The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors and writers. The formal ceremony at which the awards are presented is among the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremonies in the world.  The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held on Thursday, May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor outstanding film achievements of 1927 and 1928. It was hosted by actor Douglas Fairbanks and director William C. DeMille.   The 80th Academy Awards ceremony is scheduled for Sunday, February 24, 2008, and will be hosted by Comedy Central's The Daily Show host Jon Stewart. AMPAS, a professional honorary organization, maintains a voting membership of 5,829 as of 2007. Actors constitute the largest voting bloc, numbering 1,311 members (22 percent) of the Academy's composition. Votes for Oscars have been tabulated and certified by the auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (and its predecessor Price Waterhouse) for the past 72 annual awards ceremonies.

   
         
 
Sunday, February 24, 2008, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®.
 

Performance by an actor in a leading role

 
   
  Daniel Day-Lewis in “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
  George Clooney in “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)
  Johnny Depp in “Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”
(DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)
  Tommy Lee Jones in “In the Valley of Elah” (Warner Independent)
  Viggo Mortensen in “Eastern Promises” (Focus Features)
 
 
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
   
   
  Javier Bardem in “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
  Casey Affleck in “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” (Warner Bros.)
  Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Charlie Wilson’s War” (Universal)
  Hal Holbrook in “Into the Wild” (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment)
  Tom Wilkinson in “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)
 
 
Performance by an actress in a leading role
   
   
  Marion Cotillard in “La Vie en Rose” (Picturehouse)
  Julie Christie in “Away from Her” (Lionsgate)
  Cate Blanchett in “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” (Universal)
  Laura Linney in “The Savages” (Fox Searchlight)
  Ellen Page in “Juno” (Fox Searchlight)
 
 
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
   
   
  Tilda Swinton in “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)
  Ruby Dee in “American Gangster” (Universal)
  Saoirse Ronan in “Atonement” (Focus Features)
  Amy Ryan in “Gone Baby Gone” (Miramax)
  Cate Blanchett in “I’m Not There” (The Weinstein Company)
 
 
Best animated feature film of the year
   
   
  “Ratatouille” (Walt Disney) Brad Bird
  “Persepolis” (Sony Pictures Classics) Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
  “Surf's Up” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Ash Brannon and Chris Buck
 
 
Achievement in art direction
   
   
  “Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)
Art Direction: Dante Ferretti
Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
  “Atonement” (Focus Features)
Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood
Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
  “The Golden Compass” (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners)
Art Direction: Dennis Gassner
Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
  “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
Art Direction: Jack Fisk
Set Decoration: Jim Erickson
  “American Gangster” (Universal)
Art Direction: Arthur Max
Set Decoration: Beth A. Rubino
 
 
Achievement in cinematography
   
   
  “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Robert Elswit
  “Atonement” (Focus Features) Seamus McGarvey
  “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (Miramax/Pathé Renn) Janusz Kaminski
  “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Roger Deakins
  “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” (Warner Bros.) Roger Deakins
 
 
Achievement in costume design
   
   
  “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” (Universal) Alexandra Byrne
  “Atonement” (Focus Features) Jacqueline Durran
  “Across the Universe” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Albert Wolsky
  “La Vie en Rose” (Picturehouse) Marit Allen
  “Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount) Colleen Atwood
 
 
Achievement in directing
   
   
  “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
  “Juno” (Fox Searchlight) Jason Reitman
  “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.) Tony Gilroy
  “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (Miramax/Pathé Renn) Julian Schnabel
  “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Paul Thomas Anderson
 
 
Best documentary feature
   
   
  “Taxi to the Dark Side” (THINKFilm)
An X-Ray Production
Alex Gibney and Eva Orner
  “Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience” (The Documentary Group)
A Documentary Group Production
Richard E. Robbins
  “Sicko” (Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company)
A Dog Eat Dog Films Production
Michael Moore and Meghan O’Hara
  “No End in Sight” (Magnolia Pictures)
A Representational Pictures Production
Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
  “War/Dance” (THINKFilm)
A Shine Global and Fine Films Production
Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine
 
 
Best documentary short subject
   
   
  “Freeheld”
A Lieutenant Films Production
Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth
  “La Corona (The Crown)”
A Runaway Films and Vega Films Production
Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega
  “Salim Baba”
A Ropa Vieja Films and Paradox Smoke Production
Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello
  “Sari’s Mother” (Cinema Guild)
A Daylight Factory Production
James Longley
 
 
Achievement in film editing
   
   
  “The Bourne Ultimatum” (Universal) Christopher Rouse
  “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (Miramax/Pathé Renn) Juliette Welfling
  “Into the Wild” (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment) Jay Cassidy
  “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Roderick Jaynes
  “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Dylan Tichenor
 
 
Best foreign language film of the year
   
   
  “The Counterfeiters” An Aichholzer Filmproduktion, Magnolia Filmproduktion Production
Austria
  “Beaufort” A Metro Communications, Movie Plus Production
Israel
  “Katyń” An Akson Studio Production
Poland
  “Mongol” A Eurasia Film Production
Kazakhstan
  “12” A Three T Production
Russia
 
 
Achievement in makeup
   
   
  “La Vie en Rose” (Picturehouse) Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald
  “Norbit” (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount) Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji
  “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” (Walt Disney) Ve Neill and Martin Samuel
 
 
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
   
   
  “Atonement” (Focus Features) Dario Marianelli
  “The Kite Runner” (DreamWorks, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Participant Productions, Distributed by Paramount Classics) Alberto Iglesias
  “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.) James Newton Howard
  “Ratatouille” (Walt Disney) Michael Giacchino
  “3:10 to Yuma” (Lionsgate) Marco Beltrami
 
 
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
   
   
  “Falling Slowly” from “Once”
(Fox Searchlight)
Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
  “Happy Working Song” from “Enchanted”
(Walt Disney)
Music by Alan Menken
Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
  “Raise It Up” from “August Rush”
(Warner Bros.)
Music and lyric by Jamal Joseph, Charles Mack and Tevin Thomas
  “So Close” from “Enchanted”
(Walt Disney)
Music by Alan Menken
Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
  “That’s How You Know” from “Enchanted”
(Walt Disney)
Music by Alan Menken
Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
 
 
Best motion picture of the year
   
   
  “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
A Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Production
Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers
  “Juno” (Fox Searchlight)
A Mandate Pictures/Mr. Mudd Production
Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick and Russell Smith, Producers
  “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)
A Clayton Productions, LLC Production
Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox and Kerry Orent, Producers
  “Atonement” (Focus Features)
A Working Title Production
Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster, Producers
  “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
A JoAnne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company Production
JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Lupi, Producers
 
 
Best animated short film
   
   
  “Peter & the Wolf” (BreakThru Films)
A BreakThru Films/Se-ma-for Studios Production
Suzie Templeton and Hugh Welchman
  “Madame Tutli-Putli” (National Film Board of Canada)
A National Film Board of Canada Production
Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
  “Même les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)” (Premium Films)
A BUF Compagnie Production
Samuel Tourneux and Simon Vanesse
  “My Love (Moya Lyubov)” (Channel One Russia)
A Dago-Film Studio, Channel One Russia and Dentsu Tec Production
Alexander Petrov
  “I Met the Walrus”
A Kids & Explosions Production
Josh Raskin
 
 
Best live action short film
   
   
  “Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)” (Premium Films)
A Karé Production
Philippe Pollet-Villard
  “Il Supplente (The Substitute)” (Sky Cinema Italia)
A Frame by Frame Italia Production
Andrea Jublin
  “At Night”
A Zentropa Entertainments 10 Production
Christian E. Christiansen and Louise Vesth
  “Tanghi Argentini” (Premium Films)
An Another Dimension of an Idea Production
Guido Thys and Anja Daelemans
  “The Tonto Woman”
A Knucklehead, Little Mo and Rose Hackney Barber Production
Daniel Barber and Matthew Brown
 
 
Achievement in sound editing
   
   
  “The Bourne Ultimatum” (Universal)
Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg
  “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
Skip Lievsay
  “Ratatouille” (Walt Disney)
Randy Thom and Michael Silvers
  “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
Christopher Scarabosio and Matthew Wood
  “Transformers” (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro)
Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins
 
 
Achievement in sound mixing
   
   
  “The Bourne Ultimatum” (Universal)
Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis
  “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland
  “Ratatouille” (Walt Disney)
Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane
  “3:10 to Yuma” (Lionsgate)
Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Jim Stuebe
  “Transformers” (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro)
Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin
 
 
Achievement in visual effects
   
   
  “The Golden Compass” (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners)
Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood
 
  “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” (Walt Disney)
John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier
  “Transformers” (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro)
Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier
 
 
Adapted screenplay
   
   
   

“No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
  “Away from Her” (Lionsgate)
Written by Sarah Polley
  “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (Miramax/Pathé Renn)
Screenplay by Ronald Harwood
  “Atonement” (Focus Features)
Screenplay by Christopher Hampton
  “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
Written for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson
 
 
Original screenplay
   
   
  “Juno” (Fox Searchlight)
Written by Diablo Cody
  “Lars and the Real Girl” (MGM)
Written by Nancy Oliver
  “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)
Written by Tony Gilroy
  “Ratatouille” (Walt Disney)
Screenplay by Brad Bird
Story by Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird
 

“The Savages” (Fox Searchlight)
Written by Tamara Jenkins
 

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