2007 Academy Awards, 2007 Oscar Predictions, Wild About Movies, Tim Nasson

Return to the Wild About Movies homepage.

Movie Showtimes

Discount Movie Tickets

WAM Homepage

Free Movie Screenings
PRINT PASSES to

BRUNO

Free Movie Screenings

Movie Box Office

Search this Site

"2007 Oscar Nominees"
& "2007 Academy Award Nominees"
By Tim Nasson, Publisher Wild About Movies
January 23, 2007

CLICK HERE FOR THE COMPLETE LIST of "2007 OSCAR WINNERS"

Below, the complete list of the "79th Annual Academy Award Nominees"

DISCOUNT "AMC MOVIE THEATRES" TICKETS
At Wild About Movies - Click Here!

For More About "The Departed" and "2007 Oscars"... click on "The Departed" poster below.

CLICK HERE to print out your "2007 Oscar Ballot"

CLICK HERE FOR "2007 Oscar Nominees'" Reactions!

"2007 Oscar Nominees"

"2007 Oscar Nominations" Best motion picture of the year

“Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
“The Departed” (Warner Bros.)
“Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.)
“Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight)
“The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada)

"2007 Oscar Nominations" Performance by an actor in a leading role

Leonardo DiCaprio in “Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.)
Ryan Gosling in “Half Nelson” (THINKFilm)
Peter O’Toole in “Venus” (Miramax, Filmfour and UK Council)
Will Smith in “The Pursuit of Happyness” (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Forest Whitaker in “The Last King of Scotland” (Fox Searchlight)

"2007 Oscar Nominations" Performance by an actor in a supporting role

Alan Arkin in “Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight)
Jackie Earle Haley in “Little Children” (New Line)
Djimon Hounsou in “Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.)
Eddie Murphy in “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount)
Mark Wahlberg in “The Departed” (Warner Bros.)

"2007 Oscar Nominations" Performance by an actress in a leading role

Penélope Cruz in “Volver” (Sony Pictures Classics)
Judi Dench in “Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight)
Helen Mirren in “The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada)
Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada” (20th Century Fox)
Kate Winslet in “Little Children” (New Line)

"2007 Oscar Nominations" Performance by an actress in a supporting role

Adriana Barraza in “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
Cate Blanchett in “Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight)
Abigail Breslin in “Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight)
Jennifer Hudson in “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount)
Rinko Kikuchi in “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)

"2007 Oscar Nominations" Best animated feature film of the year

“Cars” (Buena Vista) John Lasseter
“Happy Feet” (Warner Bros.) George Miller
“Monster House” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Gil Kenan

"2007 Oscar Nominations" Achievement in art direction

“Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount)
“The Good Shepherd” (Universal)
“Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse)
“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (Buena Vista)
“The Prestige” (Buena Vista)

"2007 Oscar Nominations" Achievement in cinematography

“The Black Dahlia” (Universal) Vilmos Zsigmond
“Children of Men” (Universal) Emmanuel Lubezki
“The Illusionist” (Yari Film Group) Dick Pope
“Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) Guillermo Navarro
“The Prestige” (Buena Vista) Wally Pfister

"2007 Oscar Nominations" Achievement in costume design

“Curse of the Golden Flower” (Sony Pictures Classics) Yee Chung Man
“The Devil Wears Prada” (20th Century Fox) Patricia Field
“Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) Sharen Davis
“Marie Antoinette” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Milena Canonero
“The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Consolata Boyle

"2007 Oscar Nominations" Achievement in directing

“Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Alejandro González Iñárritu
“The Departed” (Warner Bros.) Martin Scorsese
“Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.) Clint Eastwood
“The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Stephen Frears
“United 93” (Universal and StudioCanal) Paul Greengrass

"2007 Oscar Nominations" Best documentary feature

“Deliver Us from Evil” (Lionsgate)
“An Inconvenient Truth” (Paramount Classics and Participant Productions)
“Iraq in Fragments” (Typecast Releasing)
“Jesus Camp” (Magnolia Pictures)
“My Country, My Country” (Zeitgeist Films)r

"2007 Oscar Nominations" Best documentary short subject

“The Blood of Yingzhou District”
“Recycled Life”
“Rehearsing a Dream”
“Two Hands”

"2007 Oscar Nominations" Achievement in film editing

“Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
“Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.)
“Children of Men” (Universal)
“The Departed” (Warner Bros.)
“United 93” (Universal and StudioCanal)

"2007 Oscar Nominations" Best foreign language film of the year

“After the Wedding” Denmark
“Days of Glory (Indigènes)” Algeria
“The Lives of Others” Germany
“Pan’s Labyrinth” Mexico
“Water” Canada

"2007 Oscar Nominations" Achievement in makeup

“Apocalypto” (Buena Vista) Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
“Click” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Kazuhiro Tsuji and Bill Corso
“Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) David Marti and Montse Ribe

"2007 Oscar Nominations" Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

“Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Gustavo Santaolalla
“The Good German” (Warner Bros.) Thomas Newman
“Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight) Philip Glass
“Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) Javier Navarrete
“The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Alexandre Desplat

"2007 Oscar Nominations" Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

“I Need to Wake Up” from “An Inconvenient Truth”
(Paramount Classics and Participant Productions)
Music and Lyric by Melissa Etheridge

“Listen” from “Dreamgirls”
(DreamWorks and Paramount)
Music by Henry Krieger and Scott Cutler
Lyric by Anne Preven

“Love You I Do” from “Dreamgirls”
(DreamWorks and Paramount)
Music by Henry Krieger
Lyric by Siedah Garrett

“Our Town” from “Cars”
(Buena Vista)
Music and Lyric by Randy Newman

“Patience” from “Dreamgirls”
(DreamWorks and Paramount)
Music by Henry Krieger
Lyric by Willie Reale

"2007 Oscar Nominations" Best animated short film

“The Danish Poet” (National Film Board of Canada)
“Lifted” (Buena Vista)
“The Little Matchgirl” (Buena Vista)
“Maestro” (Szimplafilm)
“No Time for Nuts” (20th Century Fox)

"2007 Oscar Nominations" Best live action short film

“Binta and the Great Idea (Binta Y La Gran Idea)”
“Éramos Pocos (One Too Many)” (Kimuak)
“Helmer & Son”
“The Saviour” (Australian Film Television and Radio School)
“West Bank Story”

"2007 Oscar Nominations" Achievement in sound editing

“Apocalypto” (Buena Vista)
“Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.)
“Flags of Our Fathers” (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by Paramount)
“Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.)
“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (Buena Vista)

"2007 Oscar Nominations" Achievement in sound mixing

“Apocalypto” (Buena Vista)
“Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.)
“Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount)
“Flags of Our Fathers” (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by Paramount)
“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (Buena Vista)

"2007 Oscar Nominations" Achievement in visual effects

“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (Buena Vista)
“Poseidon” (Warner Bros.)
“Superman Returns” (Warner Bros.)

"2007 Oscar Nominations" Adapted screenplay

“Borat” (20th Century Fox)
Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Peter Baynham & Dan Mazer
Story by Sacha Baron Cohen & Peter Baynham & Anthony Hines & Todd Phillips
“Children of Men” (Universal)
Screenplay by Alfonso Cuarón & Timothy J. Sexton and David Arata and Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby
“The Departed” (Warner Bros.)
Screenplay by William Monahan
“Little Children” (New Line)
Screenplay by Todd Field & Tom Perrotta
“Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight)
Screenplay by Patrick Marber

"2007 Oscar Nominations" Original screenplay

“Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
Written by Guillermo Arriaga
“Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.)
Screenplay by Iris Yamashita
Story by Iris Yamashita & Paul Haggis
“Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight)
Written by Michael Arndt
“Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse)
Written by Guillermo del Toro
“The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada)
Written by Peter Morgan

Academy President Sid Ganis and past Oscar® nominee Salma Hayek announced the nominations for the 79th Academy Awards.

Beverly Hills, CA — Nominations for the 79th Annual Academy Awards were announced today (Tuesday, January 23) by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis and past Oscar® nominee Salma Hayek.

Ganis and Hayek, who was nominated for an Academy Award® in 2002 for her lead performance in “Frida,” announced the nominations in 10 of the 24 categories at a 5:30 a.m. live news conference at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

Academy members from the various branches selected the nominees in their corresponding award categories, with the exception of the Animated Feature and Foreign Language Film categories, in which nominations were determined by vote of screening committees composed of members from several branches. All voting members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees. Ballots were mailed to 5,830 voting members in late December and were returned directly to PricewaterhouseCoopers, the international accounting firm, for tabulation.

Official screenings for members of all pictures receiving nominations will begin this weekend at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Screenings in some categories also will be held in Hollywood, at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater, as well as in London, New York and San Francisco.

The Academy’s entire active and life membership is eligible to select the winners in all categories, although in five of them – the Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, and Foreign Language Film categories – members can vote only after attesting that they have seen all of the nominated films in the category.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2006 will be presented on Sunday, February 25, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network at 5 p.m. PST (8 p.m. EST), beginning with a half-hour arrivals segment, “The Road to the Oscars®.
________________________

"2007 Academy Award Nominee Preditions"
Predictions by Wild About Movies - January 22, 2007

Wild About Movies "2007 Oscar Nominees" Predictions for Best Picture:

"Babel"
"Casino Royale" (Dark Horse)
"The Departed"
"Letters From Iwo Jima"
"Little Miss Sunshine"
"The Queen"

Wild About Movies "2007 Oscar Nominees" Predictions for Best Director:

Pedro Almodovar, "Volver"
Clint Eastwood, "Letters From Iwo Jima"
Alejandro González Iñárritu, "Babel"
Stephen Frears, "The Queen"
Martin Scorcese, "The Departed"

Wild About Movies "2007 Oscar Nominees" Predictions for Best Actor:

Sacha Baron Cohen, "Borat"
Leonardo DiCaprio, "Blood Diamond"
Ryan Gosling, "Half Nelson"
Peter O'Toole, "Venus"
Ken Watanabe, "Letters From Iwo Jima" (Dark Horse)
Forest Whitaker, "The Last King Of Scotland"

Wild About Movies "2007 Oscar Nominees" Predictions for Best Actress:

Penelope Cruz, "Volver"
Judi Dench, "Notes On A Scandal"
Helen Mirren, "The Queen"
Meryl Streep, "The Devil Wears Prada"
Kate Winslett, "Little Children"

Wild About Movies "2007 Oscar Nominees" Predictions for Best Supporting Actor:

Ben Affleck, "Hollywoodland"
Adam Arkin, "Little Miss Sunshine" (Dark Horse)
Jackie Earle Haley, "Little Children"
Djimon Hinsou, "Blood Diamond"
Eddie Murphy, "Dreamgirls"
Jack Nicholson, "The Departed"

Wild About Movies "2007 Oscar Nominees" Predictions for Best Supporting Actress:

Cate Blanchet, "Notes On A Scandal"
Emily Blunt, "The Devil Wears Prada"
Abigail Breslin, "Little Miss Sunshine"
Jennifer Hudson, "Dreamgirls"
Rinko Kikuchi "Babel"

2008 Movies_2009 Movies

In The Spotlight!

"2008 Movies" & "2009 Movies" & "2010 Movies"
Movie Poster Premiere
"The Surrogates"
By Tim Nasson
Publisher, Wild About Movies

Wild About Movies provides you with the most comprehensive movie posters, movie trailers, movie synopses, Behind The Scenes of movies, and celebrity interviews, and current, updated movie release date information - than any other movie website. At WAM you are able to peruse the movie trailers, movie posters and movie synopses of more than 500 movies not yet in theaters (and thousands of movies formerly in movie theaters and currently on DVD, including all "2009 DVDS" and "2009 BluRays"). The latest additions to the Wild About Movies database: The movies "Nine," "9" and "District 9." (Imagine the look on the movie box office attendant's face when all three movies are at the same local multiplex later this year). The end of the world spectacular, special effects laden movies "The Last Airbender" and "2012." And Willem Dafoe in "Antichrist." Sylvester Stallone in front of and behind the camera in "The Expendables." The Ang Lee movie "Taking Woodstock" and Amy Adams and Meryl Streep as "Julie & Julia." And "Mary & Max" and "Pippa Lee." "Lovely Still" - featuring Martin Landau & Ellen Burstyn. Matt Damon in the Paul Greengrass movie "Green Zone." And John C. Reilly in "Cirque Du Freak." Jake Gyllenhaal as "Prince of Persia: Sands Of Time" and Rose McGowan as "Red Sonja 2010." Gerard Butler in three movies; "Gamer" and "Law Abiding Citizen" and opposite Katherine Heigl in "The Ugly Truth." And Rob Zombie's "Tyrannosaurus Rex." And Seth Rogen is "The Green Hornet." "Witchblade 2010," as well as "Fame 2009." And Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor as lovers in the long delayed "I Love You Phillip Morris." Sequels: Everything from Daniel Radcliffe naked not in "Harry Potter 6," but Daniel Radcliffe naked at WAM. The Disney 3D films "Cars 2" and "Toy Story 3." Michael Douglas in "Wall Street 2." And the requisites, "Final Destination 4" and "Saw 6," and "Cloverfield 2" and "Iron Man 2." Need more movies? "Planet 51" and Channing Tatum in "GI Joe The Movie." And the big screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" - finally with a release date in October 2009. Also, "Precious" and Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio's next collaboration, "Shutter Island." In addition, Sacha Baron Cohen is the hilarious, gay "Bruno." Brad Pitt in "Inglorious Bastards." The big screen adaptation of Maurice Sendack's "Where The Wild Things Are" and "Watch Out" and "The Escapist." - More? Sure! Peter Jackson's "The Lovely Bones" and "The Hobbit Movies." And Kenneth Branagh's "Thor." And the 3D movies "Aliens In The Attic" and "Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs." Also "The Smurfs Movie;" and "AstroBoy." The big screen version of Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" and Ben Stiller's "Chicago 7." And a slew of animated and non animated Walt Disney movies, many in 3D: including "Fraggle Rock: The Movie" and "The King of the Elves" and "Rapunzel," "The Bear and the Bow;" "Newt," "The Princess And The Frog," "Ponyo" and Heath Ledger's final movie, "Dr. Parnassus." The four Jonas Brothers in the big screen adaptation of "Walter The Farting Dog" and Wesley Snipes in "Gallowwalker!" Also: Zac Efron in "Me And Orson Welles." Also, Chace Crawford in "Footloose 2010," and "Pope Joan." Benicio Del Toro as "The Wolfman." And James ("Titanic") Cameron's "Avatar;" "The Bad Lieutenant" and Hilary Swank in "Amelia." Robert Downey Jr. as "Sherlock Holmes." In addition, the sequels to "Twilight," (the movies in the "Twilight" film franchise), "Eclipse" and "New Moon," all starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. And Diablo Cody in "Jennifer's Body," which she also wrote. In addition, "Saw 6," "Final Destination 4" and "Captain America." And check out all of the "2008 Movies" that were released in movie theaters. We also bring you "2010 Oscars" pre-coverage - and the movie trailers and movie posters of all "2009 Movies" & "2010 Movies" in theaters, including today's IN THE SPOTLIGHT - "The Surrogates"... (continue)