2008 Oscars Winners

February 25, 2008, 3:49 pmnewidea

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Performance by an actor in a leading role

  • George Clooney in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.)

  • Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) (winner)

  • Johnny Depp in "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)

  • Tommy Lee Jones in "In the Valley of Elah" (Warner Independent)

  • Viggo Mortensen in "Eastern Promises" (Focus Features)


Performance by an actor in a supporting role

  • Casey Affleck in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (Warner Bros.)

  • Javier Bardem in "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) (winner)

  • Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Charlie Wilson's War" (Universal)

  • Hal Holbrook in "Into the Wild" (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment)

  • Tom Wilkinson in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.)

Performance by an actress in a leading role

  • Cate Blanchett in "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (Universal)

  • Julie Christie in "Away from Her" (Lionsgate)

  • Marion Cotillard in "La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse) (winner)

  • Laura Linney in "The Savages" (Fox Searchlight)

  • Ellen Page in "Juno" (A Mandate Pictures/Mr. Mudd Production)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

  • Cate Blanchett in "I'm Not There" (The Weinstein Company)

  • Ruby Dee in "American Gangster" (Universal)

  • Saoirse Ronan in "Atonement" (Focus Features)

  • Amy Ryan in "Gone Baby Gone" (Miramax)

  • Tilda Swinton in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) (winner)

Best animated feature film of the year

  • "Persepolis" (Sony Pictures Classics): Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud

  • "Ratatouille" (Walt Disney): Brad Bird (winner)

  • "Surf's Up" (Sony Pictures Releasing): Ash Brannon and Chris Buck

Achievement in art direction

  • "American Gangster" (Universal): Art Direction: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Beth A. Rubino

  • "Atonement" (Focus Features): Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer

  • "The Golden Compass" (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners): Art Direction: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock

  • "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 (winner)

  • "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax): Art Direction: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson

Achievement in cinematography

  • "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (Warner Bros.): Roger Deakins

  • "Atonement" (Focus Features): Seamus McGarvey

  • "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn): Janusz Kaminski

  • "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage): Roger Deakins

  • "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax): Robert Elswit (winner)

Achievement in costume design

  • "Across the Universe" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Albert Wolsky

  • "Atonement" (Focus Features) Jacqueline Durran

  • "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (Universal) Alexandra Byrne(winner)

  • "La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse) Marit Allen

  • "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount) Colleen Atwood

Achievement in directing

  • "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn), Julian Schnabel

  • "Juno" (A Mandate Pictures/Mr. Mudd Production), Jason Reitman

  • "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.), Tony Gilroy

  • "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (winner)

  • "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax), Paul Thomas Anderson

Best documentary feature

  • "No End in Sight" (Magnolia Pictures) A Representational Pictures Production: Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs

  • "Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience" (The Documentary Group) A Documentary Group Production: Richard E. Robbins

  • "Sicko" (Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company) A Dog Eat Dog Films Production: Michael Moore and Meghan O'Hara

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

  • "War/Dance" (THINKFilm) A Shine Global and Fine Films Production: Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine

Best documentary short subject

  • "Freeheld" A Lieutenant Films Production: Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth (winner)

  • "La Corona (The Crown)" A Runaway Films and Vega Films Production: Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega

  • "Salim Baba" A Ropa Vieja Films and Paradox Smoke Production: Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello

  • "Sari's Mother" (Cinema Guild) A Daylight Factory Production: James Longley

Achievement in film editing

  • "The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal): Christopher Rouse (winner)

  • "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn): Juliette Welfling

  • "Into the Wild" (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment): Jay Cassidy

  • "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Roderick Jaynes

  • "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax): Dylan Tichenor

Best foreign language film of the year

  • "Beaufort" Israel

  • "The Counterfeiters" Austria (winner)

  • "Katyn" Poland

  • "Mongol" Kazakhstan

  • "12" Russia

Achievement in makeup

  • "La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse) Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald (winner)

  • "Norbit" (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount): Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji

  • "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" (Walt Disney): Ve Neill and Martin Samuel

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

  • "Atonement" (Focus Features) Dario Marianelli (winner)

  • "The Kite Runner" (DreamWorks, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Participant Productions, Distributed by Paramount Classics): Alberto Iglesias

  • "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) James Newton Howard

  • "Ratatouille" (Walt Disney) Michael Giacchino

  • "3:10 to Yuma" (Lionsgate) Marco Beltrami

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

  • "Falling Slowly" from "Once" (Fox Searchlight) Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and: Marketa Irglova (winner)

  • "Happy Working Song" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney): Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz

  • "Raise It Up" from "August Rush" (Warner Bros.): Music and Lyric by Jamal Joseph, Charles Mack and Tevin Thomas

  • "So Close" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney): Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz

  • "That's How You Know" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney): Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz

Best motion picture of the year

  • "Atonement" (Focus Features) A Working Title Production: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster, Producers

  • "Juno" (A Mandate Pictures/Mr. Mudd Production) A Mandate Pictures/Mr. Mudd Production: Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick and Russell Smith, Producers

  • "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) A Clayton Productions, LLC Production: Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox and Kerry Orent, Producers

  • "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) A Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Production: Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers (winner)

  • "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) A JoAnne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company Production: JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Lupi, Producers

Best animated short film

  • "I Met the Walrus" A Kids & Explosions Production: Josh Raskin

  • "Madame Tutli-Putli" (National Film Board of Canada) A National Film Board of Canada Production Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski

  • "Même les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)" (Premium Films) A BUF Compagnie Production Samuel Tourneux and Simon Vanesse

  • "My Love (Moya Lyubov)" (Channel One Russia) A Dago-Film Studio, Channel One Russia and Dentsu Tec Production Alexander Petrov

  • "Peter & the Wolf" (BreakThru Films) A BreakThru Films/Se-ma-for Studios Production Suzie Templeton and Hugh Welchman (winner)

Best live action short film

  • "At Night" A Zentropa Entertainments 10 Production: Christian E. Christiansen and Louise Vesth

  • "Il Supplente (The Substitute)" (Sky Cinema Italia) A Frame by Frame Italia Production: Andrea Jublin

  • "Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)" (Premium Films) A Karé Production: Philippe Pollet-Villard (winner)

  • "Tanghi Argentini" (Premium Films) An Another Dimension of an Idea Production: Guido Thys and Anja Daelemans

  • "The Tonto Woman" A Knucklehead, Little Mo and Rose Hackney Barber Production: Daniel Barber and Matthew Brown

Achievement in sound editing

  • "The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal): Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg (winner)

  • "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage): Skip Lievsay

  • "Ratatouille" (Walt Disney): Randy Thom and Michael Silvers

  • "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax): Christopher Scarabosio and Matthew Wood

  • "Transformers" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro): Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins

Achievement in sound mixing

  • "The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal) Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis (winner)

  • "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage): Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland

  • "Ratatouille" (Walt Disney): Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane

  • "3:10 to Yuma" (Lionsgate): Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Jim Stuebe

  • "Transformers" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro): Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin

Achievement in visual effects

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

  • "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" (Walt Disney): John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier

  • "Transformers" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro): Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier

Adapted screenplay

  • "Atonement" (Focus Features), Screenplay by Christopher Hampton

  • "Away from Her" (Lionsgate), Written by Sarah Polley

  • "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn), Screenplay by Ronald Harwood

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

  • "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax), Written for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson

Original screenplay

  • "Juno" (A Mandate Pictures/Mr. Mudd Production), Written by Diablo Cody (winner)

  • "Lars and the Real Girl" (MGM), Written by Nancy Oliver

  • "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.), Written by Tony Gilroy

  • "Ratatouille" (Walt Disney), Screenplay by Brad Bird; Story by Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird

  • "The Savages" (Fox Searchlight), Written by Tamara Jenkins

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