i'm sure many of your readers are in the same position: how much sway, if any, do these nominations have over the Academy Awards?
3) didn't The Lives of Others come out last year? in fact, didn't it win the Best Foreign Language Oscar last year?
4) it bothers me to no end that they count Beowulf as being animated.
Yay! Finally, Jennifer Garner gets some recognition for her great turn in Juno.
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