
Atonement has received 14 nominations for the Orange British Academy movie Awards, it has been announced.
The movie has been nominated in the top categories Best movie and Best British movie.
Keira Knightley and James McAvoy have been nominated for Leading Actress and Leading Actor.
The movie is also up for Best Director for Joe Wright, Adapted Screenplay, Music, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Sound, Costume Design and Make-Up and Hair. Saoirse Ronan receives a Supporting Actress nomination.
No Country For Old Men, the latest movie from the Coen brothers, and There Will Be Blood, each receive nine nominations. La Vie En Rose is up for seven gongs. The Bourne Ultimatum has six nominations, with American Gangster, The Lives Of Others and Michael Clayton getting five each.
Cate Blanchett is up for two awards - for Supporting Actress for I'm Not There and Leading Actress for her role in Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
Elizabeth: The Golden Age also received nominations for Production Design, Costume Design and Make-Up and Hair.
Other Leading Actress nominees are Golden Globe winner Julie Christie for Away From Her, French star Marion Cotillard for La Vie En Rose, Canadian actress Ellen Page for Juno as well as Knightley for Atonement.
McAvoy will be competing with Hollywood heartthrob George Clooney, Daniel Day-Lewis, Viggo Mortensen and Ulrich Muhe in the Leading Actor category.
Paul Greengrass is up against Wright for Best Director for The Bourne Ultimatum along with the Coen brothers.
The winners will be announced at a ceremony on the 10th February 2008.



