I Drink Your Milkshake! I Drink It Up! (The Oscar Noms Are In)

(to understand you have to see There Will Be Blood, Click the pic to go to a site I have been posting at of late. But only if you've seen the movie, Spoiler Alert!)

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have announced this year's Oscar nominations. It used to be that the Oscar nominee list would be very close to the Golden Globe list, but for the past few years, the Academy has gone in different directions. And in each case, the right one. The Golden Globes are a bit of a joke to me, whereas I think you can trust the Academy's picks. Part of that is because of how the Academy works, check it out at Wikipedia.

I would say the Oscars are the one of the only award shows truly doing their job, which is honouring the best. Most award ceremonies try to please everyone, hence compromising their decisions. Anyways, this year is no different, The 80th Annual Academy Award nominations are superb. I'm not going to list everything. If you want to see a complete list go here.

Leading the pack is There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men with 8 nominations each. P.T. Anderson was ignored by the Golden Globes, but he picks up nominations for Direction, and Best Adapted Screenplay. Juno, the best movie of the year, has 4 well deserved nominations. One nomination proves the Academy's intelligence as the animated film Ratatouille was nominated for Best Screenplay. Another smart move was honouring Atonement far less than the Globes did. The lead actor and actress were deservedly shut down.

The one disappointment to come out of the announcement was one I was already aware of. Jonny Greenwood's original score for There Will Be Blood was not eligible due to some technicality (check it out here). However, if it was, I bet There Will Be Blood would be leading the Oscars with 9 nominations.

The Academy Award winners will be announced on February 24th. I was planning on posting Oscar predictions but this year is really hard to guess. With two movies with 8 nominations, it's hard to tell who they'll favour.