No Country For Old Men Sweeps 80th Academy Awards

March 1, 2008 · Print This Article

Los Angeles (CMR) - Only a few short weeks after the writers strike ended, red-carpet glamour was alive and well at the 80th Annual Academy Awards last Sunday night.

The Coen brothers won the coveted Best Picture award for No Country For Old Men. The duo also took home Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. The film’s Javier Bardem also won Best Supporting Actor for his creepy role as a cold-blooded killer.

The acting category was swept by Europeans including French actrice Marion Cotillard who took Best Supporting Actress.

Brits Tilda Swinton and Daniel Day-Lewis took Best Acting honours.

Though Juno missed out on Best Picture, newcomer Diablo Cody won best original screenplay for the film.

And Best Original Song was awarded to “Falling Slowly” from the low budget film Once, which beat the odds and beat out three songs from a Disney movie.

The Oscar 2008 winners in full:

Best Picture - ‘No Country For Old Men’

Best Director - Joel and Ethan Coen, ‘No Country For Old Men’

Best Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis, ‘There Will Be Blood’

Best Actress - Marion Cotillard, ‘La Vie En Rose’

Best Supporting Actress - Tilda Swinton, ‘Michael Clayton’

Best Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem, ‘No Country For Old Men’

Best Foreign Language Film - ‘The Counterfeiters’ (Austria)

Best Animated Feature Film - ‘Ratatouille’

Best Adapted Screenplay - ‘No Country For Old Men’

Best Original Screenplay - ‘Juno’

Best Music (score) - ‘Atonement’