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2008 Academy Awards (80th)


The 80th Academy Awards (or Oscars) were given for outstanding film achievements of 2007. Ceremony was hosted by Jon Stewart, held on February 24th, 2008 on Sunday and was again took place at the Kodak Theatre.

Academy Awards 2008 photo
Academy Awards 2008
courtesy of AMPAS
 
Best motion picture of the year
Winner:
No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men film poster
Nominees:
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
There Will Be Blood
 
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Winner:
Daniel Day-Lewis in ~There Will Be Blood~
Nominees:
George Clooney in ~Michael Clayton~
Johnny Depp in ~Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street~
Tommy Lee Jones in ~In the Valley of Elah~
Viggo Mortensen in ~Eastern Promises~
 
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Winner:
Javier Bardem in ~No Country for Old Men~
Nominees:
Casey Affleck in ~The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford~
Philip Seymour Hoffman in ~Charlie Wilson’s War~
Hal Holbrook in ~Into the Wild~
Tom Wilkinson in ~Michael Clayton~
 
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Winner:
Marion Cotillard in ~La Vie en Rose~
Nominees:
Cate Blanchett in ~Elizabeth: The Golden Age~
Julie Christie in ~Away from Her~
Laura Linney in ~The Savages~
Ellen Page in ~Juno~
 
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Winner:
Tilda Swinton in ~Michael Clayton~
Nominees:
Cate Blanchett in ~I’m Not There~
Ruby Dee in ~American Gangster~
Saoirse Ronan in ~Atonement~
Amy Ryan in ~Gone Baby Gone~
 
Best animated feature film of the year
Winner:
Ratatouille
Nominees:
Persepolis
Surf's Up
 
Achievement in art direction
Winner:
~Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street~
Art Direction: Dante Ferretti
Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo

Sweeney Todd film poster
Nominees:
~American Gangster~
Art Direction: Arthur Max
Set Decoration: Beth A. Rubino
~Atonement~
Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood
Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
~The Golden Compass~
Art Direction: Dennis Gassner
Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
~There Will Be Blood~
Art Direction: Jack Fisk
Set Decoration: Jim Erickson
 
Achievement in cinematography
Winner:
~There Will Be Blood~
Robert Elswit
Nominees:
~The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford~
Roger Deakins
~Atonement~
Seamus McGarvey
~The Diving Bell and the Butterfly~
Janusz Kaminski
~No Country for Old Men~
Roger Deakins
 
Achievement in costume design
Winner:
~Elizabeth: The Golden Age~
Alexandra Byrne
Nominees:
~Across the Universe~
Albert Wolsky
~Atonement~
Jacqueline Durran
~La Vie en Rose~
Marit Allen
~Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street~
Colleen Atwood
 
Achievement in directing
Winner:
~No Country for Old Men~
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Nominees:
~The Diving Bell and the Butterfly~
Julian Schnabel
~Juno~
Jason Reitman
~Michael Clayton~
Tony Gilroy
~There Will Be Blood~
Paul Thomas Anderson
 
Best documentary feature
Winner:
~Taxi to the Dark Side~
Alex Gibney and Eva Orner
Nominees:
~No End in Sight~
Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
~Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience~
Richard E. Robbins
~Sicko~
Michael Moore and Meghan O’Hara
~War/Dance~
Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine
 
Best documentary short subject
Winner:
~Freeheld~
Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth
Nominees:
~La Corona (The Crown)~
Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega
~Salim Baba~
Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello
~Sari’s Mother~
James Longley
 
Achievement in film editing
Winner:
~The Bourne Ultimatum~
Christopher Rouse
Nominees:
~The Diving Bell and the Butterfly~
Juliette Welfling
~Into the Wild~
Jay Cassidy
~No Country for Old Men~
Roderick Jaynes
~There Will Be Blood~
Dylan Tichenor
 
Best foreign language film of the year
Winner:
~The Counterfeiters~
Austria
Nominees:
~Mongol~
Kazakhstan
~12~
Russia
~Katyn~
Poland
~Beaufort~
Israel
 
Achievement in makeup
Winner:
~La Vie en Rose~
Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald
Nominees:
~Norbit~
Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji
~Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End~
Ve Neill and Martin Samuel
 
Achievement in music written for motion pictures / Original score
Winner:
~Atonement~
Dario Marianelli
Nominees:
~The Kite Runner~
Alberto Iglesias
~Michael Clayton~
James Newton Howard
~Ratatouille~
Michael Giacchino
~3:10 to Yuma~
Marco Beltrami
 
Achievement in music written for motion pictures / Original song
Winner:
~Falling Slowly~
from ~Once~
Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
Nominees:
~Happy Working Song~
from ~Enchanted~
Music by Alan Menken
Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
~Raise It Up~
from ~August Rush~
Music and lyric by Jamal Joseph, Charles Mack and Tevin Thomas
~So Close~
from ~Enchanted~
Music by Alan Menken
Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
~That’s How You Know~
from ~Enchanted~
Music by Alan Menken
Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
 
Best animated short film
Winner:
Peter & the Wolf
Nominees:
I Met the Walrus
Madame Tutli-Putli
Même les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)
My Love (Moya Lyubov)
 
Best live action short film
Winner:
~Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)~
A Karé Production
Nominees:
~At Night~
A Zentropa Entertainments 10 Production
~Il Supplente (The Substitute)~
A Frame by Frame Italia Production
~Tanghi Argentini~
An Another Dimension of an Idea Production
~The Tonto Woman~
A Knucklehead, Little Mo and Rose Hackney Barber Production
 
Achievement in sound editing
Winner:
~The Bourne Ultimatum~
Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg
Nominees:
~No Country for Old Men~
Skip Lievsay
~Ratatouille~
Randy Thom and Michael Silvers
~There Will Be Blood~
Christopher Scarabosio and Matthew Wood
~Transformers~
Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins
 
Achievement in sound mixing
Winner:
~The Bourne Ultimatum~
Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis
Nominees:
~No Country for Old Men~
Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland
~Ratatouille~
Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane
~3:10 to Yuma~
Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Jim Stuebe
~Transformers~
Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin
 
Achievement in visual effects
Winner:
~The Golden Compass~
Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood
Nominees:
~Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End~
John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier
~Transformers~)
Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier
 
Adapted screenplay
Winner:
~No Country for Old Men~
Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Nominees:
~Atonement~
Screenplay by Christopher Hampton
~Away from Her~
Written by Sarah Polley
~The Diving Bell and the Butterfly~
Screenplay by Ronald Harwood
~There Will Be Blood~
Written for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson
 
Original screenplay
Winner:
~Juno~
Written by Diablo Cody
Nominees:
~Lars and the Real Girl~
Written by Nancy Oliver
~Michael Clayton~
Written by Tony Gilroy
~Ratatouille~
Screenplay by Brad Bird
Story by Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird
~The Savages~
Written by Tamara Jenkins
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