2008 Academy Awards
This year the Academy Awards, the biggest award show of all of Hollywood, may be under the threat of having no red carpet coverage, and worst of all no movie stars. This comes from the Writer’s Guild of America strike which has already claimed the Golden Globe Awards as a victim of the very things that threaten the Academy Awards. However, there may be hope yet for the ceremony as negotiations have commenced once again between the Writer’s Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers that may allow actors and writers in support of the strike to be present at the award show.
This year the nominations for the best picture Oscar are “Atonement”, directed by Joe Wright, “Juno”, directed by Jason Reitman, “Michael Clayton”, directed by Tony Gilroy, “No Country for Old Men”, directed by the Coen Brothers, and “There Will Be Blood”, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The nominations for best director are Paul Thomas Anderson, the Coen Brothers, Tony Gilroy, Jason Reitman, and Julian Schnabel. The nominations for best actor in a leading role are Johnny Depp for “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”, Daniel Day-Lewis for “There Will Be Blood”, Tommy Lee Jones for “In the Valley of Elah”, George Clooney for “Michael Clayton”, and Viggo Mortensen for “Eastern Promises”. The nominations for best actress in a leading role are Cate Blanchett for “Elizabeth: The Golden Age”, Julie Christie for “Away From Her”, Marion Cotillard for “La Vie en Rose (La mome), Laura Linney for “The Savages”, and Ellen Page for “Juno”.
Several nominations are of interesting note, such as the best supporting actress nomination for Cate Blanchett in the film “I’m Not There” where she portrays singer Bob Dylan. Another notable nomination is Johnny Depp’s nomination for portraying Sweeney Todd, where he actually had to learn how to sing due to the fact that the film was a musical. The Disney and Pixar computer animated film “Ratatouille” is a serious contender for the best animated film award as for four other nominations, which earns the film the record of the most nominations for an animated film in Academy Awards History. The category for best original song was dominated by the Disney film “Enchanted” with three nominations with only two competitors from the films “August Rush” and “Once”. The Academy Awards are set to be broadcasted on February 24th.
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