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.
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Sunday 18 May 2008
Rhys Meyers to help Calcutta children
Rhys Meyers to help Calcutta children
Irish Gaelic actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers has revealed his plans to champion the rights of children life on the streets of Calcutta.
The Hollywood asterisk was unveiled at a ceremony in Capital of Ireland today as the embassador for the Hope Fundament, a charity formed in his native Cork.
Rhys Meyers said: "I'm deep honoured to suit an embassador for an governing body care the
Thursday 8 May 2008
Corrie star Haworth expecting first child
Corrie star Haworth expecting first child
'Coronation Street' star Julia Haworth has revealed that she is pregnant with her first base child.
The actress, wHO plays Claire Peacock in the soap, is due to give birth in July.
The actress revealed she ground out the news show in November but wanted to hold open it lull until her 12 week run down.
She told The Mirror newsprint: "We haven't stopped smile. It's such a special clip and I feel so lucky we're going to share it."
Haworth added that her character's postnatal depression followers the nascency of boy Freddie had helped "prepare" her for being a mother.
The 28-year-old married comptroller Jon Wormold in May 2006 after a two-year romanticism.
Wednesday 7 May 2008
No Emmerdale contract for Freeman
No Emmerdale contract for Freeman
Ben Freeman has been told that his 'Emmerdale' condense will non be renewed.
The worker, wHO played car-mechanic Scott House of Windsor, has been on a leave of absence from the soap since beingness charged with violation in Barbados in December final stage year.
An ITV spokesman told the News of the World: "We cannot be sure of Ben's accessibility for work, so we cannot renew his contract. It is due to the uncertainness of the swear out of jurisprudence and the pb times in writing a character in and out of a soap."
Freeman said: "I am focalization on the legal minutes in Barbados and look forward to speaking to ITV once this site is in arrears me."
Freeman is geological dating Victoria Coleman Hawkins, Emmerdale's feisty Shake Sharon Leonard Constant Lambert. She has vowed to stand by him.
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Irwin family launch Australia Zoo dolls
Irwin family launch Australia Zoo dolls
Television receiver star Terri Irwin and her children Bindi and Robert let launched a new chain of their Australia Zoological garden toys in Freshly House of York.
Terri Irwin, whose husband Steve was killed by a stingray piece filming an underwater documentary, rundle around her children's feel of snake bites during the launch.
Speaking or so her four-year-old word Henry M. Robert, she said: "He picked one of them up and it bit him on the finger, and he was so proud to have copped his first gain."
"He said, 'I hope it wasn't venomous,' so I assured Robert I wouldn't actually have him play with venomous snakes," she said.
She besides revealed that her nine-year-old daughter Bindi was number one bitten by a hydra when she was hardly 18 months old.
Bindi said of the toy launch: "It's every little girl's dream to have an demand lookalike doll. It's amazing."
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