The Best Film Oscar for 2008 was awarded to the Coen Brothers and Scott Rudin for the drama No Country for Old Men. The movie was based on a Cormac McCarthy novel.

• YouTube Video: Best Motion Picture (Time: 2:55)
• No Country for Old Men Best Picture Oscar Acceptance Speech
• Scott Rudin:
  • This is an unbelievable honor and a complete surprise. So many people have apart 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 (re: Coen Brothers), I can't think of anybody I'd rather be standing here with more than the two of you. Thank you so much for this. Everybody at Miramax and Vantage who financed the movie together. The entire team at Miramax who did a brilliant, brilliant job selling it. I want to thank Mark Roy Ball. I want to thank my friend Sydney Pollack who taught me with the opportunity to make movies comes the responsibility to making them good. This is also for my partner John Barlow, without you honey, this would be hardware. Thank you so much.