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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.

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.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced the 2008 Oscar nominees

Biggest Oscar Snubs: A Look At the Biggest Snubs for the 2008 Oscars

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".

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.

Joel and Ethan Coen's "No Country for Old Men" earned four gold statuettes at the 2008 Oscar Ceremony.

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 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?

A brief overview of the 2008 Academy Awards, including the nominees and winners.

No Country for Old Men, There Will be Blood and Atonement Lead the Oscar nominations.

The 2008 Oscar nominations went pretty much according to plan, with a few minor surprises and one bona fide shocker.

The 2008 Academy Awards won't be without surprises, as the list of Oscar nominations was unveiled this morning at 5:30 AM PST.

This article shares information on the 2008 Oscar nominations along with some predictions about possible winners.

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.

Oscar Winners Announced, so who made it and who didn't.

All of Hollywood is buzzing with the 80th Academy Awards nominations.

2008 Oscar Predictions: Who will get the nod and who will get snubbed.

The official Oscar nominations will not be announced until tomorrow. People are anxiously awaiting the announcements for the nominations in the top Oscar categories.

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.

My thoughts on the Oscars...

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 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.

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

Oscar Predictions for Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Animated Film in 2007.

Use this valuable information to impress friends, win money, and enter Oscar pick contests!

The Oscars were given out tonight at the 80th Annual Academy Awards at Kodak Theater in Hollywood. Check out the winners!

An overview of the nominees, and my predictions for the winners of the 80th annual Academy Awards

A summary of this year's Oscar nominations along with a complete list

A recap of the 2008 Oscars

These plot descriptions, award nominations and wins will help educate your guesses.

"No Country," "Blood" and Cate Blanchett are the big winners on Oscar nominating day,

Here is a complete list and overview of the 2008 Oscar Nominees.

This article shares information and observations about the 2008 Oscar fashions.

"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.

A list of the films nominated for an Academy Award

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.

The nominations are in. Come February 24th, 2008, we'll find out who wins.

All the big blockbusters have now come and gone. So what is there to watch the rest of 2007?

The younger brother of superstar Ben Affleck is making quite a name for himself in his own right. Read this article for interesting facts on Casey Affleck.

Last year a movie came out directed by Ben Affleck and starring his younger brother Casey. The critics liked it and it got one nomination. Is it any good? Oh, you had better believe it.

In Gone Baby Gone the main character Patrick Kenzie is faced with a tough decision. Is it ever okay to do the wrong thing if it means somebody else's happiness?

Has Ben Affleck finally found his niche in Hollywood?

Ben Affleck follows in Clint Eastwood's footsteps as the latest actor/director to get a big career boost from adapating a Dennis Lehane crime novel set in Boston.

Ben Affleck's directorial debut here should be labeled as astonishing, but it almost doesn't feel like it. He has been a Boston native all his life, so it should make sense that he would be a natural to direct this movie.

Ben Affleck's triumphant directorial debut.

Time to get critical with Ben Affleck's first directing gig

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences uses proportional voting (also known as a preferential system) for the selection of Oscar nominees

Matt Damon is currently starring in the #1 movie in America, "The Bourne Ultimatum." Ben Affleck hasn't starred in the #1 box office movie in over four years when "Daredevil" opened.

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.

A quick look at the possible Academy Award nominees for the year 2007 in cinema

Jon Stewart hosted the 80th Annual Academy Awards live from Hollywood Sunday night, thanks primarily to the fact that writers strike had ended. The three-hour extraganza a three-hour glitz-filled, star-studded tribute to 2007's cinematic best.

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.

The 80th Academy Awards was hosted by the normally funny Jon Stewart; however, tonight he wasn't even remotely funny.

It's the 80th anniversary for the prestigious Academy Awards ceremony. Here's a list of movies than have won or been nominated for the top prizes.

No Oscar nominations would be complete without a fair share or snubs. Whether it's your favorite actress, a Golden Globe nominated or winning film, or an Academy favorite, snubs are often the talk of the town when the Academy Award nominations are announced.

The nominations for the Academy Awards will be announced Tuesday, January 22, 2008. These are the favorites for copping an Oscar nod!

In a year of groundbreaking film and breakout performances, the Oscar nominations went to old favorites and left out several deserving nominees.

For many years I have thought it strange that I never saw the Oscars on TV. It was only two years ago that I discovered that the Academy Awards was the award show and that the Oscar is the name of the golden statuette.

The 80th Annual Academy Award winners.

Come and join me in publishing your own predictions. Let's make it an unofficial AC contest.

Here are the Oscar nominees for 2008, just announced this morning, from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

It's time for the makeup sex... according to comedian/talk show host Jon Stewart.

In 2006, when Jon Stewart first hosted the prestigious ceremony known as the Academy Awards, his performance left critics less than satisfied; two years later, Stewart has once again agreed to host the Oscars, leaving many confused as to why he would so eagerly return.

The much awaited Academy award nominations were made this morning by Academy President, Sid Ganis.

Read my predictions for Academy Award nominations for Neil Gaiman works on the big screen, for 2008 and 2009.

This article gives a complete listing of the nominees for the 2008 Oscar Nominees, as well as a brief overview.

Not to diminish the acting, writing or directing of the nominees announced this week, but some seriously remarkable work went unacknowledged.

Faced with the decision of a lifetime, Jessica Lange, Joan Allen and Kathy Bates load up a 1966 Bonneville convertible, and hit the road in "BONNEVILLE", a story about three friends who "come of age" opening in theaters February 29.

The announcement of the Academy Award nominees for calendar year 2007 was made on January 22, 2008.

The Golden Globe Nominations are out this year and have many shaking their heads and buzzing about new trends in award season possibilities.

A brief overview of the Oscars as well as a look at the best and worst presenters of the evening.

My picks for winners of the most popular categories for the 2008 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Oscar Awards.

Thw Writers Guild of America, locked in bitter contract negotiations

There were some major Oscar snubs this year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. A number of deserving actors, directors and films did not receive Oscar nominations. There were also a couple of nice surprises for unsuspecting actors.

When the Oscars are awarded many people aren't familiar with the winners because they weren't aware of the movie when it was at the theaters. Well here is a preview of possible upcoming Oscar nominees so you can see them at the theaters.

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.

This year's Academy Awards is sure to be controversial. We will have some surprises in store.

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.

A look at the 2008 Oscars, some strange moments and a look at pre-show predictions versus post show results.

My predictions for the winners among the recently announced nominations for the 2008 Academy Awards.

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.

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.

Despite this being a rather ordinary show that was largely unspectacular, there were many worthy winners at this year's Oscars.

Forget about the Oscars. Who is going to win a Razzie Award this year?

The Screen Actors Guild Awards are still slated to occur this upcoming Sunday, January 27, 2008 after having reached an interim agreement with the Writers Guild of America.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences was founded by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer V.P. Louis B. Mayer to forestall unionization in Hollywood. During the height of the Great Depression, labor strife nearly destroyed the Academy and the Oscars.

It appears each of the major categories have clear cut favorites. Will that take the suspense out of the Oscars?

The Screen Actors Guild Awards, aka the SAG Awards were handed out tonight. The SAG Awards are given to actors and actresses and ensemble casts for theatrical motion pictures and for primetime TV shows.

Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone is getting rave reviews but there are actually four other books in the series written by Dennis Lehane.

This article reviews the 2007 hit film recently released to DVD - - "Gone Baby Gone."

Gone Baby Gone ends with a fascinating and arguable thesis about making the right ethical decisions.

This story begs two questions: do we really need more pictures of Brad Pitt and do we really need a western staring Casey Affleck?

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