2007 (80th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 2007 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Picture

No Country for Old Men, Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Production; Miramax and Paramount Vantage. Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers.

Actor in a Leading Role

Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, JoAnne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company Production; Paramount Vantage and Miramax.

Actress in a Leading Role

Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose, Legende Production; Picturehouse. (France, UK, Czech Republic)

Actor in a Supporting Role

Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men, Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Production; Miramax and Paramount Vantage.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Tilda Swinton in Michael Clayton, Clayton Productions, LLC Production; Warner Bros.

Directing

No Country for Old Men, Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Production; Miramax and Paramount Vantage. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen.

Animated Feature Film

Ratatouille, Pixar Production; Walt Disney. Brad Bird.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Parkes/MacDonald and Zanuck Company Production; DreamWorks and Warner Bros., distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount. (USA, UK) Art direction by Dante Ferretti; set decoration by Francesca Lo Schiavo.

Cinematography

There Will Be Blood, JoAnne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company Production; Paramount Vantage and Miramax. Robert Elswit.

Costume Design

Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Working Title Production; Universal. (UK, France, Germany, USA) Alexandra Byrne.

Documentary

(Feature)

Taxi to the Dark Side, X-Ray Production; THINKFilm. Alex Gibney and Eva Orner.

(Short Subject)

Freeheld, Lieutenant Films Production. Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth.

Film Editing

The Bourne Ultimatum, Universal Pictures Production; Universal. (USA, Germany, France, Spain) Christopher Rouse.

Foreign Language Film

The Counterfeiters, Aichholzer Filmproduktion, Magnolia Filmproduktion Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Austria, Germany) Austria.

Makeup

La Vie en Rose, Legende Production; Picturehouse. (France, UK, Czech Republic) Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald.

Music

(Original Score)

Atonement, Working Title Production; Focus Features. (UK, France, USA) Dario Marianelli.

(Original Song)

Falling Slowly from Once, Samson Films Production; Fox Searchlight. (Ireland) Music and lyric by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova.

Short Films

(Animated)

Peter & the Wolf, BreakThru Films/Se-ma-for Studios Production; BreakThru Films. (UK, Poland, Norway, Mexico) Suzie Templeton and Hugh Welchman.

(Live Action)

Le Mozart des pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets), Karé Production; Premium Films. (France) Philippe Pollet-Villard.

Sound Editing

The Bourne Ultimatum, Universal Pictures Production; Universal. (USA, Germany, France, Spain) Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg.

Sound Mixing

The Bourne Ultimatum, Universal Pictures Production; Universal. (USA, Germany, France, Spain) Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis.

Visual Effects

The Golden Compass, Scholastic/Depth of Field Production; New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners. (UK, USA) Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood.

Writing

(Adapted Screenplay)

No Country for Old Men, Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Production; Miramax and Paramount Vantage. Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen.

(Original Screenplay)

Juno, Mandate Pictures/Mr. Mudd Production; Fox Searchlight. Written by Diablo Cody.

Honorary Award

To Robert Boyle in recognition of one of cinema’s great careers in art direction. [ [Statuette]]

To Jonathan Erland in recognition of his leadership and efforts toward identifying and solving the problem of High-Speed Emulsion Stress Syndrome in motion picture film stock. [ [Award of Commendaton - Special Award Plaque]]

To David Inglish for his outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. [ [John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation]]

Gordon E. Sawyer Award

David A. Grafton

Scientific and Technical Award

(Academy Award of Merit)

To the Eastman Kodak Company for the development of photographic emulsion technologies incorporated into the Kodak Vision2 family of color negative films. These new technologies are breakthroughs in film speed, grain and sharpness that have made a significant impact on the motion picture industry. The Vision2 family allows wider use of high-speed color negative film, lower light levels on set and faster set-ups. Most importantly, Vision2 improves the overall picture quality in theatrical presentation.

(Scientific and Engineering Award)

To Dr. Doug Roble, Nafees Bin Zafar and Ryo Sakaguchi for the development of the fluid simulation system at Digital Domain. This influential and flexible production-proven system incorporates innovative algorithms and refined adaptations of published methods to achieve large-scale water effects.

To Nick Rasmussen, Ron Fedkiw and Frank Losasso Petterson for the development of the Industrial Light & Magic fluid simulation system. This production-proven simulation system achieves large-scale water effects within ILM’s Zeno framework. It includes integrating particle level sets, parallel computation, and tools that enable the artistic direction of the result.

To Christien Tinsley for the creation of the transfer techniques for creating and applying 2D and 3D makeup known as “Tinsley Transfers.” These techniques allow quick and precisely repeatable application of 2D makeup such as tattoos, bruises and birthmarks, as well as 3D prosthetic appliances ranging in size from small wounds to entire torsos. They utilize self-adhesive material that features an unprecedented combination of tissue-thin edges, resilience, flexibility and water resistance, while requiring no dangerous solvents.

To Jörg Pöhler and Rüdiger Kleinke of OTTEC Technology GmbH for the design and development of the battery-operated series of fog machines known as “Tiny Foggers.” The operating characteristics of this compact, well-engineered and remote-controllable package make possible a range of safe special effects that would be totally impractical with larger, more conventional fog units.

To Sebastian Cramer for the invention and general design, and Andreas Dasser, head of development at P&S Technik GmbH, for the mechanical design, of the Skater Dolly and its family of products. This small, portable, camera-only dolly allows low lens positions, movement in restricted places and tight offset circular maneuvers with rapid set-up.

To Victor Gonzalez, Ignacio Vargas and Angel Tena for the creation of the RealFlow software application. RealFlow was the first widely adopted, commercially available, easy-to-use system for the simulation of realistic liquids in motion picture visual effects.

To Jonathan M. Cohen, Dr. Jerry Tessendorf, Dr. Jeroen Molemaker and Michael Kowalski for the development of the system of fluid dynamics tools at Rhythm & Hues. This system allows artists to create realistic animation of liquids and gasses using novel simulation techniques for accuracy and speed, as well as a unique scripting language for working with volumetric data.

To Duncan Brinsmead, Jos Stam, Julia Pakalns and Martin Werner for the design and implementation of the Maya Fluid Effects system. This system is used to create simulations of gaseous phenomena integrated into the widely available Maya tool suite, using an unconditionally stable semi-Lagrangian solver.

To Stephan Trojansky, Thomas Ganshorn and Oliver Pilarski for the development of the Flowline fluid effects system. Flowline is a flexible system that incorporates highly parallel computation, allowing rapid iteration and resulting in detailed, realistic fluid effects.