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February 25, 2008

80th Annual Academy Award Winners

The 2007 Academy Award winners were announced on Sunday, February 24. The nominees for the major award categories are listed below with winners indicated with an *. Check out the previous winners for Motion Picture, Animated Feature, Documentary Feature, and Foreign Language Film.

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Nominees
George Clooney in Michael Clayton (In Theatres)
* Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood (In Theatres)
Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (In Theatres)
Tommy Lee Jones in In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Nominees
Casey Affleck in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - Read the Book
* Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men (In Theatres)
Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson’s War (In Theatres) - Read the Book
Hal Holbrook in Into the Wild - Read the Book
Tom Wilkinson in Michael Clayton (In Theatres)

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Nominees
Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie in Away from Her
* Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose
Laura Linney in The Savages (In Theatres)
Ellen Page in Juno (In Theatres)

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Nominees
Cate Blanchett in I’m Not There
Ruby Dee in American Gangster - Read the Book
Saoirse Ronan in Atonement (In Theatres) - Read the Book
Amy Ryan in Gone Baby Gone - Read the Book
* Tilda Swinton in Michael Clayton

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year Nominees
Persepolis (In Theatres)
* Ratatouille
Surf's Up

Achievement in Directing Nominees
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Julian Schnabel (In Theatres) - Read the Book
Juno - Jason Reitman (In Theaters)
Michael Clayton - Tony Gilroy (In Theatres)
* No Country for Old Men - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (In Theatres)
There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson (In Theatres)

Best Documentary Feature Nominees
No End in Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime
Sicko
* Taxi to the Dark Side (In Theatres)
War/Dance

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year Nominees
Beaufort (Israel) - Read the Book
* The Counterfeiters (Austria)
Mongol (Kazakhstan)
12 (Russia)

Best Motion Picture of the Year Nominees
Atonement (In Theatres) - Read the Book
Juno (In Theatres)
Michael Clayton (In Theatres)
* No Country for Old Men (In Theatres)
There Will Be Blood (In Theatres)

Original Screenplay Nominees
* Juno (In Theatres)
Lars and the Real Girl
Michael Clayton (In Theatres)
Ratatouille
The Savages