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You all most likely already know the results but we somehow didn’t post the final details of this years Oscar ceremony and I’m sure it will create a lot of buzz and discussion in the comments: Two of the most imaginatively twisted minds in modern film, Joel and Ethan Coen, completed their journey from the fringes to Hollywood’s mainstream on Sunday as their crime saga “No Country for Old Men” won a leading four Academy Awards, including best picture. The Coens’ brooding, bloody tale of violence in a desolate corner of west Texas was the American standard-bearer for an Oscar show that otherwise had an international flair. All four acting prizes went to Europeans: Frenchwoman Marion Cotillard, the best-actress winner for “La Vie En Rose”; Spaniard Javier Bardem, who took supporting actor for “No Country”; and Brits Daniel Day-Lewis and Tilda Swinton, he claiming his second best-actor honor for “There Will Be Blood,” she winning supporting actress for “Michael Clayton.”

Adding to the international Oscar flavor, the animation winner was a U.S. film set in a Paris restaurant, “Ratatouille.” The best-song recipient was a tune written by the Irish and Czech stars of a micro-budgeted romance set in Dublin, “Once.” The globe-trotting thriller “The Bourne Ultimatum” swept all three of its categories, film editing, sound editing and sound mixing. Other winners included three films set around Britain and Europe: “Atonement” (music score), “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” (costume design) and “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” (art direction). As singer Edith Piaf in “La Vie En Rose,” Cotillard became the first performer ever to win an Oscar for a French-language film. Backstage, she crooned a bit of a Piaf song in French and described the task she had in playing the singer from her fiery teens to her fragile 40s. You can watch the whole ceremony in the release we posted few moments ago - and we will probably bring you even more Oscar-related releases soon.

Source: AFP, AP

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