Two films top the Oscars shortlist
The nominations for the 80th Academy Awards have been announced, with 'No Country for Old Men' and 'There Volition Be Blood' leading the shortlist with eight nominations each.
'Atonement', 'Juno' and 'Michael Clayton' receive too received numerous nominations.
As expected Wicklow house physician Daniel Day-Lewis has been nominated for a C. H. Best Thespian Oscar for his public presentation in 'There Volition Be Blood'.
The other nominees for Charles Herbert Best Doer ar: George Clooney ('Michael Clayton'), Reb Depp ('Sweeney Todd'), Tommy Lighthorse Harry Lee John Paul Jones ('In the Vale of Elah') and Viggo Mortensen ('Eastern Promises').
The C. H. Best Actress short list is: Cate Blanchett ('Elizabeth: The Golden Age'), Julie Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie ('Away from Her'), Marion Cotillard ('La Vie en Rose'), Laura Linney ('The Savages') and Ellen Sir Frederick Handley Page ('Juno').
The nominees for Best Support Actor ar: Casey Affleck ('The Assassination of Jesse James IV by the Noel Coward Henry Martyn Robert Ford'), Javier Bardem ('No Nation for Old Men'), Philip Seymour Hoffman ('Charlie Wilson's War'), Hal Holbrook ('Into the Wild') and Tom Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson ('Michael Clayton').
Along with Irish people teenager Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett ('I'm Non There'), Ruby Dee ('American Gangster'), Amy Ryan ('Gone Baby Gone') and Tilda Swinton ('Michael Clayton') have been nominated in the Best Support Actress category.
Shortlisted for Best Conductor are: Julian Schnabel ('The Diving event Bell and the Butterfly'), Jason Reitman ('Juno'), Tony Gilroy ('Michael Clayton'), Joel and Ethan Coen ('No Rural area for Old Men') and Alice Paul St. Thomas Anderson ('There Volition Be Blood').
The films nominated for Charles Herbert Best Video ar: 'Atonement', 'Michael Clayton', 'No Country for Old Men', 'There Will Be Blood' and 'Juno'.
The five films nominated for Best Foreign Movie are: 'The Counterfeiters' (Oesterreich), 'Beaufort' (Israel), 'Katyn' (Polska), 'Mongol' (Republic of Kazakhstan) and '12' (Russia).
The nominees for Best Documentary Feature are: 'No End in Sight', 'Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience', 'Sicko', 'Taxi to the Dark Side' and 'War/Dance'.
The nominees for Best Animated Motion picture are: 'Persepolis', 'Ratatouille' and 'Surf's Up'.
The nominees for Best Adapted Screenplay ar: Saint Christopher Hampton ('Atonement'), Sarah Polley ('Away from Her'), Ronald Harwood ('The Diving Campana and the Butterfly'), Joel and Ethan Coen ('No Country for Old Men') and Paul Seth Thomas Philip Anderson ('There Will Be Blood').
The nominees for Best Archetype Screenplay ar: Diablo Cody ('Juno'), Nancy Joseph Oliver ('Lars and the Real number Girl'), Tony Gilroy ('Michael Clayton'), January Pinkava, Jim Capobianco and Brad Razzing ('Ratatouille') and Tamara Jenkins ('The Savages').
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