Oscar nominations out; Razzies too

By Joe Brown

Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008 | 8:59 a.m.

And the nominees are:

Best Picture: Atonement, Juno, Michael Clayton, No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood.

Best Actor: 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).

Best Actress: Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth: The Golden Age), Julie Christie (Away From Her), Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose), Laura Linney (The Savages), Ellen Page (Juno).

Supporting Actor: 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).

Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett (I'm Not There), Ruby Dee (American Gangster), Saoirse Ronan (Atonement), Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone), Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton).

Best Director: Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), Jason Reitman (Juno), Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood), The Coen Brothers (No Country For Old Men), Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton).

Best Foreign Language Film: Beaufort (Israel), The Counterfeiters (Austria), Katyn (Poland), Mongol (Kazakhstan), 12 (Russia).

Best Animated Film: Persepolis, Ratatouille, Surf's Up.

The complete list is here. The big question looming over all this happy news is whether the Feb. 24 Oscars telecast will take place as scheduled, due to the ongoing writers' strike.

Whatever happens, there's always the Razzies to look forward to: The snarkmeisters behind the 28th Golden Raspberry Awards plan to hand out gold-spray-painted, $4.89 statuettes at the annual insult-fest whether the 80th annual Academy Awards goes on or not.

Razzie nominees were also nominated today. Leading the field wit nine nominations is the Lindsay Lohan vehicle "I Know Who Killed Me." Eddie Murphy managed to steal Lohan's thunder by snagging a record-setting five nominations in a single year for "Norbit" (which my 8- and 10-year-old nephews thought was the funniest movie of the year).

Here's the complete list of Razzie noms.