2007 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS!!!!

It's official...2007 is the Year of the Shocker(s)

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

JUNO!!!!! A great lineup! I don't think Michael Clayton or Atonement deserve to be there, but at least this year I ACTUALLY LIKE ALL THE NOMINEES! I would've preferred Sweeney Todd in there, but THANK GOD THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY GOT SNUBBED!! AHAHAHAHA! And in other news: I couldn't feel more proud about being one of the VERY FEW people to predict that Into the Wild wouldn't get nominated. I trusted my instinct, and I was RIGHT! GAH!

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"

TOMMY FREAKIN' LEE JONES!!! His chances had been dead for this (incredible) performance. A delightful surprise and an incredibly DESERVED nomination. The entire lineup is PERFECT except for one....Clooney...grrrrrrrrrrrrr..

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"

well, Blanchett got in over Bonham Carter and Amy Adams, but...hello now...2 shockers in one category! LAURA LINNEY??? NO ANGELINA JOLIE? YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSS!!!!

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"

great, but PSH is a surprise......just please PLEASE don't give it to Holbrook....

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

oh COME ON. Ruby Dee? Pathetic. I like the rest however (it's nice to finally be able to call Tilda Swinton an Oscar nominee).

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"

Schnabel and Tony Gilroy get in over Tim Burton, Joe Wright, David Fincher, and others? Woe.....and where in the hell did Jason Reitman come from? To quote his film: "WHOA! Dream BIG!!"

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

don't care. at all.

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"

surely this category could be surprise fr-AWAY FROM HER?

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."

the only predictable category.

Animated Feature Film
"Persepolis"
"Ratatouille"
"Surf's Up"

Surf's Up over The Simpson's Movie? Were they high?

Art Direction
"American Gangster"
"Atonement"
"The Golden Compass"
"Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street"
"There Will Be Blood"

not sure about American Gangster but GOLDEN COMPASS GOT A NOMINATION!!!!

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"

just about perfect.

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

great choices.

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

poor Jonny Greenwood. He should be on this list. *sigh* Marco Beltrami is a nice surprise though...

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

wow...Into the Wild got hit hard. 3 songs from Enchanted? Uh-oh.....it's Dreamgirls all over again....which means that maybe ONCE CAN WIN AN AWARD!!!

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

great choices, though I think "Universe" and "LVER" could have been replaced with several films....

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"

Academy Award Nominated film "Norbit"? So very very VERY wrong...

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"

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"

Golden Compass again!! All three of these are extremely deserving, but I thought Compass' sucky American box office would hurt it. Nice to see AMPAS didn't let numbers get in there way...