2008 Oscars 80th Academy Awards |
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2008 Oscar Nominees and Winners
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Best Picture: No Country for Old Men – Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, producers (WINNER) Atonement – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster, producers Juno – Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick and Russell Smith, producers Michael Clayton – Jennifer Fox, Kerry Orent and Sydney Pollack, producers There Will Be Blood – Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi and JoAnne Sellar, producers |
Best Director: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – No Country for Old Men (WINNER) Julian Schnabel – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Jason Reitman – Juno Tony Gilroy – Michael Clayton Paul Thomas Anderson – There Will Be Blood |
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood as Daniel Plainview (WINNER) George Clooney – Michael Clayton as Michael Clayton Johnny Depp – Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as Benjamin Barker / Sweeney Todd Tommy Lee Jones – In the Valley of Elah as Hank Deerfield Viggo Mortensen – Eastern Promises as Nikolai Luzhin |
Best Actress: Marion Cotillard – La Vie en Rose as Édith Piaf (WINNER) Cate Blanchett – Elizabeth: The Golden Age as Queen Elizabeth I Julie Christie – Away from Her as Fiona Anderson Laura Linney – The Savages as Wendy Savage Ellen Page – Juno as Juno MacGuff |
Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem – No Country for Old Men as Anton Chigurh (WINNER) Casey Affleck – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as Robert “Bob” Ford Philip Seymour Hoffman – Charlie Wilson’s War as Gustav “Gust” Avrakotos Hal Holbrook – Into the Wild as Ron Franz Tom Wilkinson – Michael Clayton as Arthur Edens |
Best Supporting Actress: Tilda Swinton – Michael Clayton as Karen Crowder (WINNER) Cate Blanchett – I’m Not There as Jude Quinn Ruby Dee – American Gangster as Mama Lucas Saoirse Ronan – Atonement as Briony Tallis Amy Ryan – Gone Baby Gone as Helene McCready |
Best Original Screenplay: Juno – Diablo Cody (WINNER) Lars and the Real Girl – Nancy Oliver Michael Clayton – Tony Gilroy Ratatouille – Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava and Jim Capobianco The Savages – Tamara Jenkins |
Best Adapted Screenplay: No Country for Old Men – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy (WINNER) Atonement – Christopher Hampton based on the novel by Ian McEwan Away from Her – Sarah Polley based on the short story “The Bear Went Over The Mountain” by Alice Munro The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – Ronald Harwood based on the memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby There Will Be Blood – Paul Thomas Anderson based on Oil! by Upton Sinclair |
Best Animated Feature Film: Ratatouille – Brad Bird (WINNER) Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud Surf’s Up – Ash Brannon and Chris Buck |
Best Foreign Language Film: The Counterfeiters (Austria) in German – Stefan Ruzowitzky (WINNER) 12 (Russia) in Russian – Nikita Mikhalkov Beaufort (Israel) in Hebrew – Joseph Cedar Katyn (Poland) in Polish – Andrzej Wajda Mongol (Kazakhstan) in Russian – Sergei Bodrov |
Best Documentary Feature: Taxi to the Dark Side – Alex Gibney and Eva Orner (WINNER) No End in Sight – Charles H. 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: Freeheld – Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth (WINNER) La Corona – Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega Salim Baba – Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello Sari’s Mother – James Longley |
Best Live Action Short Film: Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets) – Philippe Pollet-Villard (WINNER) At Night – Christian E. Christiansen and Louise Vesth (Il Supplente) The Substitute – Andrea Jublin Tanghi Argentini – Guido Thys and Anja Daelemans The Tonto Woman – Daniel Barber and Matthew Brown |
Best Animated Short Film: Peter & the Wolf – Suzie Templeton and Hugh Welchman (WINNER) Even Pigeons Go to Heaven (Même les pigeons vont au paradis) – Samuel Tourneux and Simon Vanesse I Met the Walrus – Josh Raskin Madame Tutli-Putli – Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski My Love (Moya Lyubov) – Alexander Petrov |
Best Original Score: Atonement – Dario Marianelli (WINNER) 3:10 to Yuma – Marco Beltrami The Kite Runner – Alberto Iglesias Michael Clayton – James Newton Howard Ratatouille – Michael Giacchino |
Best Original Song: “Falling Slowly” from Once – Music and Lyrics by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová (WINNER) “Happy Working Song” from Enchanted – Music by Alan Menken; Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz “Raise It Up” from August Rush – Music and Lyrics by Jamal Joseph, Charles Mack and Tevin Thomas “So Close” from Enchanted – Music by Alan Menken; Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz “That’s How You Know” from Enchanted – Music by Alan Menken; Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz |
Best Sound Editing: The Bourne Ultimatum – Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg (WINNER) 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 |
Best Sound Mixing: The Bourne Ultimatum – Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis (WINNER) 3:10 to Yuma – Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Jim Stuebe No Country For Old Men – Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland Ratatouille – Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane Transformers – Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin |
Best Art Direction: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Art Direction: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo (WINNER) American Gangster – Art Direction: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Beth 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 |
Best Cinematography: There Will Be Blood – Robert Elswit (WINNER) 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 |
Best Makeup: La Vie en Rose – Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald (WINNER) Norbit – Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End – Ve Neill and Martin Samuel |
Best Costume Design: Elizabeth: The Golden Age – Alexandra Byrne (WINNER) Across the Universe – Albert Wolsky Atonement – Jacqueline Durran La Vie en Rose – Marit Allen (posthumous nomination) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Colleen Atwood |
Best Film Editing: The Bourne Ultimatum – Christopher Rouse (WINNER) 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 Visual Effects: The Golden Compass – Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood (WINNER) 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 |
Academy Honorary Award: Robert F. Boyle |