The Oscars have all been awarded and No Country for Old Men was the big winner at the Oscars, taking home four major awards. (It was shut out of the technical nominations.) The second biggest winner of the night was The Bourne Ultimatum with three awards, all technical.

The categories and winners were...

Best Picture

• No Country for Old Men

• Joel and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men

• Marion Cotillard for La Vie en Rose

• Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood

• Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men

• Tilda Swinton for Michael Clayton

• Diablo Cody for Juno

• Joel and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men

• Taxi to the Dark Side

• Ratatouille

• Peter & the Wolf

• Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)

• Freeheld

• The Counterfeiters (Germany)

• Once for "Falling Slowly"

• Dario Marianelli for Atonement

• The Bourne Ultimatum

• The Bourne Ultimatum

• His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass

• La Vie en Rose

• The Bourne Ultimatum

• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

• There Will Be Blood

• Elizabeth: The Golden Age

• No Country for Old Men won four awards, including the most prestigious Best Picture and Best Director categories.
• Other major nominees were less fortunate with Atonement and Michael Clayton each picking up one award, while There Will Be Blood picked up two.
• Two of the biggest surprises came in the actress categories with underdogs Marion Cotillard and Tilda Swinton coming out on top over favorites Julie Christie and Cate Blanchett.
• Taxi to the Dark Side winning for Best Documentary was also a shock as No End in Sight and Sicko were heavily favored.
• On the flip side, Ratatouille win for Best Animated Film was the least surprising win of the evening, but sadly that was the film's only win out of five nominations.
• Transformers was shut out despite being picking as favorites for three technical awards by our readers. On the other hand, The Bourne Ultimatum swept the three categories it was up for. It will be interesting to see if this causes a bounce in its DVD sales.
• Juno won just one Oscar, Diablo Cody for Best Original Screenplay, but that was expected.
• Vote-splitting may have cost Enchanted an Oscar as none of its three Oscar-nominated songs were able to take home the hardware.

- C.S.Strowbridge

Date posted: 2008-02-25