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Javier Bardem adds an Oscar, the world's most important film price, to his multiple awards. No Country for Old Men is Best Picture and also wins the statues for Best Direction and Best Script. miniguide* tells you where to watch the Oscar winners in V.O.
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No Country For Old Men is Best Motion Picture, Best Direction, Best Script and Best Adapted Screenplay. Spain's uber-actor Javier Bardem, who already won the film one of the two Golden Globes as Best Supporting Actor in the role of a bizzarre killer, is the first Spaniard to win an Oscar as a Supporting Actor. The second Golden Globe went to for Ethan and Joel Coen for their Best Original Screenplay. Read full story and check V.O. cinemas for this movie
There will be Blood wins two out of eight nominations, in the categories Best Cinematography and Daniel Day Lewis wins his second Oscar as Best Actor. Day Lewis already won the Golden Globe for his performance as a poor silver mine worker who happens to become a rich businessman when oil is found under the silver mines. Read full story and check V.O. theatres for this movie
Atonement wins only one out of seven Oscar nominations, in the category Best Music Score. This melodrama about young writer Briony whose lively imagination brings her to accuse the son of the housekeeper of a crime he didn't commit already won two Golden Globes (Best Motion Picture, Best Original Score) and a BAFTA award as best movie. Read full story and check V.O. theatres for this movie.
Juno the teenage indie flick wins an Oscar for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) Read full story and check V.O. theatres for this movie.
Once wins an Oscar for the Best Song Read full story and check V.O. theatres for this movie.
Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Tim Burton's adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Broadway musical wins an Oscar for Best Art Direction.Already won two Golden Globes in the categories Best Musical/Comedy Best Comedy/Musical Actor (Johnny Depp).Read full story and check V.O. theatres for this movie
The Golden Compass wins an Oscar for Best Visual Effects. Read full story and check V.O. theatres for this movie
Michael Clayton No Oscar for George Clooney, but for Tilda Swindon as Best Actress. Read full story and check V.O. theatres for this movie
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The Counterfeiters Stefan Ruzowitzky wins the Foreign Language Oscar for Austria with his movie about Nazi crimes. (to be released March-28 as V.O.)
La Vie en Rose Two sensational Oscars for this French production, one of which for Marion Cotillard as Best Actress in a Leading Role, playing off the strong US competition of Cate Blanchet, Julie Christie and Ellen Page. (to be re-released as V.O. on Feb. 29)
Further Oscar nominations:
Michael Clayton Completely marginalised by the Golden Globe, but not so by the Academy, which nominated Tony Gilroy's movie in seven Oscar categories, amongst others, for the Best Motion Picture, Best Direction and George Clooney as Best Actor. Read full story and check V.O. theatres for this movie.
Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) Four Oscar nominations for Julien Schnabel's extraordinary visual biography of ex-Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, almost totally paralised but still able to communicate his imagination to the outside world by twinkling his eyelid. Awarded with two Golden Globes as Best Foreign Language Film and in the category Best Direction. Read full story and check V.O. theatres for this movie.
Persepolis lost its second chance as France's Oscar contender after the jury's had decided against this animated flick as Best Foreign Language Film. The Oscar went to Ratatouille. Read full story and check V.O. theatres for this movie.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Andrew Dominik's arty western was nominated for two Oscars. Read full story and check V.O. theatres for this movie.
American Gangster Two rather marginal Oscar nominations for Ridley Scott's gangster saga. Read full story and check V.O. theatres for this movie
Away From Her Sarah Polley's heartwrenching film about an older couple's relationship and the cruelty of Alzheimers was running for two Oscars. Julie Christie, already awarded for her performance as Best Actress with a Golden Globe, had been nominated by the Academy as well. (currently not shown as V.O. in Barcelona)
To be released in March:
I'm not There Cate Blanchet is the winner of the Golden Globe as Best Supporting Actress for her extraordinary performance in the role of Jude, an androgynous metamorphosis of singer- songwriter Bob Dylan. The release date for this movie in Spain is due to be confirmed for March-08. Watch our film agenda for updates regarding V.O. cinemas. Read full review
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