Highlights, Winners from the 80th Annual Academy Awards

No Country for Old Men and its directors, Joel and Ethan Coen, were the big winners at the 80th Annual Academy Awards held Sunday,
February 24. In all this movie took home four of the Oscars, including Best Picture.

This violence and mayhem-filled adventure tells the fate of three men whose paths cross in a small west Texas county where violence is on the rise. It won Best Picture for the Coens and fellow producer Scott Rudin. The Coens also won Oscars for best directing and best adapted screenplay. No Country for Old Men is largely adapted from a novel by the same name by Cormac McCarthy.

Javier Bardem, who terrorizes everyone in the movie as psycho killer Anton Chighur, won best supporting actor.

The Coens had a chance to make history as the first film producers to win four Oscars with one film, as they were also nominated for best editing. They lost in that category to Christopher Rouse of The Bourne Ultimatum. The Bourne Ultimatum swept all three categories for which it was nominated, garnering the sound editing and sound mixing awards as well. No Country for Old Men also lost in the cinematography category, which was won by Robert Elswit of There Will Be Blood.

For an 80th anniversary, this was not Hollywood's most shining moment. First, the 100-day long Hollywood writer's strike threatened to turn it into the party that wasn't. Then, just as the writer's strike was settled, southern California got hit with a series of storms. Strapless ballroom gowns and tuxedos aren't the best gear for a rainy day in Los Angeles, but thankfully most of Sunday's rain fell before the stars walked the red carpet.

The Winners:

Best Picture: No Country For Old Men
Best Director(s): Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Best Lead Actor: Daniel Day Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Best Lead Actress: Marian Cotilland, La Vie En Rose
Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men
Best Supporting Actress: Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
Lifetime Achievement Award: Robery Boyle, for seven decades of excellence in production design and art direction
Best Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody, Juno
Best Adapted Screenplay: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Best Animated Film: Ratatouille
Best Animated Short: Peter and The Wolf
Best Live Action Short: Les Mozart de Pickpockets
Best Documentary Feature: Taxi to the Dark Side
Best Short Doucumentary: Free Hope
Best Original Score: Dario Maranelli, Atonement
Best Cinematography: Robert Elswit, There Will Be Blood
Best Original Song: Falling Slowly by Glen Hansard and Marika Irglova, Once
Best Foreign Language Film: The Counterfeiters, Austria
Best Film Editing: The Bourne Ultimatum
Best Sound Editing: The Bourne Ultimatum
Best Sound Mixing: The Bourne Ultimatum
Best Visual Effects: The Golden Compass
Best Costume Design: Elizabeth, The Golden Age
Best Makeup: La Vie En Rose
Best Art Direction: Sweeney Todd, The Demonic Barber of Fleet Street