OscarsTriumph For The Coens

No Country and Bourne come out on top

OscarsTriumph For The Coens

by James Dyer |
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The Coen Brothers lead the charge last night at the 80th Academy Awards, topping the lists with four wins for No Country For Old Men, including Best Director(s), Best Film, Best Supporting Actor for Javier Bardem and Best Adapted Screenplay. Coming in second was not There WIll Be Blood or Atonement but rather The Bourne Ultimatum, which sneaked in with a trio of technical awards for Editing, Sound Mixing and Sound Editing.

PT Anderson's effort didn't go unrewarded though, taking cinematography, while Daniel Day Lewis surprised precisely no one by bagging Best Actor. Marion Cotillard did raise a few eyebrows, edging out Cate Blanchett and Julie Christie to snatch Best Actress for La Vie En Rose, while Tilda Swinton managed an unexpected win with Best Supporting Actress for Michael Clayton.

Religious leaders let out a collective sigh of relief as Norbit lost out on Best Make-Up, having declared that such an event would usher in the last days and form the final sign of the apocalypse.

Film Of The Year

Atonement

Juno

Michael Clayton

No Country for Old Men

There Will Be Blood

Best Director

Julian Schnabel -The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Jason Reitman -Juno

Tony Gilroy -Michael Clayton

Joel and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men

Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood

Best Actor

George Clooney - Michael Clayton

Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood

Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd

Tommy Lee Jones - In the Valley of Elah

Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises

Best Supporting Actor

Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men

Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson's War

Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild

Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Julie Christie - Away from Her

Marion Cotillard - La Vie en Rose

Laura Linney - The Savages

Ellen Page - Juno

Best Supporting Actress

Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There

Ruby Dee - American Gangster

Saoirse Ronan - Atonement

Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone

Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton

Adapted Screenplay

Atonement, Screenplay by Christopher Hampton

Away from Her, Written by Sarah Polley

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Screenplay by Ronald Harwood

No Country for Old Men, Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen

There Will Be Blood, Written for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson

Original Screenplay

Juno, Written by Diablo Cody

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 Jenkin

Best Animated Feature

Persepolis

Ratatouille

Surf's Up

Achievement in Art Direction

American Gangster

Atonement

The Golden Compass

Sweeney Todd

There Will Be Blood

Achievement In Cinematography

The Assassination of Jesse James

Atonement

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

No Country for Old Men

There Will Be Blood

Achievement In Costume Design

Across the Universe

Atonement

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

La Vie en Rose

Sweeney Todd

Best Documentary Feature

No End in Sight

Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience

Sicko

Taxi to the Dark Side

War/Dance

Achievement In Film 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 - Israel

The Counterfeiters - Austria

Katyn - Poland

Mongol - Kazakhstan

12 - Russia

Achievement In Make-Up

La Vie en Rose

Norbit

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Original Score

Atonement

The Kite Runner

Michael Clayton

Ratatouille

3:10 to Yuma

Original Song

Falling Slowly - Once

Happy Working Song - Enchanted

Raise It Up - August Rush

So Close - Enchanted

That's How You Know - Enchanted

Achievement In Sound Editing

The Bourne Ultimatum

No Country for Old Men

Ratatouille

There Will Be Blood

Transformers

Achievement In Sound Mixing

The Bourne Ultimatum

No Country for Old Men

Ratatouille

3:10 to Yuma

Transformers

Achievement In Visual Effects

The Golden Compass

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Transformers

Best Animated Short

I Met the Walrus

Madame Tutli-Putli

Szczerbowski Même Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)

My Love (Moya Lyubov)

Peter & the Wolf

Best Live Action Short

At Night

Il Supplente (The Substitute)

Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)

Tanghi Argentini

The Tonto Woman

Best Documentary Short

Freeheld

La Corona (The Crown)

Salim Baba

Sari's Mother

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