Deze nacht zijn voor de 80ste keer de Academy Awards uitgereikt in Los Angeles. Er zaten bijzonder weinig verrassingen tussen de winnaars. Grote favoriet, No Country For Old Men, kaapte maar liefst 4 Oscars weg. Het postmoderne meesterwerk van de Coens ging aan de haal met de Oscars voor Beste Film, Beste Regie, Beste Scenario en Beste Mannelijke bijrol (de sublieme Javier Bardem). Zoals verwacht kreeg Daniel Day-Lewis het felbegeerde gouden beeldje voor zijn imposante hoofdrol in There Will Be Blood. Beste animatiefilm werd terecht Ratatouille. The Bourne Ultimatum won in een aantal eerder technische categorieën zoals sound mixing, sound editing en film editing. Tilda Swinton won verdiend de Oscar voor Beste Vrouwelijke bijrol dankzij haar glansprestatie in Michael Clayon. Lees verder voor een volledig overzicht van de Oscarwinnaars 2008.

BEST PICTURE
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
WINNER: 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
WINNER: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – No Country for Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson – There Will Be Blood

BEST ACTOR
George Clooney – Michael Clayton
WINNER: Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp – Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tommy Lee Jones – In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen – Eastern Promises

BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett – Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie – Away from Her
WINNER: Marion Cotillard – La Vie en Rose
Laura Linney – The Savages
Ellen Page – Juno

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Casey Affleck – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
WINNER: Javier Bardem – No Country for Old Men
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Charlie Wilson’s War
Hal Holbrook – Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson – Michael Clayton

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Cate Blanchet – I’m Not There
Ruby Dee – American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan – Atonement
Amy Ryan – Gone Baby Gone
WINNER: Tilda Swinton – Michael Clayton

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
WINNER: Juno – Diablo Cody
Lars and the Real Girl – Nancy Oliver
Michael Clayton – Tony Gilroy
Ratatouille – Brad Bird
The Savages – Tamara Jenkins

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Atonement – Christopher Hampton
Away from Her – Sarah Polley
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – Ronald Harwood
WINNER: No Country for Old Men – Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
There Will Be Blood – Paul Thomas Anderson

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Persepolis
WINNER: Ratatouille
Surf’s Up

BEST ART DIRECTION
American Gangster
Atonement
The Golden Compass
WINNER: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
There Will Be Blood

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Beaufort – Israel
WINNER: The Counterfeiters – Austria
Katyn – Poland
Mongol – Kazakhstan
12 – Russia

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
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
WINNER: There Will Be Blood – Robert Elswit

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
No End in Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Sicko
WINNER: Taxi to the Dark Side
War/Dance

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
WINNER: Freeheld – Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth
La Corona (The Crown) – Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega
Salim Baba – Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello
Sari’s Mother – James Longley

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
I Met the Walrus – Josh Raskin
Madame Tutli-Putli Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
M̻me Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven) РSamuel Tourneux and Simon Vanesse
My Love (Moya Lyubov) – Alexander Petrov
WINNER: Peter & the Wolf – Suzie Templeton and Hugh Welchman

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM
At Night – Christian E. Christiansen and Louise Vesth
Il Supplente (The Substitute) – Andrea Jublin
WINNER: Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets) – Philippe Pollet-Villard
Tanghi Argentini – Guido Thys and Anja Daelemans
The Tonto Woman – Daniel Barber and Matthew Brown

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
WINNER: The Golden Compass
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Transformers

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Across the Universe – Albert Wolsky
Atonement – Jacqueline Durran
WINNER: Elizabeth: The Golden Age – Alexandra Byrne
La Vie en Rose – Marit Allen
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Colleen Atwood

BEST FILM EDITING
WINNER: The Bourne Ultimatum – Christopher Rouse
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 SOUND MIXING
WINNER: The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma
Transformers

BEST SOUND EDITING
WINNER: The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
There Will Be Blood
Transformers

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
WINNER: Dario Marianelli – Atonement
Alberto Iglesias – The Kite Runner
James Newton Howard – Michael Clayton
Michael Giacchino – Ratatouille
Marco Beltrami – 3:10 to Yuma

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
WINNER: “Falling Slowly” – Once, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
“Happy Working Song” – Enchanted, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz
“Raise It Up” – August Rush
“So Close” – Enchanted, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz
“That’s How You Know” – Enchanted, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz

BEST MAKEUP
WINNER: La Vie en Rose – Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald
Norbit – Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End – Ve Neill and Martin Samuel