No Country and There Will Be Blood top Oscar nominations

The shortlist for Oscar nominations came out earlier today, with No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood both tied for eight nominations a piece. Not only that, but the two films are directly competing in almost every category they're up for, from Best Picture to Best Adapted Screenplay to Best Cinematograpy. Here is the full list of nominations:

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

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

Best Leading Actor:
George Clooney - Michael Clayton
Daniel Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tommy Lee Jones - In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises

Best Leading 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 Adapted Screenplay:
Christopher Hampton - Atonement
Sarah Polley - Away From Her
Ronald Harwood - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Joel and Ethan Coen - No Country For Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood

Best Original Screenplay:
Diablo Cody - Juno
Nancy Oliver - Lars and the Real Girl
Tony Gilroy - Michael Clayton
Brad Bird, Jim Capobianco, Jan Pinkava - Ratatouille
Tamara Jenkins - The Savages

Best Supporting Actor:
Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men
Phillip 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

Best Animated Feature:
Persepolis
Ratatouille
Surf's Up

Best Foreign Language Film:
Beaufort
The Counterfeiters
Katyn
Mongol
12

Achievement in Art Direction:
American Gangster
Atonement
The Golden Compass
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
There Will Be Blood

Achievement in 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

Achievement in Costume Design:
Across the Universe
Atonement
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
La vie en rose
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

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
Salim Baba
Sari's Mother

Achievement in Film Editing:
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Achievement in Makeup:
La vie en rose
Norbit
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Achievement in Music (Original Score):
Atonement
The Kite Runner
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma

Achievement in Music (Original Song):
Once - "Falling Slowly" - Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
Enchanted - "Happy Working Song" - Music by Alan Menken, Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
August Rush - Nominees to be determined
Enchanted - "So Close" - Music by Alan Menken, Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
Enchanted - "That's How You Know" - Music by Alan Menken, Lyric by Stephen Schwartz

Best Animated Short Film:
I Met the Walrus
Madame Tutli-Putli
Even Pigeons Go to Heaven
My Love
Peter & the Wolf

Best Live Action Short Film:
At Night
The Substitute
The Mozart of Pickpockets
Tanghi Argentini
The Tonto Woman

Achievement in Sound Editing:
The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
There Will Be Blood
Transformers

Achievement in Sound Mixing:
The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma
Transformers

Achievement in Visual Effects
The Golden Compass
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Transformers

Although the top categories seem consist of a fairly safe mix of films, there are some interesting moments elsewhere in the list, including the fact that Johnny Greenwood's tremendous score for There Will Be Blood was left off the ballot due to technicalities.

Despite uncertainty as to whether the Oscars will go off without a boycott due to the lingering WGA strike, the Academy reiterated its earlier claims that the awards will happen regardless. Let the Oscar predictions, both for the awards themselves and whether the ceremony will be boycotted, commence...

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