The Coen Brothers picked up a collection of gold men, including best picture. While the show was crisp and trimmed down of much of the usual over-production, the real treat for those watching the 3 hour+ broadcast was the live performance of “Falling Slowly” from Once which fittingly won best song. After Marion Cotillard‘s win for best actress, I can only urge folks to go out and get a copy of Jeux D’Enfants (aka Love Me if You Dare).
The winners are all listed below, and further down, was the entertaining Live Blog that took place here at the Row Three during the show.
Best Motion Picture of 2007
Winner: No Country for Old Men – Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Scott Rudin
Best Achievement in Directing
Winner: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen for No Country for Old Men
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Winner: Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Winner: Juno – Diablo Cody
Best Documentary, Features
Winner: Taxi to the Dark Side – Alex Gibney, Eva Orner
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
Winner: Freeheld – Cynthia Wade, Vanessa Roth
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Winner: Atonement – Dario Marianelli
Best Achievement in Cinematography
Winner: There Will Be Blood – Robert Elswit
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
Winner: Once – Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová(“Falling Slowly” )
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Winner: Fälscher, Die (The Counterfeiters) (Austria)
Best Achievement in Editing
Winner: The Bourne Ultimatum – Christopher Rouse
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Winner: Marion Cotillard for La Môme (aka La Vie En Rose)
Best Achievement in Sound
Winner: The Bourne Ultimatum – Scott Millan, David Parker, Kirk Francis
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Winner: The Bourne Ultimatum – Karen M. Baker, Per Hallberg
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
Winner: No Country for Old Men – Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner: Tilda Swinton for Michael Clayton
Best Short Film, Animated
Winner: Peter & the Wolf – Suzie Templeton, Hugh Welchman
Best Short Film, Live Action
Winner: Mozart des pickpockets, Le – Philippe Pollet-Villard
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner: Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men
Best Achievement in Art Direction
Winner: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo
Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Winner: The Golden Compass – Michael L. Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris, Trevor Wood
Best Achievement in Makeup
Winner: La Môme, (aka La Vie en Rose) – Didier Lavergne, Jan Archibald
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Winner: Ratatouille – Brad Bird
Best Achievement in Costume Design
Winner: Elizabeth: The Golden Age – Alexandra Byrne
The Row Live blog script after the jump.
went to TMB just to find this:
http://www.themovieblog.com/audioedition/OscarShow4.mp3
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA knowing Transformers was shut out, listening to his anger, made my day. made my fucking day
Goon, it might interest you to know I’ve been banned from TMB
That is too say that my comments go into ‘moderation’, which they don’t come out of
I knew it would be just a matter of time. John likes to dish out commentary that he can’t take back. Total double standard, which is why I don’t go there anymore. Anyone with anything interesting to say is rolling the dice that their comments will actually show up.
yeah, I guess I’ve come ’round to your way thinking. It’s funny once you start commenting at a site it’s so easy to get drawn into the silly drama going on. Gio, never really used to piss me off, until I started commenting on there.
To be fair my final comments were quite uh… passionate.
by the way, am I the only one who was less than satisfied by Robert Elswit’s work in There Will Be Blood. I prefered his work in Michael Clayton.
I liked the cinematography in No Country & Assassination of Jesse James, both Roger Deacons.
I found it funny that they had a picture for editor Roderick Jayne, who of course is a ghost-name for the Coens. Cool picture looked out of the 1940s in Hollywood.
I think that Janusz Kaminski and Julian Schnabel should have won for The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, but I didn’t really believe it would happen.
I also loved Janusz’s work in Diving Bell, or in general, his work, the guy is in the top 5 cinematographers for sure. The Cinematography category is always one of those where everyone is amazing.
@Rusty
I am with you… not even on the level of cinematography was I particularly taken with There Will Be Blood. People can use the word ‘restraint’ as much as they want, to me the film as a whole was a bit empty.
I wanted to send out HUGE thanks to everyone who came by for the Live Blog yesterday. I think it was a huge success and a whole load of fun.
(and thanks for hosting/comment approving/pluggin-in-the-widgit, Marina! It went very smoothly and provided a nice stock-ticker of opinions/observations during the broadcast. And the broadcast had the impression of moving faster and smoother as a result…
echo. echo. echo.
A lot of THERE WILL BE BLOOD was blown out. Especially the skies. That may sound nitpicky put it really bothers me.
It’s good here and there, but it’s uneven. There were much better films that werent even nominated.
Cinematographically, what’s the appeal of that film?
Just took a look at the Best Actress win again and noted that you guys were right on, Blanchett looked to be thrilled at Cotillard’s win. I should know better than to think Blanchett would ever have a bad thought.
I just wanted to thank everyone for last night’s chat. We’ll definitely have to do it again sometime! And, Kurt, I thought the photo of Roderick Jayne was cool too. Makes me sad the Coens didn’t take editing. Their acceptance speech on behalf of Mr. Jayne would have been cool.
I can’t help myself:
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Dissing Diablo Cody is the new black. I’d like to see a skit with her as John McCain’s speech writer.
That was pretty funny.
I have to say though, I think I’m experiencing some sort of Juno-backlash backlash. I fully expected to hate it, and the first 10 minutes were pure agony for me, but after that I really don’t think it’s that horrible. At least it feels less pretentious than, say, Little Miss Sunshine, which has the characters speaking in the same sort of Stand-Up comedy, setup-punchline dialogue as they do in Juno, but then expects you to actually be emotionally invested in them so that you care when they run into a field and scream and cry. I hated Little Miss Sunshine, and I have to say I can’t hate Juno. Jennifer Garner was good – although that was probably just my misoginy telling me that. Ellen Page is pure charm though. She almost looked as good as in X-Men.
Other than a few exceptions (Walter Chaw springs to mind) most people that bash on Juno (myself included) enjoy the film for the most part (some often quoted grating tidbits of dialogue aside, the solid acting saves this ‘look-at-me’ script), many of us just think it is disturbing when it starts being trumpeted as one of the best films of the year.
Of course this has been said before.
I think Juno-backlash–backlash is kinda funny though.