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Bardem is nominated in the supporting actor category.
Wow, leave it to the Academy to cheapen a great year at the movies with these nominees. Not that they are all unworthy. It's just that this year, like every year, they have overlooked so very much fine work. I think it's a joke that 3:10 to Yuma is nominated in the category for best original score when the music for that movie is a decided weak point; once again, the Academy decided to squeeze another deserving flim in any way that they saw fit. I haven't seen some of these movies, most notably perhaps, Atonement.
At any rate, I have listed my winner predictions in bold. The other likely contender is designated by an asterisk.
Best picture
Atonement*
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
(The winner should rightly be No Country For Old Men or Rescue Dawn, which isn't nominated.)
Best 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
(The winner should be the Coen Bros., or should rightly be Werner Herzog for Rescue Dawn, which isn't nominated.)
Best actor
George Clooney, Michael Clayton*
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd
Tommy Lee Jones, In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises
(The winner should rightly be Christian Bale (who isn't nominated) for Rescue Dawn or Russell Crowe for 3:10 to Yuma who also isn't nominated.)
Best 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
Best supporting actress
Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There
Ruby Dee, American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan, Atonement*
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
Best supporting actor
Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James...*
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson's War
Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton
(The winner should rightly be Javier Barden for No Country For Old Men or Jeremy Davies for Rescue Dawn who is not nominated. They might just give it to the kid, Casey Affleck. Peter Fonda should have been nominated for 3:10 to Yuma.)
Best foreign language film
Beaufort, Israel
The Counterfeiters, Austria
Katyn, Poland
Mongol, Kazakhstan
12, Russia
Best animated feature film
Persepolis
Ratatouille
Surf's Up
Best adapted screenplay
Atonement *
Away from Her
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Best original screenplay
Juno*
Lars and the Real Girl
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
The Savages
Best music (score)
Atonement
The Kite Runner
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille*
3:10 to Yuma
Best music (song)
Falling Slowly - Once (performed by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova)
Happy Working Song - Enchanted (performed by Amy Adams)
Raise It Up - August Rush (performed by Jamia Simone Nash and Impact Repertory Theatre)
So Close - Enchanted (performed by Jon McLaughlin)
That's How You Know - Enchanted (performed by Amy Adams)
Best documentary feature
No End in Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Sicko
Taxi to the Dark Side
War/Dance
Best documentary short subject
Freeheld
La Corona (The Crown)
Salim Baba
Sari's Mother
Best visual effects
The Golden Compass
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Transformers
Best 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
(3:10 to Yuma should have been nominated.)
Best art direction
American Gangster
Atonement
The Golden Compass
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street*
There Will Be Blood
(It's ridiculous that No Country For Old Men isn't even nominated in this category.)
Best 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
Best short film
At Night
Il Supplente
Le Mozart des Pickpockets
Tanghi Argentini
The Tonto Woman
Best costume design
Across the Universe
Atonement*
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
La Vie en Rose
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Best make-up
La Vie en Rose
Norbit
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
(This probably should go to Norbit, but will not for the obvious haha reasons.)
Best sound mixing
The Bourne Ultimatum*
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma
Transformers
Sound editing
The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille*
There Will Be Blood
Transformers
Best film editing
The Bourne Ultimatum*
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men*
There Will Be Blood
(This should rightly go to No Country for Old Men, but the Academy will want to spread the statues around as they are wont to do.)
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