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For those of you living under a rock this past Sunday, the 80th Annual Academy Awards aired on ABC. Though advertised as beginning at 8 p.m. EST, but it turned out this was just a ploy by ABC to get you to watch Regis Philbin for half an hour. Anyway, here are the Oscar winners: Best Picture: 'Atonement' 'Michael Clayton' 'There Will Be Blood' 'Juno' 'No Country For Old Men' Best Director: Julian Schnabel for 'The Diving Bell & The Butterfly' Jason Reitman for 'Juno' Tony Gilroy for 'Michael Clayton' Joel and Ethan Coen for 'No Country for Old Men' Paul Thomas Anderson for 'There Will Be Blood' Anyone noticing some repition here? Best Actor: George Clooney for 'Michael Clayton' Daniel Day-Lewis for 'There Will Be Blood' Johnny Depp for 'Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street' Tommy Lee Jones for 'In The Valley of Elah' Viggo Mortensen for 'Eastern Promises...

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts, also known as BAFTA, is the British equivalent of the Oscars, and tonight on BBC America their awards ceremony aired in the US. Delayed only by that nasty little time difference. Here are the winners: DIRECTOR Joe Wright - 'Atonement' Paul Greengrass - 'The Bourne Ultimatum' Florian Henckel von Donnersmark - 'The Lives of Others' Joel & Ethan Coen - 'No Country for Old Men' Paul Thomas Anderson - 'There Will Be Blood' ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Diablo Cody - 'Juno' Steven Zallian - 'American Gangster' Florian Henckel von Donnersmark - 'The Lives of Others' Shane Meadows - 'This Is England' Tony Gilroy - 'Michael Clayton' ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Paul Thomas Anderson - 'There Will Be Blood' Joel & Ethan Coen - 'No Country for Old Men' David Benioff - 'The Kite Runner' Ronald Harwood - 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' Christopher H...