Academy Awards – Oscar Winners For 2007

The Writer’s Strike ended and we got the only awards show that anyone in Hollywood really cares about anyway – the Academy Awards (otherwise known as the Oscars). Jon Stewart did a fair job hosting but I doubt this will go down in anyone’s book as one of the better Oscar ceremonies.

The awards themselves were a little bit all over the place early in the night so it was hard to tell which movie had the upper hand. At one point I was beginning to wonder if I was watching the Oscars or some other International film awards show as it seemed almost every winner was someone from another country. In the end, however, most of the big awards, with the notable exception of Best Actress, went pretty much as everyone had expected.

Winners are in BOLD.

80th Annual Academy Award Winners

Picture

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

Actor

• Daniel-Day Lewis, There Will Be Blood
• George Clooney, Michael Clayton
• Tommy Lee Jones, In the Valley of Elah
• Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises
• Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Actress

• Laura Linney, The Savages
• Julie Christie, Away From Her
• Ellen Page, Juno
• Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age
• Marion Cotillard, La Vie En Rose

Supporting Actor

• Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
• Tom Wilikinson, Michael Clayton
• Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men
• Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson’s War
• Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford

Supporting Actress

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

Director

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

Documentary Feature

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

Documentary Short

• Freeheld
• The Crown
• Salim Baba
• Sari’s Mother

Animated Feature

• Surf’s Up
• Persepolis
• Ratatouille

Foreign Language Film

• Mongol (Kazakhstan)
• 12 (Russia)
• Katyn (Poland)
• Beaufort (Israel)
• The Counterfeiters (Austria)

Cinematography

• Atonement
• The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
• No Country For Old Men
• There Will Be Blood

Original Screenplay

• Michael Clayton
• Lars and the Real Girl
• Ratatouille
• The Savages
• Juno

Adapted Screenplay

• Away From Her
• The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
• No Country For Old Men
• Atonement
• There Will Be Blood

Visual Effects

• The Golden Compass
• Transformers
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

Animated Short Film

• I Met the Walrus
• Madame Tutli-Putli
• Even Pigeons Go To Heaven
• Peter and The Wolf
• My Love

Live Action Short Film

• At Night
• The Substitute
• The Mozart of Pickpockets
• Tanghi Argentini
• The Tonto Woman

Art Direction

• American Gangster
• The Golden Compass
• Atonement
• There Will Be Blood
• Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Costume Design

• Atonement
• Across the Universe
• Elizabeth: The Golden Age
• La Vie En Rose
• Sweeney Todd

Film Editing

• The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
• Into the Wild
• No Country For Old Men
• There Will Be Blood
• The Bourne Ultimatum

Sound Mixing

• 3:10 to Yuma
• Transformers
• No Country For Old Men
• Ratatouille
• The Bourne Ultimatum

Sound Editing

• There Will Be Blood
• No Country For Old Men
• Ratatouille
• Transformers
• The Bourne Ultimatum

Original Score

• The Kite Runner
• Michael Clayton
• Atonement
• Ratatouille
• 3:10 to Yuma

Original Song

• “Happy Working Song” – Enchanted
• “Falling Slowly” – Once
• “So Close” – Enchanted
• “That’s How You Know” – Enchanted
• “Raise It Up” – August Rush

Makeup

• Norbit
• La Vie En Rose
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

The Coens missed out on a chance to make Oscar history � four wins for a single film � when they lost in the Film Editing category, for which they were nominated under the pseudonym Roderick Jaynes.

The Coens still had a good night, however, as Best Picture winner, No Country For Old Men, ended up with the most wins with 4 Oscars. Believe it or not, The Bourne Ultimatum won the second most Oscars of the night with 3. There Will Be Blood and La Vie en Rose had 2 Oscars each, but no other movie had more than a single Oscar at the end of the night.