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BEST PERFRORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE - Marion Cotillard for La Vie En Rose. Cotillard said, "Olivier, what you did to me, Maestro Olivier Dahan, you rocked my life. You truly rocked my life. Thank you so much to Picturehouse for your passion, members of the Academy, thank you… thank you life, thank you love, and it is true, there is some angels in this city."

ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING - Scott Millan, David Parker, and Kirk Francis for The Bourne Ultimatum. Millan said, "Thank you, principally everybody, Frank Marshall, Pat Crowley, Paul Greengrass, Chris Rouse, everybody at Universal, and everybody at Todd AO."

"And I'd like to add one thing, kind of a somber note, this last week we lost a colleague and a friend, who was also a member of the Board of Governors here at the Academy, his name is Paul Huntsman. I would like to dedicate this to Paul. So, thank you very much."

David Parker: "Thanks to everyone who worked on sound for the film and thanks to the Academy. Thank you very much."

ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING- Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg for The Bourne Ultimatum. Baker Landers said, "I want to thank the Academy... Universal Studios."

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY - Joel Coen & Ethan Coen for No Country For Old Men. Joel Coen said, "Thank you, Scott Rudin, for bringing us this novel and giving us the opportunity to make the movie. I think whatever success we've had in this area has been entirely attributable to how selective we are. We've only adapted Homer and Cormac McCarthy, so thank you."

Ethan Coen: "We thank you very much."

BEST PERFRORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE - Tilda Swinton for Michael Clayton. Swinton said, "I have an American agent who is the spitting image of this … And I'm giving this to him because there's no way I would be in America at all ever on a plane, if it wasn't for him. So, Brian Swardstrom, I'm giving this to you. And Tony Gilroy walks on water, it's entirely official as far as I'm concerned, and Jen Fox and Steve Samuels, our incredible producers. And Sydney Pollack, and George Clooney, you know, the seriousness and the dedication to your art, seeing you climb into that rubber bat suit from Batman and Robin, the one with the nipples, every morning under your costume, on the set, off the set, hanging upside-down at lunch, you rock, man."

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