Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced this year’s nominees for the annual Academy Awards.
Atonement, Juno, Michael Clayton, No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood all made it into the Best Picture category, meaning they’ll be vying for that most prestigious award when the Oscars are handed out February 24.
Competing in the main acting categories are Daniel Day-Lewis, George Clooney, Viggo Mortensen, Johnny Depp and Tommy Lee Jones (Best Actor), and Julie Christie, Marion Cottilard, Ellen Page, Cate Blanchett and Laura Linney (Best Actress). The full list of nominations are:
20th Century Fox has released eight new images from the upcoming sci-fi film Jumper.
No doubt eyeing the huge amount of pre-release internet hype generated for Cloverfield, Paramount have launched their own viral site to promote J.J. Abram’s upcoming Star Trek.
Sarah Michelle Gellar has told 
Ken Watanabe has joined John C. Reilly and Salma Hayek in the cast of Universal Pictures vampire pic Cirque du Freak reports 
I prefer Obama to McCain. Now, McCain’s better than average for a Republican. And though his ads are intellectually offensive, he’s just bowing to his campaign masters and would calm down and be more sane once in office and not campaigning. But I have a few concerns with McCain on foreign policy. He’s not a full-fledged Neocon. That’s good. He opposed Reagan on Lebanon. Good. He was critical of Bush’s initial strategy in Iraq. That’s good. But there’s a problem. He thinks the Vietnam war was winnable and that the US shouldn’t have withdrawn. He’s also eager to spread democracy with force. This just isn’t a good set of beliefs for inheriting Iraq.