No Country for Old Men managed to win top honors at the 80th annual Academy Awards on Sunday in
Joel and Ethan Coen had plenty to cheer about on Sunday night as their film, No Country for Old Men, managed to win four Oscars.
The film won best picture, best director, best adapted screenplay, and best supporting actor.
This was a huge victory for the film as it was not expected to completely sweep every single major category like that.
The Oscars ran for just under four hours on Sunday night and was an absolutely tremendous show for the film industry, following all of the controversy that led up to it due to the writers strike and such.
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’ (
Best Animated Feature Film - ‘Ratatouille’
Best Adapted Screenplay - ‘No Country For Old Men’
Best Original Screenplay - ‘Juno’
Best Music (score) - ‘Atonement’
Best Music (song) - ‘Falling Slowly’ - ‘Once’ (performed by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova)
Best Documentary Feature - ‘Taxi to the Dark Side’
Best Documentary Short Subject - ‘Freeheld’
Best Visual Effects - ‘The Golden Compass’
Best Cinematography - ‘There Will Be Blood’
Best Art Direction - ‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’
Best Animated Short Film - ‘Peter and the Wolf’
Best Short Film - ‘Le Mozart des Pickpockets’
Best Costume Design - ‘
Best Make-up - ‘La Vie En Rose’
Best Sound Editing - ‘The Bourne Ultimatum’
Best Film Editing - ‘The Bourne Ultimatum’