Scorsese And Eastwood Fight For Top Oscars Again.... Oscar's - Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood are squaring off once again at the 79th Academy Awards - both legends have picked up Best Director nominations while their movies The Departed and Letters From Iwo Jima are in competition for Best Picture.The Departed and Letters From Iwo Jima are up against Babel, Little Miss Sunshine and The Queen in the Best Picture category.The nominees for Best Director are Scorsese for The Departed, Eastwood for Letters From Iwo Jima, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for Babel, Stephen Frears for The Queen and Paul Greengrass for United 93.At the 2005 Oscars, Scorsese's The Aviator lost out in the Best Director and Best Picture categories to Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby.Dreamgirls has the most nominations with eight nods including Best Supporting Actor for Eddie Murphy and Best Supporting Actress for Jennifer Hudson.The nominations for Best Actor are Leonardo DiCaprio for Blood Diamond, Ryan Gosling for Half Nelson, Peter O'Toole for Venus, Will Smith for The Pursuit Of Happyness and Forest Whitaker for The Last King Of Scotland.O'Toole's nomination is his eighth, although he has never won. He was named the recipient of a Special Oscar For Lifetime Achievement in 2003.The Best Actress nominees are Penelope Cruz for Volver, Dame Judi Dench for Notes On A Scandal, Dame Helen Mirren for The Queen, Meryl Streep for The Devil Wears Prada and Kate Winslet for Little Children.

The ceremony will be held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on 25 February (07).

Tagged in