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February 25, 2008 10:40 AM
The Oscars lowdown - who won the big awards
I have been known to stay up all night and watch the Oscars coverage live, but since my student days are now over, I'll have to content myself with the highlights tonight on Sky One, 10pm. So for those of you who want to remain in ignorance until you get a chance to watch it yourself, now is the time to look away.
For the rest of us the big news is the Coens' dark western No Country for Old Men won big, taking Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Spanish hunk Javier Bardem) and Best Adapted Screenplay. And who else will now have a little gold man to find room for in their downstairs toilets? (As that's where all the top luvvies keep them, dontcha know.) Read over for the other Oscar triumphs.
In the major acting awards, Daniel Day-Lewis bagged his second Oscar for Best Leading Male in P. T. Anderson's There Will Be Blood, while French actress Marion Cotillard won the female equivalent for her turn as singer Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose. British outsider Tilda Swinton provided a shock by winning the Best Supporting Actress gong for her performance as a ruthless lawyer in Michael Clayton, while Dollymix fave Diablo Cody was a popular choice for Best Original Screenplay for indie hit Juno.
Of course, there were plenty of other categories (best animated short anyone?) and for all the winners and who they beat (ha, ha!) skip on over to the Empire Online website, as they provide a seriously thorough breakdown of the results.
But as with all big awards ceremonies, there will be as much talk about the night's winners as those that wore bad dresses or messed up their autocue. Who can forget that swan get-up that Björk wore, Roberto Benigni acting all ker-azy and climbing over seats in a frenzy to get to the stage or James Cameron's cringe worthy minute of silence for those that died on the Titanic?
Oh, the glamour of this biz called show.
Posted by Katie Button on February 25, 2008 in Film Stars | Permalink
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