While it’s uncertain if there will be an Academy Awards ceremony due to the writers’ strike, the 2008 Oscar nominations were announced this morning.

Oscar nominees are after the jump. We’ll keep you posted about the Academy Awards ceremony, which is scheduled to air on ABC February 24; Jon Stewart will host from the Kodak Theatre.

Best Actor:

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

Best 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 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 Supporting Actor:

• Casey Affleck, “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”
• Javier Bardem, “No Country for Old Men”
• Philip Seymour Hoffman, “Charlie Wilson’s War”
• Hal Holbrook, “Into the Wild”
• Tom Wilkinson, “Michael Clayton”

Best Director:

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

Best Picture:

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

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