The official honorary organisation Academy of Motion Picture, Arts and Science that honours Hollywood and artists from film industries across the globe with prestigious Oscar Awards annually, has officially announced the final list of selected contenders for the 80th Academy Awards on Tuesday.
These awards have been undoubtedly rated as the top honours for any individual who belongs to the entertainment world. The awards are usually presented in the month of February every year.
The mega award ceremony for the year 2007 is scheduled on February 24, 2008. A total of five nominees in each 24 categories have been finalised except in ‘Achievement in visual effect’ category that has only three nominees.
To everybody’s surprise, there is no Indian movie in this year’s nomination list, though, the movie “Eklavya - The Royal Guard” has been sent from Bollywood but it failed to make a mark.
A very few films are nominated for more than five categories including "No Country for Old Men" and “There Will Be Blood” with most nominations in eight categories.
This time there are five films contesting for the ‘Best Picture’ award 2007 and the name of the films are: Atonement, Juno, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood and Michael Clayton.
George Clooney starrer Michael Clayton has got seven nominations, with Clooney himself bidding for best actor. On other hand ‘Atonement’ has seven nomination but actress Keira Knightly is not in the nomination list of best actresses.
Among the ‘Best Actress’ nominees there is Ellen Page, the star of Juno and Cate Blanchett for the movie ‘Elizabeth: The Golden Age’.
Directed by Shekhar Kapur the movie “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” has got two nominations as best actress and best costume. The first part of this movie “Elizabeth” has own an Oscar in 1998 for best makeup done by Jenny Shircore.
Other actresses in the frame include Julie Christie in the film “Away from Her,” Marion Cotillard as a singer in "La Vie en Rose", Laura Linney in the movie “The Savages”.
In the best performance by an actor the names are: George Clooney in "Michael Clayton", Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood", Johnny Depp in "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street", Tommy Lee Jones in "In the Valley of Elah", Viggo Mortensen in "Eastern Promises".
The awards ceremony which is scheduled for February 24th but the ongoing screen writers' strike in US may dampen the glitter of the event.
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