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January 22, 2008

80th Annual Academy Award Nominations Announced

The Academy Award nominations were announced yesterday. The awards will be presented on Sunday, February 24. Check out previous winners for Motion Picture, Documentary Feature, Foreign Language Film, and Animated Feature.

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Nominees
George Clooney in Michael Clayton (In Theaters)
Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood (In Theaters) - Read the Book
Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (In Theaters)
Tommy Lee Jones in In the Valley of Elah (In Theaters)
Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises (In Theaters)

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Nominees
Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth: The Golden Age (In Theaters) - See the First Movie
Julie Christie in Away from Her - Read the Story (The Bear Came Over the Mountain)
Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose
Laura Linney in The Savages (In Theaters)
Ellen Page in Juno (In Theaters)

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Nominees
Casey Affleck in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - Read the Book
Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men (In Theaters) - Read the Book
Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson?s War (In Theaters) - Read the Book
Hal Holbrook in Into the Wild (In Theaters) - Read the Book
Tom Wilkinson in Michael Clayton (In Theaters)

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Nominees
Cate Blanchett in I?m Not There (In Theaters)
Ruby Dee in American Gangster - (In Theaters) Read the Book
Saoirse Ronan in Atonement (In Theaters) - Read the Book
Amy Ryan in Gone Baby Gone - (In Theaters) Read the Book
Tilda Swinton in Michael Clayton (In Theaters)

Achievement in Directing Nominees
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Julian Schnabel
Juno - Jason Reitman (In Theaters)
Michael Clayton - Tony Gilroy (In Theaters)
No Country for Old Men - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (In Theaters) - Read the Book
There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson (In Theaters) - Read the Book

Best Motion Picture of the Year Nominees
Atonement (In Theaters) - Read the Book
Juno (In Theaters)
Michael Clayton (In Theaters)
No Country for Old Men (In Theaters) - Read the Book
There Will Be Blood (In Theaters) - Read the Book

Best Animated Feature of the Year Nominees
Persepolis (In Theaters) - Read the Graphic Novel
Ratatouille
Surf's Up

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

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year Nominees
Beaufort (Israel)
The Counterfeiters [Die F?lscher] (Austria)
Katyń (Poland)
Mongol (Kazakhstan)
12 (Russia)