A couple of weeks ago I wrote about my passion for music. This week I am going to share my love for movies...

I am a member of Netflix and often buy Movies on Demand, but my all-time favorite theater is:

Mann Hopkins Cinema 6
1118 Main Street
Hopkins, MN, 55343
952.931.7992

They do not play new releases, but tickets are only $2.50 (and $2 on Tuesdays!).

Unfortunately, last semester was a little hectic for me, so I didn’t get to see as many movies as I had hoped. Once break started, though, I was watching 3-4 movies a week! This semester I have a lighter load, so I am spending some of my free time watching films that were nominated for an Oscar at the 80th Annual Academy Awards…

AND THE NOMINEES ARE (and the winner denoted by the asterisks)…

BEST PICTURE
• Atonement
• Juno
• Michael Clayton
• There Will Be Blood
• No Country for Old Men***

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
• George Clooney (Michael Clayton)
• Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street)
• Tommy Lee Jones (The Valley of Elah)
• Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises)
• Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)***

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
• Casey Affleck (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)
• Philip Seymour Hoffman (Charlie Wilson’s War)
• Hal Holbrook (Into the Wild)
• Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton)
• Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)***

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
• Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth: The Golden Age)
• Julie Christie (Away From Her)
• Laura Linney (The Savages)
• Ellen Page (Juno)
• Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose)***

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
• Cate Blanchett (I’m Not There)
• Ruby Dee (American Gangster)
• Saoirse Ronan (Atonement)
• Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone)
• Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton)***

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
• Persepolis
• Surf’s Up
• Ratatouille***

ART DIRECTION
• American Gangster
• Atonement
• The Golden Compass
• There Will Be Blood
• Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street***

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***

COSTUME DESIGN
• Across the Universe
• Atonement
• La Vie en Rose
• Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• Elizabeth: The Golden Age***

DIRECTING
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Juno
• Michael Clayton
• There Will Be Blood
• No Country for Old Men***

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
• No End In Sight
• Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
• Sicko
• War/Dance
• Taxi to the Dark Side***

DOCUMENTARY SHORT
• La Corona (The Crown)
• Salim Baba
• Sari’s Mother
• Freeheld***

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

FOREING LANGUAGE FILM
• Beaufort
• Katyn
• Mongol
• 12
• The Counterfeiters***

MAKEUP
• Norbit
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
• La Vie en Rose***

MUSIC (SCORE)
• The Kite Runner
• Atonement
• Michael Clayton
• Ratatouille
• 3:10 to Yuma***

MUSIC (SONG)
• Enchanted
• August Rush
• Enchanted
• Enchanted
• Once***

SHORT FIL (ANIMATED)
• I Met the Walrus
• Madame Tutli-Putli
• Meme les Pigeons vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go To Heaven)
• My Love (Moya Lyubov)
• Peter & the Wolf***

SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
• At Night
• Il Supplente (The Substitute)
• Tanghi Argentini
• The Tonto Woman
• Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)***

SOUND EDITING
• No Country for Old Men
• Ratatouille
• There Will Be Blood
• There Will Be Blood
• Transformers
• The Bourne Ultimatum***

SOUND MIXING
• No Country for Old Men
• Ratatouille
• 3:10 To Yuma
• Transformers
• The Bourne Ultimatum***

VISUAL EFFECTS
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
• Transformers
• The Golden Compass***

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
• Atonement
• Away From Her
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• There Will Be Blood
• No Country for Old Men***

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
• Lars and the Real Girl
• Michael Clayton
• Ratatouille
• The Savages
• Juno***