2008 Academy Awards Winners

By Jack February 25, 2008 10:02 AM

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The Academy Awards went down last night. The Coen Brothers' No Country For Old Men was honored with 4 Oscars, The Bourne Ultimatum with 3 (mostly technical awards), followed by There Will Be Blood and Atonement. Full list after the bump.

Performance by an actor in a leading role:
Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role:
Javier Bardem in "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)

Performance by an actress in a leading role:
Marion Cotillard in "La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role:
Tilda Swinton in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.)

Best animated feature film of the year:
"Ratatouille" (Walt Disney): Brad Bird

Achievement in art direction:
"Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount): Art Direction: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo

Achievement in cinematography:
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax): Robert Elswit

Achievement in costume design:
"Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (Universal) Alexandra Byrne

Achievement in directing:
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

Best documentary feature:
"Taxi to the Dark Side" (THINKFilm) An X-Ray Production: Alex Gibney and Eva Orner

Best documentary short subject:
"Freeheld" A Lieutenant Films Production: Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth

Achievement in film editing:
"The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal): Christopher Rouse

Best foreign language film of the year:
"The Counterfeiters" Austria

Achievement in makeup:
"La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse) Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score):
"Atonement" (Focus Features) Dario Marianelli

Best motion picture of the year:
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) A Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Production: Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers

Best animated short film:
"Peter & the Wolf" (BreakThru Films) A BreakThru Films/Se-ma-for Studios Production Suzie Templeton and Hugh Welchman

Best live action short film:
"Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)" (Premium Films) A Kar? Production: Philippe Pollet-Villard

Achievement in sound editing:
"The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal): Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg

Achievement in sound mixing:
"The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal) Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis

Achievement in visual effects:
"The Golden Compass" (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners): Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood

Adapted screenplay:
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage), Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen

Original screenplay:
"Juno" (Fox Searchlight), Written by Diablo Cody

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