RUSHES: 2007-2008 AWARDS SEASON RECAP

Here is a recap of American awards season's winners:

80TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS
BEST PICTURE - No Country for Old Men
BEST DIRECTORS - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (pictured, above), No Country for Old Men
BEST ACTOR, LEADING ROLE - Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
BEST ACTRESS, LEADING ROLE - Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
(the third performer to win a lead acting Oscar for a foreign language picture)
BEST ACTOR, SUPPORTING ROLE - Javier Bardem, No Country...
BEST ACTRESS, SUPPORTING ROLE - Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
BEST SCREENPLAY, ORIGINAL - Diablo Cody, Juno
BEST SCREENPLAY, ADAPTED - Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, No Country...
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE - Ratatouille
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM - The Counterfeiters, Stefan Ruzowitsky (Austria)
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE - Taxi on the Dark Side, Alex Gibney

GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS
BEST PICTURE, DRAMA - Atonement
BEST PICTURE, MUSICAL or COMEDY - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
BEST ACTOR, DRAMA - Daniel Day-Lewis
BEST ACTRESS, DRAMA - Julie Christie, Away from Her
BEST ACTOR, MUSICAL OR COMEDY - Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd
BEST ACTRESS, MUSICAL OR COMEDY - Marion Cotillard
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR - Javier Bardem
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS - Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There
BEST DIRECTOR - Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
BEST SCREENPLAY - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
BEST ANIMATED FILM - Ratatouille
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (USA-France)

SCREEN ACTORS GUILD
BEST MALE ACTOR, LEAD - Daniel Day-Lewis
BEST FEMALE ACTOR, LEAD - Julie Christie
BEST MALE ACTOR, SUPPORTING - Javier Bardem
BEST FEMALE ACTOR, SUPPORTING - Ruby Dee, American Gangster
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST PERFORMANCE, THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURE - The cast of No Country for Old Men

INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS
BEST FILM - Juno
BEST FIRST FILM - The Lookout, Scott Frank
BEST MALE LEAD - Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Savages
BEST FEMALE LEAD - Ellen Page, Juno
BEST MALE, SUPPORTING - Chiwetel Ejiofor, Talk to Me
BEST FEMALE, SUPPORTING - Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There
BEST DIRECTOR - Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell...
BEST SCREENPLAY - Tamara Jenkins, The Savages
BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY - Diablo Cody
BEST FOREIGN FILM - Once, John Carney (Ireland)
ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD - I'm Not There, Todd Haynes

BRITISH ACADEMY AWARDS (BAFTA)
BEST FILM - Atonement
BEST BRITISH FILM - This is England, Shane Meadows
BEST LEADING ACTOR - Daniel Day-Lewis
BEST LEADING ACTRESS - Marion Cotillard
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR - Javier Bardem
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS - Tilda Swinton
BEST DIRECTOR - Julian Schnabel
BEST SCREENPLAY, ADAPTED - The Coen Brothers
BEST SCREENPLAY, ORIGINAL - Diablo Cody
BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE - The Diving Bell...

CRITICS' GROUP TRIFECTA (Los Angeles Film Critics Association; New York Film Critics Circle; National Society of Film Critics)

BEST FILM-
- LAFCA, NSFC: There Will Be Blood
- NYFCC: No Country...

BEST ACTOR
- LAFCA, NYFCC, NSFC: Daniel Day-Lewis

BEST ACTRESS
- NYFCC, NSFC: Julie Christie
- LAFCA: Marion Cotillard

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
- LAFCA: Vlad Ivanov, 4 Mois, 3 Semaines, 2 Jours (4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days), Cristian Mongiu (Romania)
- NYFCC: Javier Bardem
- NSFC: Casey Affleck, The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- LAFCA, NYFCC: Amy Ryan, I'm Not There
- NSFC: Cate Blanchett

BEST DIRECTOR
- LAFCA, NSFC: Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
- NYFCC: The Coen brothers

BEST FOREIGN FILM
- LAFCA: 4 Mois, 3 Semaines, 2 Jours
- NYFCC: The Lives of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (Oscar winner, Best Foreign Film - 2006)
- NSFC: 4 Mois...

BEST SCREENPLAY
- LAFCA, NYFCC, NSFC: Tamara Jenkins

For the record, Daniel Day-Lewis becomes the 11th thespian in film history to win the Oscar, Golden Globe, Screen Actors' Guild, BAFTA, and the three U.S. critics' trifecta in a year. Last year, Dame Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker won grand slam honors for The Queen and The Last King of Scotland respectively. The others are
Sally Field for Norma Rae (1979), including Best Actress at Cannes
Sissy Spacek for The Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
Meryl Streep for Sophie's Choice (1982)
Jack Nicholson for Terms of Endearment (1983)
Emma Thompson for Howards End (1992)
Holly Hunter for The Piano (1993), including Best Actress at Cannes
Martin Landau for Ed Wood (1994)
Dianne Wiest for Bullets Over Broadway (1994)