No Country For Old Men
80th Academy Awards - 2008 Oscar Best Director & Best Motion Picture

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"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").

2008 Best Picture Oscar Nominations

Atonement
2008 Oscar Best Picture Nominee

Juno
2008 Oscar Best Picture Nominee

Michael Clayton
2008 Oscar Best Picture Nominee

There Will Be Blood
2008 Oscar Best Picture Nominee

 

2008 Best Animated Feature Film Oscar Winner

Ratatouille
2008 Oscar Best Animated Feature

2008 Best Animated Feature Film Nominations

Persepolis
Best Animated Feature Nominee

Surf's Up
Best Animated Feature Nominee

 

2008 Best Actress Oscar Winner

Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose
80th Academy Awards 2008 Oscar Best Actress Winner

"Thank you life, thank you love, and it is true, there is some angels in this city." -- Marion Cotillard.

Marion Cotillard won the 2008 Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of the singer Edith Piaf in the film La Vie En Rose. This is Marion Cotillard's first Academy Award and was her first Oscar nomination.

2008 Best Actress Oscar Nominations

Cate Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth I in
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
80th Academy Awards - 2008 Oscar Best Actress Nomination

Cate Blanchett's fifth nomination and the second in this category. Cate was also nominated for her leading role in Elizabeth (1998). Her supporting role nominations were for The Aviator (2004), for which she won the Oscar, and Notes on a Scandal (2006). She is also nominated this year in the supporting category for I’m Not There.

Julie Christie as "Fiona Anderson" in Away from Her
80th Academy Awards - 2008 Oscar Best Actress Nomination

Julie Christie's fourth nomination in this category. Her other nominations were for Darling (1965), for which she won an Oscar, McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) and Afterglow (1997).

Laura Linney as Wendy Savage in The Savages
80th Academy Awards - 2008 Oscar Best Actress Nomination

Laura Linney's third nomination and the second in this category. Laura was nominated for her leading role in You Can Count on Me (2000) and her supporting role in Kinsey (2004).

Ellen Page as Juno MacGuff in Juno
80th Academy Awards - 2008 Oscar Best Actress Nomination

Ellen Page's first Academy Award nomination.

 

2008 Best Actor Oscar Winner

Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview in
There Will Be Blood
80th Academy Awards - 2008 Oscar Best Actor Winner

This is his fourth nomination in this category. He won an Oscar for his performance in My Left Foot (1989) and was nominated for In the Name of the Father (1993) and Gangs of New York (2002).

2008 Best Actor Oscar Nominations

George Clooney as Michael Clayton in Michael Clayton
80th Academy Awards - 2008 Oscar Best Actor Nomination

George Clooney's fourth overall Academy Award nomination and the first in this category.

In 2005, George Clooney won an Oscar for his supporting role in Syriana, and was also nominated for writing and directing Good Night, and Good Luck.

 

Johnny Depp as Sweeney Todd in
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
80th Academy Awards - 2008 Oscar Best Actor Nomination

This is Johnny Depp's third nomination in this category. His other nominations were for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) and Finding Neverland (2004).

Tommy Lee Jones as Hank Deerfield in
In the Valley of Elah
80th Academy Awards - 2008 Oscar Best Actor Nomination

Tommy Lee Jones' third nomination and the first in this category. He was nominated for his supporting roles in JFK (1991) and The Fugitive (1993), for which he won the Oscar.

Viggo Mortensen as Nikolai in Eastern Promises
80th Academy Awards - 2008 Oscar Best Actor Nomination

This is Viggo Mortensen's first Academy Award Oscar nomination.

 

2008 Best Supporting Actor Oscar Winner

Javier Bardem in "No Country for Old Men"
80th Academy Awards - 2008 Oscar Best Supporting Actor Winner

Acclaimed Spanish actor Javier Bardem, who landed the plum role of Chigurh, the killer who embodies the sinister heart of the borderlands drug world, was not familiar with the book until he had read the script, which instantly grabbed him.

"I thought it was a very powerful story about violence and about how to control and stop the huge wave of violence that the world is living through right now," he says of the adaptation.

Bardem has quickly risen as one of international cinema’s greatest talents, garnering an Academy Award® nomination for his role as Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas in BEFORE NIGHT FALLS, and winning the Best Actor Award at the Venice Film Festival as the remarkable bedridden hero of THE SEA INSIDE. With Chigurh, Bardem faced one of his most exciting challenges yet – embodying a mythic villain whose soul appears to let in no light.

 

2008 Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations

Casey Affleck in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"

Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Charlie Wilson’s War"

Hal Holbrook in "Into the Wild"

Tom Wilkinson in "Michael Clayton"

 

2008 Best Supporting Actress Oscar Winner

Tilda Swinton in "Michael Clayton"

Karen Crowder played by Academy Award-winning actress Tilda Swinton.

Karen is an aggressively ambitious litigator who has just been promoted to the seat of U/North's in-house chief counsel, and assumes the duty of guaranteeing a successful outcome in the class action suit.

In casting Tilda Swinton in the role, Gilroy states, "There are so many great actresses out there, but Tilda stood out in my mind. She is somebody who is strong enough to carry the extra burden of Karen's solitary scenes. She is also very convincing in portraying someone who's deeply flawed."

Tilda Swinton observes, "Karen is a high-powered executive who's overwhelmed by ambition and seduced by money and power. I think there are a lot of people in all sorts of high-level business situations who will sympathize with the kind of panic attack she has. There are three billion dollars at stake, and those sums of money can do really bad things to people's judgment."

 

2008 Best Supporting Actress Oscar Nominations

Cate Blanchett in "I’m Not There"

Ruby Dee in "American Gangster"

Saoirse Ronan in "Atonement"

Amy Ryan in "Gone Baby Gone"

2008 Achievement in Art Direction Oscar Winner

"Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"

Art Direction: Dante Ferretti
Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo

2008 Achievement in Art Direction Oscar Nominations

"American Gangster"
Art Direction: Arthur Max
Set Decoration: Beth A. Rubino

"Atonement"
Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood
Set Decoration: Katie Spencer

"The Golden Compass"
Art Direction: Dennis Gassner
Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock

"There Will Be Blood"
Art Direction: Jack Fisk
Set Decoration: Jim Erickson

2008 Achievement in Cinematography Oscar Winner

"There Will Be Blood"
Roger Deakins

2008 Achievement in Cinematography Oscar Nominations

"The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"
Roger Deakins

"Atonement"
Seamus McGarvey

"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
Janusz Kaminski

2008 Achievement in Costume Design Oscar Winner

"Elizabeth: The Golden Age"
Alexandra Byrne

Achievement in Costume Design Oscar Nominations

"Across the Universe"
Albert Wolsky

"Atonement"
Jacqueline Durran

"La Vie en Rose"
Marit Allen

"Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"
Colleen Atwood

2008 Achievement in Directing Oscar Winner

"No Country for Old Men" Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

2008 Achievement in Directing Oscar Nominations

"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
Julian Schnabel

"Juno"
Jason Reitman

"Michael Clayton"
Tony Gilroy

"There Will Be Blood"
Paul Thomas Anderson

2008 Best Documentary Feature Oscar Winner

Taxi to the Dark Side

2008 Best Documentary Feature Oscar Nominations

No End in Sight

Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience

Sicko

War / Dance

2008 Best Documentary Short Subject Oscar Winner

Freeheld

2008 Best Documentary Short Subject Oscar Nominations

La Corona (The Crown)

Salim Baba

Sari’s Mother

2008 Achievement in Film Editing Oscar Winner

The Bourne Ultimatum - Christopher Rouse

2008 Achievement in Film Editing Oscar Nominations

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

2008 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar Winner

The Counterfeiters (Austria)

2008 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar Nominations

Beaufort (Israel)

Katyn (Poland)

Mongol (Kazakhstan)

"12" (Russia)

2008 Achievement in Makeup Oscar Winner

La Vie en Rose

Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald

2008 Achievement in Makeup Oscar Nominations

Norbit
Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Ve Neill and Martin Samuel

2008 Original Score Oscar Winner

Atonement - Dario Marianelli

2008 Original Score Oscar Nominations

The Kite Runner
Alberto Iglesias

Michael Clayton
James Newton Howard

Ratatouille
Michael Giacchino

3:10 to Yuma
Marco Beltrami

2008 Original Song Oscar Winner

"Falling Slowly" from Once

Music and Lyrics by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova

2008 Original Song Oscar Nominations

"Happy Working Song" from Enchanted
Music by Alan Menken, Lyric by Stephen Schwartz

"Raise It Up" from "August Rush"
Music and Lyrics by Jamal Joseph, Charles Mack and Tevin Thomas

"So Close" from Enchanted
Music by Alan Menken, Lyric by Stephen Schwartz

"That’s How You Know" from "Enchanted"
Music by Alan Menken, Lyric by Stephen Schwartz

2008 Best Animated Short Film Oscar Winner

Peter & the Wolf

2008 Best Animated Short Film Oscar Nominations

I Met the Walrus

Madame Tutli-Putli

Même les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)

My Love (Moya Lyubov)

2008 Best Live Action Short Film Oscar Winner

Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)

A Karé Production

Philippe Pollet-Villard

2008 Best Live Action Short Film Oscar Nominations

"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

"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

2008 Best Achievement in Sound Editing Oscar Winner

"The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal)

Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg

2008 Best Achievement in Sound Editing Oscar Nominations

"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

2008 Achievement in Sound Mixing Oscar Winner

"The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal)

Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis

2008 Achievement in Sound Mixing Oscar Nominations

"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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80th Academy Awards 2008 Oscar Winners

Best Picture

• No Country For Old Men
• Atonement
• Juno
• Michael Clayton
• There Will Be Blood

 

Best Actor

• Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
• George Clooney as Michael Clayton in Michael Clayton
• Johnny Depp as Sweeney Todd
• Tommy Lee Jones in In the Valley of Elah
• Viggo Mortensen as Nikolai in Eastern Promises

 

Best Actress

• Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose
• Cate Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth I in Elizabeth
• Julie Christie as Fiona Anderson in Away from Her
• Laura Linney as Wendy Savage in The Savages
• Ellen Page as Juno MacGuff in Juno

 

No Country wins Best Picture, Best Director. Daniel Day-Lewis wins best actor for his role in "There Will Be Blood". Javier Bardem, Tilda Swinton Win Supporting Role Academy Awards, Ratatouille awarded Oscar for Best Animation Feature