The nominations for this years Oscars have been announced in Los Angeles. The exact format of the awards is still up in the air due to the writers strike, but we have the nominees at least. The main categories are covered below.

Best Actor:

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

Best Supporting Actor:

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

Best Actress :

Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Ellen Page - Juno
Marion Cotillared - La Vie En Rose
Laura Linney - The Savages
Julie Christie - Away From Her

Best Supporting Actress:

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

Best animated feature film of the year:

Persepolis
Ratatouille
Surf's Up

Best Director:

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

Best documentary feature:

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

Best foreign language film of the year:

Beaufort
The Counterfeiters
Katyń
Mongol
12

Best Picture:
Atonement
No Country for Old Men
There Will be Blood
Michael Clayton
Juno

Adapted screenplay:

Atonement
Away from Her
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Original screenplay:

Juno
Lars and the Real Girl
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
The Savages

So there we go. Cate Blanchett has two nominations for her roles as Elizabeth and Bob Dylan. No room for James McAvoy or Keira Knightly for their performances in Atonement. And no nomination for Denzel Washington for American Gangster. Philip Seymour Hoffman has a Supporting Actor nomination though for Charlie Wilson's War, which has no other nominations in the main categories. Tim Burton is also missing from the Best Director category and Sweeney Todd is no where to be seen in Best Film.

So what do you think? Anyone in there that you don't think should be, anyone not in there that deserves to be. Have any of your favourite films been overlooked?