'Into The Wild' Leads With Seven Nominations for the 13th Annual Critics' Choice Awards

'Into The Wild' Leads With Seven Nominations for the 13th Annual Critics' Choice Awards

'Juno' Receives Six Nominations While 'Atonement,' 'Michael Clayton,' 'No Country For Old Men,' 'Sweeney Todd' and 'Hairspray' Garner Five Nominations Each

VH1 to Broadcast the Awards Ceremony Live on Monday, January 7, 2008 at 9:00 PM (ET/PT)

NEW YORK, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) has announced the nominees for the 13th annual Critics' Choice Awards. The winners will be announced at the Critics' Choice Awards gala on Monday, January 7, 2008 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. The ceremony will be hosted by actor and comedian D.L. Hughley. VH1 will broadcast this year's ceremony Live at 9:00 PM (ET/PT).

"Into The Wild," leads the pack with seven nominations for the 13th Annual Critics' Choice Awards including Best Picture, a Best Actor nod for Emile Hirsch, Best Supporting Actor for Hal Holbrook, Best Supporting Actress for Catherine Keener and a double nomination for Sean Penn for Best Director and Best Writer. The film also received a nomination for Best Song with Eddie Vedder's "Guaranteed." "Juno" follows with six nominations including Best Picture, a Best Actress nomination for Ellen Page, Best Acting Ensemble, Best Writer, Best Comedy and Best Young Actor for Michael Cera. Cera earned a double nomination in the Best Young Actor category for "Juno" as well as a nod for his performance in "Superbad."

"Atonement," "Michael Clayton," "No Country for Old Men," "Sweeney Todd" and "Hairspray" tied with five nominations each. "Atonement" garnered nods in the Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Best Young Actress and Best Composer categories while "Michael Clayton" earned five nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor for George Clooney, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress and Best Writer. "Sweeney Todd" earned nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor for Johnny Depp, Best Acting Ensemble, Best Director for Tim Burton and Best Young Actor and "No Country for Old Men" received nods for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Acting Ensemble, Best Director and Best Writer. "Hairspray" received nominations for Best Comedy, Best Family Film, Best Ensemble, Best Young Actress nomination for Nikki Blonsky and Best Song.

Along with Michael Cera, Cate Blanchett and Amy Adams both received two nominations each. Blanchett earned nominations for both Best Actress for "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" and Best Supporting Actress for "I'm Not There." Amy Adams earned two nominations for "Enchanted" including Best Actress and Best Song for "That's How You Know." Other top nominees include "Enchanted" which received four nominations, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" and "There Will Be Blood" each received three nominations and "American Gangster," "August Rush," "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead," "Charlie Wilson's War," "Gone Baby Gone," "The Kite Runner," "Lars and the Real Girl," "La Vie En Rose," "Lust, Caution" and "Superbad" round out the top films with two nominations each.

The BFCA, the largest film critics' organization with over 200 members in the United States and Canada, representing television, radio and online critics, selected nominees in each of the 18 categories. The Critics' Choice Awards were created by the BFCA to recognize excellence in cinematic achievement. Eligible films were released in 2007. The accounting firm of Gregory A. Mogab tallied the written ballots. Historically, the Critics' Choice Awards are the most accurate predictor of the Academy Award nominations.

A complete list of nominees is available at http://criticschoice.vh1.com/. VH1's "Critics' Choice Awards" site, which launches today, will be home to detailed information about the awards and will provide a forum for both the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) critics and users to comment on this year's nominees. VH1 will expand elements of the show online at VH1.com and on VH1 Mobile. Exclusive video footage from the event will include celebrity interviews, "behind-the-scenes" footage and more. Additional multiplatform plans will be announced in the coming weeks.

VH1 and the cinematic experts from the BFCA will guide viewers on the most important movies and performances of the year in VH1's pre-awards season special "The Critics' Choice: Best Movies of 2007" premiering Saturday, December 15 at 10 PM (ET/PT). Moderator Sam Rubin, from the "KTLA Morning News," will preside over a four-person panel of BFCA critics that will debate and give an inside look at the nominees for the upcoming Critics' Choice Awards. The panel includes Pete Hammond, a film critic for Maxim Magazine as well as awards columnist for the Los Angeles Times, Jeanne Wolf, a widely respected critic and entertainment journalist for Parade Magazine, Carrie Keagan, the naughty critic from NO GOOD TV and the hyper-opinionated entertainment anchor from CW31's "Good Day Sacramento," Mark S. Allen. The critics will debate about the best films and performances of 2007, while giving viewers the inside track on who has the best shot at winning a Critics' Choice Award(TM) -- the most historically reliable predictor of OSCAR(TM) GOLD!

Counting down to the LIVE premiere of the Critics' Choice Awards, VH1 will air the "13th Annual Critics' Choice Awards Red Carpet Premiere" pre-show LIVE on Monday, January 7 at 8pm (ET/PT) and will also stream it LIVE on VH1.com. Covering the excitement of the celebrity arrivals on the red carpet will be entertainment reporter Sam Rubin and The Tonight Show's Ross the Intern and entertainment critic Carrie Keagan.

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            NOMINEES FOR THE 13TH ANNUAL CRITICS' CHOICE AWARDS    BEST PICTURE:   American Gangster   Atonement   The Diving Bell and the Butterfly   Into the Wild   Juno   The Kite Runner   Michael Clayton   No Country for Old Men   Sweeney Todd   There Will Be Blood    BEST ACTOR:   George Clooney - Michael Clayton   Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood   Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd   Ryan Gosling - Lars and the Real Girl   Emile Hirsch - Into the Wild   Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises    BEST ACTRESS:   Amy Adams - Enchanted   Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth: The Golden Age   Julie Christie - Away From Her   Marion Cotillard - La Vie en Rose   Angelina Jolie - A Mighty Heart   Ellen Page - Juno    BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:   Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford   Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men   Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson's War   Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild   Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton    BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:   Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There   Catherine Keener - Into the Wild   Vanessa Redgrave - Atonement   Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone   Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton    BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE:   Hairspray   Juno   No Country for Old Men   Sweeney Todd   Gone Baby Gone   Before the Devil Knows You're Dead    BEST DIRECTOR:   Tim Burton - Sweeney Todd   Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men   Sidney Lumet - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead   Sean Penn - Into the Wild   Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly   Joe Wright - Atonement    BEST WRITER:   Diablo Cody - Juno   Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men   Tony Gilroy - Michael Clayton   Nancy Oliver - Lars and the Real Girl   Sean Penn - Into the Wild   Aaron Sorkin - Charlie Wilson's War    BEST ANIMATED FEATURE:   Bee Movie   Beowulf   Persepolis   Ratatouille   The Simpsons Movie    BEST YOUNG ACTOR:   Michael Cera - Juno   Michael Cera - Superbad   Freddie Highmore - August Rush   Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada - The Kite Runner   Edward Sanders - Sweeney Todd    BEST YOUNG ACTRESS:   Nikki Blonsky - Hairspray   Dakota Blue Richards - The Golden Compass   AnnaSophia Robb - Bridge to Terabithia   Saoirse Ronan - Atonement    BEST COMEDY MOVIE:   Dan in Real Life   Hairspray   Juno   Knocked Up   Superbad    BEST FAMILY FILM (LIVE ACTION):   August Rush   Enchanted   The Golden Compass   Hairspray   Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix    BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION:   The Company   Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee   Tin Man   The War    BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:   The Diving Bell and the Butterfly   4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days   La Vie en Rose   Lust, Caution   The Orphanage    BEST SONG:   Come So Far - Queen Latifah, Nikki Blonsky, Zac Efron, Elijah Kelley --    Hairspray   Do You Feel Me - Anthony Hamilton - American Gangster   Falling Slowly - Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - Once   Guaranteed - Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild   That's How You Know - Amy Adams - Enchanted    BEST COMPOSER:   Marco Beltrami - 3:10 to Yuma   Alexandre Desplat - Lust, Caution   Clint Eastwood - Grace Is Gone   Jonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood   Dario Marianelli - Atonement   Alan Menken - Enchanted    BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:   Darfur Now   In the Shadow of the Moon   The King of Kong   No End In Sight   Sharkwater   Sicko    Contacts:   Lori Bogin/VH1                 Scott Acord/VH1   212-846-7131                   310-752-8075   lori.bogin@vh1staff.com        scott.acord@vh1staff.com    Andy Gelb/Kelly Stephens   PMK/HBH   310-289-6200  

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