80th Academy Awards Oscar Nominations and Winners 2008
Best Picture (Best motion picture of the year):
No Country for Old Men
Nominees:
No Country For Old Men
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
There Will Be Blood
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year: Ratatouille
Nominees:
Persepolis, Ratatouille, Surf's Up
Best Actress (Performance by an actress in a leading role):
Marion Cotillard in "La Vie en Rose"
Nominees:
Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose
Cate Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth I in Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie as "Fiona Anderson" in Away from Her
Laura Linney as Wendy Savage in The Savages
Ellen Page ("Juno MacGuff" in Juno)
Best Actor (Performance by an actor in a leading role):
Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood"
Nominees:
Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood
George Clooney as Michael Clayton in Michael Clayton
Johnny Depp as Sweeney Todd in Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tommy Lee Jones as Hank Deerfield in In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen as Nikolai in Eastern Promises
Performance by an actor in a supporting role: Javier Bardem
Nominees:
Javier Bardem in "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
Casey Affleck in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (Warner Bros.)
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 supporting role: Tilda Swinton
Nominees:
Tilda Swinton in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.)
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)
Achievement in art direction:
"Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"
Nominees:
"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
"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
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
Art Direction: Jack Fisk
Set Decoration: Jim Erickson
Achievement in cinematography: "There Will Be Blood"
Nominees:
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Robert Elswit
"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
Achievement in costume design: "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"
Nominees:
"Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (Universal) Alexandra Byrne
"Across the Universe" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Albert Wolsky
"Atonement" (Focus Features) Jacqueline Durran
"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: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Nominees:
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn) Julian Schnabel
"Juno" (Fox Searchlight) Jason Reitman
"Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) Tony Gilroy
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Paul Thomas Anderson
Best documentary feature: Taxi to the Dark Side
Nominees:
"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
"War/Dance" (THINKFilm)
A Shine Global and Fine Films Production
Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine
Best documentary short subject: Freeheld
Nominees:
"Freeheld"
A Lieutenant Films Production
Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth
"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
Nominees:
"The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal) Christopher Rouse
"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: The Counterfeiters
Nominees:
"Beaufort" A Metro Communications, Movie Plus Production (Israel)
"The Counterfeiters" An Aichholzer Filmproduktion, Magnolia Filmproduktion Production (Austria)
"Katyn" An Akson Studio Production (Poland)
"Mongol" A Eurasia Film Production (Kazakhstan)
"12" A Three T Production (Russia)
Achievement in makeup: La Vie en Rose
Nominees:
"La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse) Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald
"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
Nominees:
"Atonement" (Focus Features) Dario Marianelli
"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
Nominees:
"Falling Slowly" from "Once" (Fox Searchlight)
Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
"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 animated short film: Peter & the Wolf
Nominees:
"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
Best live action short film: Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)
Nominees:
"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
"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
Nominees:
"The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal)
Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg
"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
Nominees:
"The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal)
Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis
"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
Nominees:
"The Golden Compass" (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners)
Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood
"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: No Country for Old Men
Nominees:
"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
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
Written for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson
Original screenplay: Juno
Nominees:
"Juno" (Fox Searchlight)
Written by Diablo Cody
"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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