Academy Award Nominations for the 80th Oscar Ceremony

Here are the Snubs and Nods That Stunned the 80^th Academy Awards Nominations Announcement. This is the immortal day that Hollywood drinks its dose of hemlock and lets the anonymous voting serve its purpose. While for many years the Oscar ceremony has been derided as a popularity contest, the Academy Awards remains the most prestigious movie awards in the world.

The awards season this year was tainted by the Writer's Guild strike which has smothered the Golden Globes to nothing but a press release read aloud. Kathy Bates kicked off the nominations. But worldwide fans will not allow this to continue. The nominations for finest achievements for films in 2007 are:

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There
Ruby Dee- American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan - Atonement
Amy Ryan -Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Casey Affleck -The Assassination of the Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem -No Country for Old Men
Philip Seymour Hoffman- Charlie Wilson's War
Hal Holbrook -Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton

Actress in a Leading Role

Cate Blanchett -Elizabeth The Golden Age
Julia Christie - Away From Her
Marianne Cotillard - La Vie En Rose
Laura Linney -The Savages
Ellen Page -Juno

Best Actor in a Leading Role

George Clooney -Michael Clayton
Daniel Day Lewis -There Will be Blood
Johnny Depp -Sweeney Todd
Tommy Lee Jones -In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortenson -Eastern Promises

Directing

Julian Schnabel -The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jason Reitman- Juno
Sydney Pollack, et. Al. for Michael Clayton
Coen Brothers, - No Country for Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson-There Will Be Blood

Screenplay -Original

Juno
Lars and the Real Girl
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
The Savages

Screenplay -Adapted

Atonement
Away from Her
Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
There will be Blood

Best Foreign Language

Israel -Beaufort
Austria -The Counterfeiters
Poland -Katyn
Kazakhstan -Mongol
Russia -12

Best animated feature film

Persepolis
Ratatouille
Surf's Up

Best Makeup
La Vie En Rose
Norbit
Pirates of the Caribbean at World's End

Best Picture