Oscar 2008: Phillipe Pollet-Villard, Dante Ferretti, Robert Elswit

Phillipe Pollet-Villard – best live action short film winner

Robert Elswit – best cinematography winner

Francesca Lo Schiavo, Dante Ferretti – best art direction winners
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Oscar 2008: Best Screenplay, Cinematography, Music

Ethan Coen, Josh Brolin, Joel Coen, James McAvoy

Oscar 2008: Best Picture, Actor, Actress
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 cinematography
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Warner [...]

Oscar 2008 Predictions: Best Cinematography, Editing, Music

Best Cinematography
There Will Be Blood, Robert Elswit
Robert Elswit won the American Society of Cinematographers award, beating Roger Deakins for two films, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and No Country for Old Men. Though Deakins does have a chance to win the Oscar for either film, this is one instance where the much overused — and almost invariably absurd — "votes are split; a third party wins" logic actually makes sense. That’s why I predict that Elswit will take home the Oscar.
 

Best Film Editing
No Country for Old Men, "Roderick Jaynes" (Joel and Ethan Coen)
An atmospheric suspense thriller that wins the best film Oscar will most likely also win for best film editing. If, however, Academy-ites feel [...]

American Society of Cinematographers Awards 2008

2008 American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Awards
2008 ASC award winners: Hollywood & Highland complex in Los Angeles on January 26, 2008
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Roger Deakins became the first cinematographer to receive two ASC nominations in the same year: for No Country for Old Men and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. He lost, however, to Robert Elswit for There Will Be Blood.
 

Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in a Motion Picture
Roger Deakins, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Roger Deakins, No Country for Old Men
* Robert Elswitt, There Will Be Blood
Janusz Kaminski, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Seamus McGarvey, Atonement
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Motion Picture, Miniseries or [...]

American Society of Cinematographers Awards 2006

2006 ASC Awards
2006 American Society of Cinematographers winners: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on February 26, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe in Memoirs of a Geisha

 
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases
* Dion Beebe, ASC, ACS for Memoirs of a Geisha
Robert Elswit, ASC for Good Night and Good Luck.
Andrew Lesnie, ASC, ACS for King Kong
Wally Pfister, ASC for Batman Begins
Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC for Brokeback Mountain
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in TV movie/miniseries/pilot
Alan Caso, ASC for Into the West/"Wheel to the Stars" (TNT)
Thomas A. Del Ruth, ASC for Code Breakers (ESPN)
* Robbie Greenberg, ASC for Warm Springs (HBO)
Jan Kiesser, ASC, CSC for Reefer Madness (Showtime) [...]