Oscar Nominees Known. Oscar Show, Not So Much.

The Oscars ceremony airs on ABC on Feb. 24. The best picture nominees announced this morning are "Juno," "No Country for Old Men," "There Will be Blood," "Atonement" and "Michael Clayton." The question now is, who will turn up to collect their Academy Awards?

With the writers strike going on, and the actors supporting the writers, it's entirely possible that no stars will cross a picket line to sit in their seats and squirm as they wait for their names to be announced. Producers reportedly have a secret backup plan that would fill the evening with clips of past telecasts, but that's unlikely to attract the gazillion viewers normally drawn to the telecast to see what the stars are wearing and what wacky things they'll do when they win or lose.

Meanwhile, here are the other major nominees:

Performance by an actor in a leading role
George Clooney in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.)
Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
Johnny Depp in "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)
Tommy Lee Jones in "In the Valley of Elah" (Warner Independent)
Viggo Mortensen in "Eastern Promises" (Focus Features)