Oscar Nominees 2008 - No Country, Juno, There Will Be Blood

Like one of those NASA probes sending a signal into deep space, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences beamed its list of Oscar nominees into the blackness of today with no assurance a reply will ever come from the stars.

During Hollywood's annual sunrise serenade of itself, "No Country For Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" each picked up eight nominations, and "Atonement" and "Michael Clayton" received seven apiece. That means that in a year in which no clear frontrunner for Oscar supremacy had previously emerged, none did today either.

"No Country," an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's fierce novel about the truth and consequences of crime by the Coen brothers, received nominations for best picture, supporting

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