80th Academy Awards Oscar 2008 Best Picture Winners & Nominations
No Country For Old Men
80th Academy Awards - 2008 Oscar Best Picture
"No Country For Old Men" is a mesmerizing thriller from Academy Award-winning filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, based on the acclaimed novel by Pulitzer Prize winning American master, Cormac McCarthy.
The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones.
"No Country For Old Men" features a cast that includes Academy Award-winner Tommy Lee Jones ("The Fugitive," "Men in Black"), Josh Brolin ("Grindhouse"), Academy Award-nominee Javier Bardem ("The Sea Inside"), Academy Award-nominee Woody Harrelson ("The People Vs. Larry Flynt") and Kelly Macdonald ("Trainspotting").
"No Country for Old Men" Received eight nominations for the 80th Academy Awards, including nominations for best picture, best director and best supporting actor.
Atonement
2008 Oscar Best Picture Nominee
"Atonement" Received seven nominations including major nominations for best picture and best supporting actress.
Filmed on location in the United Kingdowm, the films story spans several decades.
In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion.
On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Brionys vivid imagination
Juno
2008 Oscar Best Picture Nominee
"Can’t we just kick it old school? I could just put the baby in a basket and send it your way. You know, like Moses in the reeds."
Meet Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) – a confidently frank teenage girl who calls the shots with a nonchalant cool and an effortless attitude as she journeys through an emotional nine-month adventure into adulthood.
Quick witted and distinctively unique, Juno walks Dancing Elk High's halls to her own tune - preferably anything by The Stooges - but underneath her tough no nonsense exterior is just a teenage girl trying to figure it all out.
Michael Clayton
2008 Oscar Best Picture Nominee
"Michael Clayton" Garnered nominations for best picture, best director, best actor, best supporting actor best supporting actress and best original screenplay
George Clooney stars in the title role of Michael Clayton, a "fixer" at Kenner, Bach & Ledeen, a top Manhattan law firm.
A former criminal prosecutor from a working-class neighborhood, Clayton is an anomaly at the white-shoe firm; in spite of his 15-year tenure, he has not been promoted to partner and probably never will be.
His boss, Marty Bach, sees Clayton as an invaluable asset to the firm, but only in his "niche," one that is relegated to cleaning up the firm’s sticky situations quickly and quietly.
There Will Be Blood
2008 Oscar Best Picture Nominee
"There Will Be Blood" Received nominations for best picture, best director and best actor.
A sprawling epic about family, faith, power and oil, THERE WILL BE BLOOD is set on the radical frontier of California’s turn-of-the-century petroleum boom.
The story chronicles the rise of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), who transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon.
80th Academy Awards 2008 Oscar Winners
Best Actor
Best Actress
2009 OSCAR NOMINEES 81st Academy Awards
2009 Best Picture Oscar Nominations
2009 Best Animated Feature Oscar Nominations
2009 Best Lead Actress Oscar Nominations
- Anne Hathaway in "Rachel Getting Married"
- Angelina Jolie in "Changeling"
- Melissa Leo in "Frozen River"
- Meryl Streep in "Doubt"
- Kate Winslet in "The Reader"
2009 Best Lead Actor Oscar Nominations
- Richard Jenkins in "The Visitor"
- Frank Langella in "Frost/Nixon"
- Sean Penn in "Milk"
- Brad Pitt in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
- Mickey Rourke in "The Wrestler"
2009 Best Supporting Actress Oscar Nominations
- Amy Adams in "Doubt"
- Penélope Cruz in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"
- Viola Davis in "Doubt"
- Taraji P. Henson in "Benjamin Button"
- Marisa Tomei in "The Wrestler"
2009 Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations
2009 OSCAR NOMINATED MOVIE REVIEWS
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Australia
(1 Oscar Nomination) -
Bolt
(1 Oscar Nomination) -
Changeling
(3 Oscar Nominations) -
The Class
(1 Oscar Nomination) -
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
(13 Oscar Nominations) -
The Dark Knight
(8 Oscar Nominations) -
Defiance
(1 Oscar Nomination) -
Doubt
(5 Oscar Nominations) -
The Duchess
(2 Oscar Nominations) -
Frost / Nixon
(5 Oscar Nominations) -
Happy Go Lucky
(1 Oscar Nomination) -
Iron Man
(2 Oscar Nominations) -
Kung Fu Panda
(1 Oscar Nomination) -
Milk
(8 Oscar Nominations) -
Rachel Getting Married
(1 Oscar Nomination) -
The Reader
(5 Oscar Nominations) -
Revolutionary Road
(3 Oscar Nominations) -
Slumdog Millionaire
(10 Oscar Nominations) -
Tropic Thunder
(1 Oscar Nomination) -
WALL-E
(6 Oscar Nominations) -
Waltz With Bashir
(1 Oscar Nomination) -
Wanted
(2 Oscar Nominations) -
The Wrestler
(2 Oscar Nominations)
