This just in for cineastes. Check out the nominations for the 2008 MTV Movie Awards, with prizes for the best in cinema to be doled out live on June 1st, hosted by the Love Guru himself, Mike Myers. There Will Be Blood Oscar winner Daniel Day Lewis can go drink his milkshake. Not a nod for his film, or his role-of-a-lifetime performance. He was crowded out of the Best Actor category by stiff competition from Michael Cera in Juno and Shia LeBeouf in Transformers. Maybe next year, Danny Boy.
What you’ve gotta love about the MTV movie stakes, celebrating 16 years of laughing at Oscar’s ass, is the refreshing way it laughs at itself. Maybe it's time to laugh back or, judging from this year's movie crop, just give in and go with the idiot flow. The MTV Movie Awards have some of the most playful categories ever,


If the Oscars are making you nuts with their Hollywood bias—though there's less glitz among this year's nominees than ever—you can detox with the Independent Spirit Awards. Taking place this Saturday, and broadcast on the Independent Film Channel (IFC), the 23rd Independent Spirit Awards celebrate what you can do with film talent, working fast and on the cheap. Hosted by Rainn Wilson, of The Office and Juno, the ceremony takes place in front of an audience that gathers inside a beachfront tent in Santa Monica. On the Red Carpet, the Spirits are to cargo pants what the Oscars are to Dolce and Gabbana. The crowd is low-key and by my own witness not adverse to maverick behavior and controlled substances. Mostly, though, it's a chance for the indies get a little cred. Here are a few of the nominees:



Actresses Misty Upham and Melissa Leo from the film 'Frozen River'
Here I am at the Sundance Film Festival where everyone woke up early to hear the nominations for the 80th annual Academy Awards. No complaints about all the love for my fave No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood—with eight nominations each they lead the pack. On their tail for Best Picture are Michael Clayton and Atonement with seven nominations each and Juno, the little movie that could, pulling up the rear with four nominations. Don't discount the runt of the litter. Juno is making a pile at the box office and if No Country and Blood split the violent vote, Juno or even Michael Clayton could reap the benefits. *Atonement has a bigger hurdle to jump—being the only Best Picture nominee with no nomination for its director, the supremely underrated Joe Wright.


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