80th Annual Academy Awards!

Come Sunday, February 24th, every cinema-loving, movie-quoting, film-craving lad and lass in the greater United States (and beyond!) should tune in to see the best of the best get the highest of recognitions in the form of Academy Awards! Okay, enough frivolous verbiage, let's get down to the nominations (and this list isn't the complete set of nominations, just some of the major categories. For the full list go to the official website at Oscar Nominations.)

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
--George Clooney ("Michael Clayton")
--Daniel Day-Lewis ("There Will Be Blood")
--Johnny Depp ("Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street")
--Tommy Lee Jones ("In The Valley of Elah")
--Viggo Mortenson ("Eastern Promises")

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
--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 Halbrook ("Into the Wild")
--Tom Wilkinson ("Michael Clayton")

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
--Cate Blanchett ("Elizabeth: The Golden Age")
--Julie Christie ("Away From Her")
--Marion Cotillard ("La Vie En Rose")
--Laura Linney ("The Savages")
--Ellen Page ("Juno")

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
--Cate Blanchett ("I'm Not There")
--Ruby Dee ("American Gangster")
--Saoirse Ronan ("Atonement")
--Amy Ryan ("Gone Baby Gone")
--Tilda Swanton ("Michael Clayton")

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
--"Persepolis"
--"Ratatouille"
--"Surf's Up"

DIRECTING
--"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
--"Juno"
--"Michael Clayton"
--"No Country For Old Men"
--"There Will Be Blood"

FILM EDITING
--"The Bourne Ultimatum"
--"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
--"Into the Wild"
--"No Country For Old Men"
--"There Will Be Blood"

BEST PICTURE
--"Atonement"
--"Juno"
--"Michael Clayton"
--"No Country For Old Men"
--"There Will Be Blood"


Bear in mind this is a partial list of the categories. Follow the link at the top of the page to find the full official list of categories and nominations.

The Oscars begin on Sunday (Feb. 24th) at 8pm with pre-shows beginning at 6pm.