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At the 80th Academy Awards ceremony, Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen accepted "Best Picture" Oscars for No Country for Old Men.
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Fast Facts
- Winners: Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- Film: No Country for Old Men
- The film also won "Best Director," "Best Supporting Actor," "Best Adapted Screenplay"
- Award Presenter: Denzel Washington
- Ceremony Date: February 24, 2008
- Venue: Kodak Theatre
- Location: Los Angeles, California
- Broadcast on: ABC
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"Best Picture" Nominees
- Atonement - producers Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster
- Juno - producers Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick, Russell Smith
- Michael Clayton - producers Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox, Kerry Orent
- No Country for Old Men - producers Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- There Will Be Blood - producers JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi
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Speech Info
The Coen Brothers, who won ""Best Director" awards earlier in the ceremony, let producer Scott Rudin speak upon receiving the "Best Picture" Oscars.Rudin thanked the Academy and crew members on No Country for Old Men. He also thanked Miramax and Paramount Vantage for financing the project.
Rudin dedicated his win to fellow filmmaker Sydney Pollack for teaching him that "with the opportunity to make movies comes the responsibility of making them good."Oscars.org: "Best Picture" Winner
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No Country for Old Men Best Picture Oscar Acceptance Speech
- From Oscars.org:
- Best Picture Oscar Acceptance Speech by 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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