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Last night, the 80th annual Academy Awards were handed out … and the winners in the major categories included:

Best Picture
“No Country For Old Men”

Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis, “There Will Be Blood”

Best Actress
Marion Cotillard, “La Vie En Rose”

Best Supporting Actor
Javier Bardem, “No Country For Old Men”

Best Supporting Actress
Tilda Swinton, “Michael Clayton”

Best Adapted Screenplay
“No Country For Old Men”

Best Original Screenplay
“Juno”

Best Animated Movie
“Ratatouille”

Best Director
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, “No Country For Old Men”

KC's View:
Best line of the night had to be when Jon Stewart, the evening’s host, referred to “Away From Her,” the drama about Alzheimer’s that starred Julie Christie. Noting that it was a movie in which a woman forgot who her husband was, he quipped, “Hillary Clinton called it the ‘feel good movie of the year’.”