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Clooney, Depp get Oscar nods
22/01/2008 16:43 - (SA)
Beverly Hills - George Clooney, Daniel Day-Lewis, Johnny Depp, Cate Blanchett and Julie Christie are among the actors who have been nominated for the 80th annual Academy Awards on
Tuesday, organisers said.
George
Clooney (Michael Clayton) and Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will
Be Blood) will compete with Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of
Fleet Street), Tommy Lee Jones (In the Valley of Elah) and
Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises) for the Best Actor award.
Australian actress Cate Blanchett has received two nominations,
for her lead role in Elizabeth: The Golden Age and for her
supporting role as Bob Dylan in I'm Not There.
The other lead-actress contenders are British veteran
Julie Christie for Away From Her, French actress Marion
Cotillard for La Vie en Rose, Laura Linney for The Savages
and Canadian actress Ellen Page for Juno.
Best actor in supporting role
The nominations for best actor in a supporting role are Casey Affleck (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford), Javier Bardem (No Country for old men), Hal Holbrook (Into the wild), Philip Seymore Hoffman (Charlie Wilson's War) and Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton).
In the best supporting actress category, Cate Blanchett (I'm not there) is joined by Ruby Dee (American Gangster), Saoirse Ronan (Atonement), Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone) and Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton).
No Country For
Old Men and There Will
Be Blood led the Oscars race with eight nominations.
British period drama Atonement, picked up seven
nominations, as did legal thriller Michael Clayton.
All four films were nominated for best picture, along with
the quirky teen pregnancy comedy Juno.
Best directors
The animated hit Ratatouille earned five nominations,
while Juno and the French-language drama The Diving Bell and
the Butterfly scored four each.
The directors of No Country For Old Men, There Will Be
Blood, Juno, Michael Clayton and The Diving Bell and the
Butterfly were also nominated.
The 80th annual Academy Awards will be handed out in
Hollywood on February 24.
The Hollywood writers strike, now in its
12th week, could force organisers to change the format if the
walkout is not resolved by then.
The Writers Guild of America
has said it would protest the event, and the Screen Actors
Guild reiterated on Monday that its members would not cross the
picket line to attend Hollywood's biggest night of the year.
- Reuters
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