The nominations for the 80th Academy Awards have been announced, with 'No Country for Old Men' and 'There Will Be Blood' leading the shortlist with eight nominations each.
'Atonement', 'Juno' and 'Michael Clayton' have also received numerous nominations.
As expected Wicklow resident Daniel Day-Lewis has been nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his performance in 'There Will Be Blood'.
The other nominees for Best Actor are: George Clooney ('Michael Clayton'), Johnny Depp ('Sweeney Todd'), Tommy Lee Jones ('In the Valley of Elah') and Viggo Mortensen ('Eastern Promises').
The Best Actress shortlist is: Cate Blanchett ('Elizabeth: The Golden Age'), Julie Christie ('Away from Her'), Marion Cotillard ('La Vie en Rose'), Laura Linney ('The Savages') and Ellen Page ('Juno').
The nominees for Best Supporting Actor are: 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') and Tom Wilkinson ('Michael Clayton').
Along with Irish teenager Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett ('I'm Not There'), Ruby Dee ('American Gangster'), Amy Ryan ('Gone Baby Gone') and Tilda Swinton ('Michael Clayton') have been nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category.
Shortlisted for Best Director are: Julian Schnabel ('The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'), Jason Reitman ('Juno'), Tony Gilroy ('Michael Clayton'), Joel and Ethan Coen ('No Country for Old Men') and Paul Thomas Anderson ('There Will Be Blood').
The films nominated for Best Picture are: 'Atonement', 'Michael Clayton', 'No Country for Old Men', 'There Will Be Blood' and 'Juno'.
The five films nominated for Best Foreign Film are: 'The Counterfeiters' (Austria), 'Beaufort' (Israel), 'Katyn' (Poland), 'Mongol' (Kazakhstan) and '12' (Russia).
The nominees for Best Documentary Feature are: 'No End in Sight', 'Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience', 'Sicko', 'Taxi to the Dark Side' and 'War/Dance'.
The nominees for Best Animated Film are: 'Persepolis', 'Ratatouille' and 'Surf's Up'.
The nominees for Best Adapted Screenplay are: Christopher Hampton ('Atonement'), Sarah Polley ('Away from Her'), Ronald Harwood ('The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'), Joel and Ethan Coen ('No Country for Old Men') and Paul Thomas Anderson ('There Will Be Blood').
The nominees for Best Original Screenplay are: Diablo Cody ('Juno'), Nancy Oliver ('Lars and the Real Girl'), Tony Gilroy ('Michael Clayton'), Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco and Brad Bird ('Ratatouille') and Tamara Jenkins ('The Savages').
For more on the Oscar nominations, click here and here.
Saturday, 24 May 2008
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Cowell to produce Potts Hollywood film
Cowell to produce Potts Hollywood film
The storey of Britain's Got Talent victor Apostle Paul Potts is to be made into a Hollywood plastic film produced by Simon Cowell.
The former Carphone Warehouse salesman became the unlikely star of the TV talent evince with his performance of opera classic 'Nessun Dorma'.
His tale is to get the large screen intervention after Paramount Pictures snapped up the rights to his narrative, according to Variety magazine.
In response to the plastic film news Cowell said: "This caller got that it's another Baton Elliot, a news report anyone in the world tin interpret."
Talking about Potts Britain's Got Talent storey he said: "This was his last chance and he literally decided to come in based on the cast away of a coin. And scorn his success off the indorse of the show, the only difference of opinion I take care in him is that he got his dentition fixed."
The 37-year-old Welsh singer has sold deuce-ace million copies of his debut album 'One Chance'.
Nina Simone
Wednesday, 7 May 2008
Steve and John Hackett
Artist: Steve and John Hackett
Genre(s):
Instrumental
Discography:
Sketches Of Satie
Year: 2000
Tracks: 20
Winehouse summoned by Norwegian court
Winehouse summoned by Norwegian court
Amy Winehouse has been ordered to seem in judicature in Norge later on she appealed her oK for marijuana possession.
Billboard.com is reporting that the 24-year-old singer-songwriter has been summoned to appear in margaret Court in Bergen on 29 Feb.
"I toilet confirm that she must appear in court," Bergen police spokeswoman Liv Karlsen said.
"If single appeals a strong belief, it's the rule that one has to appear in person, so this is non surprising."
Winehouse and her married man Blake Fielder-Civil were arrested in Bergen on 18 October and detained overnight on charges of illegal dose possession. They were both released the next clarence Day subsequently for each one paying a finely of $715.
Winehouse later claimed she had been tricked into signing the charges and did not experience what she had set her signature to. Law read they are sure she knew, and that fluent English speakers helped her.
The singer's attorney has said that a strong belief and a oK could legal injury her career by making it to a greater extent difficult for her to enter the US.
James Bond to wed in Quantum Of Solace?
James Bond to wed in Quantum Of Solace?
British people actress Gemma Arterton has hinted that James Bond paper may tie the knot in the forthcoming 007 film.
The 22-year-old headliner told a US TV newsperson that she and Daniel Craig had been shot scenes in a honeymoon suite for the plastic film, which is titled 'Quantum of Solace'.
The surprised journalist asked: "Honeymoon suite?", suggestion Arterton to response: "I think I've said too much."
The actress, wHO can buoy currently be seen in 'St Trinian's', plays an MI6 agent workings at the British consulate in Bolivia in the freshly Bond film.
Bail has previously been married on screen. In the 1969 flick 'On Her Majesty's Service', George IV Lazenby's Chemical bond married Tracy Draco (Princess of Wales Rigg). However, she was murdered in a drive-by shooting on their wedding day.
See our James Adhesiveness photocall gallery here.
Chance to Win My Boy Elvis Tickets
Chance to Win My Boy Elvis Tickets
THIS Rivalry IS Now CLOSED - A list of winners will be posted here presently.
We have double tickets for 'My Boy Loony toons - The Musical' at the Olympia Theater on William Ashley Sunday 24 February to throw away.
The musical comedy stars Liam Tater, world Health Organization won 'The World's Finest Battery-acid Impersonator' rival in the US in 2006, Alan Curran as Colonel Tomcat Parker and 13-year-old Craig Little Mo Connolly as the young Loony toons.
The chronicle finds The King and his manager in the afterlife, reflecting and reminiscing about their lives and how things could get been different.
Written, directed and produced by George Twamley, the production features such classics as 'Hound Dog', 'Tutti Frutti', 'The Wonder of You', 'Suspicious Minds', 'An American English Trilogy' and 'Burning Love'.
To be in with a luck of winning tickets, answer the followers question: What was the call of Elvis' manager?
Send your answer, name, address and telephone number marked 'My Boy Dose Comp' to entertainmentonline@rte.ie by Thursday 21 Feb at 12pm. One entry per person. Booty is shew tickets only.
The full tour dates for 'My Male child Elvis' ar:Dublin - Capital of Washington Theater, William Ashley Sunday 24 February Castlebar - Royal Theater, Saturday 8 March Belfast - The Waterfront, Friday 18 April Killarney - The INEC, Saturday 12 July
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