Achievement in Costume Design
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE [1] - Albert Wolsky
ATONEMENT - Jacqueline Durran
ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE - Alexandra Byrne
LA MÔME (LA VIE EN ROSE) - Marit Allen
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET - Colleen Atwood
Achievement in Documentary Features
NO END IN SIGHT [1, 0] (Magnolia Pictures) A Representational Pictures Production; Charles Ferguson & Audrey Marrs
OPERATION HOMECOMING: WRITING THE WARTIME EXPERIENCE [1, 0] (The Documentary Group) A Documentary Group Production; Richard E. Robbins
SICKO [1, 0] (Lionsgate & The Weinstein Co.) A Dog Eat Dog Films Production; Michael Moore & Meghan O'Hara
TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE [1, 1] (THINKFilm) An X-Ray Production; Alex Gibney & Eva Omer
WAR/DANCE [1, 0] (THINKFilm) A Shine Global & Fine Films Production; Andrea Nix Fine & Sean Fine
Achievement in Documentary Short Subjects
FREEHELD [1, 1] - A Lieutenant Films Production; Cynthia Wade & Vanessa Roth
LA CORONA (THE CROWN) [1, 0] - A Runaway Films & Vega Films Production; Amanda Micheli & Isabel Vega
SALIM BABA [1, 0] - A Ropa Vieja Films & Paradox Smoke Production; Tim Sternberg & Francisco Bello
SARI'S MOTHER [1, 0] (Cinema Guild) A Daylight Factory Production; James Longley
Achievement in Film Editing
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM [3, 3] - Christopher Rouse
LE SCAPHANDRE ET LE PAPILLON (THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY) - Juliette Welfling
INTO THE WILD - Jay Cassidy
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN - Roderick Jaynes
THERE WILL BE BLOOD - Dylan Tichenor
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
BEAUFORT [1, 0] - A Metro Communications, Movie Plus Production (Israel)
DIE FÄLSCHER (THE COUNTERFEITERS) [1, 1] - An Aichholzer Filmproduction, Magnolia Filmproduktion Production (Austria)
KATYN [1, 0] - An Akson Studio Production (Poland)
MONGOL [1, 0] - A Eurasia Film Production (Kazakhstan)
12 [1, 0] - A Three T Production (Russia)
Achievement in Makeup
LA MÔME (LA VIE EN ROSE) - Didier Lavergne & Jan Archibald
NORBIT [1, 0] - Rick Baker & Kazuhiro Tsuji
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END [2, 0] - Ve Neill & Martin Samuel
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures: Original Score
ATONEMENT -
Play selection - Dario Marianelli
THE KITE RUNNER [1, 0]
Play selection - Alberto Iglesias
MICHAEL CLAYTON -
Play selection - James Newton Howard
RATATOUILLE -
Play selection - Michael Giacchino
3:10 TO YUMA [2, 0]
Play selection - Marco Beltrami
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures: Original Song
ONCE [1, 1] -
"Falling Slowly" - Music & Lyric by Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová
ENCHANTED [3, 0] -
"Happy Working Song" - Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
AUGUST RUSH [1, 0] -
"Raise It Up" - Music & Lyric by Jamal Joseph, Charles Mack and Tevin Thomas
ENCHANTED -
"So Close" - Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
ENCHANTED -
"That's How You Know Him" - Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
Best Animated Short Films
I MET THE WALRUS [1, 0] - A Kids & Explosions Production; Josh Raskin
MADAME TUTLI-PUTLI [1, 0] - A National Film Board of Canada Production; Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski
MÊME LES PIGEONS VONT AU PARADIS (EVEN THE PIGEONS GO TO HEAVEN) [1, 0] - A BUF Compagnie Production; Samuel Tourneux & Simon Vanesse
MOYA LYUBOV (MY LOVE) [1, 0] - A Dago-film Studio, Channel One Russia and Dentsu Tec Production; Alexandr Petrov
PETER & THE WOLF [1, 1] (Break Thru Films) A BreakThru Films/Se-ma-for Studios Production; Suzie Templeton & Hugh Welchman
Best Live Action Short Films
OM NATTEN (AT NIGHT) [1, 0] - A Zoetrope Entertainments 10 Production; Christian E. Christiansen & Louise Vesth
LE MOZART DES PICKPOCKETS (THE MOZART OF PICKPOCKETS) [1, 0] - A Karé Production; Philippe Pollet-Villard
IL SUPPLENTE (THE SUBSTITUTE) [1, 0] - A Frame by Frame Italia Production; Andrea Jublin
TANGHI ARGENTINI [1, 0] (Premium Films) - An Another Dimension of an Idea Production; Guido Thys & Anja Daelemans
THE TONTO WOMAN [1, 0] - A Knucklehead, Little Mo and Rose Hackney Barber Production; Daniel Barber & Matthew Brown
Achievement in Sound Editing
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM - Karen Baker Landers & Per Hallberg
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN - Skip Lievsay
RATATOUILLE - Randy Thom & Michael Silvers
THERE WILL BE BLOOD - Matthew Wood
TRANSFORMERS [3, 0] - Ethan Van der Ryn & Mike Hopkins
Achievement in Sound Mixing
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM - Scott Millan, David Parker & Kirk Francis
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN - Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff & Peter Kurland
RATATOUILLE - Randy Thom, Michael Semanick & Doc Kane
3:10 TO YUMA - Paul Massey, David Giammarco & Jim Stuebe
TRANSFORMERS - Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell & Peter J. Devlin
Achievement in Visual Effects
THE GOLDEN COMPASS - Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris & Trevor Wood
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END - John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier
TRANSFORMERS - Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl & John Frazier
Testimonial Awards
Honorary Award (Statuette):
To Robert Boyle: "In recognition of one of cinema's great careers in art direction."
Irving G. Thalberg Award: No Award presented for 2007
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award: No Award presented for 2007
Scientific and Technical Awards
(Presented at The Beverly Wilshire on 9 February 2008)
Academy Award of Merit (Statuette):
To the Eastman Kodak Company for the development of photographic emulsion technologies incorporated into the Kodak Vision2 family of color negative films.
Scientific and Engineering Awards (Academy Plaques):
To Dr. Doug Roble, Nafees Bin Zafar and Ryo Sakaguchi for the development of the fluid simulation system at Digital Domain.
To Nick Rasmussen, Ron Fedkiw and Frank Losasso Petterson for the development of the Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) fluid simulation system.
Technical Achievement Awards (Academy Certificates):
To Christien Tinsley for the creation of the transfer techniques for creating and applying 2D and 3D makeup known as "Tinsley Transfers."
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."
To Sebastian Cramer for the design of the Skater Dolly and its family of products.
To Victor Gonzalez, Ignacio Vargas and Angel Tena for the creation of the RealFlow software application.
To Jonathan Cohen, Dr. Jerry Tessendorf, Dr. Jeroen Molemaker and Michael Kowalski for the development of the system of fluid dynamics tools at Rhythm & Hues.
To Duncan Brinsmead, Jos Stam, Julia Pakalns and Martin Werner for the design and implementation of the Maya Fluid Effects system.
To Stephan Trojansky, Thomas Ganshorn and Oliver Pilarski for the development of the Flowline fluid effects system.
Award of Commendation (Special Plaque):
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.
John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation (Medallion):
To David S. Inglish, for his outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Gordon E. Sawyer Award (Statuette):
To David A. Grafton, whose technological contributions have brought credit to the industry.