80th Academy Awards

 

Jon Stewart hosted the 80th annual Academy Awards.  The Oscars, which took place at Hollywood’s Kodak Theater on February 24th honors the year’s best films, actors and actresses.  Who were some of this year’s winners?

 

Best Picture

“Atonement”

“Juno”

“Michael Clayton”

“No Country for Old Men”

“There Will Be Blood”

 

And the winner is:  “No Country for Old Men”

 

Best Director

Paul Thomas Anderson for “There Will Be Blood”

Ethan Coen and Joel Coen for “No Country for Old Men”

Tony Gilroy for “Michael Clayton”

Jason Reitman for “Juno”

Julian Schnabel for “Scaphandre et le papillon, Le”

 

And the winner is:  Ethan and Joel Coen for their work on “No Country for Old Men”

 

Best Actor

George Clooney for “Michael Clayton”

Daniel Day-Lewis for “There Will Be Blood”

Johnny Depp for “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”

Tommy Lee Jones for “In the Valley of Elah

Viggo Mortensen for “Eastern Promises”

 

And the winner is:  Daniel Day-Lewis for his role as Daniel Plainview in “There Will Be Blood”

 

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett for “Elizabeth: The Golden Age”

Julie Christie for “Away from Her”

Marion Cotillard for “La Vie En Rose”

Laura Linney for “The Savages”

Ellen Page for “Juno”

 

And the winner is:  Marion Cotillard for her role as Edith Piaf in “La Vie En Rose”

 

Best Supporting Actor

Casey Affleck for “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”

Javier Bardem for “No Country for Old Men”

Philip Seymour Hoffman for “Charlie Wilson's War”

Hal Holbrook for “Into the Wild”

Tom Wilkinson for “Michael Clayton”

 

And the winner is:  Javier Bardem for his role as Anton Chigurh in “No Country for Old Men”

 

Best Supporting Actress

Cate Blanchett for “I'm Not There”

Ruby Dee for “American Gangster”

Saoirse Ronan for “Atonement”

Amy Ryan for “Gone Baby Gone”

Tilda Swinton for “Michael Clayton”

 

And the winner is:  Tilda Swinton for her role as Karen Crowder in “Michael Clayton”

 

Best Foreign Language Film

“12” from Russia

“Beaufort” from Israel

“Fälscher, Die” from Austria

“Katyn” from Poland

“Mongol” from Kazakhstan

 

And the winner is:  “Falscher, Die” from Austria

 

Best Animated Feature Film

Persepolis

“Ratatouille”

“Surf's Up”

 

And the winner is:  “Ratatouille”

 

Best Animated Short Film

“I Met the Walrus”

“Madame Tutli-Putli”

“Même Les Pigeons Vont Au Paradis”

“Moya lyubov”

“Peter & the Wolf”

 

And the winner is:  “Peter and the Wolf”

 

Best Live Action Short film

“Mozart des pickpockets, Le”

Om natten”

Supplente, Il

“Tanghi argentine”

“The Tonto Woman”

 

And the winner is:  “Mozart des pickpockets, Le”

 

Best Documentary

“No End in Sight”

“Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience”

“Sicko”

“Taxi to the Dark Side”

“War Dance”

 

And the winner is:  “Taxi to the Dark Side”

 

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

Corona, La”

“Freeheld”

“Salim Baba”

“Sari's Mother”

 

And the winner is:  “Freeheld”

 

Best Adapted Screenplay

“Atonement”

“Away from Her”

“No Country for Old Men”

“Scaphandre et le papillon, Le”

“There Will Be Blood”

 

And the winner is:  “No Country for Old Men” adapted by Ethan and Joel Coen

 

Best Original Screenplay

“Juno”

“Lars and the Real Girl”

“Michael Clayton”

“Ratatouille”

“The Savages”

 

And the winner is:  “Juno” written by Diablo Cody

 

Best Original Score

“3:10 to Yuma

“Atonement”

“The Kite Runner”

“Michael Clayton”

“Ratatouille”

 

And the winner is:  “Atonement”

 

Best Original Song

“Falling Slowly” from “Once”

“Happy Working Song” from “Enchanted”

“Raise It Up” from “August Rush”

“So Close” from “Enchanted”

"That's How You Know" from “Enchanted”

 

And the winner is:  “Falling Slowly” from the movie “Once”

 

Best Editing

“The Bourne Ultimatum”

“Into the Wild”

“No Country for Old Men”

“Scaphandre et le papillon, Le”

“There Will Be Blood”

 

And the winner is:  “The Bourne Ultimatum”

 

Best Visual Effects

“The Golden Compass”

“Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End”

Transformers

 

And the winner is:  “The Golden Compass”

 

Best Cinematography

“The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”

“Atonement”

“No Country for Old Men”

“Scaphandre et le papillon, Le”

“There Will Be Blood”

 

And the winner is:  “There Will Be Blood”

 

Best Achievement In Sound Mixing

“3:10 to Yuma

“The Bourne Ultimatum”

“No Country for Old Men”

“Ratatouille”

Transformers

 

And the winner is:  “The Bourne Ultimatum”

 

Best Sound Editing

“The Bourne Ultimatum”

“No Country for Old Men”

“Ratatouille”

“There Will Be Blood”

Transformers

 

And the winner is:  “The Bourne Ultimatum”

 

Best Costume Design

“Across the Universe”

“Atonement”

Elizabeth: The Golden Age”

“Môme, La”

“Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”

 

And the winner is:  Elizabeth: The Golden Age”

 

Best Art Direction

“American Gangster”

“Atonement”

“The Golden Compass”

“Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”

“There Will Be Blood”

 

And the winner is:  “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”

 

Best Make-Up

“Môme, La”

Norbit

“Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End”

 

And the winner is:  “Mome, La” a.k.a. “La Vie En Rose”

 

For more info on the Academy Awards, visit their official site!

 

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