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The Steak Knives

The Flak Film Also-Ran Awards

Ineligible Nominees

by Flak Staff
graphic by Derek Evernden


BEST PICTURE
Across the Universe (Golden Globes)
American Gangster (Golden Globes)
Atonement (Academy, Golden Globes)
Charlie Wilson's War (Golden Globes)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Independent Spirit Awards)
Eastern Promises (Golden Globes)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Indiewire)
The Great Debaters (Golden Globes)
Hairspray (Golden Globes)
I'm Not There (Independent Spirit Awards)
Juno (Academy, Golden Globes, Independent Spirit Awards)
A Mighty Heart (Independent Spirit Awards)
Michael Clayton (Academy, Golden Globes)
No Country for Old Men (Academy, Golden Globes, Indiewire)
Paranoid Park (Independent Spirit Awards)
Sweeney Todd (Golden Globes)
Syndromes and a Century (Indiewire)
There Will Be Blood (Academy, Golden Globes, Indiewire)
Zodiac (Indiewire)

BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson (Academy, Indiewire)
Tim Burton (Golden Globes)
Joel and Ethan Coen (Academy, Golden Globes, Indiewire)
David Fincher (Indiewire)
Tony Gilroy (Academy)
Todd Haynes (Indiewire, Independent Spirit Awards)
Tamara Jenkins (Independent Spirit Awards)
Cristian Mungiu (Indiewire)
Jason Reitman (Academy, Independent Spirit Awards)
Gus van Sant (Independent Spirit Awards)
Julian Schnabel (Academy, Golden Globes, Independent Spirit Awards)
Ridley Scott (Golden Globes)
Joe Wright (Golden Globes)

BEST SCREENPLAY
Atonement (Academy, Golden Globes)
Away from Her (Academy)
Charlie Wilson's War (Golden Globes)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Academy, Golden Globes, Independent Spirit Awards)
Juno (Academy, Golden Globes)
Lars and the Real Girl (Academy)
Margot at the Wedding (Indiewire)
Michael Clayton (Academy, Indiewire)
No Country for Old Men (Academy, Golden Globes, Indiewire)
Ratatouille (Academy)
The Savages (Academy, Independent Spirit Awards)
Starting Out in the Evening (Independent Spirit Awards)
There Will Be Blood (Academy, Indiewire)
Waitress (Independent Spirit Awards)
Year of the Dog (Independent Spirit Awards)
Zodiac (Indiewire)

BEST ACTOR
Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Academy, Golden Globes, Indiewire)
Mathiau Amalric, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Indiewire)
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men (Academy, Golden Globes, Indiewire)
Pedro Castaneda, August Evening (Independent Spirit Awards)
Don Cheadle, Talk to Me (Independent Spirit Awards)
George Clooney, Michael Clayton (Academy, Golden Globes, Indiewire)
Paul Dano, There Will Be Blood (Indiewire)
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood (Academy, Golden Globes, Indiewire)
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd (Academy, Golden Globes)
Robert Downey Jr, Zodiac (Indiewire)
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Talk to Me (Independent Spirit Awards)
Marcus Carl Franklin, I'm Not There (Independent Spirit Awards)
Ryan Gosling, Lars and the Real Girl (Golden Globes)
Tom Hanks, Charlie Wilson's War (Golden Globes)
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson's War (Academy, Golden Globes)
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Savages (Golden Globes, Independent Spirit Awards)
Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild (Academy, Indiewire)
Irfan Khan, The Namesake (Independent Spirit Awards)
Kene Holliday, Great World of Sound (Independent Spirit Awards)
Frank Langella, Starting Out in the Evening (Independent Spirit Awards)
Tony Leung, Lust, Caution (Independent Spirit Awards)
Tommy Lee Jones, In the Valley of Elah (Academy)
James McAvoy, Atonement (Golden Globes)
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises (Academy, Golden Globes, Indiewire)
John C. Reilly, Walk Hard (Golden Globes)
Michael Shannon, Bug (Indiewire)
John Travolta, Hairspray (Golden Globes)
Denzel Washington, American Gangster (Golden Globes)
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton (Academy, Golden Globes)
Steve Zahn, Rescue Dawn (Independent Spirit Awards)

BEST ACTRESS
Amy Adams, Enchanted (Golden Globes)
Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age (Academy, Golden Globes)
Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There (Academy, Golden Globes, Indiewire)
Nikki Blonsky, Hairspray (Golden Globes)
Helena Bonham Carter, Sweeney Todd (Golden Globes)
Julie Christie, Away from Her (Academy, Golden Globes, Indiewire)
Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose (Academy, Golden Globes, Indiewire)
Ruby Dee, American Gangster (Academy)
Jodie Foster, The Brave One (Golden Globes)
Carice van Houten, Black Book (Indiewire)
Angelina Jolie, A Mighty Heart (Golden Globes, Independent Spirit Awards)
Keira Knightley, Atonement (Golden Globes)
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Margot at the Wedding (Indiewire)
Laura Linney, The Savages (Academy)
Anamaria Marinca, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Indiewire)
Sienna Miller, Interview (Independent Spirit Awards)
Samatha Morton, Control (Indiewire)
Ellen Page, Juno (Academy, Golden Globes, Indiewire, Independent Spirit Awards)
Parker Posey, Broken English (Independent Spirit Awards)
Julia Roberts, Charlie Wilson's War (Golden Globes)
Saoirse Ronan, Atonement (Academy, Golden Globes)
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone (Academy, Golden Globes, Indiewire)
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton (Academy, Golden Globes, Indiewire)
Wei Tang, Lust, Caution (Independent Spirit Awards)

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