Oscar Nominations

These are my rapid impressions. Best Actor and Best Picture categories are loaded. Best Actress category is weak. Juno should excel. However, no dominant movie exists. Hal Holbrook and Tommy Lee Jones are the sentimental favorites. Everyone vote for Philip Seymour Hoffman. Everyone vote against Michael Moore.

Best Motion Picture

“Atonement”
“Juno”
“Michael Clayton”
“No Country For Old Men”
“There Will Be Blood”

Performance by Actor in A Leading Role

George Clooney “Michael Clayton”
Daniel Day-Lewis “There Will Be Blood”
Johnny Depp “Sweeney Todd”
Tommy Lee Jones “In the Valley of Elah”
Viggo Mortensen “Eastern Promises”

Performance by Actor in A Supporting Role

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 Seymour Hoffman “Charlie Wilson’s War”
Tom Wilkinson “Michael Clayton”

Performance by 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”

Performance by Actress in A Supporting Role

Cate Blanchett “I’m Not There”
Ruby Dee “American Gangster”
Saoirse Ronan “Atonement”
Amy Ryan “Gone Baby Gone”
Tilda Swinton “Michael Clayton”

Achievement in Directing

Julian Schnabel “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
Jason Reitman “Juno”
Tony Gilroy “Michael Clayton”
Joel & Ethan Coen “No Country For Old Men”
Paul Thomas Anderson “The Will Be Blood”

Best Documentary Feature

“No End in Sight”
“Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience”
“Sicko”
“Taxi to the Dark Side”
“War/Dance”