Nominations for the 80th Academy Awards®

Performance by an actor in a leading role
	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)
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
	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.)
Performance by an actress in a leading role
	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)
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
	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 feature film of the year
	“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
Achievement in art direction
	“American Gangster” (Universal) Art Direction: Arthur Max Set Decoration: Beth A. Rubino
	“Atonement” (Focus Features) Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
	“The Golden Compass” (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners) Art Direction: Dennis Gassner Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
	“Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount) Art Direction: Dante Ferretti Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
	“There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Art Direction: Jack Fisk Set Decoration: Jim Erickson
Achievement in cinematography
	“The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” (Warner Bros.) Roger Deakins
	“Atonement” (Focus Features) Seamus McGarvey
	“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (Miramax/Pathé Renn) Janusz Kaminski
	“No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Roger Deakins
	“There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Robert Elswit
Achievement in costume design
	“Across the Universe” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Albert Wolsky
	“Atonement” (Focus Features) Jacqueline Durran
	“Elizabeth: The Golden Age” (Universal) Alexandra Byrne
	“La Vie en Rose” (Picturehouse) Marit Allen
	“Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount) Colleen Atwood
Achievement in directing
	“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (Miramax/Pathé Renn) Julian Schnabel
	“Juno” (Fox Searchlight) Jason Reitman
	“Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.) Tony Gilroy
	“No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
	“There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Paul Thomas Anderson
Best documentary feature
	“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 documentary short subject
	“Freeheld” A Lieutenant Films Production Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth
	“La Corona (The Crown)” A Runaway Films and Vega Films Production Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega
	“Salim Baba” A Ropa Vieja Films and Paradox Smoke Production Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello
	“Sari’s Mother” (Cinema Guild) A Daylight Factory Production James Longley
Achievement in film editing
	“The Bourne Ultimatum” (Universal) Christopher Rouse
	“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (Miramax/Pathé Renn) Juliette Welfling
	“Into the Wild” (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment) Jay Cassidy
	“No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Roderick Jaynes
	“There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Dylan Tichenor
Best foreign language film of the year
	“Beaufort” A Metro Communications, Movie Plus Production Israel
	“The Counterfeiters” An Aichholzer Filmproduktion, Magnolia Filmproduktion Production Austria
	“Katyń” An Akson Studio Production Poland
	“Mongol” A Eurasia Film Production Kazakhstan
	“12” A Three T Production Russia
Achievement in makeup
	“La Vie en Rose” (Picturehouse) Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald
	“Norbit” (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount) Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji
	“Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” (Walt Disney) Ve Neill and Martin Samuel
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
	“Atonement” (Focus Features) Dario Marianelli
	“The Kite Runner” (DreamWorks, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Participant Productions, Distributed by Paramount Classics) Alberto Iglesias
	“Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.) James Newton Howard
	“Ratatouille” (Walt Disney) Michael Giacchino
	“3:10 to Yuma” (Lionsgate) Marco Beltrami
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
	“Falling Slowly” from “Once” (Fox Searchlight) Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
	“Happy Working Song” from “Enchanted” (Walt Disney) Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
	“Raise It Up” from “August Rush” (Warner Bros.) Nominees to be determined
	“So Close” from “Enchanted” (Walt Disney) Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
	“That’s How You Know” from “Enchanted” (Walt Disney) Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
Best motion picture of the year
	“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 animated short film
	“I Met the Walrus” A Kids & Explosions Production Josh Raskin
	“Madame Tutli-Putli” (National Film Board of Canada) A National Film Board of Canada Production Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
	“Même Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)” (Premium Films) A BUF Compagnie Production Samuel Tourneux and Simon Vanesse
	“My Love (Moya Lyubov)” (Channel One Russia) A Dago-Film Studio, Channel One Russia and Dentsu Tec Production Alexander Petrov
	“Peter & the Wolf” (BreakThru Films) A BreakThru Films/Se-ma-for Studios Production Suzie Templeton and Hugh Welchman
Best live action short film
	“At Night” A Zentropa Entertainments 10 Production Christian E. Christiansen and Louise Vesth
	“Il Supplente (The Substitute)” (Sky Cinema Italia) A Frame by Frame Italia Production Andrea Jublin
	“Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)” (Premium Films) A Karé Production Philippe Pollet-Villard
	“Tanghi Argentini” (Premium Films) An Another Dimension of an Idea Production Guido Thys and Anja Daelemans
	“The Tonto Woman” A Knucklehead, Little Mo and Rose Hackney Barber Production Daniel Barber and Matthew Brown
Achievement in sound editing
	“The Bourne Ultimatum” (Universal) Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg
	“No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Skip Lievsay
	“Ratatouille” (Walt Disney) Randy Thom and Michael Silvers
	“There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Matthew Wood
	“Transformers” (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro) Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins
Achievement in sound mixing
	“The Bourne Ultimatum” (Universal) Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis
	“No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland
	“Ratatouille” (Walt Disney) Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane
	“3:10 to Yuma” (Lionsgate) Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Jim Stuebe
	“Transformers” (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro) Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin
Achievement in visual effects
	“The Golden Compass” (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners) Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood
	“Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” (Walt Disney) John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier
	“Transformers” (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro) Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier
Adapted screenplay
	“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
Original screenplay
	“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

No wonder CAA wants to talk about sports thes…

No wonder CAA wants to talk about sports these days. (Surely you saw that they’ve hired another three warm bodies, this time execs, to run CAA Sports division and David Beckham.) Maybe because they don’t want to talk about the Oscars. That’s right, things are not going that well for CAA in the motion picture literary department. Think about it. They hired a bunch of motion picture lit agents over the past 24 months to bolster their aging list of screenwriters and directors. And they spent north of $20 mil to do it. But CAA winds up crushed in the writer/director category this Oscar season by Endeavor — which is only 1/3 of CAA’s size. With a little luck, Peyton Manning or Rex Grossman are secretly scribbling a script.

OSCAR TALLY (Major Categories Only)
Acting: CAA 7 Endeavor 2 ICM 0 UTA 0 WMA 3

Filmmaking: CAA 7 Endeavor 13 ICM 5 UTA 2 WMA 2
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TOTAL: CAA 14 Endeavor 15 ICM 5 UTA 2 WMA 5

No wonder CAA wants to talk about sports these days. (Surely you saw that they’ve hired another three warm bodies, this time execs, to run CAA Sports division and David Beckham.) Maybe because they don’t want to talk about the Oscars. That’s right, things are not going that well for CAA in the motion picture literary department. Think about it. They hired a bunch of motion picture lit agents over the past 24 months to bolster their aging list of screenwriters and directors. And they spent north of $20 mil to do it. But CAA winds up crushed in the writer/director category this Oscar season by Endeavor — which is only 1/3 of CAA’s size. With a little luck, Peyton Manning or Rex Grossman are secretly scribbling a script.

OSCAR TALLY (Major Categories Only)
Acting: CAA 7 Endeavor 2 ICM 0 UTA 0 WMA 3

Filmmaking: CAA 7 Endeavor 13 ICM 5 UTA 2 WMA 2
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TOTAL: CAA 14 Endeavor 15 ICM 5 UTA 2 WMA 5

My Selections (Noms in BOLD)

Best Picture
Little Miss Sunshine

Babel

The Departed

The Queen

Children of Men Letters from Iwo Jima
Lead Actor
Forest Whitaker; Last King of Scotland

Leonardo DiCaprio; The Departed Blood Diamond
Peter O’Toole; Venus

Ryan Gosling; Half Nelson

Richard Griffiths; The History Boys Will Smith; Pursuit of Happyness
Lead Actress
Helen Mirren; The Queen

Judi Dench; Notes on a Scandal

Meryl Streep; The Devil Wears Prada

Penelope Cruz; Volver

Kate Winslet; Little Children
Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin; Little Miss Sunshine

Djimon Honsou; Blood Diamond

Jackie Earle Haley; Little Children

Jack Nicholson; The Departed Mark Wahlberg

Michael Sheen; The Queen Eddie Murphy; Dreamgirls
Supporting Actress
Jennifer Hudson; Dreamgirls

Cate Blanchett; Notes on a Scandal

Abigail Breslin; Little Miss Sunshine

Emma Thompson; Stranger than Fiction Rinko Kikuchi; Babel

Frances de la Tour; The History Boys Adriana Baraza; Babel
Director
Martin Scorsese; The Departed

Stephen Frears; The Queen

Guillermo Del Toro; Pan’s Labyrinth Letters from Iwo Jima

Alfonso Cuaron; Children of Men United 93

Pedro Almodovar; Volver Babel
Screenplay, Original
Michael Arndt; Little Miss Sunsine

Peter Morgan; The Queen

Dean Georgaris; Tristan & Isolde Babel

Nick Guthe; Mini’s First Time Pan’s Labrinth
Will Rokos; Shadowboxer Letters from Iwo Jima
Screenplay, Adapted
The Departed; William Monahan

Notes on a Scandal; Patrick Marber

The Illusionist; Neil Berger Children of Men

The Painted Veil; Ron Nyswaner Little Children

Peaceful Warrior; Kevin Bernhardt Borat
Animated Feature
Cars
Documentary Feature
An Inconvenient Truth
Cinematography
Children of Men

Apocalypto Black Dhalia

The Illusionist

Pan’s Labyrinth

The Departed The Prestige

My Selections (Noms in BOLD)

Best Picture
Little Miss Sunshine

Babel

The Departed

The Queen

Children of Men << Letters from Iwo Jima
Lead Actor
Forest Whitaker; Last King of Scotland

Leonardo DiCaprio; The Departed << Blood Diamond
Peter O’Toole; Venus

Ryan Gosling; Half Nelson

Richard Griffiths; The History Boys << Will Smith; Pursuit of Happyness
Lead Actress
Helen Mirren; The Queen

Judi Dench; Notes on a Scandal

Meryl Streep; The Devil Wears Prada

Penelope Cruz; Volver

Kate Winslet; Little Children
Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin; Little Miss Sunshine

Djimon Honsou; Blood Diamond

Jackie Earle Haley; Little Children

Jack Nicholson; The Departed << Mark Wahlberg

Michael Sheen; The Queen << Eddie Murphy; Dreamgirls
Supporting Actress
Jennifer Hudson; Dreamgirls

Cate Blanchett; Notes on a Scandal

Abigail Breslin; Little Miss Sunshine

Emma Thompson; Stranger than Fiction << Rinko Kikuchi; Babel

Frances de la Tour; The History Boys << Adriana Baraza; Babel
Director
Martin Scorsese; The Departed

Stephen Frears; The Queen

Guillermo Del Toro; Pan’s Labyrinth << Letters from Iwo Jima

Alfonso Cuaron; Children of Men << United 93

Pedro Almodovar; Volver << Babel
Screenplay, Original
Michael Arndt; Little Miss Sunsine

Peter Morgan; The Queen

Dean Georgaris; Tristan & Isolde << Babel

Nick Guthe; Mini’s First Time << Pan’s Labrinth
Will Rokos; Shadowboxer << Letters from Iwo Jima
Screenplay, Adapted
The Departed; William Monahan

Notes on a Scandal; Patrick Marber

The Illusionist; Neil Berger << Children of Men

The Painted Veil; Ron Nyswaner << Little Children

Peaceful Warrior; Kevin Bernhardt << Borat
Animated Feature
Cars
Documentary Feature
An Inconvenient Truth
Cinematography
Children of Men

Apocalypto << Black Dhalia

The Illusionist

Pan’s Labyrinth

The Departed << The Prestige

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