The Oscars 2008 results

 
Here is the full list of winners at the 80th Academy Awards, which have been held in Los Angeles.

Best picture
Winner - No Country For Old Men
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
There Will Be Blood

Best director
Winners - Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country For Old Men
Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jason Reitman, Juno
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood


Best actor
Winner - Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
George Clooney, Michael Clayton
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd
Tommy Lee Jones, In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises

Best actress
Winner - Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie, Away from Her
Laura Linney, The Savages
Ellen Page, Juno

Best supporting actress
Winner - Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There
Ruby Dee, American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan, Atonement
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone

Best supporting actor
Winner - Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men
Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James...
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson's War
Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton

Best foreign language film
Winner - The Counterfeiters (Austria)
Beaufort (Israel)
Katyn (Poland)
Mongol (Kazakhstan)
12 (Russia)

Best animated feature film
Winner - Ratatouille
Persepolis
Surf's Up

Best adapted screenplay
Winner - No Country For Old Men
Atonement
Away from Her
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
There Will Be Blood

Best original screenplay
Winner - Juno
Lars and the Real Girl
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
The Savages

Best music (score)
Winner - Atonement
The Kite Runner
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma

Best music (song)
Winner - Falling Slowly - Once (performed by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova)
Happy Working Song - Enchanted (performed by Amy Adams)
Raise It Up - August Rush (performed by Jamia Simone Nash and Impact Repertory Theatre)
So Close - Enchanted (performed by Jon McLaughlin)
That's How You Know - Enchanted (performed by Amy Adams)

Best documentary feature
Winner - Taxi to the Dark Side
No End in Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Sicko
War/Dance

Best documentary short subject
Winner - Freeheld
La Corona (The Crown)
Salim Baba
Sari's Mother

Best visual effects
Winner - The Golden Compass
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Transformers

Best cinematography
Winner - There Will Be Blood
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Atonement
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country For Old Men

Best art direction
Winner - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
American Gangster
Atonement
The Golden Compass
There Will Be Blood

Best animated short film
Winner - Peter and the Wolf
I Met the Walrus
Madame Tutli-Putli
Meme Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)
My Love (Moya Lyubov)

Best short film
Winner - Le Mozart des Pickpockets
At Night
Il Supplente
Tanghi Argentini
The Tonto Woman

Best costume design
Winner - Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Across the Universe
Atonement
La Vie en Rose
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best make-up
Winner - La Vie en Rose
Norbit
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Best sound mixing
Winner - The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country For Old Men
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma
Transformers

Best sound editing
Winner - The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country For Old Men
Ratatouille
There Will Be Blood
Transformers

Best film editing
Winner - The Bourne Ultimatum
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Clint Eastwood snags the Film Independent ‘Spirit of Independence’ Award.

Grand-pappy Clint must be psyched to be receiving this fine award at the Los Angeles Film Festival (more details HERE) on June 28, as none other than Tony Bennett will be handing it over. Makes sense, as the two are working together on Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends, with Eastwood as the exec producer and film interviewer.

"Clint Eastwood has been called an icon, a maverick, a legend and every superlative in between, yet it's utterly impossible to encapsulate the talents and accomplishments of his independent spirit and his singular vision for honest storytelling," said Dawn Hudson, executive director of Film Independent.  "We are thrilled to celebrate this remarkable artist for his independent voice and daring career choices that have been an inspiration to filmmakers and film lovers alike."

The last two years have seen George Clooney (2005) and Charlize Theron (2006) wander off with the award, so now it’s Clint’s turn. Congrats!

MGM lion learns to samba.

Interesting news here… as Salma Hayek is suddenly all over the place (okay… maybe it's just us but it seems like she’s everywhere right now!) and has now joined MGM, along with her partner Jose Tamez, to create the production label Ventanazul. This new alliance (that sounds more like an intestinal affliction) will acquire, develop and produce Latin-themed material and utilize Latin American and Hispanic talent on both sides of the camera.

MGM chief operating officer Rick Sands said "There's a lot of talent in the Latin community, and a lot of it's been untapped historically. We're going to try and open up that community to Hollywood and pick the material with the most universal themes. Budgets for the mainly English-language projects (2-4 a year) will run from $5 million to $25 million, said Sands, "depending on what the material is and who's in it."  Wow. Specific little bugger, isn't he!?

Boob-a-licious Hayek will be apparently in charge of the whole thing, stepping in when she wants, producing when she wants, etc. and little Miss company prexy-CEO will be in a fully equal partnership with MGM. The production deal is the second for MGM after November's announcement of the United Artists rebirthing with Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner.

"Don't be surprised if we do this one or two more times," offered Sands. "It's part of our ongoing strategy to be in business with top content providers, and we were fortunate enough to be able to partner with Tom Cruise, and now Salma." Argh… we wonder if Salma minds having her name spoke in the same sentence as this weirdo.

Oh well… but speaking of Kevin Smith films (and we always are!)… let's take a moment to enjoy Salma’s sweet little pole dancing scene Dogma. Relive the mo HERE. Or visit her snake dancing picture again HERE. There's no such thing as too much Salma!

Chinese epic war movie coming from Director Lu Chuan.

Okay, here’s a tidbit for you Asian cinema lovers -  this may not be the first movie about the Nanjing Massacre, but it’s the first to received approval from Chinese authorities – so Lu Chuan is all set to start production.

Nanjing! Nanjing! will chronicle the 1937 massacre where more than 300,000 Chinese were murdered, when the Japanese occupied the then-capital Nanjing. With a budget of more than 25.6 million and rumors of a scene in which 40,000 people are killed, this could be one kick-ass film!

The director learned about the massacre while attending a military school, and said "When I was in the school, I heard so many stories about Nanjing Massacre and I have wanted since then to shoot a film about the event." Looks like his dream will come true as he should have it finished by the end of this year. You can read more about this up and coming director HERE.

Adam Sandler gets goofy again.

After getting all serious and whatnot in Reign Over Me, Adam Sandler is back to where he really belongs… comedy. Production begins this year on Disney's Bedtime Stories, with Adam Shankman (New Line’s Hairspray that releases in July) directing.

Sandler plays a harried real estate developer whose life is suddenly turned upside down when the lavish bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew begin to come true. Matt Lopez wrote the script and producing will be both Andrew Gunn's Gunn Films and Sandler with producing partner Jack Giarraputo through Happy Madison Productions.

Disney, as usual, has perfect timing and is set to release the film for the 2008 holidays (we’ll get you that preview as soon as it’s available!) – while we’re looking forward to getting our favorite goof back. Not that we don’t support his trying something different like Punch Drunk Love or this latest serious-fest… but we've missed the old Adam Sandler. Welcome back, buddy!

Kevin Smith leaves New Jersey and tries on the Bible belt.

So many rumors are flying around about Kevin Smith’s next movie Red State. We’ve been hearing he wants to break into the horror genre, but now it seems he’s interested in combining it with a taste of ultra-conservative middle-America. Interesting.

Apparently Smith has been inspired by extreme church groups (like the one led by Fred Phelps – check this homophobic freak out HERE) and wants to really dive into the subject of conservatives that go too far, the government that allows them to and the people that follow them. Basically the ‘red state’ of the US. Well… he’s bound to piss off most of the US (we can hear the theatre picketers now!), but at least he’s gotten out of New Jersey. Maybe he sees himself as the next Michael Moore… but a hipper, younger version. Who knows, really.

Now we like Kevin Smith (most of his films like Clerks, Mallrats and Dogma are aces!) and certainly applaud his efforts to try something new, but wonder if he might be just a wee bit over his head. Will the subject matter come off as ‘horror’ (without a preacher gone mad and hacking liberals up into pieces), will his usual slacker audience follow him into this new ‘heavy subject matter’ endeavor, and for heavens sake… will Ben Affleck be able to make a cameo in the film?! Burning questions, to be sure, and he’s piqued our interest.

We’ll just have to wait and see if he’s able to make Conservatives, Republicans and Christians interesting enough to warrant an entire film about them - and make it into a horror flick. He’s got a big job ahead of him and supposedly he's working on the script right now to be shot "somewhere in the middle of the country" later this year. Keep up with all things Kevin related on his official website/blog/self-whoring thing HERE. As Jay would say, "Go get'em you chubby bastard!".