Dramas Rule the Roost in Academy Award Best Picture Nominees
2008 Academy Award Nominees
Four dramas and one comedy make up this year's Academy Award nominees for Best Picture. Think you know who will take home the Oscar? Vote below in our poll!
Atonement
Storyline: The lives of a young woman and her sweetheart are changed forever when her younger sister makes a false accusation.
Total nominations: Seven, including Supporting Actress and Adapted Screenplay.
Chances: With only two major nominations, Atonement will probably finish out of the running.
Juno
Storyline: A young girl gets pregnant, and chooses her own way of dealing with it.
Total nominations: Four, including Best Directing, Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay.
Chances: Quirky comedies don't usually win Best Picture, but Best Original Screenplay will be a nice consolation prize for Juno.
Michael Clayton
Storyline: A fixer is confronted with corruption in his law firm when he is asked to take care of a problematic litigator.
Total nominations: Seven — the others are Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Score.
Chances: Michael Clayton's story might not be complex enough to get the Best Picture nod.
No Country for Old Men
Storyline: A hunter steals money from a drug deal gone wrong, setting off a chain of violence.
Total nominations: Eight, including Best Directing, Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Chances: No Country opened a few weeks earlier than There Will Be Blood, and thus may lose out to that film's momentum.
There Will Be Blood
Storyline: A silver miner transforms himself into an oil tycoon in turn-of-the-century California.
Total nominations: Eight, including Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Chances: With kudos piling up for There Will Be Blood and Daniel Day-Lewis, this is the one to beat.
