From Living In Cinema:

“The Nominees for the 80th Annual Academy Awards were announced this morning with No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood making off with 8 nominations each, including Best Picture, Director and Adapted Screenplay. More importantly, Nick Plowman is the winner of the Name Those Nominees Contest selecting 39 out of 45 nominations. Alison Flynn was 2nd with 38, Andy H was 3rd with 37, Alexander and Joel both had 36 correct selections, but based on the order the entries were received, Alexander is 4th and Joel is 5th. Nice work Nick and everyone.”

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I don’t mean to blow my own horn, so to speak, but I am pretty proud of this! Look who I was up against, Alison, Joel, Alexander, all some of the most frequent LiC visitors and who are all a huge asset to the world of film commentary and inisght.

To read my nomination predix, read on….

My Nomination Preidx Were:

Main Categories:No Country For Old Men*
Juno
Michael Clayton
There Will Be Blood
The Diving Bell and The Butterfly

Best Picture

Best Director
Joel and Ethan Coen - No Country For Old Men*
Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood
Sean Penn - Into The Wild
Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
Tony Gilroy - Michael Clayton

Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood*
Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd
George Clooney - Michael Clayton
Viggo Mortenson - Eastern Promises
Emile Hirsch - Into The Wild

*Ryan Gosling , I am so puzzled as to whether or not he would bump Hirsch off the list!!! But Hirsch got the SAG nomination, so I think he is more likely. We all know what thought did though…..

Best Actress
Ellen Page - Juno
Julie Christie - Away From Her*
Marion Cotillard - La Vie En Rose
Angelina Jolie - A Mighty Heart
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth: The Golden Age

* Ellen Page is not the front runner for me anymore Julie Christie is. Cotillard is Christie’s main threat, unless Page can pull off a SAG shocker and win.

Best Supporting Actor
Casey Affleck - Assassination of Jesse James
Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men*
Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson’s War

*Paul Dano is next in line, he would bump Hoffman off the top 5.

Best Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett - I’m Not There*
Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton
Ruby Dee - American Gangster
Catherine Keener - Into the Wild

*For me, it is between Ryan and Blanchett, and Blanchett’s Globe win was enough for her to edge in front of Ryan. Who ever wins the SAG between those two, is the Oscar  front runner.

Best Original Screenplay
Juno*
Ratatouille
Michael Clayton
The Savages
Lars and The Real Girl

Best Adapted Screenplay
Atonement
There Will Be Blood
No Country for Old Men*
Into The Wild
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Best Animated Feature
Ratatouille*
The Simpsons Movie
Bee Movie

Best Foreign Language Film
The Unknown
Days of Darkness
The Counterfeiters*
Beaufort
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation

Best Documentary
No End in Sight*
Sicko
Taxi to the Dark Side
Body of War
Lake of Fire

Artistics and Techs:

Best Editing
No Country for Old Men*
Atonement
American Gangster
Sweeney Todd
Into The Wildliving

Best Art Direction
Sweeney Todd*
Atonement
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Hairspray
The Golden Compass

Best Cinematography
There Will Be Blood
Assassination of Jesse James*
No Country For Old Men
The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
Atonement

Best Costume Design
Sweeney Todd*
Atonement
Assassination of Jesse James
Hairspray
Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Best Make Up
La vie En Rose*
300
Sweeney Todd

Best Original Score
There Will Be Blood*
Atonement
Into The Wild
Assassination of Jesse James
The Kite Runner

Best Original Song
Falling Slowly - Once
Guaranteed - Into The Wild*
Come So Far - Hairspray
That’s How You Know - Enchanted
Grace is Gone - Grace is Gone

Best Visual Effects
Transformers*
The Golden Compass
Pirates

Best Sound Mixing
Transformers
Hairspray*
Pirates of the Caribbean AWE
Sweeney Todd
The Golden Compass

Best Sound Editing
Transformers*
Pirates of the Caribbean AWE
Ratatouille
Spider Man 3
Beowulf

*Indicated Predicted Winner/Front Runner