Academy Award Nominees at Sundance

2008 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEES

AT SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

Performance by an actress in a leading role:

• Julie Christie in “Away from Her” (Lionsgate) – 2007 Sundance Film Festival Premiere
• Laura Linney in “The Savages” (Fox Searchlight) – 2007 Sundance Film Festival Premiere

Performance by an actress in a supporting role:

• Tilda Swinton in Michael Clayton (Warner Brothers) – Ms. Swinton produced and acted in Derek, a 2008 Sundance Film Festival international competition film

Best Documentary Feature:

• No End in Sight (Magnolia Pictures) – 2007 Sundance Film Festival U.S. Documentary Competition; Documentary Special Jury Prize
• War/Dance (THINKFilm) – 2007 Sundance Film Festival U.S. Documentary Competition, Documentary Directing Award

Achievement in directing

• Juno (Fox Searchlight) – Jason Reitman. Jason Reitman has had four films in the Sundance Film Festival – short film Operation 1998, short film In God We Trust 2000, short film Gulp 2001, and Thank You for Smoking 2006). He is also a Short Film Juror at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

Best Documentary Short Subject

• Freeheld (A Lieutenant Films Production, Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth) – 2007 Sundance Film Festival Shorts Program, Special Jury Prize for Short Filmmaking
• La Corona (A Runaway Films and Vega Films Production, Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega) – 2008 Sundance Film Festival Shorts Program (Publicist – Amy Grey, 818-508-1000)
• Salim Baba (A Ropa Vieja Films and Paradox Smoke Production Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello) – 2008 Sundance Film Festival Shorts Program

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original song)

• Falling Slowly from Once (Fox Searchlight – Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova) – 2007 Sundance Film Festival, World Cinema Audience Award

Best Animated Short Film

• I Met the Walrus (A Kids & Explosions Production, Josh Raskin) – 2008 Sundance Film Festival Shorts Program

• Madame Tutli-Putli (National Film Board of Canada Production, Chris Lavis and Maciek Szcerbo) – 2008 Sundance Film Festival Shorts Program (Publicist – David Magdael, 213-624-7827)

Best Live Action Short Film

• Il Supplente (The Substitute, Sky Cinema Italia, Andrew Jublin) – 2007 Sundance Film Festival

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Away from Her (Lionsgate, Written by Sarah Polley) – 2007 Sundance Film Festival

Original Screenplay

• The Savages (Fox Searchlight, Written by Tamara Jenkins) – 2007 Sundance Film Festival