Welchman said, "This really is a fairy tale ending for us, but hopefully it's only the beginning for Peter and this amazing award, and it will help keep Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf" in the hearts and minds of children all over the world."

ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION - Dante Ferretti And Francesca Lo Schiavo for Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street. Ferretti said, "Thank you to the Academy ... Tim Burton … Zanuck … to my team and Johnny."

Lo Schiavo said, "And thank you to Tim Burton. Great director. Johnny Depp and all the actors, Everybody, for this fantastic movie."

ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP - Didier Lavergne And Jan Archibald for La Vie En Rose. Archibald said, "Thank you to the academy for this huge honor. I have a lot of people to thank. My assistants, particularly, my Czech crew that worked with us in Prague and in Paris, they were amazing. They worked very hard and I owe a lot to them."

ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS - Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris And Trevor Wood for The Golden Compass. Fink said, "We just want to say "Thank you!" We just brought a small quote from Walt Disney, who said "It's kind of fun to do the impossible."

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM - Brad Bird for Ratatouille. Bird said, I also want to thank my junior high guidance counselor for a meeting we had where he asked me, "What do you want to do with your life?" And I said, 'I want to make movies.' And he said, 'What else do you want to do with your life?' And I said, 'Make movies,' and he said, 'What if you couldn't make movies,' and I said, 'I'd find a way that I could.'"

"'What if movies didn't exist?'"

"'I'd have to invent them.' And it went on like this until we were sick of each other and I only realized just recently that he gave me the perfect training for the movie business."

ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN - Alexandra Byrne for Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Byrne said, "Wow. Thank you to the Academy. Thank you to Working Title and Universal. To Shekhar and Cate. And a huge thank you to my brilliant team and to my family."