Congratulations to Jason Reitman for being nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for his film Juno. The film also received nominations for Best Picture, Best Actress (Ellen Page), and Best Writing (Diablo Cody).

The awards ceremony airs February 24th on ABC, regardless of whether the writers strike causes it to be scaled-back or not. Although I personally can't stand ANY awards show, especially the Oscars because of the phoniness and BS of it all, I do hope that at least Jason and Ellen win their respective awards.

[UPDATE - 2/24/2008]
Juno only won one of the awards it was nominated for: Best Writing (Original Screenplay). So congrats to Diablo Cody. Very sad that Jason and Ellen did win as well.