Oscar Nominations for 80th Academy Awards

Oscar Nominations has been announced for the 80th Academy Awards.

 

Best Picture

Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Best Director

Julian Schnabel -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jason Reitman -- Juno
Tony Gilroy -- Michael Clayton
Joel and Ethan Coen -- No Country for Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson -- There Will Be Blood

Best Leading Actor

George Clooney -- Michael Clayton
Daniel Day Lewis -- There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp -- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tommy Lee Jones - In the Valley of Elah
VIggo Mortensen -- Eastern Promises

Best Leading Actress

Cate Blanchett -- Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie -- Away from Her
Marion Cotillard -- La vie en rose
Laura Linney -- The Savages
Ellen Page -- Juno

Best Adapted Screenplay

Christopher Hampton -- Atonement
Sarah Polley -- Away From Her
Ronald Harwood -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Joel and Ethan Coen -- No Country For Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson -- There Will Be Blood

Best Original Screenplay

Diablo Cody -- Juno
Nancy Oliver -- Lars and the Real Girl
Tony Gilroy -- Michael Clayton
Brad Bird, Jim Capobianco, Jan Pinkava -- Ratatouille
Tamara Jenkins -- The Savages

Best Supporting Actor

Casey Affleck -- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem -- No Country for Old Men
Phillip Seymour Hoffman -- Charlie Wilson's War
Hal Holbrook -- Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson -- Michael Clayton

Best Supporting Actress

Cate Blanchett -- I'm Not There
Ruby Dee -- American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan -- Atonement
Amy Ryan -- Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton -- Michael Clayton

Best Animated Feature

Persepolis
Ratatouille
Surf's Up

Best Foreign Language Film

Beaufort
The Counterfeiters
Katyn
Mongol
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Achievement in Art Direction

American Gangster
Atonement
The Golden Compass
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
There Will Be Blood

Achievement in Cinematography

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Atonement
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Achievement in Costume Design

Across the Universe
Atonement
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
La vie en rose
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Documentary Feature

No End in Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Sicko
Taxi to the Dark Side
War/Dance

Best Documentary Short Subject

Freeheld
La Corona (The Crown)
Salim Baba
Sari's Mother

Achievement in Film Editing

The Bourne Ultimatum
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Achievement in Makeup

La vie en rose
Norbit
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Achievement in Music (Original Score)

Atonement
The Kite Runner
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma

Achievement in Music (Original Song)

Once -- "Falling Slowly" -- Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
Enchanted -- "Happy Working Song" -- Music by Alan Menken, Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
August Rush -- Nominees to be determined
Enchanted -- "So Close" -- Music by Alan Menken, Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
Enchanted -- "That's How You Know" -- Music by Alan Menken, Lyric by Stephen Schwartz

Best Animated Short Film

I Met the Walrus
Madame Tutli-Putli
Even Pigeons Go to Heaven
My Love
Peter & the Wolf

Best Live Action Short Film

At Night
The Substitute
The Mozart of Pickpockets
Tanghi Argentini
The Tonto Woman

Achievement in Sound Editing

The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
There Will Be Blood
Transformers

Achievement in Sound Mixing

The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma
Transformers

Achievement in Visual Effects

The Golden Compass
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Transformers.

 

Surprisingly

A Home in the Sky

Ever wanted to have your home in sky, now this dream can come true. World's Highest Residence is in Chicago and is set to be sold. Recently Chicago Spire is tallest building having the residences with high prices. The building is the highest residential housing in the world and has been set on sale in the price range from Rs. 30000000 to 600000000.

Yes the above prices are in INR and in USD the prices are $750000 to $15 million. These prices are on the top of all the price bands in the world for any residential sale. Chicago Spire is on sale but you can have an amazing experience while solicitation for a deal. The sales office of Chicago Spire is also set as modern museum art all designed to steel your heart with its architectural ambience.

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Smart Traffic Controls

While driving lot of times we come to know that an emergency vehicle is near and we need to the way to the vehicle, sometimes we hear the siren or sometimes we not, and as a result we get circled around the emergency vehicle.

But now there has came a new innovation through which we cannot not only hear the siren but we can also feel. the technology is all about shockwaves which are picked by the other road users so that the emergency vehicle can be given enough space to pass by without any delay.

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Disaster Warnings through Cell Phones

Since the innovation of Cell Phones we have kept using them for various reasons viz, talking, music, sms, alarm, scheduler and many more functions, but now your cell phone can even save you from any natural calamity like earthquakes. Lot of people in world think that a major part of precious moments has been taken out of our life after the mobile have arrived, but now this news will surely going to make them cool that now cell phones do save life also.

 

A Japanese company Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) is operating a system, which has connected earthquake monitoring system with a high speed data network in order to spread the information of earthquakes on cell phone networks. The system has been designed to provide warnings by measuring the variations between the Power Waves (P Waves) & Secondary Waves (S Waves), warnings can have variations in timing which can range from few seconds to a minute. Once the warning is issued the people residing closer to the epicenter of the earthquake can move to another location keeping a safer time spawn.

 

Researchers says that nothing can be better than the possibilities of warning before the quake comes.

 

 

Do you have a PayPal Mobile ?

Around the world if we want to transfer or buy anything online we need to pay instantly, and one of the major options we get to pay through is PayPal, but now you can have a different use of PayPal, now you can pay your dinner through your mobile via PayPal. Recently a company launched a phone which is a PayPal ready phone, through which anyone can transfer funds from one mobile to another one in order to pay for the bill, then another mobile user have to go to PayPal with his respective login to claim for the payment.

There are lot many peoples online who don't want to pay any kind of payment through credit cards, they always prefer PayPal for the payment. Now they will have a convenience of paying for anything without having to loose the confidential information of credit cards.

After all entire world is going online and comfort is the way to be, so go shopping, dine or simply do anything and forget about the risky process of payment, just use your phone and it will be done.

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Ford's New Concept Car Verve

Ford's New Concept car Verve was one of the attractions in North American International Auto Show, and ford showed this car in order to bring this car in front of world as a stylish, hip car. This car is smaller then Ford's previous model Focus. Ford has decided to give a B Segment to Verve. Ford verve has been designed keeping in the mind various trends and fashion style of today. Ford Designers have also stated that the car is very much inspired by the international fashion trends. Ford's Verve Design team is geared up to make Verve a next gen car, that's why they have added sleek controls in the car. Verve is slated to hit the showrooms in 2010.

New Porsche Cayenne

In last two year this is for the first time that Porsche has came up with a commercial launch of there new vehicle Cayenne. Cayenne is a very popular vehicle on internet due to its promotion campaign. Cayenne has been designed under SUV category and it is available in three models.

Cayenne

Cayenne S

Cayenne Turbo

Starting from the price of $ 43,400 to $ 93,700, Cayenne comes with safety, style and perfect technology. You can also get you Cayenne fully personalized according to your choice directly from the Porsche factory. Porsche will add your style to your Cayenne from inside and outside both and will be having your Cayenne as unique as you are.

Visit Porsche Cayenne Official Site

See Cayenne Gallery

Download Cayenne Wallpapers

Download Cayenne Screensavers