Coverage of the 80th Academy Awards

February 24, 2008

Tonight, many of the year's most critically acclaimed films vie for Oscars, including Best Picture nominees There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, Juno, Michael Clayton, and Atonement.

Among the favorites are No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood, each with 8 nominations, and Atonement and Michael Clayton, each with 7 nominations. All four films are nominees for the Best Picture award, along with breakout hit Juno.

The telecast finished tonight, in eastern standard time; it often goes past midnight.

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Nominees
Best Picture
 * Atonement
 * Juno
 * Michael Clayton
 * No Country for Old Men
 * There Will Be Blood

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

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

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 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

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
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