2008 Academy Awards

2008 Academy Award nominations: Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on Jan. 22, 2008

2008 Academy Award winners: Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles on Feb. 24, 2008

Host: Jon Stewart

("*" denotes the winner in each category)

Best film
Atonement (Focus Features) A Working Title Production
Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster, Producers
Juno (Fox Searchlight) A Dancing Elk Pictures, LLC 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 foreign language film
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

Best documentary feature
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 animated feature film
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

Best director
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Miramax/Pathé 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 actor
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)

Best actress
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)

Best supporting actor
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.)

Best supporting actress
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.)

Photos: Darren Decker (Coen brothers & Rudin), Michael Yada (Bird, Swinton, Day-Lewis, Coen brothers, Gibney, Stewart, Cotillard, Ruzowitzky, podium), Greg Harbaugh (Bardem). All photos: © A.M.P.A.S.

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