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Critical favorites "No Country for Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" lead the pack of Oscar nominees, along with a few surprise guests.
Despite this being a rather ordinary show that was largely unspectacular, there were many worthy winners at this year's Oscars.
No Country for Old Men, There Will be Blood and Atonement Lead the Oscar nominations.
The 2008 Academy Award nominees will be announced on Tuesday, January 22, 2008. Before the official nominees are named, here's a look at my predictions for potential Oscar nominations.
The official Oscar nominations will not be announced until tomorrow. People are anxiously awaiting the announcements for the nominations in the top Oscar categories.
Read acceptance speech highlights, and find a complete list of all Academy Award winners and Oscar nominees. Biggest winners were No Country for Old Men, The Bourne Ultimatum and La Vie En Rose and There Will Be Blood.
An overview of the nominees, and my predictions for the winners of the 80th annual Academy Awards
The 2008 Oscars are actually taking place tonight at 8:30 EST. I spent this weekend renting all of the Oscar-nominations I could get my hands on that are on DVD, because I was determined to be better informed for tonight's event. I even went to go see one in the theatres.
The Oscars tend to recognize certain kinds of actors, performances, and movies over and over. Who fell under those Oscar friendly trends this year?
This article shares the outcome of the 2008 Oscars.
Use this valuable information to impress friends, win money, and enter Oscar pick contests!
All of Hollywood is buzzing with the 80th Academy Awards nominations.
Oscar winner Kathy Bates (Best Actress for Misery, ) assisted with the announcements from Samuel Goldwyn Auditorium of the nominees for the 80th Annual Academy Awards early Tuesday morning in Hollywood.
With the winners of the Golden Globes fresh in people's minds, who will be nominated for Oscars in 2008? These 2008 Oscar predictions offer some of the best bets for who'll be nominated, and who will ultimately walk away with the the prize.
This article shares information on the 2008 Oscar nominations along with some predictions about possible winners.
I have around a 75% rate of predicting the nominees in the six major Oscar categories. These are my theories about who will get in this year.
The biggest Oscar race of all could come down to two of the bleakest and most uncompromising Oscar nominees in some time. Find out how "No Country" and "Blood" could both win and lose.
Javier Bardem took home the Best Supporting Oscar for "No Country for Old Men," adding to 3 others the film won, but Marion Cotillard's Best Actress for portraying Edith Piaf may have been the night's upset.
Oscar Predictions for Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Animated Film in 2007.
"No Country for Old Men", "Sweeney Todd", and "There Will Be Blood" are three major Oscar contenders....or they will be if the Academy voters can stomach them.
Joel and Ethan Coen's "No Country for Old Men" earned four gold statuettes at the 2008 Oscar Ceremony.
My top ten picks for the best movies of 2007, as well as some honorable mentions.
Every year, the excitement mounts to see who will gain recognition within the film industry. As always, a few surprises, snubs, and no-brainers have been released.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences anounced the Oscar nominations for the best of the 2007 year. Cate Blanchett was nominated in both the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories while Keira Knightley and James McAvoy were shut out.
The Golden Globes have set the stage for the big event Hollywood has been waiting for.
The 13th Annual Critics Choice Awards at the Santa Monica Civic Center went off without a hitch on Monday, January 7, 2008 at 9 p.m. on VH1. No picket lines were present at this awards show, so actors felt no guilt about showing up.
The race for Best Director could be a reflection of Best Picture, as the directors of "No Country for Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" go toe to toe.
The Coen Brothers are known for oddball comedies, but they always make very intelligent films. With No Country they apply their talents to the thriller and western genres for a great ride.
The Coen brothers could easily have retired, having already created their masterpiece with "Fargo." They haven't though, and we are much better because of it.
Neck and neck with "No Country for Old Men" in the Oscar race, Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Thomas Anderson help "There Will Be Blood" make its case for Oscar glory.
Some say it is a return to form for the brothers after their last two movies. But the one thing that "No Country For Old Men" proves is that they never lost their touch to begin with, and who are we to think that they ever did? I mean really!
It requires special directorial talents to bring the works of a talented writer like Cormac MacCarthy to the big screen. When they are, booksellers like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Borders Books sell thousands of copies of the original novels.
A review of the latest Coen brothers film, no spoilers in the text, just an overview.
It's time for the makeup sex... according to comedian/talk show host Jon Stewart.
Relentless in method, challenging in presentation, and unforgettable in execution, the Coen Brothers' adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's acclaimed novel glimpses upon pure genius in its characters and suspenseful build
A slicing look at the Coen brothers' latest film.
What about the story? It was predictable. I knew what was going to happen. Not all the time is predictability annoying but this time it was because it wasn't suppose to be. It was set up not to be.
Four films received the highest number of Oscar nominations this year: No Country for Old Men and There Will be Blood lead with eight Oscar nominations each, followed by seven nominations for both Atonement and Michael Clayton.
Thanks to the controversial non-end of "The Sopranos" final episode, movies like "No Country For Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" feel free to cheat their audiences.
"No Country for Old Men" became the 80'th Oscar winner for Best Picture, as the Coen Brothers, Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Javier Bardem, and Tilda Swinton were also huge winners.
The nominations for the Academy Awards will be announced Tuesday, January 22, 2008. These are the favorites for copping an Oscar nod!
Even with the ongoing Writer''s Guild of America strike, awards season carries on with the Oscars. Here is a list of probable nominees in the 6 major categories for the 80th annual Academy Awards
Here are the 2008 Academy Award winners and how the top category winners compared with my predictions. There were several surprises for me.
"No Country," "Blood" and Cate Blanchett are the big winners on Oscar nominating day,
A look at the 89 version of the academy awards show. Highlights of performances and quotes from host Jon Stewart.
Now I haven't been to a movie for a while but I can tell if a film is going to be good or not by watching the previews and looking the film up on the Internet.
Many fans are disappointed as the 65th Golden Globes will no longer be broadcast in its full glory tonight, January 13, 2008. Instead, we are forced to endure a one-hour news conference at 9 p.m. EST on NBC.
My predictions for the winners among the recently announced nominations for the 2008 Academy Awards.
A list of the Oscar Predictions for 2007
2008 Oscar Predictions: Who will get the nod and who will get snubbed.
The 2008 Academy Awards won't be without surprises, as the list of Oscar nominations was unveiled this morning at 5:30 AM PST.
My Oscar Predictions for 2008
Have you ever watched the Oscars and thought, "I didn't see any of these movies?" Well check out some of the possible upcoming nominees so you can be sure to catch their movies.
Who will win the major Oscars in 2008
Several Best Picture winners later received a huge backlash for beating more darker and acclaimed movies. "Juno" could be the next film to suffer that fate if it pulls off an Oscar upset.
The 80th Annual Academy Awards will be held live on February 24, 2008 at 8 p.m. EST. Actor and actress Oscar nominees attend the awards in hopes that they will be receive golden statue of success - the "Academy Award of Merit".
Here is a complete list and overview of the 2008 Oscar Nominees.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced the 2008 Oscar nominees
Many expected winners did actually take home the golden statue, but there were a couple surprises!
It appears each of the major categories have clear cut favorites. Will that take the suspense out of the Oscars?
Though we still don't know if the show will in fact go on, due to the never-ending Writer's Strike, the Oscars nominations will nevertheless be announced at 5:30 am PT (8:30 am EST) this upcoming Tuesday, January 22, 2008.
The Oscar nominations have been announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills this morning and I must say I'm a little surprised at this years snubbed.
The 13th Annual Critic's Choice Awards will air on Monday, January, 7, 2008. Which films and actors will win?
If you've ever watched the Oscars and thought, "I've never even heard of these movies" then make sure to see the Oscar nominees ahead of time but checking out my predictions for possible Oscar nominees.
Hollywood woke up at the crack of dawn this morning to watch the unveiling of this year's Oscar nominations at 5:30 PT/8:30 EST.
A look at the 2008 Oscars, some strange moments and a look at pre-show predictions versus post show results.
The 2008 Academy Award nominations were announced in Beverly Hills, California on Tuesday morning, January 22, 2008.
What would you do if you discovered $2 million in untraceable, unmarked bills - drug money no one would miss? That's the question pondered in No Country For Old Men, the latest film from the Coen Brothers.
No Country for Old Men is an exhilerating, attention-grabbing thriller--until the last 10 minutes or so completely ruin any merit the rest of the movie had.
The G-man was utterly disappointed in the Coen Brothers' Oscar wining film "No Country for Old Men".
No Country For Old Men is a great movie full of masterfully worked suspense, drama, and a powerful cast.
A Texan's comments on "No Country For Old Men."
"Sunrise" won the first -- and only -- Oscar awarded for "Unique and Artistic Production" at the 1927-28 Academy Awards
The 2008 movie season will have a long way to go to top the crop of movies from 2007. One specific area that will be hard to top is the way so many great 2007 movies ended.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences uses proportional voting (also known as a preferential system) for the selection of Oscar nominees
The Oscars are just around the corner. Here are predictions for which films, Actors, and Actresses will take home Academy Awards
Biggest Oscar Snubs: A Look At the Biggest Snubs for the 2008 Oscars
The much awaited Academy award nominations were made this morning by Academy President, Sid Ganis.
Here are the Oscar nominees for 2008, just announced this morning, from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The Oscars were fairly typical of the awards show that hit its 80th birthday this year.
This year's award races in the film industry heavily favor George Clooney, Gangster Themes, and Writer's Strike political correctness. An Oscar and Golden Globes wrapup.
A quick look at the possible Academy Award nominees for the year 2007 in cinema
The movie Atonementis leading the pack with seven Golden Globe nominations, based on the release of the nominees today. Charlie Wilson's War, Sweeney Todd, Michael Clayton and No Country for Old Men also scored big with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association
It's about how the 80th annual Academy Awards had its share of surprises, and disappointments. There were a lot of tributes to past awards ceremonies, and some mistakes repeatedly yet again.
The Academy managed to get everyone together to congratulate each other in Hollywood after all.
Many of the greatest movies of the past thirty years have been shot in black & white. Expect there to be even fewer movies genuinely filmed and lit in black & white in the immediate future.
Last year I did pretty well and would have done better if there hadn't been a Dreamgirls backlash. This year seems a bit more wide open than last year so it should be tougher going.
The ballots are in and the nominees have been selected. Read on to find out who was nominated, who wasn't, who will be the likely winners, who shouldn't be there at all and who I think should walk away with the trophies this time around.
This article shares information on the 2008 Golden Globe Award winners.
If you watched the Academy Awards on Sunday and at any point during the ceremony asked yourself "what's the point?" you'll want to keep reading.
The 2007 movie year is complete and by all accounts it was a terrific year. In compiling my ten best list there were exactly 10 movies I found to be terrific while there were an additional 24 more that were well above average.
The nominations are in. Come February 24th, 2008, we'll find out who wins.