Oscar Winners 2008


Best Picture Oscar Winner 2008

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Best Picture Oscar Speech 2008

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  • Best Picture Oscar Acceptance Speech by Scott Rudin: This is an unbelievable honor and a complete surprise. So many people have a part of this, chief among them Cormac McCarthy who wrote a wonderful book that it was an honor to make into a movie. The three men sitting down front: Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem; without them there would be no movie. These two gentlemen, I can't think of anybody I would rather be standing here with than the two of you. Thank you so much for this.
  • Everybody at Vantage and Miramax, who financed the movie together. The entire team at Miramax who did a brilliant, brilliant job selling it. Thank you to all of them. I want to thank Mark Roybal; it's a pleasure to work with him every day. I want to thank my friend Sydney Pollack, who taught me that with the responsibility – with the opportunity to make movies comes the responsibility of making them good. This is for him.
  • This is also for my partner John Barlow. Without you, honey, this would be hardware. Thank you so much. Thank you.

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Best Actor Oscar Speech 2008

  • YouTube Video: Best Actor and Actress (Time: 2:07)


  • Daniel Day-Lewis Oscar Acceptance Speech from Oscars.org: That's the closest I'll ever come to getting a knighthood. Thank you. My deepest thanks to the members of the Academy for whacking me with the hansomest bludgeon in town. I'm looking at this gorgeous thing that you've given me, and I'm thinking back to the first devilish whisper of an idea that came to him and everything since. This sprang like a golden sampling from the mad beautiful head of Paul Thomas ANderson. I wish my son and partner HW Plainview were up here with me. So many people to thank. One amongst them Mrs Plainview down there, the enchantingly optimistic and open minded Rebecca Miller. I hope that all those who I owe and who I feel the deepest gratitude will forgive me if I say simply thank you, Paul. I've been thinking about fathers and sons in the course of all this. I would like to accept this in honor of my grandfather, Michael Bolkin, my father Cecil Day Lewis, and my three fine boys Gabrielle, Ronan, and Casil.

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Best Actress Oscar Acceptance Speech 2008

  • YouTube Video: Best Actress in a Leading Role (Time: 4:50)


  • Marion Cotillard Oscar Acceptance Speech from Oscars.org: Oh -- thank you so much. Olivier, what you did to me, Maestro Olivier Dahan, you rocked my life. You truly rocked my life. Thank you so much to Picturehouse for your passion, members of the Academy, thank you so, so much. 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.

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Best Director Oscar Winner 2008

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Best Director Oscar Speech 2008

  • YouTube Video: Best Adapted Screenplay (Time: 3:13)


  • Coen Brothers Oscar Acceptance Speech: Thank you very much for this. Than you Scott Rudin for bringing us the novel and giving us a chance to make this movie. Whateve success we've had in this area is entirely attributable to how selective we are. We've only adapted Homer and Cormac McCarthy. Thank you.
  • Thank you very much.

Coen Brothers Best Directing Oscar Award Speech

  • YouTube Video: Achievement in Directing (Time: 2:51)


  • Coen Brothers Best Directing Oscar Award Speech from Oscars.org:
  • Ethan Coen:
    • I don't have a lot to add to what I said earlier. Thank you.
  • Joel Coen:
    • 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. There are too many people to thank for this. We're really thrilled to have received it, and we're very thankful to all of you out there for letting us continue to play in our corner of the sandbox, so thank you very much.

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Best Original Screenplay Oscar Speech 2008

  • Diablo Cody Oscar Acceptance Speech from Oscars.org: What is happening? This is for the writers, and I want to thank all the writers. I especially want to thank my fellow nominees because I worship you guys and I'm learning from you every day, so thank you very much. I want to thank the Academy, I want to thank Fox Searchlight, Mr. Mudd, Mandate, Dan Dubiecki. I want to thank our incredible cast including the superhuman Ellen Page. I want to thank Jason Reitman, who I consider a member of my family, and I'm in awe of his talent as a filmmaker. I want to thank Sarah Self. I want to thank Mason Novick who knew I could do this before I did. And most of all, I want to thank my family for loving me exactly the way I am.

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Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Acceptance Speech

  • YouTube Video: Best Adapted Screenplay (Time: 3:13)


  • Coen Brothers Oscar Acceptance Speech: Thank you very much for this. Than you Scott Rudin for bringing us the novel and giving us a chance to make this movie. Whateve success we've had in this area is entirely attributable to how selective we are. We've only adapted Homer and Cormac McCarthy. Thank you.
  • Thank you very much.

Coen Brothers Best Directing Oscar Award Speech

  • YouTube Video: Achievement in Directing (Time: 2:51)


  • Coen Brothers Best Directing Oscar Award Speech from Oscars.org:
  • Ethan Coen:
    • I don't have a lot to add to what I said earlier. Thank you.
  • Joel Coen:
    • 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. There are too many people to thank for this. We're really thrilled to have received it, and we're very thankful to all of you out there for letting us continue to play in our corner of the sandbox, so thank you very much.

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Best Animated Film Oscar Winner for 2008

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Best Animated Film Oscar Acceptance Speech

  • YouTube: Brad Bird Acceptance Speech (Time: 4:17)


  • Brad Bird Acceptance Speech: I think I'm going to throw up too. I want to thank the Academy and my Jr. High guidance counselor. Where he said, "What do you want to do with your life?" And I said, "Make movies." And he said, "What if there were no movies?" I said, "I'll make some." We went on like this until we got sick of each other. I realize that he gave me the best training for making films.
  • I want to thank my wife Liz and my kids. All the dreamers at Pixar and Disney....
  • And all the dreamers who are supporting a rat that dreams....

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Best Art Direction Oscar Winner 2008

  • Dante Ferretti (Art Direction) and Francesca Lo Schiavo (Set Direction) for Sweeney Todd

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  • Arthur Max (Art Direction); Beth A. Rubino (Set Decoration) for American Gangster
  • Sarah Greenwood (Art Direction); Katie Spencer (Set Decoration) for Atonement
  • Dennis Gassner (Art Direction); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration) for The Golden Compass
  • Jack Fisk (Art Direction); Jim Erickson (Set Decoration) for There Will Be Blood

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Best Cinematography Oscar Winner for 2008

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Best Cinematography Oscar Speech 2008

  • YouTube Video: Achievement in Cinematography (Time: 2:53)


  • Robert Elswit Oscar Acceptance Speech from Oscars.org: John Toll won this a number of years ago said that the production designer on his movie, that 50% of it belonged to him. Well, 80% belongs to Jack Fisk and his production crew. And David Crank and Dylan Tichenor. But it really, we all know it really, really belongs to Paul. That this is his imagination and his energy and his extraordinary vision. It sort of enabled us to create the world of "There Will Be Blood." Thank you, Paul. We're really all standing on the shoulders, we know this, of Daniel Day-Lewis, who isn't here right now, but thank you all so much. Thank you. And Helen. Thank you so much.

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Best Costume Design Oscar Winner for 2008

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Best Costume Design Oscar Acceptance Speech

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  • Alexandra Byrne Oscar Acceptance Speech: Wow. Thank you to the Academy. Thank you to Working Title and Universal. To Shekhar and to Cate. And a huge thank you to my brilliant team and to my family. Thank you.

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Best Documentary Oscar Winner for 2008

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Best Editor Oscar Winner 2008

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Best Editing Oscar Speech

  • YouTube Video: Achievement in Film Editing (Time: 2:24)


  • Best Editing Acceptance Speech from Oscars.org: Forty-eight years ago, my father was privileged enough to receive an Oscar, and I'm deeply, deeply honored that you put me in his company tonight. To the brilliant Paul Greengrass, to Frank Marshall, thank you, thank you, thank you. To everybody in post-production, led by my good friend and colleague, Mark Fitzgerald, each and every one of you share in this award with me. To Universal Pictures, to the Academy, my deepest, deepest thanks. To the amazing Matt Damon, thank you. And to my family, especially Anne, Anno, Ava and Fiona. My kids, I love you. Thank you so, so much.

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Best Foreign Language Film Oscar Winner 2008

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Best Foreign Film Oscar Speech

  • Best Foreign Film Oscar Acceptance Speech: Thank you very much. There have been some Austrian filmmakers working here, I'm thinking of Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnenman, Otto Preminger. Most of them had to leave my country because of the Nazis so it sort of make sense that the first Austrian movie to win an Oscar is about the Nazis' crimes. Making this movie I had the most brilliant cast, a wonderful crew, the best of all families to support me at home. Actually, it was easy for me. Thank you very much.

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Best Makeup Oscar Winner 2008

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    • "Jan Archibald:
    • Thank you to the academy for this huge honor. I'm overwhelmed. It's just amazing. I have a lot of people to thank. My assistants, particularly, my Czech crew that worked with us in Prague and in Paris, they were amazing. They worked very hard and I owe a lot to them. And just, it's so exciting to be here. I don't know what to say. Thank you."

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Best Song Oscar Winner 2008

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  • Enchanted for "So Close"; Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz


  • Enchanted for "That's How You Know"; Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz


  • August Rush for "Raise It Up"; by Jamal Joseph, Charles Mack and Tevin Thomas


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