80 Annual Academy Awards - Oscar Winners

The complete list of winners and nominees of the 80th Annual Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2007 presented on Sunday, February 24, 2008, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®.

80th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best in film for 2007, took place at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California, beginning at 5:00 p.m. PST/8:00 p.m. EST (01:00 February 25 UTC). It was the seventh time that the Kodak Theatre hosted the ceremonies since its construction, and the 33rd time that the ceremony was televised in the United States by ABC, which is under contract through 2014. Gil Cates was the producer, making it his 14th show, a record. Jon Stewart hosted the show, his second time. He previously presided over the 78th Academy Awards.

Performance by an actor in a leading role

Winner:

Nominees: George Clooney in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) 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

Winner:

Nominees:

• 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)
• 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

Winner:

Nominees:

• Cate Blanchett in "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (Universal)
• Julie Christie in "Away from Her" (Lionsgate)
• Marion Cotillard in "La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse)
• Laura Linney in "The Savages" (Fox Searchlight)
• Ellen Page in "Juno" (Fox Searchlight)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

Winner:

Nominees:

• 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.)

Best animated feature film of the year

Winner:

Nominees:

• "Persepolis" (Sony Pictures Classics) Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
• "Ratatouille" (Walt Disney) Brad Bird
• "Surf's Up" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Ash Brannon and Chris Buck

Achievement in art direction

Winner:

Nominees:

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

Achievement in cinematography

Winner:

Nominees:

• "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/Pathe Renn) Janusz Kaminski
• "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Roger Deakins
• "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Robert Elswit

Achievement in costume design

Winner:

Nominees:

• "Across the Universe" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Albert Wolsky
• "Atonement" (Focus Features) Jacqueline Durran
• "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (Universal) Alexandra Byrne
• "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

Winner:

Nominees:

• "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathe Renn) Julian Schnabel
• "Juno" (Fox Searchlight) Jason Reitman
• "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) Tony Gilroy
• "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
• "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Paul Thomas Anderson

Best documentary feature

Winner:

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

Winner:

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

Winner:

Nominees:

• "The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal) Christopher Rouse
• "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathe 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

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

Winner: "La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse) Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald 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)

Winner:

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)

Winner:

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 motion picture of the year

Winner:

Nominees:

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

Winner:

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
• "Meme 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

Winner:

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 Kare 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

Winner:

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

Winner:

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

Winner:

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

Winner:

Nominees:

• "Atonement" (Focus Features)
  Screenplay by Christopher Hampton
• "Away from Her" (Lionsgate)
  Written by Sarah Polley
• "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathe 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

Winner:

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

Oscar Winners 2008

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Source: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Photo: Courtesy of A.M.P.A.S.