Two films top the Oscars shortlist
The nominations for the 80th Academy Awards have been announced, with 'No Country for Old Men' and 'There Will Be Blood' leading the short list with octad nominations each.
'Atonement', 'Juno' and 'Michael Clayton' have also received numerous nominations.
As expected Wicklow house physician Daniel Day-Lewis has been nominated for a Best Thespian Oscar for his performance in 'There Volition Be Blood'.
The other nominees for C. H. Best Actor are: George V Clooney ('Michael Clayton'), Rebel Depp ('Sweeney Todd'), Tommy Lee Jones ('In the Valley of Elah') and Viggo Mortensen ('Eastern Promises').
The Best Actress shortlist is: Cate Blanchett ('Elizabeth: The Golden Age'), Julie Christie ('Away from Her'), Marion Cotillard ('La Compete en Rose'), Laura Linney ('The Savages') and Ellen Page ('Juno').
The nominees for Best Supporting Worker ar: Casey Affleck ('The Blackwash of Jesse James River by the Sir Noel Pierce Coward Henry M. Robert Ford'), Javier Bardem ('No Nation for Old Men'), Duke of Edinburgh Jane Seymour Malvina Hoffman ('Charlie Wilson's War'), Hal Holbrook ('Into the Wild') and Tom Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson ('Michael Clayton').
Along with Irish people teen Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett ('I'm Non There'), Ruby Dee ('American Gangster'), Amy Ryan ('Gone Baby Gone') and Tilda Swinton ('Michael Clayton') make been nominated in the Best Support Actress category.
Shortlisted for Best Director ar: Julian Schnabel ('The Diving Vanessa Stephen and the Butterfly'), Jason Reitman ('Juno'), Tony Gilroy ('Michael Clayton'), Joel and Ethan Coen ('No Country for Old Men') and Paul the Apostle St. Thomas Carl David Anderson ('There Will Be Blood').
The films nominated for Best Ikon are: 'Atonement', 'Michael Clayton', 'No Country for Old Men', 'There Volition Be Blood' and 'Juno'.
The five films nominated for Best Foreign Cinema are: 'The Counterfeiters' (Oesterreich), 'Beaufort' (Yisrael), 'Katyn' (Republic of Poland), 'Mongol' (Kazakh) and '12' (Russia).
The nominees for C. H. Best Infotainment Feature ar: 'No End in Sight', 'Operation Homecoming: Composition the Wartime Experience', 'Sicko', 'Taxi to the Darkness Side' and 'War/Dance'.
The nominees for Best Animated Film are: 'Persepolis', 'Ratatouille' and 'Surf's Up'.
The nominees for Best Adapted Screenplay are: Saint Christopher Hampton ('Atonement'), Sarah Polley ('Away from Her'), Ronald Harwood ('The Dive Bell and the Butterfly'), Joel and Ethan Coen ('No Country for Old Men') and Paul Norman Mattoon Thomas Anderson ('There Will Be Blood').
The nominees for Best Original Screenplay are: Diablo William Frederick Cody ('Juno'), Nancy Oliver ('Lars and the Real Girl'), Tony Gilroy ('Michael Clayton'), January Pinkava, Jim Capobianco and Brad Shuttle ('Ratatouille') and Tamara Jenkins ('The Savages').
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