Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements were presented in February 2008 in Hollywood. At JennyStar DVD Rentals, we have the winners and most of the nominated movies and will have others as soon as they are released on DVD. Below is a list of all nominated movies. "W" shows the winner in each category.
| Best motion picture of the year | |
| "Atonement" (Focus Features) Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster, Producers Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "Juno" (Fox Searchlight) Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick and Russell Smith, Producers Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox and Kerry Orent, Producers Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| W | "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here |
| "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Lupi, Producers Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| Performance by an actor in a leading role | |
| George Clooney in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| W | Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here |
| Johnny Depp in "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (DreamWorks and Warner Bros.) Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| Tommy Lee Jones in "In the Valley of Elah" (Warner Independent) Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| Viggo Mortensen in "Eastern Promises" (Focus Features) Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| Performance by an actor in a supporting role | |
| Casey Affleck in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (Warner Bros.) Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| W | Javier Bardem in "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here |
| Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Charlie Wilson's War" (Universal) Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| Hal Holbrook in "Into the Wild" (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment) Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| Tom Wilkinson in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| Performance by an actress in a leading role | |
| Cate Blanchett in "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (Universal) Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| Julie Christie in "Away from Her" (Lionsgate) Available at Jennystar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| W | Marion Cotillard in "La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse) Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here |
| Laura Linney in "The Savages" (Fox Searchlight) Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| Ellen Page in "Juno" (Fox Searchlight) Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| Performance by an actress in a supporting role | |
| Cate Blanchett in "I'm Not There" (The Weinstein Company) Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| Ruby Dee in "American Gangster" (Universal) Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| Saoirse Ronan in "Atonement" (Focus Features) Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| Amy Ryan in "Gone Baby Gone" (Miramax) Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| W | Tilda Swinton in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here |
| Best animated feature film of the year | |
| "Persepolis" (Sony Pictures Classics): Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| W | "Ratatouille" (Walt Disney): Brad Bird Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here |
| "Surf's Up" (Sony Pictures Releasing): Ash Brannon and Chris Buck Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| Achievement in art direction | |
| "American Gangster" (Universal): Art Direction: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Beth A. Rubino Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "Atonement" (Focus Features): Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "The Golden Compass" (New Line): Art Direction: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| W | "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (DreamWorks and Warner Bros.): Art Direction: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here |
| "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax): Art Direction: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| Achievement in cinematography | |
| "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (Warner Bros.): Roger Deakins Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "Atonement" (Focus Features): Seamus McGarvey Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn): Janusz Kaminski Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage): Roger Deakins Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| W | "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax): Robert Elswit Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here |
| Achievement in costume design | |
| "Across the Universe" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Albert Wolsky Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "Atonement" (Focus Features) Jacqueline Durran Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| W | "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (Universal) Alexandra Byrne Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here |
| "La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse) Marit Allen Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (DreamWorks and Warner Bros.) Colleen Atwood Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| Achievement in directing | |
| "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn), Julian Schnabel Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "Juno" (Fox Searchlight), Jason Reitman Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.), Tony Gilroy Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| W | "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here |
| "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax), Paul Thomas Anderson Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| Best documentary feature | |
| "No End in Sight" (Magnolia Pictures) Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs | |
| "Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience" (The Documentary Group) Richard E. Robbins | |
| "Sicko" (Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company) Michael Moore and Meghan O'Hara Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| W | "Taxi to the Dark Side" (THINKFilm) Alex Gibney and Eva Orner |
| "War/Dance" (THINKFilm) Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine | |
| Best documentary short subject | |
| W | "Freeheld" A Lieutenant Films Production: Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth |
| "La Corona (The Crown)" A Runaway Films and Vega Films Production: Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega | |
| "Salim Baba" A Ropa Vieja Films and Paradox Smoke Production: Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello | |
| "Sari's Mother" (Cinema Guild) A Daylight Factory Production: James Longley | |
| Achievement in film editing | |
| W | "The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal): Christopher Rouse Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here |
| "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn): Juliette Welfling Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "Into the Wild" (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment): Jay Cassidy Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Roderick Jaynes Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax): Dylan Tichenor Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| Best foreign language film of the year | |
| "Beaufort" Israel | |
| W | "The Counterfeiters" Austria |
| "Katyn" Poland | |
| "Mongol" Kazakhstan | |
| "12" Russia | |
| Achievement in makeup | |
| W | "La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse) Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here |
| "Norbit" (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount): Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji | |
| "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" (Walt Disney): Ve Neill and Martin Samuel Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score) | |
| W | "Atonement" (Focus Features) Dario Marianelli Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here |
| "The Kite Runner" (DreamWorks, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Participant Productions): Alberto Iglesias Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) James Newton Howard Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "Ratatouille" (Walt Disney): Brad Bird Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "3:10 to Yuma" (Lionsgate) Marco Beltrami Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song) | |
| W | "Falling Slowly" from "Once" (Fox Searchlight) Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and: Marketa Irglova |
| "Happy Working Song" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney): Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "Raise It Up" from "August Rush" (Warner Bros.): Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "So Close" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney): Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "That's How You Know" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney): Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| Achievement in sound editing | |
| W | "The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal): Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here |
| "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage): Skip Lievsay Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "Ratatouille" (Walt Disney): Randy Thom and Michael Silvers Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax): Matthew Wood Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "Transformers" (DreamWorks and Paramount): Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| Achievement in sound mixing | |
| W | "The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal) Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here |
| "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage): Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "Ratatouille" (Walt Disney): Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "3:10 to Yuma" (Lionsgate): Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Jim Stuebe Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "Transformers" (DreamWorks and Paramount): Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| Achievement in visual effects | |
| W | "The Golden Compass" (New Line): Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here |
| "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" (Walt Disney): John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "Transformers" (DreamWorks and Paramount): Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| Adapted screenplay | |
| "Atonement" (Focus Features), Screenplay by Christopher Hampton Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "Away from Her" (Lionsgate), Written by Sarah Polley Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn), Screenplay by Ronald Harwood Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| W | "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage), Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here |
| "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax), Written for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| Original screenplay | |
| W | "Juno" (Fox Searchlight), Written by Diablo Cody Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here |
| "Lars and the Real Girl" (MGM), Written by Nancy Oliver Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.), Written by Tony Gilroy Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "Ratatouille" (Walt Disney), Screenplay by Brad Bird; Story by Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |
| "The Savages" (Fox Searchlight), Written by Tamara Jenkins Available at JennyStar DVD Rentals, click here | |