And the Oscar
nominees are ... THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tuesday, January 22nd 2008, 8:55 AM BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - "No
Country for Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" led with eight Academy Awards nominations each Tuesday, among them best picture and acting honors for Daniel Day-Lewis and Javier Bardem - but whether any actors would show up was in doubt because of the writers strike. Other
nominees for best picture were "Atonement," ''Juno," and "Michael Clayton." The nominees for best actor are George Clooney for "Michael Clayton," Daniel Day-Lewis for "There Will Be Blood," Johnny Depp for "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," Viggo Mortensen for "Eastern Promises" and Tommy Lee Jones for "In the Valley of Elah." Best-actress nominees included Cate Blanchett, "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"; Julie Christie, "Away From Her"; Marion Cotillard, "La Vie En Rose"; Laura Linney, "The Savages"; and Ellen Page, "Juno." The nominees for best supporting actress were: Blanchett, "I'm Not There"; Ruby Dee, "American Gangster"; Saoirse Ronan, "Atonement"; Amy Ryan, "Gone Baby Gone"; and Tilda Swinton, "Michael Clayton." The nominees for best supporting actor are Casey Affleck, "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"; Javier Bardem, "No Country for Old Men"; Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Charlie Wilson's War"; Hal Holbrook, "Into the Wild"; Tom Wilkinson, "Michael Clayton." The nominees for best director were: Paul Thomas Anderson, "There Will Be Blood"; Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, "No Country for Old Men"; Tony Gilroy, "Michael Clayton"; Jason Reitman, "Juno"; and Julian Schnabel, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly."