Academy Awards 2008 Winners Are..

Basq

BEST PICTURE
ATONEMENT
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
MICHAEL CLAYTON
THERE WILL BE BLOOD
JUNO

BEST ACTOR
Johnny Depp - SWEENEY TODD
Tommy Lee Jones - IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH
Daniel Day Lewis - THERE WILL BE BLOOD
George Clooney - MICHAEL CLAYTON
Viggo Mortensen - EASTERN PROMISES

BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett - ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE
Laura Linney - THE SAVAGES
Marion Cotillard - LA VIE EN ROSE
Ellen Page - JUNO
Julie Christie - AWAY FROM HER

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Javier Bardem - NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Tom Wilkinson - MICHAEL CLAYTON
Hal Holbrook - INTO THE WILD
Casey Affleck - THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES
Philip Seymour Hoffman - CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Ryan - GONE BABY GONE
Cate Blanchett - I'M NOT THERE
Ruby Dee - AMERICAN GANGSTER
Saoirse Ronan - ATONEMENT
Tilda Swinton - MICHAEL CLAYTON

BEST ANIMATED FILM
PERSEPOLIS
RATATOUILLE
SURF'S UP

BEST DIRECTOR
Joel and Ethan Coen - NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Tony Gilroy - MICHAEL CLAYTON
Jason Reitman - JUNO
Paul Thomas Anderson - THERE WILL BE BLOOD
Julian Schnabel - THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Joel and Ethan Coen - NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Sarah Polley - AWAY FROM HER
Christopher Hampton - ATONEMENT
Ronald Harwood - THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
Paul Thomas Anderson - THERE WILL BE BLOOD

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Diablo Cody - JUNO
Nancy Oliver - LARS AND THE REAL GIRL
Tony Gilroy - MICHAEL CLAYTON
Brad Bird - RATATOUILLE
Tamara Jenkins - THE SAVAGES

BEST ART DIRECTION
AMERICAN GANGSTER
ATONEMENT
THE GOLDEN COMPASS
SWEENEY TODD
THERE WILL BE BLOOD

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Roger Deakins - THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES
Seamus McGarvey - ATONEMENT
Janusz Kaminski - THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
Roger Deakins - NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Robert Elswit - THERE WILL BE BLOOD

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
ATONEMENT
ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE
LA VIE EN ROSE
SWEENEY TODD

BEST EDITING
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
INTO THE WILD
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
THERE WILL BE BLOOD

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
"Beaufort"
"The Counterfeiters"
"Katyn"
"Mongol"
"12"

BEST MAKEUP
NORBIT
LA VIE EN ROSE
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
ATONEMENT
THE KITE RUNNER
MICHAEL CLAYTON
RATATOUILLE
3:10 TO YUMA

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Falling Slowly" - ONCE
"Happy Working Song" - ENCHANTED
"So Close" - ENCHANTED
"That's How You Know" - ENCHANTED
"Raise It Up" - AUGUST RUSH

BEST SOUND EDITING
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
RATATOUILLE
THERE WILL BE BLOOD
TRANSFORMERS

BEST SOUND MIXING
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
RATATOUILLE
3:10 TO YUMA
TRANSFORMERS

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
THE GOLDEN COMPASS
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END
TRANSFORMERS

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
NO END IN SIGHT
OPERATION HOMECOMING: WRITING THE WARTIME EXPERIENCE
SICKO
TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE
WAR/DANCE

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
"Freeheld"
"La Corona"
"Salim Baba"
"Sari's Mother"

BEST ANIMATED SHORT
"I Met The Walrus"
"Madame Tutli-Putli"
"Meme Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis"
"My Love"
"Peter and The Wolf"

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT
"At Night"
"Ill Supplente"
"Le Mozart des Pickpockets"
"Tanghi Argentini"
"The Tonto Woman"

Most predictable list of winners in the main category in a very VERY long time, in my opinion anyways!

Jay P

Wooo! Go Glen. Fair play to him.

Ivan

According to Oscar.com your Best Picture is incorrect... It was 'No Country for Old Men'.

Otherwise, glad to see Daniel Day Lewis get his second. I just wish he would make more films (but keeping them at the same quality, obviously;))

kaimera

lol.

No oscar for Transformers

Mossy Monk

basquille wrote: »

Most predictable list of winners in the main category in a very VERY long time, in my opinion anyways!

You got the Best Picture wrong

lizann

Well Done to Once

I was surprised with Tilda's win for Michael Clayton

DDL and NCFOM all deserving

Pigman II

Sorry to see PT Anderson not picking up best director. Still, his time will come.

ztoical

basquille wrote: »

Most predictable list of winners in the main category in a very VERY long time, in my opinion anyways!

Marion Cotillard taking best actress from Julie Christie and Tilda Swinton taking supporting actress wasn't expected by most.

And once again poor Kevin O'Connell leaves with nothing - 20 nominations no win record must be pretty depressing.

johnny_ultimate

Meh predictable as usual. No Country is admittedly a far worthier winner than alot of recent winners though. Would have liked to see some more Juno love, and a shame some of the smaller films didn't win anything (I'm surprised Diving Bell got nothing).

Basq

Mossy Monk wrote: »

You got the Best Picture wrong

Sorry about that.. bolded winners from another site and must have mis-read it. We should of all knew 'No Country For Old Men' was the winner (and deservedly so)!

kevmy

I don't know what wrong with being predictable if they were deserving. If NCFOLM missed out people would be giving out but then they'd probably enjoy that more.

Eire 4Ever

I'm glad Falling Slowly won and also DDL, NCOFM and Javier Bardem wins

Shocked at Tilda's win for best supporting actress

TheDoc

watched oscars for tne minutes then turned it off, i just dont think they have credability for me anymore

i was convinced the ending to no country would have ruined its chances, cause in my opinion it was such a let down and " a poor poser effort at intellegence and artistic ending" it really made the whole film a let down.

the ending of a film is what your left runing with in films..especially of this type...and this ending for me and many i know and spoke to about it, forgot at how it powered and triumphed early on, lost its way in the middle, and blew hot steamy un-fancy chunks at the end...and made me forget id watched a decent film, instead i was left commenting negetivly bout a piss poor ending, sweeney todd did the same


the more and more i reflect on no country the more i feel it one because it got boring and drooley in the middle and end, as i find alot of oscar films do...


id love to read the judges reasonings for picking films, if they say " here silencer on a shotgun, enough said" fair enough

i would have thought that 3:10 to yuma, although not an amazing film, took a genre that was pretty much dead and buried, that was perfected with unforgiven...and gave it another shake up and revived it, it did more for cinema and a genre then this did.

man finds something(usually money), another man wants it, another tries to kill him,boring


and transformers not getting best visuals for a film that looks like narnia...bout as viable as meteor awards in my view now

Jello

No surprises there really. Glad No Country For Old Men deservedly did well, as well as The Bourne Ultimatum.

irish_bob

the oscars by and large are quite predictable each year

the only somewhat of a surprise was tilda swintons win , the french actress was a heavy favourite to win

i dont like tilda swinton , shes very very creepy not to mention ugly

monkeyfudge

kaimera wrote: »

lol.

No oscar for Transformers

I think it should have got best visual effects over the Golden Compass. The effects in Golden Copmas were fine, but really nothing we hadn't seen before.

I recently got Transformer in HD-DVD... I may think it's a bit of a rubbish film, but it's hard to find fault in the special effects... There's a real weight to the giant robots that is pretty hard to convey with CGI.

Black Swan

No matter how The Academy tries to make itself out as being above the warlike Bush administration, they continue to award raw violence with a best picture Oscar for "No Country for Old Men." I've seen this film and will not waste my money on the DVD.

Kur4mA

monkeyfudge wrote: »

I think it should have got best visual effects over the Golden Compass.

Agreed. I thought the speciall effects in The Golden Compass were ok at best. The Polar Bear looked a bit meh tbh.

johnny_ultimate

kyub wrote: »

Agreed. I thought the speciall effects in The Golden Compass were ok at best. The Polar Bear looked a bit meh tbh.

The sequence where Iorek and Lyra were riding across the snow looked like a particularly poor video game from the PS1 era.