Joel & Ethan Coen's No Country For Old Men and Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood lead the Oscar race with eight nods each; Tony Gilroy's Michael Clayton and Joe Wright's Atonement follow with seven each.

All are in the Best Picture race, along with Jason Reitman's Juno. Wright is the only Best Picture nominee not in the Best Director race, with that slot going to Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell And The Butterfly.

After the frontrunners, Ratatouille has five. Juno,and The Diving Bell And The Butterfly eachgarnered four nominations. Sweeney Todd, La Vie En Rose and The Golden Compass had three each. Double nominations went to Away From Her, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, Into The Wild, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, The Savages, American Gangster, Transformers, and 3:10 To Yuma.

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BEST PICTURE
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

BEST DIRECTOR
Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
Jason Reitman, Juno
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
Joel & Ethan Coen, No Country For Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood

BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie,Away From Her
Marion Cotillard, La Vie En Rose
Laura Linney, The Savages
Ellen Page, Juno

BEST ACTOR
George Clooney, Michael Clayton
Daniel Day Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd
Tommy Lee Jones, In The Valley Of Elah
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
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
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There
Ruby Dee, American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan, Atonement
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Diablo Cody, Juno
Nancy Oliver, Lars & The Real Girl
Tony Gilroy Michael Clayton
Brad Bird, Jim Capobianco and Jan Pinkava, Ratatouille
Tamara Jenkins, The Savages

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Christopher Hampton, Atonement
Sarah Polley, Away From Her
Ronald Harwood, The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
Joel & Ethan Coen, No Country For Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Beaufort(Israel)
The Counterfeiters(Austria)
Katyn (Poland)
Mongol(Kazakhstan)
12(Russia)

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Persepolis
Ratatouille
Surf's Up

ART DIRECTION (art director/set decorator)
American Gangster, Arthur Max/Beth A Rubino
Atonement, Sarah Greenwood/Katie Spencer
The Golden Compass, Dennis Gassner, Anna Pinnock
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Dante Ferretti/Francesca Lo Schiavo
There Will Be Blood, Jack Fish/Jim Erickson

CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Roger Deakins
Atonement, Seamus McGarvey
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Janusz Kaminski
No Country for Old Men, Roger Deakins
There Will Be Blood, Robert Elswit

COSTUME DESIGN
Across the Universe, Albert Wolsky
Atonement, Jacqueline Durran
Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Alexandra Byrne
La Vie en Rose, Marit Allen
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Colleen Atwood

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
No End in Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Sicko
Taxi to the Dark Side
War/Dance

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Freeheld
La Corona (The Crown)
Salim Baba
Sari's Mother

FILM EDITING
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

MAKEUP
La Vie en Rose, Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald
Norbit, Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Ve Neill and Martin Samuel

ORIGINAL SCORE
Atonement, Dario Marianelli
The Kite Runner, Alberto Iglesias
Michael Clayton, James Newton Howard
Ratatouille, Michael Giacchino
3:10 to Yuma, Marco Beltrami

ORIGINAL SONG
'Falling Slowly' from Once
'Happy Working Song' from Enchanted
'Raise It Up' from August Rush
'So Close' from Enchanted
'That's How You Know' from Enchanted

ANIMATED SHORT
I Met the Walrus
Madame Tutli-Putli
Even Pigeons Go To Heaven (Même Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis)
My Love (Moya Lyubov)
Peter & the Wolf

LIVE ACTION SHORT
At Night
Il Supplente (The Substitute)
Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)
Tanghi Argentini
The Tonto Woman

S0UND EDITING
The Bourne Ultimatum, Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg
No Country for Old Men, Skip Lievsay
Ratatouille, Randy Thom and Michael Silvers
There Will Be Blood, Matthew Wood
Transformers, Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins

SOUND MIXING
The Bourne Ultimatum, Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis
No Country for Old Men, Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland
Ratatouille, Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane
3:10 to Yuma, Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Jim Stuebe
Transformers, Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin

VISUAL EFFECTS
The Golden Compass, Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier
Transformers, Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier

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