The Full List Of 80th Annual Oscar Nominees

LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts/ Oscars Official Website) - Nominations for the 80th annual Academy Awards were announced at a press conference by Academy president Sid Ganis and the actor Kathy Bates, with the ceremony set for Sunday, February 24.
The Writers Guild of America strike may bring a similar fate to the Oscars that the Golden Globes suffered.
This morning the organisers were staying positive. "Please join us on February 24," a bullish Sid Ganis urged the press. "It will be a night to remember."

The 80th Academy Award Nominations are listed below.

Performance by an actor in a leading role

• George Clooney in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.)
• Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
• Johnny Depp in "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)
• Tommy Lee Jones in "In the Valley of Elah" (Warner Independent)
• Viggo Mortensen in "Eastern Promises" (Focus Features)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

• Casey Affleck in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (Warner Bros.)
• Javier Bardem in "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
• Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Charlie Wilson's War" (Universal)
• Hal Holbrook in "Into the Wild" (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment)
• Tom Wilkinson in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.)

Performance by an actress in a leading role

• Cate Blanchett in "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (Universal)
• Julie Christie in "Away from Her" (Lionsgate)
• Marion Cotillard in "La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse)
• Laura Linney in "The Savages" (Fox Searchlight)
• Ellen Page in "Juno" (Fox Searchlight)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

• Cate Blanchett in "I'm Not There" (The Weinstein Company)
• Ruby Dee in "American Gangster" (Universal)
• Saoirse Ronan in "Atonement" (Focus Features)
• Amy Ryan in "Gone Baby Gone" (Miramax)
• Tilda Swinton in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.)

Best animated feature film of the year

• "Persepolis" (Sony Pictures Classics) Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
• "Ratatouille" (Walt Disney) Brad Bird
• "Surf's Up" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Ash Brannon and Chris Buck

Achievement in art direction

• "American Gangster" (Universal) Art Direction: Arthur Max Set Decoration: Beth A. Rubino
• "Atonement" (Focus Features) Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
• "The Golden Compass" (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners) Art Direction: Dennis Gassner Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
• "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount) Art Direction: Dante Ferretti Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
• "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Art Direction: Jack Fisk
• Set Decoration: Jim Erickson

Achievement in cinematography

• "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (Warner Bros.) Roger Deakins
• "Atonement" (Focus Features) Seamus McGarvey
• "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn) Janusz Kaminski
• "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Roger Deakins
• "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Robert Elswit

Achievement in costume design

• "Across the Universe" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Albert Wolsky
• "Atonement" (Focus Features) Jacqueline Durran
• "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (Universal) Alexandra Byrne
• "La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse) Marit Allen
• "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount) Colleen Atwood

Achievement in directing

• "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn) Julian Schnabel
• "Juno" (Fox Searchlight) Jason Reitman
• "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) Tony Gilroy
• "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
• "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Paul Thomas Anderson

Best documentary feature

• "No End in Sight" (Magnolia Pictures) A Representational Pictures Production
• Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
• "Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience" (The Documentary Group)
• A Documentary Group Production Richard E. Robbins
• "Sicko" (Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company) A Dog Eat Dog Films Production
• Michael Moore and Meghan O'Hara
• "Taxi to the Dark Side" (THINKFilm) An X-Ray Production Alex Gibney and Eva Orner
• "War/Dance" (THINKFilm) A Shine Global and Fine Films Production Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine

Best documentary short subject

• "Freeheld" A Lieutenant Films Production Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth
• "La Corona (The Crown)" A Runaway Films and Vega Films Production Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega
• "Salim Baba" A Ropa Vieja Films and Paradox Smoke Production Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello
• "Sari's Mother" (Cinema Guild) A Daylight Factory Production James Longley

Achievement in film editing

• "The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal) Christopher Rouse
• "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn) Juliette Welfling
• "Into the Wild" (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment) Jay Cassidy
• "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Roderick Jaynes
• "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Dylan Tichenor

Best foreign language film of the year

• "Beaufort" A Metro Communications, Movie Plus Production - Israel
• "The Counterfeiters" An Aichholzer Filmproduktion, Magnolia Filmproduktion Production - Austria
• "Katyn" An Akson Studio Production - Poland
• "Mongol" A Eurasia Film Production - Kazakhstan
• "12" A Three T Production - Russia

Achievement in makeup

• "La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse) Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald
• "Norbit" (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount) Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji
• "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" (Walt Disney) Ve Neill and Martin Samuel

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

• "Atonement" (Focus Features) Dario Marianelli
• "The Kite Runner" (DreamWorks, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Participant Productions, Distributed by Paramount Classics) Alberto Iglesias
• "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) James Newton Howard
• "Ratatouille" (Walt Disney) Michael Giacchino
• "3:10 to Yuma" (Lionsgate) Marco Beltrami

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

• "Falling Slowly" from "Once" (Fox Searchlight) Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
• "Happy Working Song" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney) Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
• "Raise It Up" from "August Rush" (Warner Bros.) Nominees to be determined
• "So Close" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney) Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
• "That's How You Know" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney) Music by Alan Menken
• Lyric by Stephen Schwartz

Best motion picture of the year

• "Atonement" (Focus Features) A Working Title Production Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster, Producers
• "Juno" (Fox Searchlight) A Dancing Elk Pictures, LLC Production Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick and Russell Smith, Producers
• "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) A Clayton Productions, LLC Production Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox and Kerry Orent, Producers
• "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) A Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Production Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers
• "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) A JoAnne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company Production JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Lupi, Producers

Best animated short film

• "I Met the Walrus" A Kids & Explosions Production Josh Raskin
• "Madame Tutli-Putli" (National Film Board of Canada) A National Film Board of Canada Production Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
• "Même Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)" (Premium Films) A BUF Compagnie Production Samuel Tourneux and Simon Vanesse
• "My Love (Moya Lyubov)" (Channel One Russia) A Dago-Film Studio, Channel One Russia and Dentsu Tec Production Alexander Petrov
• "Peter & the Wolf" (BreakThru Films) A BreakThru Films/Se-ma-for Studios Production
• Suzie Templeton and Hugh Welchman

Best live action short film

• "At Night" A Zentropa Entertainments 10 Production Christian E. Christiansen and Louise Vesth
• "Il Supplente (The Substitute)" (Sky Cinema Italia) A Frame by Frame Italia Production Andrea Jublin
• "Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)" (Premium Films) A Karé Production Philippe Pollet-Villard
• "Tanghi Argentini" (Premium Films) An Another Dimension of an Idea Production Guido Thys and Anja Daelemans
• "The Tonto Woman" A Knucklehead, Little Mo and Rose Hackney Barber Production Daniel Barber and Matthew Brown

Achievement in sound editing

• "The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal) Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg
• "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Skip Lievsay
• "Ratatouille" (Walt Disney) Randy Thom and Michael Silvers
• "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Matthew Wood
• "Transformers" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro) Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins

Achievement in sound mixing

• "The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal) Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis
• "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland
• "Ratatouille" (Walt Disney) Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane
• "3:10 to Yuma" (Lionsgate) Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Jim Stuebe
• "Transformers" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro) Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin

Achievement in visual effects

• "The Golden Compass" (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners) Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood
• "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" (Walt Disney) John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier
• "Transformers" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro) Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier

Adapted screenplay

• "Atonement" (Focus Features) Screenplay by Christopher Hampton
• "Away from Her" (Lionsgate) Written by Sarah Polley
• "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn) Screenplay by Ronald Harwood
• "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
• "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Written for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson

Original screenplay

• "Juno" (Fox Searchlight) Written by Diablo Cody
• "Lars and the Real Girl" (MGM) Written by Nancy Oliver
• "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) Written by Tony Gilroy
• "Ratatouille" (Walt Disney) Screenplay by Brad Bird Story by Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird
• "The Savages" (Fox Searchlight) Written by Tamara Jenkins