So the Oscar nominations are out. As ever, a few surprises mingled amongst the favourites and analysis to follow.
If you have any thoughts, then do leave a comment below.
Here they are in full:
BEST PICTURE
Atonement (Focus Features)
Juno (Fox Searchlight)
Michael Clayton (Warner Bros.)
No Country for Old Men (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
There Will Be Blood (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
BEST ACTOR
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)
Tommy Lee Jones in “In the Valley of Elah” (Warner Independent)
Viggo Mortensen in “Eastern Promises” (Focus Features)
BEST ACTRESS
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)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
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)
Hal Holbrook in “Into the Wild” (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment)
Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Charlie Wilson’s War” (Universal)
Tom Wilkinson in “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
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 DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson – “There Will Be Blood”
Ethan Coen & Joel Coen – “No Country For Old Men”
Tony Gilroy – “Michael Clayton”
Jason Reitman – “Juno”
Julian Schnabel – “The Diving Bell And The Butterfly”
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Brad Bird – “Ratatouille”
Diablo Cody – “Juno”
Tony Gilroy – “Michael Clayton”
Tamara Jenkins – “The Savages”
Nancy Oliver – “Lars and the Real Girl”
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Paul Thomas Anderson – “There Will Be Blood”
Ethan & Joel Coen – “No Country for Old Men”
Christopher Hampton – “Atonement”
Ronald Harwood – “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
Sarah Polley – “Away from Her”
ANIMATED FEATURE
Persepolis – (Sony Pictures Classics)
Ratatouille – (Pixar; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Distribution)
Surf’s Up – (Sony Pictures Releasing)
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Roger Deakins – “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” (Warner Bros.)
Seamus McGarvey – “Atonement” (Focus Features)
Janusz Kaminski – “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (Miramax/Pathé Renn)
Roger Deakins – “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
Robert Elswit – “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
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
COSTUME DESIGN
Albert Wolsky – “Across the Universe” (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Jacqueline Durran – “Atonement” (Focus Features)
Alexandra Byrne – “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” (Universal)
Marit Allen – “La Vie en Rose” (Picturehouse)
Colleen Atwood – “Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” (DreamWorks)
FILM EDITING
Christopher Rouse – “The Bourne Ultimatum” (Universal)
Juliette Welfling – “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (Miramax/Pathé Renn)
Jay Cassidy – “Into the Wild” (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment)
Roderick Jaynes – “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
Dylan Tichenor – “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
SOUND EDITING
Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg – “The Bourne Ultimatum” (Universal)
Skip Lievsay – “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
Randy Thom and Michael Silvers – “Ratatouille” (Walt Disney)
Matthew Wood – “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins – “Transformers” (DreamWorks)
SOUND MIXING
Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis – “The Bourne Ultimatum” (Universal)
Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland – “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane – “Ratatouille” (Walt Disney)
Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Jim Stuebe – “3:10 to Yuma” (Lionsgate)
Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin – “Transformers” (DreamWorks)
VISUAL EFFECTS
Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood – “The Golden Compass” (New Line)
John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier – “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” (Walt Disney)
Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier – “Transformers” (DreamWorks)
MAKE UP
Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald – “La Vie en Rose” (Picturehouse)
Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji – “Norbit” (DreamWorks)
Ve Neill and Martin Samuel – “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” (Walt Disney)
ORIGINAL SCORE
Dario Marianelli– “Atonement” (Focus Features)
Alberto Iglesias – “The Kite Runner” (DreamWorks)
James Newton Howard – “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)
Michael Giacchino – “Ratatouille” (Walt Disney)
Marco Beltrami – “3:10 to Yuma” (Lionsgate)
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
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Beaufort – Israel
The Counterfeiters – Austria
Katy? – Poland
Mongol – Kazakhstan
12 – Russia
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
No End in Sight (Magnolia Pictures)
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience (The Documentary Group)
Sicko (Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company)
Taxi to the Dark Side (THINKFilm)
War/Dance (THINKFilm)
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Freeheld – Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth (Lieutenant Films Production)
La Corona (The Crown) – Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega (A Runaway Films and Vega Films Production)
Salim Baba – Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello (Ropa Vieja Films and Paradox Smoke Production)
Sari’s Mother – James Longley (Cinema Guild, A Daylight Factory Production)
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
I Met the Walrus – Josh Raskin (Kids & Explosions Production)
Madame Tutli-Putli – Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski (National Film Board of Canada)
Même Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis – Samuel Tourneux and Simon Vanesse (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven / Premium Films /A BUF Compagnie Production)
My Love (Moya Lyubov) – Alexander Petrov (Channel One Russia / A Dago-Film Studio, Channel One Russia and Dentsu Tec Production)
Peter & the Wolf – Suzie Templeton and Hugh Welchman (BreakThru Films /BreakThru Films/Se-ma-for Studios Production)
LIVE ACTION SHORT
At Night – Christian E. Christiansen and Louise (VesthZentropa Entertainments 10 Production)
Il Supplente (The Substitute) – Andrea Jublin (Sky Cinema Italia / A Frame by Frame Italia Production)
Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets) – Philippe Pollet-Villard (Premium Films / A Karé Production)
Tanghi Argentini – Guido Thys and Anja Daelemans (Premium Films / An Another Dimension of an Idea Production)
The Tonto Woman – Daniel Barber and Matthew Brown (A Knucklehead, Little Mo and Rose Hackney Barber Production)