Alternative Film Guide

80th Academy Awards

2007 Academy Award nominations: Kathy Bates and Academy president Sid Ganis made the announcement at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on January 22, 2008.

2007 Academy Award winners: Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles on February 24, 2008.

Host: Jon Stewart

Oscar Ceremony 2008

Oscar 2008: Presenters’ and Performers’ Photos

Oscar 2008: Governors Ball 2008 Photos

Oscar 2008: Red Carpet Photos

Oscars 2007 Nominations - Article

Photos: Darren Decker (Hansard, Coen brothers & Rudin, Pollet-Villard), Michael Yada (Byrne, Bird, Swinton, Cody, Day-Lewis, Coen brothers, Roth, Gibney, Lavergne, Stewart, Westenhofer, Lo Schiavo, Landers, Elswit, Welchman, Coen brothers & Brolin & McAvoy, Cotillard, Rouse, Boyle, Ruzowitzky, Marianelli, podium), Greg Harbaugh (Bardem), Matt Petit (Francis, Grafton), Richard Harbaugh (Cotillard & Whitaker). All photos: © A.M.P.A.S.

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("*" 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 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.)

Best adapted screenplay
Atonement (Focus Features)
Screenplay by Christopher Hampton
Away from Her (Lionsgate)
Written by Sarah Polley
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Miramax/Pathé 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

Best original screenplay
* 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

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 cinematography
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/Pathé Renn) Janusz Kaminski
No Country for Old Men (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Roger Deakins
* There Will Be Blood (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Robert Elswit

Best film editing
* The Bourne Ultimatum (Universal) Christopher Rouse
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Miramax/Pathé 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" (Joel and Ethan Coen)
There Will Be Blood (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Dylan Tichenor

Best original score
* 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

Best original song
* "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 art direction
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

Best costume design
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

Best visual effects
* 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

Best sound editing
* 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)
Matthew Wood
Transformers (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro)
Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins

Best sound mixing
* 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

Best makeup
* 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

Best documentary short subject
* 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

Best animated short film
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
Même 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
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 Karé 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

Honorary Award: Robert Boyle

Gordon E. Sawyer Award: David A. Grafton

Medal of Commendation: David Inglish

Academy Award of Merit:
Eastman Kodak
For the development of photographic emulsion technologies incorporated into the Kodak Vision2 family of color negative films.

Scientific and Engineering Award:
Nick Rasmussen; Ronald Fedkiw; Frank Losasso Petterson
For the development of the Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) fluid simulation system.
Doug Roble; Nafees Bin Zafar; Ryo Sakaguchi
For the development of the fluid simulation system at Digital Domain.

Technical Achievement Award:
Duncan Brinsmead; Jos Stam; Julia Pakalns; Martin Werner
For the design and implementation of the Maya Fluid Effects system.
Jonathan Cohen (XI); Jerry Tessendorf; Jeroen Molemaker; Michael Kowalski (VIII)
For the development of the system of fluid dynamics tools at Rhythm & Hues.
Sebastian Cramer (III); Andreas Dasser (P&S Technik GmbH)
For the invention and general design (Cramer) and for the mechanical design (Dasser, head of development at P&S Technik GmbH) of the Skater Dolly and its family of products.
Victor Gonzalez (XV); Ignacio Vargas; Angel Tena
For the creation of the RealFlow software application.
Jörg Pöhler (OTTEC Technology GmbH); Rüdiger Kleinke (OTTEC Technology GmbH)
For the design and development of the battery-operated series of fog machines known as "Tiny Foggers".
Christien Tinsley
For the creation of the transfer techniques for creating and applying 2D and 3D makeup known as "Tinsley Transfers".
Stephan Trojansky; Thomas Ganshorn; Oliver Pilarski
For the development of the Flowline fluid effects system.