Oscars 2008

Com a febre que ficou de um possível cancelamento da entrega de prémios mais esperada de todo o ano, com o final da greve as espectativas continuaram a surgir e a corrida aos cinemas para ver os nomeados marcou-se como imprescindível.

A sensivelmente um dia do início da gala, tenho a dizer que me é extremamente complicado fazer um veredicto dos filmes que fui vendo este ano e as quais foram entregando um valor inacreditável ao cinema contemporâneo.

No entanto, e como sempre, houve falhas que penso não saber perdoar. David Cronenberg no seu filme Eastern Promises, como uma das melhores obras que já vi nos últimos anos, conseguiu o feito de sair impune de nomeações. Jodie Foster com a sua participação no filme The Brave One de Neil Jordan foi esquecida com o impacto de obras mais recentes, enclipsada por outras representações magníficas mas que a meu ver mereceram tanto a nomeação como ela merecia. Também Paul Dano em There Will be Blood, o mesmo que iluminou a meu ver o filme Little Miss Sunshine há uns tempos atrás foi injustamente esquecido. Mas todos os anos este desconforto repete-se. E filmes que são magníficos não serão nunca esquecidos.

Deixo-vos as nomeações em baixo. A gala vai ter lugar amanhã e será transmitida pela TVI.

No Country For Old Man
Javier Bardem (Actor in a Supporting Role),
Roger Deakins (Cinematography),
Joel Coen e Ethan Coen (Directing),
Roderick Jaynes (Film Editing),
Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers (Best Picture),
Skip Lievsay (Sound Editing),
Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff e Peter Kurland (Sound Mixing),
Joel Coen e Ethan Coen (Adapted Screenplay)




There Will be Blood
Daniel Day-Lewis (Actor in a Leading Role),
Jack Fisk e Jim Erickson (Art Direction),
Robert Elswit (Cinematography),
Paul Thomas Anderson (Directing),
Dylan Tichenor (Film Editing),
JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Lupi, Producers (Best Picture),
Christopher Scarabosio e Matthew Wood (Sound Editing),
Paul Thomas Anderson (Adapted Screenplay)




Michael Clayton
George Clooney (Actor in a Leading Role),
Tom Wilkinson (Actor in a Supporting Role),
Tilda Swinton (Actress in a Supporting Role),
Tony Gilroy (Directing),
James Newton Howard (Original Score)
Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox and Kerry Orent, Producers (Best Picture),
Tony Gilroy (Original Screenplay)





Juno
Ellen Page (Actress in a Leading Role),
Jason Reitman (Directing),
Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick and Russell Smith, Producers (Best Picture),
Diablo Cody (Original Screenplay)









Atonement
Saoirse Ronan (Actress in a Leading Role),
Sarah Greenwood e Katie Spencer (Art Direction),
Seamus McGarvey (Cinematography),
Jacqueline Durran (Costume Design),
Dario Marianelli (Original Score),
Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster (Best Picture, Producers)






Across the Universe, Albert Wolsky (Costume Design); American Gangster, Ruby Dee (Actress in a Supporting Role) e Arthur Max e Beth A. Rubino (Art Direction); The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Casey Affleck (Actor in a Supporting Role) e Roger Deakins (Cinematography); At Night, Christian E. Christiansen e Louise Vesth (Live Action Short Film); August Rush, Jamal Joseph, Charles Mack e Tevin Thomas com "Raise It Up" (Original Song); Away from Her, Julie Christie (Actress in a Supporting Role) e Sarah Polley (Adapted Screenplay); Beaufort, Joseph Cedar (Director for the Best Foreign Language Film); The Bourne Ultimatum, Christopher Rouse (Film Editing), Karen Baker Landers e Per Hallberg (Sound Editing) e Scott Millan, David Parker e Kirk Francis (Sound Mixing); Charlie Wilson's War, Philip Seymour Hoffman (Actor in a Supporting Role); The Counterfeiters, Stefan Ruzowitzky (Director for the Best Foreign Language Film); The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Janusz Kaminski (Cinematography), Julian Schnabel (Directing), Juliette Welfling (Film Editing) e Ronald Harwood (Adapted Screenplay); Eastern Promises, Viggo Mortensen (Actor in a Leading Role); Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Cate Blanchett (Actress in a Leading Role) e Alexandra Byrne (Costume Design); Enchanted, Alan Menken e Stephen Schwartz com "Happy Working Song", "So close" e "That's How You Know" (Original Song); Freeheld, Cynthia Wade e Vanessa Roth (Documentary Short Subject); The Golden Compass, Dennis Gassner e Anna Pinnock (Art Direction) e Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris e Trevor Wood (Visual Effects); Gone Baby Gone, Amy Ryan (Actress in a Supporting Role); I Met the Walrus, Josh Raskin (Short Film - Animated); Il Supplent, Andrea Jublin (Live Action Short Film); I'm Not There, Cate Blanchett (Actress in a Supporting Role), In the Valley of Elah, Tommy Lee Jones (Actor in a Leading Role); Into the Wild, Hal Holbrook (Actor in a Supporting Role) e Jay Cassidy (Film Editing); Katyn, Andrzej Wajda (Director for the Best Foreign Language Film); The Kite Runner, Alberto Iglesias (Original Score); La Corona, Amanda Micheli e Isabel Vega (Documentary Short); La Vie en Rose, Marion Cotillard (Actress in a Leading Role), Marit Allen (Costume Design), Didier Lavergne e Jan Archibald (Makeup); Lars and the Real Girl, Nancy Oliver (Original Screenplay); Le Mozart des Pickpockets, Philippe Pollet-Villard (Short Film Live Action); Madame Tutli-Putli, Chris Lavis e Maciek Szczerbowski (Short Film - Animated); Même les Pigeons vont au Paradis, Samuel Tourneux e Simon Vanesse (Short Film - Animated); Mongol, Sergei Bodrov (Director for the Best Foreign Language Film); Moya Lyubov, Alexander Petrov (Short Film - Animated); No End in Sight, Charles Ferguson e Audrey Marrs (Documentary Feature); Norbit, Rick Baker e Kazuhiro Tsuji (Makeup); Once, Glen Hansard e Marketa Irglova com "Falling Slowly" (Original Song); Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, Richard E. Robbins (Documentary Feature); Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi e Vincent Paronnaud (Animated Feature Film); Peter and the Wolf, Suzie Templeton e Hugh Welchman (Short Film - Animated); Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Ve Neill e Martin Samuel (Makeup) e John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson e John Frazier (Visual Effects); Ratatouille, Brad Bird (Animated Feature Film), Michael Giacchino (Original Score), Randy Thom e Michael Silvers (Sound Editing), Randy Thom, Michael Semanick e Doc Kane (Sound Mixing), Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird (Original Screenplay); Salim Baba, Tim Sternberg e Francisco Bello (Documentary Short); Sari's Mother, James Longley (Documentary Short); The Savages, Laura Linney (Actress in a Leading Role) e Tamara Jenkins (Original Screenplay); Sicko, Michael Moore e Meghan O'Hara (Documentary Feature); Surf's Up, Ash Brannon e Chris Buck (Animated Feature Film); Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Johnny Depp (Actor in a Leading Role), Dante Ferretti e Francesca Lo Schiavo (Art Direction), Colleen Atwood (Costume Design); Tanghi Argentini, Guido Thys e Anja Daelemans (Short Film Live Action); Taxi to the Dark Side, Alex Gibney e Eva Orner (Documentary Feature); 3:10 to Yuma, Marco Beltrami (Original Score) e Paul Massey, David Giammarco e Jim Stuebe (Sound Mixing); The Tonto Woman, Daniel Barber e Matthew Brown (Short Film Live Action); Transformers, Ethan Van der Ryn e Mike Hopkins (Sound Editing), Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell e Peter J. Devlin (Sound Mixing) e Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl e John Frazier (Visual Effects); 12, Nikita Mikhalkov (Director for the Best Foreign Language Film); War/Dance, Andrea Nix Fine e Sean Fine (Documentary Feature)