And the nominees are ... going to be announced in 2 minutes.
Okay, so my immediate thoughts. First, Surf's Up!?! What the hell? I don't think I'd even really heard of that. Surfing penguins I'm guessing? Nonetheless it took the slot in Animated Feature that was expected to go to The Simpsons Movie. I thought Actress was somewhat surprising. No Angelina Jolie? No Keira Knightley? Instead Cate B. gets in for her second Elizabeth and Laura Linney gets in for The Savages. Director was quite interesting in that both Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton) and Jason Reitman (Juno) were nominated, neither of which would've probably been expected a month ago. To me Actor is a dream of a field - Clooney, Mortensen, Day-Lewis, Depp and Jones (for In the Valley of Elah). The supporting acting categories didn't really offer any big surprises. The former Soviet bloc did very well in Foreign Language Film (12, Katyn, Mongol). I haven't seen the full list of nominees yet, but the ones announced on tv were pretty respectable picks.
UPDATE: So 3 songs from Enchanted were nominated? Huh. And now we live in a world where Norbit is an Oscar nominee (for make-up). Shudder.
UPDATE 2: Damn. I just realized Norbit got more nominations than Zodiac? Wtf?!? Zodiac didn't get any nominations. Not even for Vanderbilt's great screenplay. That's just sad.
Posted by armand at January 22, 2008 08:36 AM | TrackBack | Posted to MoviesI learned from the thread at the Film Experience that there's an interesting "first ever" in the acting categories. This is the first year ever when only 1 film has scored multiple acting nominations (the film is Michael Clayton).
Posted by: Armand at January 22, 2008 12:38 PM | PERMALINK