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Europeans dominate 2008 Oscars, though Best Picture goes to 'No Country for Old Men' |
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Written by the editor
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Monday, 25 February 2008 |
 Ethan and Joel Coen's No Country for Old Men won four Oscars yesterday evening in Los Angeles, including Best Picture, Best Directors and Best Adapted Screenplay. But in general Europeans dominated the awards, with all four acting awards going to European actors: UK actor Daniel Day-Lewis won Best Actor for his performance in P.T. Anderson's oil saga There Will Be Blood; UK actress Tilda Swinton won Best Supporting Actress for her role in the legal drama Michael Clayton; Spanish actor Javier Bardem won Best Supporting Actor for his role in No Country for Old Men and French actress Marion Cotillard won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as Edith Piaf in La môme (La Vie en Rose). Europeans also won in many of the technical categories, including production designer Dante Ferretti, who was honoured for his work on the musical Sweeney Todd; composer Dario Marianelli, who won the Best Score Oscar for Atonement; Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova who won Best Song for the Irish feature Once and Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald who won Best Make-up for La môme (La Vie en Rose). The Best Foreign Language Film Oscar went to Austrian WWII saga Die Fälscher (The Counterfeiters). A full list of winners is available on OSCAR.com. |
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