2008 Academy Awards Winners

Here is a listing of the 2008 Academy Award winners, followed by some commentary. Tell me what you think of the winners and losers in the comments below.

No Country for Old Men

Atonement

Juno

Michael Clayton

There Will Be Blood

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men

Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Jason Reitman for Juno

Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton

Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood

Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood

George Clooney in Michael Clayton

Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd

Tommy Lee Jones in In the Valley of Elah

Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises

Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men

Casey Affleck in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Hal Holbrook in Into the Wild

Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson's War

Tom Wilkinson in Michael Clayton

Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose

Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Julie Christie in Away From Her

Laura Linney in The Savages

Ellen Page in Juno

Tilda Swinton in Michael Clayton

Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There

Ruby Dee in American Gangster

Saoirse Ronan in Atonement

Amy Ryan in Gone, Baby, Gone

Diablo Cody for Juno

Nancy Oliver for Lars and the Real Girl

Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton

Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird for Ratatouille

Tamara Jenkins for The Savages

Joel Coen & Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men

Christopher Hampton for Atonement

Sarah Polley for Away From Her

Ronald Harwood for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood

Ratatouille

Persepolis

Surf's Up

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Taxi to the Dark Side

No End in Sight

Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience

Sicko

War/Dance

Dante Ferretii and Francesa Lo Schiavo for Sweeney Todd

Arthur Max (Art Direction); Beth A. Rubino (Set Decoration) for American Gangster

Sarah Greenwood (Art Direction); Katie Spencer (Set Decoration) for Atonement

Dennis Gassner (Art Direction); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration) for The Golden Compass

Jack Fisk (Art Direction); Jim Erickson (Set Decoration) for There Will Be Blood

Robert Elswit for There Will Be Blood

Roger Deakins for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Seamus McGarvey for Atonement

Roger Deakins for No Country for Old Men

Janusz Kaminski for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Alexandra Byrne for Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Albert Wolsky for Across The Universe

Jacqueline Durran for Atonement

Marit Allen for La Vie En Rose

Colleen Atwood for Sweeney Todd

Christopher Rouse for The Bourne Ultimatum

Juliette Welfling for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Jay Cassidy for Into the Wild

Roderick Jaynes for No Country for Old Men

Dylan Tichenor for There Will Be Blood

The Counterfeiters

Beaufort

Katyn

Mongol

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Didier Lavergne, Jan Archibald for La Vie en Rose

Rick Baker, Kazuhiro Tsuji for Norbit

Ve Neill and Martin Samuel Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

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Once for "Falling Slowly" Music and Lyrics by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova

Enchanted for "So Close" Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz

Enchanted for "That's How You Know" Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz

Enchanted for "Happy Working Song" Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz

August Rush for "Raise It Up" by Jamal Joseph, Charles Mack and Tevin Thomas

Dario Marianelli for Atonement

Alberto Iglesias for The Kite Runner

James Newton Howard for Michael Clayton

Michael Giacchino for Ratatouille

Marco Beltrami for 3:10 To Yuma

Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis for The Bourne Ultimatum

Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland for No Country for Old Men

Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane Ratatouille

Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Jim Stuebe for 3:10 To Yuma

Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin for Transformers

Karen Baker Landers, Per Hallberg for The Bourne Ultimatum

Skip Lievsay for No Country for Old Men

Randy Thom, Michael Silvers for Ratatouille

Matthew Wood for There Will Be Blood

Ethan Van der Ryn, Mike Hopkins for Transformers

Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood for The Golden Compass

John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier for Transformers

Robert F. Boyle (For career in Art Direction)

Peter & the Wolf

I Met the Walrus

Madame Tutli-Putli

Même les Pigeons vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go To Heaven)

My Love (Moya Lyubov)

Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)

At Night

Il Supplente (The Substitute)

Tanghi Argentini

The Tonto Woman

Freeheld

La Corona (The Crown)

Salim Baba

Sari's Mother

Good Quotes from Host host Jon Stewert:

"No Country For Old Men, Sweeney Todd, There Will Be Blood. All I can say is: thank God for teen pregnancy."

"Even Norbit got a nomination, which is great. Too often, the Academy ignores movies that aren't good."

"Diablo Cody wrote Juno, such a great movie. Cody used to be an exotic dancer and now she's an Oscar-nominated writer. I hope you're enjoying the pay cut."

"Film Editing, alright. Someone just took the lead in their office pool based on a guess!"

My Thoughts:

The opening which combined characters from some of the most memorable films of all time was EPIC.

Transformers got screwed for Best Visual Effects. Did any of the academy members who voted for The Golden Compass have 20/20 vision?

Of all the nominees in the best supporting actress category, Tilda Swinton was the least expected contender for Michael Clayton. But somehow Swinton beat out Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There, Saoirse Ronan in Atonement and Amy Ryan in Gone Baby Gone. How could this have happened? Amy Ryan deserved the win, even Tolda looked shocked when they read her name.

Enchanted had three of the five original song nominations, but the power of Once could not be stopped. I'm so glad that Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova took home a statue. They deserve it. And how fucking cool was it for Jon Stewert/The Academy to bring Marketa back on stage to speak after the music cut her off.

How cool is it to hear Greenwood's There Will Be Blood theme being played as people walk to the stage?

I was so much looking forward to what Michael Moore was going to say once he got up on the Oscar stage once again. And besides, he deserved to be there, but it didn't happen. And I'm still angry that The King of Kong wasn't even nominated.

Diablo Cody wins best screenplay – Hell yeah. And how great was it to see the tough girl breakdown.

In true Oscar fashion, The Coen Brothers were rewarded by the Academy for their combined filmography, where Paul Thomas Anderson clearly deserved the Best Director and Best Picture awards.

The 2008 Academy Awards has come to a close. There Will Be Blood lost to No Country, The Bourne Ultimatium had three wins, Norbit and Transformers lost, and Diablo took home a gold statue.

What did you think?

Do you agree with the winners?