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Best Motion Picture of the Year
Winner: No Country for Old Men - Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Scott Rudin

Comment: Amazing to me that this one walked away with the awards show. However it is reflective of our time and it captures the current morbid feelings. Unlike the ending in the film however, I believe that "all things will work together for good."

Best Achievement in Directing
Winner: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen for No Country for Old Men

Comment: These guys were amazingly gifted by God.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Winner: Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood

Comment: The clip shown during the awards was the Daniel Day character accepting Jesus as savior. Interesting. But, then we all need to be Born Again, and some of us more often than once.

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Winner: Juno - Diablo Cody

Comment: Diablo Cody was an exotic dancer before she wrote this screenplay. Wow, speak of transformation! Miracles do happen.

Best Documentary, Features
Winner: Taxi to the Dark Side - Alex Gibney, Eva Orner

Comment: War is hell, literally, and this film proves it.

Best Documentary, Short Subjects
Winner: Freeheld - Cynthia Wade, Vanessa Roth

Comment: I have not been able to see the short subjects this year. This one looks very interesting and opinion changing.

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Winner: Atonement - Dario Marianelli

Comment: Atonement deserved more, but glad for this honor at least. Here is the story about the power of story-telling. Stories can destroy and stories can bring redemption. Stories affect us spiritually as no other thing can.

Best Achievement in Cinematography
Winner: There Will Be Blood - Robert Elswit

Comment: Power and greed. What does it profit anyone to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
Winner: Once - Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová (“Falling Slowly”)

Comment: Simple people, simple story told with the awesome spiritual drive of music. True music from the heart.

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Winner: Fälscher, Die (Austria)

Comment: Have not seen it.

Best Achievement in Editing
Winner: The Bourne Ultimatum - Christopher Rouse

Comment: This series asks the basic life questions: Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going?

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Winner: Marion Cotillard for Môme, La

Comment: Have not seen it.

Best Achievement in Sound
Winner: The Bourne Ultimatum - Scott Millan, David Parker, Kirk Francis

Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Winner: The Bourne Ultimatu - Karen M. Baker, Per Hallberg

Comment: As above.

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
Winner: No Country for Old Men - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Comment: As above.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner: Tilda Swinton for Michael Clayton

Comment: Brilliant film. There is always a day of judgment. Justice will happen. We reap what we sow.

Best Short Film, Animated
Winner: Peter & the Wolf - Suzie Templeton, Hugh Welchman

Comment: A wonderful story for Children, especially the ones over that are over 40!

Best Short Film, Live Action
Winner: Le Mozart des pickpockets - Philippe Pollet-Villard

Comment: Have not seen it but it looks delightful.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner: Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men

Comment: Again

Best Achievement in Art Direction
Winner: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo

Comment: Revenge is like a boomerang. You really do reap what you sow. Poor Sweeney, he learned this spiritual truth only after it was too late.

Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Winner: The Golden Compass - Michael L. Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris, Trevor Wood

Comment: The visuals were stunning, yet the film missed the mark. Loved it for the great discussion opportunity about the religious elite it furnished.

Best Achievement in Makeup
Winner: La Môme - Didier Lavergne, Jan Archibald

Comment: Have not seen it.

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Winner: Ratatouille - Brad Bird

Comment: Ratatouille --spiritual insight from a rat. This film speaks to the need to try.

Best Achievement in Costume Design
Winner: Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Alexandra Byrne