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Oscar Loves Michael Clayton, Blood, Old Men, Juno

Oscar Loves Michael Clayton, Blood, Old Men, Juno

  • Perhaps the big surprise (besides Juno getting nominated for Best Director and Best Picture) was Ruby Dee for her work in American Gangster (its only other nomination was for art direction)
Then of course there is Julian Schnabel, whose film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly got a nomination for direction. NYMag doesn't think this will be enough for him, however. Some other notes:
  • Angelina Jolie wasn't nominated for A Mighty Heart
  • The Academy had less Anglophilia this year, as Atonement was shut out of Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Actor
  • The critically acclaimed Zodiac was shut out
  • "Falling Slowly" from Once was nominated (yay!)
  • Jonny Greenwood is ineligible for his work on the There Will Be Blood score (boo!)
  • Four of the five documentaries nominated are related to the Iraq war (the fifth is Michael Moore's Sicko);
  • If the axiom about Best Picture winners having a film editing nomination is true, than No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood are the two Best Picture front runnersThe main nominations are after the jump and who do you think should win an Oscar this year?
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