Oscar winners
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2008 Oscar winners Daniel Day-Lewis, Tilda Swinton, Marion Cotillard and Javier Bardem
After two months of hullabaloo, predictions and countless award ceremonies, the Oscars finally took place in Los Angeles last night. So who won what and did handbag.com
guess the winners? Let’s find out
Actor in a leading role
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Actor in a leading role winner Daniel Day-Lewis
George Clooney – Michael Clayton
Daniel Day Lewis – There Will Be BloodJohnny Depp – Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
Tommy Lee Jones – In The Valley Of Elah
Viggo Mortensen – Eastern Promises
There Will Be Blood star Day-Lewis has won every major Best Leading Actor award going in the lead up to the Oscars, so it only seemed right that he completed the set. Thanking his director Paul Thomas Anderson he said, “I hope that all those to whom I owe and to whom I feel the deepest gratitude will forgive me if I say just simply, ‘Thank you, Paul.’” But after winning his second Academy Award - he was the 1989 winner for My Left Foot - Daniel reserved his biggest thanks for his family. “I\'ve been thinking a lot about fathers and sons in the course of this, and I\'d like to accept this in the memory of my grandfather, Michael Balcon, my father, Cecil Day-Lewis, and my three fine boys, Gabriel, Ronan and Cashel. Thank you very much indeed.”
handbag.com prediction score – 1 out 1
Actor in a support role
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Actor in a support role winner
Casey Affleck – The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem – No Country For Old MenPhilip Seymour Hoffman – Charlie Wilson’s War
Hal Holbrook – Into The Wild
Tom Wilkinson – Michael Clayton
Another actor who won everything leading up to the big night, Javier was quick to thank his colleagues on No Country For Old Men. “I want to share this with the cast, with the great Tommy Lee Jones, with the great Josh Brolin, with the great Kelly MacDonald. And I want to dedicate this to my mother.” And even though he’d claimed the distinctive haircut he sported in the film caused him depression, he couldn’t help but thank it as well. “Thank you to the Coens for being crazy enough to think that I could do that and put one of the most horrible haircuts in history over my head!”
handbag.com prediction score – 2 out of 2
Actress in a lead role
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Actress in a lead role winner Marion Cotillard
Cate Blanchett – Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie – Away From Her
Marion Cotillard – Le Vie En RoseLaura Linney – The Savages
Ellen Page – Juno
While Julie Christie’s role in Away From Her made all the early running it was Marion Cotillard’s incredible performance as Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose that won through on the night. After winning the same prize at BAFTAs last week, the French star immediately endeared herself to the audience with her excited and heartfelt acceptance speech. “And wow. Well, I\'m speechless now. I, I, well, I thank you life, thank you love, and it is true, there is some angels in this city. Thank you so, so much.”
handbag.com prediction score – 3 out of 3
Actress in a supporting role
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Actress in a supporting role winner Tilda Swinton
Cate Blanchett – I’m Not There
Ruby Dee – American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan – Atonement
Amy Ryan – Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton – Michael ClaytonFor many Oscar observers the supporting actress gong at this year’s awards was the only truly open category of the night. In the end it was Brit Tilda Swinton who added to her BAFTA last week, scooping the Academy Award for her part in legal drama Michael Clayton. And she had the audience rolling with a light-hearted nod to co-star George Clooney. “George Clooney, you know, the seriousness and the dedication to your art, seeing you climb into that rubber bat suit from Batman And Robin, the one with the nipples, every morning under your costume, on the set, off the set, hanging upside-down at lunch, you rock, man.”
handbag.com prediction score – 4 out of 4 (why didn’t we put money on this?!)
Animated feature film
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Animated feature film winner, Ratatouille director Brad Bird
Persepolis
Ratatouille Surf’s Up
Another contender who’d dominated the build-up to the event, Pixar’s latest film surprised no one when it completed a full house of awards last night. Director Brad Bird, a previous winner for his last Pixar movie The Incredibles, recalled a doomed school careers advice meeting in his speech, “I also want to thank my junior high guidance counsellor for a meeting we had where he asked me, ‘What do you want to do with your life?’ And I said, ‘I want to make movies.’ And he said, ‘What else do you want to do with your life?’ And I said, ‘Make movies,’ and he said, ‘What if you couldn\'t make movies," and I said, ‘I\'d find a way that I could.’ ‘What if movies didn\'t exist?’ ‘I\'d have to invent them.’” And invent them he did.
handbag.com prediction score – 5 out of 5
Directing
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Directing winners Joel and Ethan Coen
The Diving Bell And Butterfly
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country For Old MenThere Will Be Blood
The Coen Brothers had amassed an impressive seven Oscar nominations in their impressive career, but until tonight had only scored one previous win, 1996’s best writing award for their work on Fargo. Saying just a shy “Thank you,” Ethan let his big brother do the talking on stage. “Ethan and I have been making stories with movie cameras since we were kids. In the late \'60s when Ethan was 11 or 12, he got a suit and a briefcase and we went to the Minneapolis International Airport with a Super 8 camera and made a movie about shuttle diplomacy called Henry Kissinger, Man On The Go. And honestly, what we do now doesn\'t feel that much different from what we were doing then.”
handbag.com prediction score – 6 out of 6 (!!!!)
Documentary feature
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Documentary feature winners Alex Gibney
No End In Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing The Wartime Experience
Sicko
Taxi To The Dark SideWar/Dance
Alex Gibney’s look at the US’s torture techniques in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and Iraq deservedly beat the pre-awards favourite Sicko to scoop the top honours. Picking up his statue, director Alex explained how it was a film he simply had to make. “I think my dear wife Anne was kind of hoping I\'d make a romantic comedy, but honestly, after Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, extraordinary rendition, that simply wasn\'t possible,” before adding an impassioned, “Let\'s hope we can turn this country around, move away from the dark side and back to the light. Thank you very much.”
handbag.com prediction – 6 out of 7 (Damn, so nearly a perfect score)
Best Picture
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Best Picture winners No Country For Old Men producers Scott Rudin and the Coen Brothers
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood
The night’s showpiece award was another hotly contested category with strong cases being made for each movie. In the end, Scott Rubin and the Coen Brothers’ No Country For Old Men won the honours, capping an incredible night for the film. Producer Rubin gave a humble acceptance speech, deflecting all the praise the movie received to others, “The three men sitting down front, Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, without them there would be no movie. These two gentlemen [to Joel and Ethan Coen], I can\'t think of anybody I would rather be standing here with than the two of you. Thank you so much for this.”
handbag.com prediction score – 7 out of 8 (So near but so far…)
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