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Brad Pitt in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Oscar 2008 Nominations: Part I Roger Deakins is competing against himself in the best cinematography category: for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and There Will Be Blood. *** Jonny Greenwood’s much praised score for There Will Be Blood was deemed ineligible reportedly because "the majority of the [...]

Oscar 2008: Best Foreign Language Film Semi-Finalists The semi-finalist films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are: Austria, The Counterfeiters, Stefan Ruzowitzky, director Nazis have a Jewish prisoner create fake American and British currency in order to weaken their enemies’ economies Brazil, The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, Cao Hamburger, director In 1970, during the height of the military dictatorship in Brazil, a boy [...]

The Unknown by Giuseppe Tornatore (top); The Counterfeiters by Stefan Ruzowitzky (bottom) When I stated in my Oscar 2008 predictions that the Academy’s foreign-language film shortlist is the most difficult to predict, I wasn’t kidding. Nowhere to be found in the list of nine foreign-language film semi-finalists are: Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days — last year’s Cannes Film Festival winner and [...]