2008 Academy Award Winners
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Stewart hosted the famous event and started the evening saying,”These past 31/2 months have been very tough. The town was torn apart by a bitter writers strike, but I’m happy to say that the fight is over,” he said. “So tonight, welcome to the makeup sex.”
“No Country,” a gloomy drama based on a novel by Cormac McCarthy, Spanish actor Javier Bardem won for Best Supporting Actor and the film won for Best Picture.
“Ratatouille” was the winner for Best Animated Film.
A first in Oscar history, no acting award went to an American. Besides Bardem, the all-European winners were English-born Daniel Day-Lewis, Best Actor in “There Will Be Blood French beauty Marion Cotillard, Best Actress for playing Edith Piaf in the biopic “La Vie en Rose and Britain’s Tilda Swinton, who was Best Supporting Actress as an unscrupulous lawyer in “Michael Clayton.”
“It is true – there is angels in this city,” an over joyous Cotillard said of Los Angeles.
Swinton, who beat out sentimental favorite Ruby Dee from “American Gangster,” seemed stunned at the upset.
“I have an American agent who is the spitting image of this,” Swinton said, gazing at the gleaming statuette. “There’s no way I’d be in America without him.” Bardem giddily congratulated the Coen brothers as he accepted his award for a chilling portrayal of a psychopath in “No Country for Old Men.”
“Elizabeth: The Golden Age” took the prize for costume design, “La Vie En Rose” for makeup, and “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” for art direction.
Here is a quick rundown on all the winners:
Academy Awards.BEST PICTURE
No Country for Old Men
BEST DIRECTOR
Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
BEST ACTRESS
Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Diablo Cody, Juno
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Ratatouille
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Taxi to the Dark Side
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Counterfeiters (Austria)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
”Falling Slowly,” Once
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Atonement
BEST ART DIRECTION
Sweeney Todd
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
There Will Be Blood
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
BEST FILM EDITING
The Bourne Ultimatum
BEST MAKEUP
La Vie en Rose
BEST SOUND EDITING
The Bourne Ultimatum
BEST SOUND MIXING
The Bourne Ultimatum
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Golden Compass
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Peter & the Wolf
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Freeheld
BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT
Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)
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Cognac Wellerlane