Winners at the 80th Academy Awards

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"No Country For Old Men" takes this year's Oscar for best film.Its creators, brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, walk away with the award for best director. Their bleak crime drama captured four of the world's top movie awards.

"No Country for Old Men" held true to its front-runner status at the Academy Awards. Nominated in eight categories, the film won four awards. The violent modern western thriller was written and directed by brothers Joel and Ethan Coen. Their efforts won them the awards for best director and best adapted screenplay. Javier Bardem became the first Spanish actor to win an Oscar. He took the best supporting actor award for his chilling portrait of a psychopathic killer in "No Country For Old Men."

Briton Daniel Day-Lewis won the Oscar for best actor as a sadistic oil prospector in the early 20th century. The prospector's rise to wealth and power in "There Will be Blood," comes at great cost to his soul. It's Day-Lewis' second Academy Award for best actor. His first came for 1989's "My Left Foot".

French actress Marion Cotillard rode the spirit of Edith Piaf to Oscar triumph. She won the best-actress prize playing the late singer in "La Vie En Rose." It was a surprise victory for Cotillard. British screen legend Julie Christie, had been favoured to win her second Oscar for her role in "Away From Her."

The Austrian Holocaust-era drama "The Counterfeiters" won the Oscar for best foreign language film. The film, directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, is the first win for Austria in the category.

The movie about a group of Jews who produce counterfeit currency for the Nazis in a concentration camp in order to undermine the U.S. and British economies, beat out films from Israel, Kazakhstan, Poland and Russia.

Briton Tilda Swinton won the best supporting actress Oscar, for her performance as a ruthless corporate attorney in the legal thriller "Michael Clayton."

Mickey Mouse got a rival as Hollywood's favorite rodent as the rat tale "Ratatouille" was named best animated film. It marks the second Oscar win in the category for director Brad Bird.