Red-letter day–Johnny Depp receives an Oscar nomination as Best Actor for SWEENEY TODD!

Johnny Depp has been nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for his portrayal of tormented barber Sweeney Todd in Tim Burton’s SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET. Congratulations to Johnny! The nod for Sweeney is Johnny’s third Oscar nomination: he was previously nominated as Best Actor for his performance as Captain Jack Sparrow in PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL, and as J. M. Barrie in FINDING NEVERLAND. Other actors receiving nominations in the category this year are George Clooney in MICHAEL CLAYTON, Daniel Day-Lewis in THERE WILL BE BLOOD, Tommy Lee Jones in IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH, and Viggo Mortenson in EASTERN PROMISES.

SWEENEY TODD also received Oscar nominations for Best Art Direction (Art Direction: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo) and Best Costume Design (Colleen Atwood).

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END received Oscar nominations for Best Visual Effects (John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier ) and Best Makeup (Ve Neill and Martin Samuel). Congratulations to all the nominees–we are thrilled for you!

The Oscars will be awarded on Sunday, February 24, 2008, in a televised ceremony at the Kodak Theatre. –Part-Time Poet

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