Oscar Winners Include 'No Country for Old Men', 'Freeheld'

Los Angeles, CA - The 2008 Academy Awards are over and all the golden statues have finally been handed out. No Country for Old Men took the win for Best Picture, while the film's directors Ethan Coen and Joel Coen won for Best Achievement in Directing. Diablo Cody was the ingenue story of the night, winning the Best Original Screenplay award for Juno. Some surprise winners included Tilda Swinton for Michael Clayton and the documentary short film Freeheld.

Check out the complete list of winners below!

2008 Oscar® Winners

Best Picture:

* No Country for Old Men

Achievement in Directing:

* Joel & Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men

Best Original Screenplay:

* Juno

Best Adapted Screenplay:

* No Country for Old Men

Best Actress:

* Marion Cotillard - La Vie En Rose

Best Actor

* Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood

Best Supporting Actress:

* Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton

Best Supporting Actor:

* Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men

Achievement in Cinematography:

* There Will Be Blood

Achievement in Sound Editing:

* The Bourne Ultimatum

Best Foreign-Language Film:

* The Counterfeiters (Austria)

Best Original Song:

* "Falling Slowly" - Once

Achievement in Sound Mixing:

* The Bourne Ultimatum

Best Original Score:

* Atonement

Best Art Direction:

* Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Documentary Feature:

* Taxi to the Dark Side

Best Documentary Short:

* Freeheld

Best Animated Feature Film:

* Ratatouille

Achievement in Makeup:

* La Vie En Rose

Achievement in Costume Design:

* Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Best Animated Short Film:

* Peter & the Wolf

Best Live-Action Short Film:

* Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)

Best Visual Effects:

* The Golden Compass

Article Written By Ann Turner