Oscar nominations 2008

Hello and I'm sorry for the delay in writing in my blog...but I am back! The nominations for the 2008 Oscar's were announced last Tuesday. Atonement, There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men were big and expected nominations. Overall, the nominations were fairly unsurprising with the above-mentioned films being selected. The best animated feature film category was a surprise not for Ratatouille and perhaps not for Surf's Up but that the lesser known Persepolis (about an Iranian girl growing up) was nominated. In my quest to see as many nominated films as possible, I already had one category completed at the time of the nomination announcement. I have seen all of the nominees for Best Original Song. My favorite nominees are for Julie Christie's amazing lead role Sarah Polley's adapted screenplay nominations for Away From Her and the best song nomination for Falling Slowly from the movie Once. Please see earlier blog entries for these movies. I will be leaving my husband for the next month for my annual "affair with Oscar" but will check in to this blog from time to time to update movie reviews and let us all hope that the writer's strike is ended so that we can all watch the glitz and glamour that i the Oscars on 2/24/08! Happy movie-watching and here is to many enthusiastic thumbs-ups!