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Oscars 2008 Winners & Nominees

The 80th Academy Awards (2008) took place on February 24, 2008. No Country for Old Men won Best Picture and 3 more awards. Every winner and nominee in all 21 categories is below.

All 21 categories Most wins
categories
21
nominations
94
films nominated
41
winners
21
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Best Picture
No Country for Old Men
Headline winners

Oscars 2008: The Winners

No Country for Old Men won Best Picture against 4 other nominees. Daniel Day-Lewis (Best Actor), Marion Cotillard (Best Actress) and Javier Bardem (Best Supporting Actor) took the main individual prizes.

No Country for Old Men (2007) movie poster Best Picture

Best Picture

No Country for Old Men

2007 · Drama, Thriller, Crime · $172M worldwide

4 wins from 8 nominations at the 80th Academy Awards (2008)

  • Best Supporting Actor
  • Best Director
  • Best Adapted Screenplay

In the desolate Texas landscape, Llewelyn Moss inadvertently stumbles upon a wrecked drug deal and a substantial sum of money, setting off a chain of violent events. Pursued by a relentless and chillingly ruthless killer, Moss finds himself caught in a deadly game where human life holds no value. Meanwhile, an aging sheriff grapples with the changing world and the escalating brutality as he attempts to restore order and bring the escalating violence under control.

About No Country for Old Men
Scoreboard

Oscars 2008: Which Films Won the Most

No Country for Old Men won 4 awards from 8 nominations. 14 films won at least once, while The Diving Bell and the Butterfly went home empty-handed from 4 nominations. Green is wins, blue is nominations.

  1. No Country for Old Men (2007) movie poster
    No Country for Old Men 4 / 8
    2007 · Drama, Thriller · 4 wins from 8 nominations
  2. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) movie poster
    The Bourne Ultimatum 3 / 3
    2007 · Action, Adventure · 3 wins from 3 nominations
  3. There Will Be Blood (2007) movie poster
    There Will Be Blood 2 / 8
    2007 · Drama, Thriller · 2 wins from 8 nominations
  4. La Vie en Rose (2007) movie poster
    La Vie en Rose 2 / 3
    2007 · Biography, Drama · 2 wins from 3 nominations
  5. Michael Clayton (2007) movie poster
    Michael Clayton 1 / 7
    2007 · Drama, Mystery · 1 win from 7 nominations
  6. Atonement (2007) movie poster
    Atonement 1 / 7
    2007 · Drama, Mystery · 1 win from 7 nominations
  7. Ratatouille (2007) movie poster
    Ratatouille 1 / 5
    2007 · Fantasy, Comedy · 1 win from 5 nominations
  8. Juno (2007) movie poster
    Juno 1 / 4
    2007 · Drama, Comedy · 1 win from 4 nominations
  9. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) movie poster
    Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 1 / 3
    2007 · Drama, Thriller · 1 win from 3 nominations
  10. Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) movie poster
    Elizabeth: The Golden Age 1 / 2
    2007 · Biography, Drama · 1 win from 2 nominations
Full results

All 21 Oscars 2008 Categories: Winners & Nominees

21 categories and 94 nominations. The winner of each comes first, on a green row. Search for a film or a person, show only the winners, or jump straight to a category.

21 categories · 94 nominations

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Movie marathon

The Oscars 2008 Best Picture Marathon

All 5 Best Picture nominees at the 80th Academy Awards (2008), back to back: 10 hours 18 minutes.

Total running time 10h 18m 10 hours 18 minutes All 5 films
Longest
There Will Be Blood 2h 38m
Shortest
Juno 1h 36m
By genre

The Genres Behind the Oscars 2008 Winners

Drama led with 73 nominations across 30 films and won 15. A film with several genres counts for each one.

  1. Drama 15 wins · 73 nominations · 21%
  2. Thriller 11 wins · 35 nominations · 31%
  3. Crime 7 wins · 26 nominations · 27%
  4. Mystery 5 wins · 20 nominations · 25%
  5. Romance 3 wins · 18 nominations · 17%
  6. Comedy 2 wins · 18 nominations · 11%
  7. Biography 3 wins · 17 nominations · 18%
  8. War 3 wins · 14 nominations · 21%
  9. Adventure 4 wins · 13 nominations · 31%
  10. Western 4 wins · 12 nominations · 33%
2008 season

How the Rest of the 2008 Awards Season Voted

The other 11 ceremonies of 2008, with the winner of each top prize. No Country for Old Men also won the top prize at 4 of them.

All 2008 awards
Earlier years

Previous Oscars Ceremonies

The 6 ceremonies before this one, with the winner of each top prize. The Oscars page has every year back to 1929.

Every Oscars ceremony

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Oscars 2008: Questions & Answers

The top prize, the film that won the most, the most-nominated film, the individual winners and the date of the 80th Academy Awards (2008), answered from the results on this page.

Who won Best Picture at the 80th Academy Awards (2008)?

No Country for Old Men (2007) won Best Picture. The other nominees were Atonement, Juno, Michael Clayton and There Will Be Blood.

About No Country for Old Men

Which film won the most awards at the 80th Academy Awards (2008)?

No Country for Old Men (2007) won the most: 4 awards from 8 nominations. The Bourne Ultimatum was next with 3 wins.

Which film had the most nominations at the 80th Academy Awards (2008)?

No Country for Old Men (2007) and There Will Be Blood (2007) led with 8 nominations each.

Who won the acting awards at the 80th Academy Awards (2008)?

Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood. Best Actress: Marion Cotillard for La Vie en Rose. Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men. Best Supporting Actress: Tilda Swinton for Michael Clayton.

When was the 80th Academy Awards (2008)?

The 80th Academy Awards (2008) took place on February 24, 2008. The database has 21 categories and 94 nominations for it.