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80th Academy Awards  

80th Academy Awards Nominees & Winners
 

Best Picture

  Leading Actor
  Supporting Actor
  Leading Actress
  Supporting Actress
  Animated Feature Film
  Art Direction
  Cinematography
  Costume Design
  Directing
  Documentary Feature
  Documentary Short
  Film Editing
  Foreign Language
  Makeup
  Music (Score)
  Music (Song)
  Short - Animated
  Short - Live Action
  Sound Editing
  Sound Mixing
  Visual Effects
  Adapted Screenplay
  Original Screenplay


Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers
No Country for Old Men

Acceptance Speech
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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