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Like every year, the Academy Award Nominations are announced in the end of January as the ceremony takes place in the end of February. This year the Academy Award ceremony will be on February the 24th. I will not bother with much introduction cause I know you all know what Oscars are all about.
Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Atonement (2007): Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster
• Juno (2007): Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick, Russell Smith
• Michael Clayton (2007): Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox, Kerry Orent
• No Country for Old Men (2007): Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Scott Rudin
• There Will Be Blood (2007): Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi, JoAnne Sellar

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• George Clooney for Michael Clayton (2007)
• Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood (2007)
• Johnny Depp for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
• Tommy Lee Jones for In the Valley of Elah (2007)
• Viggo Mortensen for Eastern Promises (2007)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
• Julie Christie for Away from Her (2006)
• Marion Cotillard for Môme, La (2007)
• Laura Linney for The Savages (2007)
• Ellen Page for Juno (2007)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Casey Affleck for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
• Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men (2007)
• Philip Seymour Hoffman for Charlie Wilson’s War (2007)
• Hal Holbrook for Into the Wild (2007)
• Tom Wilkinson for Michael Clayton (2007)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Cate Blanchett for I’m Not There. (2007)
• Ruby Dee for American Gangster (2007)
• Saoirse Ronan for Atonement (2007)
• Amy Ryan for Gone Baby Gone (2007)
• Tilda Swinton for Michael Clayton (2007)

Best Achievement in Directing

• Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood (2007)
• Ethan Coen, Joel Coen for No Country for Old Men (2007)
• Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton (2007)
• Jason Reitman for Juno (2007)
• Julian Schnabel for Scaphandre et le papillon, Le (2007)

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

• Juno (2007): Diablo Cody
• Lars and the Real Girl (2007): Nancy Oliver
• Michael Clayton (2007): Tony Gilroy
• Ratatouille (2007): Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco
• The Savages (2007): Tamara Jenkins

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published

• Atonement (2007): Christopher Hampton
• Away from Her (2006): Sarah Polley
• Scaphandre et le papillon, Le (2007): Ronald Harwood
• No Country for Old Men (2007): Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
• There Will Be Blood (2007): Paul Thomas Anderson

More nominations can be found in the complete list of the IMDB website and in the official Oscars website. This year I don’t have the same exact feeling that I had last year. I think most of the movies from last year deserved their nominations where this years movies do not deserve their nomination at all. This might has to do with some movies that we haven’t seen yet, and maybe my taste in movies. Don’t you think that ‘Juno’ is a little bit over-rated? It’s the same thing with what happened last year with ‘Little Miss Sunshine’. I would to see your opinion and discuss a little bit about the nominations.
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