The 80th Annual Oscars:
The Red Carpet Rolls into Your House on Sunday!
I feel that it's only fitting to do a small feature on the 80th Annual Oscars -- my affinity for movies compels me to do so. After all, without the glory of
movies gracing my home theater, what good would it be? Sure, there's other forms of entertainment. But there's not much more that bring joy and excitement
to my eyes and ears than a good movie...and I've got the DVD collection to prove it! By the way, if you're a DVD enthusiast like me, you may consider building
a "Best Picture Winner" topical subset within your collection. This is something that I've been trying to do.80 years of Oscars awards...what a long run. So many great movies, so many memories. Personally, for this year's Oscars I'm pulling for a couple of movies that are two of my favorites from the past year: Transformers and Ratatouille. The Visual Effects category is one of my favorite at the Oscars, and stacked with three awesome movies. It's more or less a toss up, but I'll have to give my allegiance to Transformers (sorry to the other nominees, it's just something that I've grown up with and love). Pixar and Disney put together yet another awesome animated feature, and I expect they'll take home the trophy this year for Best Animated Feature. Regardless, it's going to be another intriguing year at the Oscars!
It's a priviledge that I now have the opportunity to share with others some of the great achievements in film making. This is my small tribute to the Oscars. You can tune in on TV to see the awards show (5:00 PM PT or 8:00 PM ET) or you can tunein here to see live updates on our site. We've added the official Oscar widget to this page so you can see video clips, play some trivia, or see the winner's as they're announced. The winners will be bolded in the Oscars nominee list below as the awards are presented.
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2008 Oscars: List of Nominees
Performance by an actor in a leading role"Michael Clayton": George Clooney
"There Will Be Blood": Daniel Day-Lewis"
"Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street": Johnny Depp
"In the Valley of Elah": Tommy Lee Jones
"Eastern Promises": Viggo Mortensen
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
"The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford": Casey Affleck
"No Country for Old Men": Javier Bardem
"Charlie Wilson's War": Philip Seymour Hoffman
"Into the Wild": Hal Holbrook
"Michael Clayton": Tom Wilkinson
Performance by an actress in a leading role
"Elizabeth: The Golden Age": Cate Blanchett
"Away from Her": Julie Christie
"La Vie en Rose": Marion Cotillard
"The Savages": Laura Linney
"Juno": Ellen Page
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
"I'm Not There": Cate Blanchett
"American Gangster": Ruby Dee
"Atonement": Saoirse Ronan
"Gone Baby Gone": Amy Ryan
"Michael Clayton": Tilda Swinton
Best animated feature film of the year
"Persepolis": Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
"Ratatouille": Brad Bird
"Surf's Up": Ash Brannon and Chris Buck
Achievement in art direction
"American Gangster": Arthur Max and Beth A. Rubino
"Atonement": Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer
"The Golden Compass": Dennis Gassner and Anna Pinnock
"Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street": Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo
"There Will Be Blood": Jack Fisk and Jim Erickson
Achievement in cinematography
"The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford": Roger Deakins
"Atonement": Seamus McGarvey
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly": Janusz Kaminski
"No Country for Old Men": Roger Deakins
"There Will Be Blood": Robert Elswit
Achievement in costume design
"Across the Universe": Albert Wolsky
"Atonement": Jacqueline Durran
"Elizabeth: The Golden Age": Alexandra Byrne
"La Vie en Rose": Marit Allen
"Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street": Colleen Atwood
Achievement in directing
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly": Julian Schnabel
"Juno": Jason Reitman
"Michael Clayton": Tony Gilroy
"No Country for Old Men": Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
"There Will Be Blood": Paul Thomas Anderson
Best documentary feature
"No End in Sight": Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
"Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience": Richard E. Robbins
"Sicko": Michael Moore and Meghan O'Hara
"Taxi to the Dark Side": Alex Gibney and Eva Orner
"War/Dance": Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine
Best documentary short subject
"Freeheld": Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth
"La Corona (The Crown)": Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega
"Salim Baba": Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello
"Sari's Mother": James Longley
Achievement in film editing
"The Bourne Ultimatum": Christopher Rouse
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly": Juliette Welfling
"Into the Wild": Jay Cassidy
"No Country for Old Men": Roderick Jaynes
"There Will Be Blood": Dylan Tichenor
Best foreign language film of the year
"Beaufort": Israel
"The Counterfeiters": Austria
"Katyn": Poland
"Mongol": Kazakhstan
"12": Russia
Achievement in makeup
"La Vie en Rose": Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald
"Norbit": Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End": Ve Neill and Martin Samuel
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
"Atonement": Dario Marianelli
"The Kite Runner": Alberto Iglesias
"Michael Clayton": James Newton Howard
"Ratatouille": Michael Giacchino
"3:10 to Yuma": Marco Beltrami
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (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": Jamal Joseph, Charles Mack and Tevin Thomas
"So Close" from "Enchanted": Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz
"That's How You Know" from "Enchanted": Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz
Best motion picture of the year
"Atonement": Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster
"Juno": Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick and Russell Smith
"Michael Clayton": Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox and Kerry Orent
"No Country for Old Men": Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
"There Will Be Blood": JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Lupi
Best animated short film
"I Met the Walrus": Josh Raskin
"Madame Tutli-Putli": Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
"Même les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)": Samuel Tourneux and Simon Vanesse
"My Love (Moya Lyubov)": Alexander Petrov
"Peter & the Wolf" (BreakThru Films): Suzie Templeton and Hugh Welchman
Best live action short film
"At Night": Christian E. Christiansen and Louise Vesth
"Il Supplente (The Substitute)": Andrea Jublin
"Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)": Philippe Pollet-Villard
"Tanghi Argentini": Guido Thys and Anja Daelemans
"The Tonto Woman": Daniel Barber and Matthew Brown
Achievement in sound editing
"The Bourne Ultimatum": Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg
"No Country for Old Men": Skip Lievsay
"Ratatouille": Randy Thom and Michael Silvers
"There Will Be Blood": Christopher Scarabosio and Matthew Wood
"Transformers": Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins
Achievement in sound mixing
"The Bourne Ultimatum": Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis
"No Country for Old Men": Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland
"Ratatouille": Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane
"3:10 to Yuma": Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Jim Stuebe
"Transformers": Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin
Achievement in visual effects
"The Golden Compass": Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End": John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier
"Transformers": Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier
Adapted screenplay
"Atonement": Christopher Hampton
"Away from Her": Sarah Polley
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly": Ronald Harwood
"No Country for Old Men": Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
"There Will Be Blood": Paul Thomas Anderson
Original screenplay
"Juno": Diablo Cody
"Lars and the Real Girl": Nancy Oliver
"Michael Clayton": Tony Gilroy
"Ratatouille": Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco and Brad Bird
"The Savages": Tamara Jenkins
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