Oscars 2008

[Beefy]

Best Picture and Director for Juno?!  Seriously?!  I swear, I do not understand why they feel it's necessary every year to nominate one lightweight release for prestige awards.  And this is coming from someone who really adored Juno.  That Best Director nom is just ludicrous.

Also, it turns out the Academy disqualified Johnny Greenwood's score for There Will Be Blood because they said too much of it wasn't composed originally for the film.

And hooray for Once getting a little love!  I hope that wins over that treacly Disney stuff.

Nominees:

Best Picture
"Atonement"
"Juno"
"Michael Clayton"
"No Country for Old Men"
"There Will Be Blood"

Actor
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
Cate Blanchett, "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"
Julie Christie, "Away From Her"
Marion Cotillard, "La Vie en Rose"
Laura Linney, "The Savages"
Ellen Page, "Juno"

Supporting Actor
Casey Affleck, "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"
Javier Bardem, "No Country for Old Men"
Hal Holbrook, "Into the Wild"
Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Charlie Wilson's War"
Tom Wilkinson, "Michael Clayton"

Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett, "I'm Not There"
Ruby Dee, "American Gangster"
Saoirse Ronan, "Atonement"
Amy Ryan, "Gone Baby Gone"
Tilda Swinton, "Michael Clayton"

Director
Julian Schnabel, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
Jason Reitman, "Juno"
Tony Gilroy, "Michael Clayton"
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men"
Paul Thomas Anderson, "There Will Be Blood"

Foreign Film
"Beaufort," Israel
"The Counterfeiters," Austria
"Katyn," Poland
"Mongol," Kazakhstan
"12," Russia

Adapted Screenplay
Christopher Hampton, "Atonement"
Sarah Polley, "Away from Her"
Ronald Harwood, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men"
Paul Thomas Anderson, "There Will Be Blood"

Original Screenplay
Diablo Cody, "Juno"
Nancy Oliver, "Lars and the Real Girl"
Tony Gilroy, "Michael Clayton"
Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava and Jim Capobianco, "Ratatouille"
Tamara Jenkins, "The Savages."

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"

Sound Mixing
"The Bourne Ultimatum"
"No Country for Old Men"
"Ratatouille"
"3:10 to Yuma"
"Transformers"

Sound Editing
"The Bourne Ultimatum"
"No Country for Old Men"
"Ratatouille"
"There Will Be Blood"
"Transformers"

Original Score
"Atonement," Dario Marianelli
"The Kite Runner," Alberto Iglesias
"Michael Clayton," James Newton Howard
"Ratatouille," Michael Giacchino
"3:10 to Yuma," Marco Beltrami

Original Song
"Falling Slowly" from "Once," Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
"Happy Working Song" from "Enchanted," Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz
"Raise It Up" from "August Rush," Nominees to be determined
"So Close" from "Enchanted," Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz
"That's How You Know" from "Enchanted," Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz

Costume
"Across the Universe"
"Atonement"
"Elizabeth: The Golden Age"
"La Vie en Rose"
"Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street"

Documentary Feature
"No End in Sight"
"Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience"
"Sicko"
"Taxi to the Dark Side"
"War/Dance"

Documentary (short subject)
"Freeheld"
"La Corona (The Crown)"
"Salim Baba"
"Sari's Mother"

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"

Animated Short Film
"I Met the Walrus"
"Madame Tutli-Putli"
"Meme Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)"
"My Love (Moya Lyubov)"
"Peter & the Wolf"
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Live Action Short Film
"At Night"
"Il Supplente (The Substitute)"
"Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)"
"Tanghi Argentini"
"The Tonto Woman"

Visual Effects
"The Golden Compass"
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End"
"Transformers"

[Beefy]

And Ruby Dee for American Gangster?!  She was in the film for what, five minutes?

[dazie]

Best Picture and Director for Juno?!  Seriously?!  I swear, I do not understand why they feel it's necessary every year to nominate one lightweight release for prestige awards.  And this is coming from someone who really adored Juno.  That Best Director nom is just ludicrous.

I didn't see Juno yet, but I agree with your sentiment.  I think they throw one film in to say "See- we're not snobs- we chose a popular movie."

[grace]

wow...that's a world of info that i never have time to watch or keep up with. someday i would love to attend the Sundance Film Fest, just to see something different.
haven't seen Sweeney Todd, but i really want to.

wtf is Tonto Woman ?? i'll have to check that out !!

Cate Blanchett is an awesome actress.... i think.

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[VikingJuice]

And Ruby Dee for American Gangster?!  She was in the film for what, five minutes?

I think she's in the Judy Dench "8 minutes of screen time" award.

[Infobahn]

I am glad Borne got some technical nominations,  while not an acting tour-de-force, it was a kickass movie.

[VikingJuice]

I am glad Borne got some technical nominations,  while not an acting tour-de-force, it was a kickass movie.

I've really enjoyed the whole Bourne series.  They've been very entertaining.

[Alice]

FYI - AMC is showing all 5 pictures nominated for Oscars on Feb. 23rd for $30 - which includes large popcorn and drink, and free refills.

[Beefy]

Once may get stripped of it's best song nom.  I'll be pissed, as that is one of the only reasons I care this year.

[Jessie]

Once may get stripped of it's best song nom.  I'll be pissed, as that is one of the only reasons I care this year.

I got that from Netflix, but had to send it back before I got to watch it because I cancelled my netflix to help afford my new car :-/

[nishi]

Also, it turns out the Academy disqualified Johnny Greenwood's score for There Will Be Blood

YAY!!! i would have disqualified it for other reasons, but i'll take "it wasn't composed for the movie". it certainly sounded like it belonged elsewhere.

[Beefy]

Amy Adams is hot.

[BigDun]

I'm rather surprised there isn't a TF thread dedicated to snarking the Oscars.

[BigDun]

Dewayne Johnson is The Rock's real name?

[Beefy]

Transformers just lost visual effects.

Bullsh*t.

[Beefy]

Javier was truly scary.  But I really wish I had seen Into the Wild.  And Michael Clayton.  I need to do that.

[BigDun]

Bad dreams, an Oscar salute. They should have done 5 minutes of montage.

[Beefy]

Haha the Batman and Robin jokes are flowing freely tonight.

[BigDun]

The Cohen brothers did very well.\

My TF thread for Oscar snarking if anyone is interested: http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3422863

[Jessie]

The art direction winner was too old for her dress.

Dreamgirls girl whose name I can't remember picked the wrong dress.  It was not flattering.

Anne Hathaway looked fantastic.  Her dress is fabulous.

Why the hell is Johnny Depp with who he is with instead of me?  I hate her.

That's my snark so far.

[Beefy]

The art direction winner was too old for her dress.

Dreamgirls girl whose name I can't remember picked the wrong dress.  It was not flattering.

Anne Hathaway looked fantastic.  Her dress is fabulous.

Why the hell is Johnny Depp with who he is with instead of me?  I hate her.

That's my snark so far.

Hudson's dress showed off her curvy figure.  No complaints.

Anne Hathaway always looks good.

That's Depp's SO/mother of his children/whatever.

[Beefy]

I'm sitting here waiting for the performance of "Falling Slowly" and I'm hating the waiting.

[Jessie]

The art direction winner was too old for her dress.

Dreamgirls girl whose name I can't remember picked the wrong dress.  It was not flattering.

Anne Hathaway looked fantastic.  Her dress is fabulous.

Why the hell is Johnny Depp with who he is with instead of me?  I hate her.

That's my snark so far.

Hudson's dress showed off her curvy figure.  No complaints.

Anne Hathaway always looks good.

That's Depp's SO/mother of his children/whatever.

I know who she is, but I still hate her.  He is fantastic.  I have loved him for nearly 20 years now.

[BigDun]

It looks like the Oscars killed Fark.

[Beefy]

Didn't see that one coming.  That said, I've had a copy of that movie for months simply because I read how astonishing a performance she gives in it.