80th Academy Awards nominees and winners
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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).
On February 9, 2008, in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Jessica Alba.[1]
[edit] Major awards
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
[edit] Best Picture
[edit] Best Director
[edit] Best Actor
[edit] Best Actress
[edit] Best Supporting Actor
[edit] Best Supporting Actress
[edit] Best Original Screenplay
[edit] 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
[edit] Best Animated Feature
[edit] Best Foreign Language Film
[edit] Other awards
[edit] 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)
[edit] Best Art Direction
[edit] Best Cinematography
[edit] Best Costume Design
[edit] Best Documentary Feature
[edit] Best Documentary Short
- Freeheld
- La Corona
- Salim Baba
- Sari's Mother
[edit] Best Film Editing
[edit] Best Live Action Short
- The Mozart of Pickpockets
- At Night
- The Substitute
- Tanghi Argentini
- The Tonto Woman
[edit] Best Makeup
- Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald - La Vie en Rose
- Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji - Norbit
- Ve Neill and Martin Samuel - Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
[edit] Best Original Score
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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 - 3:10 to Yuma
- Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, and Peter J. Devlin - Transformers
[edit] Best Visual Effects
[edit] Academy Honorary Award
- Robert F. Boyle - "To Robert Boyle in recognition of one of cinema's great careers in art direction."
[edit] 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 Elizabeth: The Golden Age (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.
[edit] References
- Nominees - 80th Annual Academy Awards. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved on 2008-05-26.
[edit] See also
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