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Movie Reviews
Oscar results!
By Michael Siebenaler
Feb 26, 2008, 18:06

It was a pretty good Oscar night (long as usual).

Many films came away with at least one win, but having extra odds didn’t help cinematography nominee Roger Deakins (nominated twice) and Disney’s Enchanted, which had three Menken/Schwarz collaborations nominated for Best Song.

No Country For Old Men and The Bourne Ultimatum each won three Oscars.

Country’s Ethan and Joel Coen joined a distinguished group by winning three times on Oscar night.

The other filmmakers to accomplish this feat are James Cameron (Titanic), Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather Part II) and Billy Wilder (The Apartment).

The Bourne Ultimatum won every category it was nominated for: editing, sound editing and sound mixing beating out 20-time sound-mixing nominee Kevin O'Connell (Transformers).  

The acceptance speech from Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, who won for Best Original Song (“Falling Slowly” from Once), was particularly memorable.

"It took us three weeks to make. We made it for a hundred-grand. We never thought we'd come into a room like this and be in front of all you people," said Hansard.

Irglova was cut off before she could even begin her acceptance speech (does the orchestra pit have a monitor down there?), but host Jon Stewart brought her back after the commercial break.

"The fact that we're standing here tonight, the fact that we're able to hold this, it's just proof that no matter how far out your dreams are, it's possible," Irglova said.

Winners in bold.

Best Picture

Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Best Director

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

Best Actress

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

Best Actor

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

Best Supporting Actor

Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson's War
Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton

Best Supporting Actress

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

Best Animated Film

Ratatouille
Persepolis
Surf’s Up

Best Original Screenplay

Diablo Cody - Juno
Nancy Oliver – Lars and the Real Girl
Tony Gilroy – Michael Clayton
Brad Bird - Ratatouille
Tamara Jenkins – The Savages

Best Adapted Screenplay

Christopher Hampton – Atonement
Sarah Polley – Away From Her
Ronald Harwood - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson – There Will Be Blood

More categories of interest include:

Best Cinematography

Roger Deakins – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Seamus McGarvey - Atonement
Janusz Kaminski – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Roger Deakins - No Country for Old Men
Robert Elswit – There Will Be Blood

Finally an American wins!

Best Documentary

No End in Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Sicko
Taxi to the Dark Side
War/Dance

Best Editing

Christopher Rouse – The Bourne Ultimatum
Juliette Welfling - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jay Cassidy – Into the Wild
Roderick Jaynes - No Country for Old Men
Dylan Tichenor – There Will Be Blood

Best Original Score

Dario Marianelli - Atonement
Alberto Iglesias – The Kite Runner
James Newton Howard – Michael Clayton
Michael Giacchino - Ratatouille
Marco Beltrami – 3:10 to Yuma

Best Original Song

“Falling Slowly” from Once - Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
“Happy Working Song” from Enchanted - Music by Alan Menken, Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
“Raise It Up” from August Rush - Music and lyric by Jamal Joseph, Charles Mack and Tevin Thomas
“So Close” from Enchanted - Music by Alan Menken, Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
“That’s How You Know” from Enchanted - Music by Alan Menken, Lyric by Stephen Schwartz