Tuesday, January 22, 2008

2008 Oscar Nominations

Nominees for 80th Annual Academy Awards have been announced.

Disney division Miramax received many nominations, but my focus will be on the main Walt Disney Pictures division.

Ratatouille received quite a few nominations including Best Animated Feature, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Sound Editing.

Being one of the best reviewed movies of the year, many were hoping for a Best Picture nomination. I definitely wasn't expecting one, but it would have been quite exciting to have an animated movie be nominated again for Best Picture like Beauty and the Beast was in 1992.

Enchanted received three nominations for Best Original Song--"Happy Working Song," "So Close," and "That's How You Know."

No Lead Actress nomination for Amy Adams for Enchanted, which is disappointing. Taking three out of five spots in the Best Original Song category, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz have a pretty good chance and rightly deserve a win.

Finally, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End received two nominations for Best Visual Effects and Makeup.



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