Academy Awards: Best Picture

The Oscars - February 24, 2008 5pm PT/8pm ET on ABC
The Academy award nominees for Best Picture

Atonement

Atonement and is a 2007 film adaptation of Ian McEwan's critically acclaimed novel of the same name. It was directed by Joe Wright, and is based on the screenplay by Christopher Hampton. It is about how a series of events in the summer of 1935 and the ways in which they are interpreted change the lives of sisters Briony and Cecilia Tallis and the housekeeper's son, Robbie. Overseen exchanges between Cecilia and Robbie, a careless mistake, and an act of violence provoke an escalating tragedy of misunderstandings that center on Briony, a 13-year-old aspiring writer from an upper-class English family, and her innocent view of the adult world. Atonement was produced by Working Title Films and filmed throughout the summer of 2006 in Great Britain/France, starring James McAvoy and Keira Knightley.

Juno

Juno is a 2007 comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody. Ellen Page stars as the main character. Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman also star.

Juno is a sharp-tongued teenager confronting an unplanned pregnancy.When the smart, outspoken sixteen-year-old, finds herself pregnant, she decides to give the baby up for adoption. As her pregnancy progresses, she spends time with the baby's prospective adoptive parents, Mark and Vanessa Loring. But her growing bond with Mark begins to take a turn that could throw everyone's plans into chaos.

Michael Clayton

Michael Clayton is a dramatic law thriller written and directed by Tony Gilroy and co-produced by George Clooney. It chronicles the attempts of attorney Michael Clayton to cope with a colleague's apparent mental breakdown and corruption within a major client of his law firm. It stars George Clooney,
Tom Wilkinson,Tilda Swinton.

No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men is a 2007 film written, directed, and produced by Joel and Ethan Coen. Adapted from the well-received Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name, No Country for Old Men draws heavily on McCarthy's themes of chance and fate; it tells the story of a drug deal gone wrong and the ensuing cat-and-mouse drama as three men crisscross each other's paths in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas. It stars Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, and Javier Bardem.

There Will Be Blood

There Will Be Blood, is a 2007 film directed, written, and produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. The film is inspired by Upton Sinclair's novel Oil! (1927), and tells the story of Daniel Plainview's quest for power in Southern California's oil boom of the late-19th and early-20th centuries. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano.