A Working Title Production

Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster, Producers

This is the second nomination for both Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, who received Best Picture nominations in 1998 for Elizabeth.   This is the first nomination for Paul Webster.

Wright, the BAFTA Award-winning director of Pride & Prejudice, has reunited with his filmmaking team and his Academy Award-nominated actress, Keira Knightley, for another classic British romance, starring James McAvoy (BAFTA Award nominee for The Last King of Scotland) opposite Ms. Knightley. Christopher Hampton (Academy Award winner for Dangerous Liaisons) has written the screenplay adaptation of Ian McEwans best-selling 2002 novel Atonement.

Filmed on location in the United Kingdowm, the films story spans several decades. In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Brionys vivid imagination. Robbie Turner (Mr. McAvoy), the educated son of the familys housekeeper, carries a torch for Brionys headstrong older sister Cecilia (Ms. Knightley). Cecilia, he hopes, has comparable feelings; all it will take is one spark for this relationship to combust.

When it does, Briony who has a crush on Robbie is compelled to interfere, going so far as accusing Robbie of a crime he did not commit. Cecilia and Robbie declare their love for each other, but he is arrested and with Briony bearing false witness, the course of three lives is changed forever.

Briony continues to seek forgiveness for her childhood misdeed. Through a terrible and courageous act of imagination, she finds the path to her uncertain atonement, and to an understanding of the power of enduring love.

80th Academy Awards Oscar Nominations 2008

Best Animated Feature

Best Actress

This is her fifth nomination and the second in this category. She was also nominated for her leading role in Elizabeth (1998). Her supporting role nominations were for The Aviator (2004), for which she won the Oscar, and Notes on a Scandal (2006). She is also nominated this year in the supporting category for I’m Not There.

This is her fourth nomination in this category. Her other nominations were for Darling (1965), for which she won an Oscar, McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) and Afterglow (1997).

This is her first nomination.

This is her third nomination and the second in this category. She was nominated for her leading role in You Can Count on Me (2000) and her supporting role in Kinsey (2004).

This is her first nomination.

80th Academy Award Presentation - 2008 Oscar Winners (Click Here to Continue)

"No Country" wins Best Picture, Best Director. Daniel Day-Lewis wins best actor for his role in "There Will Be Blood". Javier Bardem, Tilda Swinton Win Supporting Role Academy Awards, "Ratatouille" awarded Oscar for Best Animation Feature

80th Academy Awards Oscar Nominations 2008

Best Animated Feature

Best Actress

This is her fifth nomination and the second in this category. She was also nominated for her leading role in Elizabeth (1998). Her supporting role nominations were for The Aviator (2004), for which she won the Oscar, and Notes on a Scandal (2006). She is also nominated this year in the supporting category for I’m Not There.

This is her fourth nomination in this category. Her other nominations were for Darling (1965), for which she won an Oscar, McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) and Afterglow (1997).

This is her first nomination.

This is her third nomination and the second in this category. She was nominated for her leading role in You Can Count on Me (2000) and her supporting role in Kinsey (2004).

This is her first nomination.