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Well, I didn’t stay up late enough to watch the Oscars last night, but caught the reports. Needless to say, it was rather pleasing to finally see the year’s best film actually receiving the Best Film Award. In fact, No Country for Old Men picked up quite a few awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Daniel Day Lewis predictably, and deservedly, picked up Best Actor for There Will Be Blood. However, there were one or two surprises of the night. Marion Cotillard beat favourites Julie Christie and Ellen Page to nab the Best Actress award for her portrayal of Edith Piaf in La Vie In Rose. The only real disappointment of the night was for Best Suporting Actress, which went to Tilda Swinton for Michael Clayton. Her performance in that film was apt, but hardly memorable. Saoirse Ronan and Cate Blanchett were much more deserving.

Finally, it was nice to see Once pick up best song. It’s always great to see the underdog triumph, especially this €100,000 film taking on the might of Disney.

The full list of winners are:

BEST PICTURE
“No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) A Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Production Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers

DIRECTOR
Ethan Coen & Joel Coen – “No Country For Old Men”

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Daniel Day-Lewis in “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Marion Cotillard in “La Vie en Rose” (Picturehouse)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Diablo Cody – “Juno”

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Ethan & Joel Coen – “No Country for Old Men”

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Tilda Swinton in “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Javier Bardem in “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)

COSTUME DESIGN
“Elizabeth: The Golden Age” (Universal) Alexandra Byrne

ANIMATED FEATURE
“Ratatouille” – (Pixar; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Distribution) Brad Bird

MAKEUP
“La Vie en Rose” (Picturehouse) Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald

VISUAL EFFECTS
“The Golden Compass” (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners) Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood

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

LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM
“Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)” (Premium Films) A Karé Production; Philippe Pollet-Villard

ANIMATED SHORT FILM
“Peter & the Wolf” (BreakThru Films) A BreakThru Films/Se-ma-for Studios Production

SOUND EDITING
“The Bourne Ultimatum” (Universal) Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg

SOUND MIXING
“The Bourne Ultimatum” (Universal) Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis

FILM EDITING
“The Bourne Ultimatum” (Universal) Christopher Rouse

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
“The Counterfeiters” – Austria

ORIGINAL SONG
“Falling Slowly” from “Once” (Fox Searchlight) Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova

CINEMATOGRAPHY
“There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Robert Elswit

ORIGINAL SCORE
“Atonement” (Focus Features) Dario Marianelli

DOCUMENTARY SHORT
“Freeheld” A Lieutenant Films Production; Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
“Taxi to the Dark Side” (THINKFilm) An X-Ray Production; Alex Gibney and Eva Orner

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