Oscar Nominees Named

Nominations for this year’s Annual Academy Awards Ceremony were announced this morning. Here is your list of the more important nominees. To see the entire list of nominess visit the official Oscar Website. The Academy Awards will be televised on February 24, 2008 5:00PT/8:00ET. (SF or genre-related nominees in bold).

Best Director:

Paul Thomas Anderson, “There Will Be Blood”
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, “No Country for Old Men”
Julian Schnabel, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
Tony Gilroy, “Michael Clayton”
Jason Reitman, “Juno”

Actor in a Leading Role:

George Clooney — “Michael Clayton”
Daniel Day-Lewis — “There Will Be Blood”
Johnny Depp — “Sweeny Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street”
Tommy Lee Jones — “In the Valley of Elah”
Viggo Mortensen — “Eastern Promises”

Actor in a Supporting Role:

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 Seymour Hoffman — “Charlie Wilson’s War”
Tom Wilkinson — “Michael Clayton”

Actress in a Leading Role:

Cate Blanchett — “Elizabeth: The Golden Age”
Julie Christie — Away From Her”
Marion Cotillard — “La Vie en Rose”
Laura Linney — “The Savages”
Ellen Page — “Juno”

Actress in a Supporting Role:

Cate Blanchett — “I’m Not There”
Ruby Dee — “American Gangster”
Saoirse Ronan — “Atonement”
Amy Ryan — “Gone Baby Gone”
Tilda Swinton — “Michael Clayton”

Animated Feature Film:

“Ratatouille”
“Persopolis”
“Surf’s Up”

Art Direction:

“American Gangster”
“Atonement”
“The Golden Compass”

Foreign Language Film:

“Beaufort”
“The Counterfeiters”
“Katyn”
“Mongol”
“12”

Music (Score):

“Atonement”
“Ratatouille”
“3:10 To Yuma”

Music (Song):

Falling Slowly — “Once”
Happy Working Song — “Enchanted”
So Close — “Enchanted”
August Rush — “August Rush”
That’s How You Know — “Enchanted”

Best Picture:

“Atonement”
“Juno”
“Michael Clayton”
“No Country for Old Men”
“There Will Be Blood”

Visual Effects:

“Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End”
“The Golden Compass”
“Transformers”

Writing (Adapted Screenplay):

“Atonement”
“Away From Her”
“No Country for Old Men”
“There Will Be Blood”

Writing (Original Screenplay):

“Juno”
“Lars and the Real Girl”
“Michael Clayton”
“Ratatouille”
“The Savages”