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Posted by Matt Holmes

At 5.30am Pacific Time/1.30pm U.K. time, the 80th Annual Academy Award nominations will be announced to the world live and for the first time across the Internet as well (although last year I watched it live on the BBC website, so that’s not strictly true).

If you visit this site at the time of the announcement today (in just a few hours) then I will be here, updating the site every couple of minutes with everything that is going on, giving you my opinions on how it went down and who shockingly wasn’t nominated.

For now, here are my predictions for what I think they will choose (not particularly what they should pick) and remember tomorrow our OWF AWARDS 2007 will continue with Best Supporting Actor.

Best Picture
No County For Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Juno
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Michael Clayton

Missing out: Sweeney Todd, Charlie Wilson’s War, The Assassination of Jesse James, American Gangster, Into the Wild, Atonement & Ratatouille

Best Actor
Daniel Day Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises
Ryan Gosling, Lars and the Real Girl
George Clooney, Michael Clayton
Denzel Washington, American Gangster

Missing Out: Hanks (Charlie Wilson’s War), Gosling (Lars and the Real Girl),  Hirsch (Into the Wild),
Hoffman (The Savages),  Pitt (Jesse James),  Crowe (Yuma),  McAvoy (Atonement)

Best Actress
Angelina Jolie, A Mighty Heart
Julie Christie, Away from Her
Marion Cotillard, La Vive En Rose
Laura Linney, The Savages (though they should nominate Blanchett twice, but they won’t, so i’ve left her out)
Ellen Page, Juno

Missing Out: Linney (The Savages), Berry (Things We Lost in the Fire), Adams (Enchanted), Knightley (Atonement), Blonsky (Harispray), Foster (The Brave One)

Best Supporting Actor
Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson’s War
Robert Downey Jr, Zodiac
Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Best Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Samantha Morton, Control
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
Catherine Keener, Into the Wild

Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Joel and Ethan Cohen, No Country For Old Men
Joe Wright, Atonement
Julian Schabnel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Sean Penn, Into the Wild

Best Screenplay (Original)
Diablo Cody, Juno
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
Tamara Jenkins, The Savages
Nancy Oliver, Lars and the Real Girl
Brad Bird, Ratatouille

Best Screenplay (Adapted)
Joel and Ethan Cohen, No Country For Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Aaron Sorkin, Charlie Wilson’s War
James Vanderbilt, Zodiac
Ronald Harwood, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Best Animated Feature
Ratatouille
Persepolis
The Simpsons Movie

Best Documentary
Don’t really know this category. Pretty obvious SICKO will get voted for.

Best Foreign Film
Don’t know this category.

Best Cinematography
Harris Savides, Zodiac
Janusz Kaminski, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Roger Deakins, No County For Old Men
Robert Elswitt, There Will Be Blood
Eric Gautier, Into the Wild

Best Art Direction
Atonement
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
There Will Be Blood
La Vive En Rose

Best Visual Effects
300
Transformers
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

The rest I don’t care or don’t really know enough about to comment. Remember check back in just under three hours and we will go through it all here on Obsessed With Film… LIVE!

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