
No film ran away with the night, however, as Hollywood -- home to the
80th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday Feb 24, gave a bruised movie industry a chance to refocus its ever-inward gaze on laurels instead of labor strife.

"
No Country For Old Men" won the Oscar for best film and its makers, brothers
Joel and
Ethan Coen, were named best directors on Sunday, giving the bleak crime drama four of the world's top movie awards.
Members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored a wide range of movies, actors and actresses from several countries.

Britain's
Daniel Day-Lewis won the Oscar for best actor as a sadistic oil prospector in the early 20th century whose rise to wealth and power comes at a deep cost to his soul.

France's
Marion Cotillard was named best actress, Britain's
Tilda Swinton took supporting actress and Spain's
Javier Bardem won supporting actor. Cotillard earned her Academy Award portraying singer Edith Piaf in "La Vie en Rose" and became the first French actress to win the Oscar in that category since 1960.
"I'm speechless now," Cotillard said on stage, visibly surprised and overjoyed. "Thank you life, thank you love. It is true there (are) some angels in this city." Swinton won supporting actress playing an ethically challenged corporate lawyer in the thriller "Michael Clayton" and Bardem was given his award for portraying a sadistic killer in "No Country For Old Men."
The fourth Oscar for "No Country For Old Men" also went to the Coen brothers for best adapted screenplay by basing their movie on the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name.
To read more about the events of this prestigious night, just visit
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