Best Picture: "There Will Be Blood"
Runner-up: "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, "There Will Be Blood"
Runner-up: Julian Schnabel, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"

Actress: Marion Cotillard, "La Vie En Rose"
Runner-up:

Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood"
Runner-up:

Screenplay: Tamara Jenkins, "The Savages"

Here comes There Will Be Blood, and Cotillard won two in one day. And Supporting Actor is more diverse than I expected. And The Diving Bell got major boost after today.

WOOT!!!

Go Blood

There Will Be Blood finally pops up somewhere. I was beginning to wonder.

Let the Blood flow baby

Foreign language film: "4 MOnths, 3 Weeks and 2 Days"
Runner-up: "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly received runner-up in both Best Foreign film and Best Picture, which seems weird and is a shame.

Peace,
Mike

Well, just as I expected for BP. Now, NCFOM will probably win New York. IF (and that's a big IF) There Will Be Blood wins in New York as well, it'll give NCFOM a run for its money.

Depp has yet to appear on a list...

Cate Blanchett, "I'm Not There" is runner-up for Best Supp Actress

Hal Holbrook, "Into the Wild" is runner-up for Supp Actor

Peace,
Mike

Actress Runner-up: Anamaria Marinca "4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days"
Screenplay Runner-up: Paul Thomas Anderson for "There Will Be Blood"
Supporting Actor Runner-up: Hal Holbrook, "Into the Wild"
Music Runner-up: Jonny Greenwood, "There Will Be Blood"
Cinematography Runner-up: Robert Elswit, "There Will Be Blood"

Thorough domination by TWBB by LAFCA's standard.

Also a big day for Langella, a runner-up here.

TWBB is back in the race in a very big way. Four wins, three runner-ups.

And no Sweeney Todd at all...*Looks @ Loyal*

Well, it did get runner-up for Production Design.

Peace,
Mike

They also REALLY liked 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days. Two major wins, and a runner-up in Actress. V. impressive, wonder if anyone else will mention the film...

Ah, missed Sweeney in Production Design. Still...

Well, there is still NYFCO which is supposed to announce today...

Peace,
Mike

LAFCA really lavished much praise upon There Will Be Blood. 4 wins (Picture, Director, Actor and Production Design), as well as 3 Runner-Ups (Screenplay, Music, Cinematography).

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Best Picture: "There Will Be Blood"
Runner-up: "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, "There Will Be Blood"
Runner-up: Julian Schnabel, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"

Actress: Marion Cotillard, "La Vie En Rose"
Runner-up: [/i]Anamaria Marinca, "4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days" [/i]

Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood"
Runner-up: Frank Langella, "Starting Out In The Evening"

Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan for "Gone Baby Gone" and "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead"
Runner-up: Cate Blanchett, "I'm Not There"

Supporting Actor: Vlad Ivanov, "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days"
Runner-up: Hal Holbrook, "Into the Wild"

Screenplay: Tamara Jenkins, "The Savages"
Runner-up: Paul Thomas Anderson, "There Will Be Blood"

Foreign Language Film: "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days"
Runner-up: "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"

Documentary/Non-Fiction Film: "No End in Sight"
Runner-up: "Sicko"

Animation: "Ratatouille" and "Persepolis" (tie)

Production Design: Jack Fisk, "There Will Be Blood"
Runner-up: Dante Ferretti, "Sweeney Todd"

Music: Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, "Once"
Runner-up: Jonny Greenwod, "There Will Be Blood"

Cinematography: Janusz Kaminski, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
Runner-up: Robert Elswit, "There Will Be Blood"

New Generation Award: Sarah Polley, "Away From Her"

Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film Award: "Colossal Youth" directed by Pedro Costa

Career Achievement Award: Sidney Lumet

Peace,
Mike

Good day for Julian Schnabel too, to say the least

The Best Foreign Picture Oscar will also be very interesting to follow this year.

Langella has a great chance at the veteran spot this year. I wonder who he'll steal it from. At this point, chances to be nominated are getting slimmer and slimmer for James McAvoy with Day-Lewis, Langella, Depp, Clooney, Washington and probably Mortensen all ahead of him, I'd say.

I just realized No Country for Old Men got nada from LAFCA, no wins or runner-ups. Wasn't expecting that.

Peace,
Mike

I'd say Washington's in trouble. AG is getting rejected everywhere, and I don't think his reaction was ever as "omg" as it was expected to be. Personally as even the biggest AG supporter here, I thought Crowe was probably better.

Kind of reminds me of Nicholson's situation actually.

poor France. Diving Bell and Persepolis are probably the two most-raved foreign-language films of this year, yet they had to exclude one of them [Diving Bell] for Oscar contention. I wonder if Diving Bell will pick up an Adapted Screenplay nom or something...it's doing FANTASTICALLY at these early awards.

Director... Cinematography... Art and tech awards... maybe Picture...

Yeah, Diving Bell will do fine for itself.

Remember City of God? I think Diving Bell is in a very similar situation.