MUCHOMovies Award Nominations

While we wait for the Oscar nominations to be announced, here are the nominees for the first annual MUCHOMovies Awards, which were voted on by several online critics and awards prognosticators, myself included, using the same preferential ballot system used by the Academy Awards:

Best Picture:
● The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
● Juno
● No Country for Old Men
● There Will Be Blood
● Zodiac

Best Director:
● P.T. Anderson THERE WILL BE BLOOD
● Joel & Ethan Coen NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
● Sean Penn INTO THE WILD
● Julian Schnabel THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
● Joe Wright ATONEMENT

Best Actor:
● Mattieu Amalric THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
● Daniel Day-Lewis THERE WILL BE BLOOD
● Johnny Depp SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
● Phillip Seymour Hoffman BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD
● Tommy Lee Jones IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH

Best Actress:
● Helena Bonham Carter SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
● Julioe Christie AWAY FROM HER
● Marion Cotillard LA VIE EN ROSE
● Tang Wei LUST, CAUTION
● Ellen Page JUNO

Best Supporting Actor:
● Casey Affleck THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD
● Javier Bardem NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
● Paul Dano THERE WILL BE BLOOD
● Hal Holbrook INTO THE WILD
● Phillip Seymour Hoffman CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR

Best Supporting Actress:
● Cate Blanchett I'M NOT THERE
● Jennifer Garner JUNO
● Saoirse Ronan ATONEMENT
● Amy Ryan GONE BABY GONE
● Imelda Staunton HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX

Best Original Screenplay:
● Brad Bird RATATOUILLE
● John Carney ONCE
● Diablo Cody JUNO
● Tamara Jenkins THE SAVAGES
● Nancy Oliver LARS AND THE REAL GIRL

Best Adapted Screenplay:
● P.T. Anderson THERE WILL BE BLOOD
● Joel & Ethan Coen NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
● John Logan SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
● Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi PERSEPOLIS
● James Vanderbilt ZODIAC

Best Animated Feature:
● Beowulf
● Persepolis
● Ratatouille

Best Foreign Language Film:
● The Counterfeiters AUSTRIA
● Exiled HONG KONG
● 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days ROMANIA
● The Orphanage SPAIN
● Persepolis FRANCE

Best Cinematography:
● Roger Deakins THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD
● Robert Elswit THERE WILL BE BLOOD
● Janusz Kaminski THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
● Seamus McGarvey ATONEMENT
● Dariusz Wolski SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET

Best Editing:
● Jay Lash Cassidy INTO THE WILD
● Chris Lebenzon SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
● Christopher Rouse THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
● Dylan Tichenor & Tatiana S. Riegel THERE WILL BE BLOOD
● Paul Tothill ATONEMENT

Best Art Direction:
● Stuart Craig HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX
● Dante Ferretti SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
● Jack Fisk THERE WILL BE BLOOD
● Dennis Gassner THE GOLDEN COMPASS
● Sarah Greenwood ATONEMENT

Best Costume Design:
● Marit Allen LA VIE EN ROSE
● Colleen Atwood SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
● Alexandra Byrne ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE
● Jacqueline Durran ATONEMENT
● Patricia Norris THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD

Best Make-Up:
● The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
● La Vie en Rose
● Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Original Score:
● Nick Cave & Warren Ellis THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD...
● Alexandre Desplat LUST, CAUTION
● Jonny Greenwood THERE WILL BE BLOOD
● Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova ONCE
● Dario Marianelli ATONEMENT

Best Original Song:
● "Falling Slowly" ONCE
● "Guaranteed" INTO THE WILD
● "If You Want Me" ONCE
● "Pop! Goes My Heart" MUSIC & LYRICS
● "That's How You Know" ENCHANTED

Best Sound Mixing:
● No Country for Old Men
● Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
● There Will Be Blood
● 3:10 to Yuma
● Transformers

Best Sound Editing:
● Beowulf
● The Bourne Ultimatum
● The Golden Compass
● 300
● Transformers

Best Visual Effects:
● The Golden Compass
● 300
● Transformers


The nominations for the 2nd annual Front Row Awards will be announced sometime next week (basically after I see Persepolis).