80th Academy Awards nominees and winners

The nominees for the 80th Academy Awards were announced on January 22, 2008, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC) by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Sid Ganis and actress Kathy Bates, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in the Academy's Beverly Hills headquarters. The winners were announced on February 24, 2008, at a ceremony at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California.

Films that won multiple Oscars include: "No Country for Old Men" (4), "The Bourne Ultimatum" (3), "La Vie En Rose" (2), and "There Will Be Blood" (2).

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Major awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

= Best Picture =

*"No Country for Old Men"
**"Atonement"
**"Juno"
**"Michael Clayton"
**"There Will Be Blood"

= Best Director =

*Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - "No Country for Old Men"
**Paul Thomas Anderson - "There Will Be Blood"
**Tony Gilroy - "Michael Clayton"
**Jason Reitman - "Juno"
**Julian Schnabel - "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"

= Best Actor =

*Daniel Day-Lewis - "There Will Be Blood"
**George Clooney - "Michael Clayton"
**Johnny Depp - ""
**Tommy Lee Jones - "In the Valley of Elah"
**Viggo Mortensen - "Eastern Promises"

= Best Actress =

*Marion Cotillard - "La Vie en Rose (La môme)"
**Cate Blanchett - ""
**Julie Christie - "Away from Her"
**Laura Linney - "The Savages"
**Ellen Page - "Juno"

= Best Supporting Actor =

*Javier Bardem - "No Country for Old Men"
**Casey Affleck - "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"
**Philip Seymour Hoffman - "Charlie Wilson's War"
**Hal Holbrook - "Into the Wild"
**Tom Wilkinson - "Michael Clayton"

= Best Supporting Actress =

*Tilda Swinton - "Michael Clayton"
**Cate Blanchett - "I'm Not There"
**Ruby Dee - "American Gangster"
**Saoirse Ronan - "Atonement"
**Amy Ryan - "Gone Baby Gone"

Best Original Screenplay

*"Juno" - Diablo Cody
**"Lars and the Real Girl" - Nancy Oliver
**"Michael Clayton" - Tony Gilroy
**"Ratatouille" - Brad Bird
**"The Savages" - Tamara Jenkins

Best Adapted Screenplay

*"No Country for Old Men" - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, from "No Country for Old Men", novel by Cormac McCarthy
**"Atonement" - Christopher Hampton, from "Atonement", novel by Ian McEwan
**"Away from Her" - Sarah Polley, from "The Bear Came over the Mountain", short story by Alice Munro
**"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" - Ronald Harwood, from "Le scaphandre et le papillon", memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby
**"There Will Be Blood" - Paul Thomas Anderson, from "Oil!", novel by Upton Sinclair

= Best Animated Feature =

*"Ratatouille"
**"Persepolis"
**"Surf's Up"

= Best Foreign Language Film =

*"The Counterfeiters" (Austria) in German
**"Beaufort" (Israel) in Hebrew
**"Katyń" (Poland) in Polish
**"Mongol" (Kazakhstan) in Russian
**"12" (Russia) in Russian

Other awards

= Best Animated Short =

*"Peter and the Wolf"
**"I Met the Walrus"
**"Madame Tutli-Putli"
**"Even Pigeons Go To Heaven" "(Même les pigeons vont au paradis)"
**"My Love (Moya Lyubov)"

= Best Art Direction =

*Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo - ""
**Arthur Max and Beth Rubino - "American Gangster"
**Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer - "Atonement"
**Dennis Gassner and Anna Pinnock - "The Golden Compass"
**Jack Fisk and Jim Erickson - "There Will Be Blood"

= Best Cinematography =

*Robert Elswit - "There Will Be Blood"
**Roger Deakins - "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"
**Seamus McGarvey - "Atonement"
**Janusz Kaminski - "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
**Roger Deakins - "No Country for Old Men"

Best Costume Design

*Alexandra Byrne - ""
**Albert Wolsky - "Across the Universe"
**Jacqueline Durran - "Atonement"
**Marit Allen - "La Vie en Rose"
**Colleen Atwood - ""

= Best Documentary Feature =

*"Taxi to the Dark Side"
**"No End in Sight"
**""
**"Sicko"
**"War/Dance"

= Best Documentary Short =

*"Freeheld"
**"La Corona"
**"Salim Baba"
**"Sari's Mother"

= Best Film Editing =

*Christopher Rouse - "The Bourne Ultimatum"
**Juliette Welfling - "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
**Jay Cassidy - "Into the Wild"
**Roderick Jaynes - "No Country for Old Men"
**Dylan Tichenor - "There Will Be Blood"

= Best Live Action Short =

*"The Mozart of Pickpockets"
**"At Night"
**"The Substitute"
**"Tanghi Argentini"
**"The Tonto Woman"

Best Makeup

*Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald - "La Vie en Rose"
**Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji - "Norbit"
**Ve Neill and Martin Samuel - ""

Best Original Score

*Dario Marianelli - "Atonement"
**Alberto Iglesias - "The Kite Runner"
**James Newton Howard - "Michael Clayton"
**Michael Giacchino - "Ratatouille"
**Marco Beltrami - ""

= Best Original Song =

*Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová - "Falling Slowly" from "Once"
**Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz - "Happy Working Song" from "Enchanted"
**Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz - "So Close" from "Enchanted"
**Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz - "That's How You Know" from "Enchanted"
**Jamal Joseph, Charles Mack and Tevin Thomas - "Raise It Up" from "August Rush"

= Best Sound Editing =

*Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg - "The Bourne Ultimatum"
**Skip Lievsay - "No Country for Old Men"
**Randy Thom and Michael Silvers - "Ratatouille"
**Matthew Wood - "There Will Be Blood"
**Ethan van Der Ryn and Mike Hopkins - "Transformers"

= Best Sound Mixing =

*Scott Millan, David Parker, and Kirk Francis - "The Bourne Ultimatum"
**Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff, and Peter Kurland - "No Country for Old Men"
**Randy Thom, Michael Semanick, and Doc Kane - "Ratatouille"
**Paul Massey, David Giammarco, and Jim Steube - ""
**Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, and Peter J. Devlin - "Transformers"

= Best Visual Effects =

*"The Golden Compass"
**""
**"Transformers"

Academy Honorary Award

*Robert F. Boyle - "To Robert Boyle in recognition of one of cinema's great careers in art direction."

Notable nominations and awards

*Roger Deakins, the British cinematographer is the first person to be nominated twice for best cinematography for more than fifty years.
* Cate Blanchett:
** Blanchett's nomination for Best Actress renders her the first actress in the history of the Academy Awards to be nominated twice for playing the same character in different films. Blanchett portrayed Queen Elizabeth I in "" (2007) and in "Elizabeth" (1998); she earned a Best Actress nomination for both performances. The first person to achieve this distinction was Peter O'Toole, who was nominated twice for portraying Henry II. O'Toole earned Best Actor nominations for both "Becket" (1964) and "The Lion in Winter" (1968).
** Blanchett's nominations for both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress place her among only 11 performers in the history of the Academy Awards to be nominated for two acting Awards within the same year.

*Robert F. Boyle, at age 98, becomes the oldest winner ever of an Honorary Award in the history of the Academy Awards.

* Ruby Dee:
** Dee's nomination for Best Supporting Actress renders her performance in "American Gangster", which lasted less than five minutes, as the shortest performance ever to be nominated for an Academy Award.
** Dee's nomination, at age 83, ranks her as the second oldest nominee ever for Best Supporting Actress in the history of the Academy Awards. Gloria Stuart (age 87) remains the oldest nominee ever in the history of this Award.

* Hal Holbrook's nomination, at age 82, ranks him as the oldest nominee ever for Best Supporting Actor in the history of the Academy Awards. His nomination displaces Ralph Richardson (age 82), who had held this distinction since 1984.

* Kevin O'Connell's nomination for Best Sound Mixing brings his total Academy Award nominations to 20 and distinguishes him as the artist with the most unsuccessful nominations ever.

* Ellen Page's nomination, at age 20, ranks her as the fourth youngest nominee ever for Best Actress in the history of the Academy Awards.

* Jason Reitman's nomination, at age 30, ranks him as the seventh youngest nominee ever for Best Director in the history of the Academy Awards.

* Saoirse Ronan's nomination, at age 13, ranks her as the seventh youngest nominee ever for Best Supporting Actress in the history of the Academy Awards.

References

* [http://www.oscars.org/80academyawards/nominees/index.html Nominees - 80th Annual Academy Awards] . Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved on 2008-05-26.

See also

* 80th Academy Awards
* 2007 in film