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Penn film leads Critics' Choice
12/12/2007 12:14 - (SA)
New York - Sean Penn's adventure
tale Into the Wild garnered the most Critics' Choice award
nominations on Tuesday, including best picture, best actor for
Emile Hirsch and best director for Penn.
With seven nominations, Into the Wild, directed by Penn,
edged out Juno, the offbeat comedy about a pregnant teenager
played by Ellen Page that received six nods, including best
picture and best actress for Page.
Five films snagged five nominations apiece: Atonement, Michael Clayton, No Country for Old Men, Sweeney Todd and
Hairspray.
Joining Into the Wild and Juno with best picture nods
were: American Gangster, Atonement, The Diving Bell and
the Butterfly, The Kite Runner, Michael Clayton, No
Country for Old Men, Sweeney Todd, and There Will Be
Blood.
Besides Hirsch, best actor nominations went to George
Clooney for Michael Clayton, Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will
Be Blood, Johnny Depp for Sweeney Todd, Ryan Gosling for
Lars and the Real Girl, and Viggo Mortensen for Eastern
Promises.
Best actress nods
Along with Page, others getting best actress nods were Amy
Adams for Enchanted, Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth: The
Golden Age, Julie Christie for Away From Her, Marion
Cotillard for La Vie en Rose, and Angelina Jolie for A
Mighty Heart.
No Country for Old Men, the dark crime thriller from
brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, has already won top film honours
from New York Film Critics Circle Awards and the National Board
of Review of Motion Pictures.
The Coens scored a best director
nod from the Critics' Choice awards on Tuesday.
Such critical nods are helpful for the studios' marketing
campaigns as they vie for Oscar attention for their films.
Next
on the awards season's agenda are the Golden Globe nominations
on Thursday.
The Critics' Choice nominees were announced by the
Broadcast Film Critics Association, which has more than 200
members in the United States and Canada representing
television, radio and online critics.
The winners will be
announced on January 7.
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