Oscars 2008

The 80th Annual Academy Award ceremony were held on February 24, 2008, at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles, California.

1. Running Time: 3 hours, 21 minutes
2. TV Coverage: ABC, with Red Carpet coverage on E! and TV Guide
3. Location: Kodak Theater at Hollywood & Highland in Hollywood, California
4. Votes Tallied by PricewaterhouseCoopers
5. Most Nominations: 8 (No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood)Official Site: 2008 Nominees

The event was hosted by Jon Stewart who previously hosted the 78th Annual Academy Awards ceremony in 2006. The show featured very few prepared comedy bits by host Stewart due to the length of the 2007/2008 Writers Guild Strike, which had ended only weeks before the award ceremony.

The film which garnered the most nominations heading into the program was No Country for Old Men with eight nominations, and it came away with four award wins. These included Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Winner 2008, Best Director Oscar Winner 2008 for The Coen Brothers, Best Supporting Actor Oscar Winner 2008 for Javier Bardem, and the biggest prize of the night, Best Picture Oscar Winner 2008.

Meanwhile, for just the second time in the 80 year history of the awards, all four major individual acting awards went to non-American actors. In addition to Bardem (Spain), other winners were: Daniel Day-Lewis of Ireland as Best Actor Oscar Winner 2008 for There Will Be Blood; Marion Cotillard of France as Best Actress Oscar Winner 2008 for La Vie En Rose; and Tilda Swinton of Scotland as Best Supporting Actress Oscar Winner 2008 for Michael Clayton.

Ratatouille won for Best Animated Feature, and former stripper Diablo Cody won Best Original Screenplay for Juno.

The overnight television ratings indicated the telecast drew an average of just under 32 million viewers, which was off nearly 20% from the previous year's telecast.Rocky Mountain News: Oscar TV Ratings Worst Ever

1. Best Picture: No Country for Old Men
2. Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis
3. Best Actress: Marion Cotillard
4. Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem
5. Best Supporting Actress: Tilda Swinton
6. Best Director: The Coen Brothers

• Blip.tv: The Oscars in 60 Seconds (Time: 1:31)

• OSCAR.com: The Oscar Night Blog with Joel Stein

• Moviefone: The 80th Annual Academy Awards

• Variety.com: "Oscar ratings fall to all-time low" (February 25, 2008)

• CNN: Oscars may be headed to worst ratings ever (February 25, 2008)

• The Carpetbagger (NYT): Cross-Culturalisms (February 25, 2008)

• Variety: Will Oscar show grab great ratings? (February 19, 2008)

• Variety: Oscar ballots due today (February 18, 2008)

• Variety.com: "Oscar wants some answers" (February 6, 2008)

• Variety: Oscar nominees gain big box office (February 3, 2008)

• Variety.com: "Road to Oscars tough to navigate" (February 1, 2008)

• Variety.com: "Eye on the Oscars: Best Picture" (February 4, 2008)

• BBC News: "Jon Stewart returns as Oscar host" (September 12, 2007)

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• YouTube Video: Atonement Trailer

• YouTube Video: Juno Trailer

• YouTube Video: Michael Clayton Trailer

• YouTube: No Country for Old Men Trailer

• YouTube Video: There Will Be Blood Trailer

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