As we (and not only we) anticipated, the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture went to the Coen brothers’ dark drama, “No Country For Old Men.”

“No Country for Old Men” is based on Cormac McCarthy’s novel (which was inspired to name of his book from Yeats’ “Sailing to Byzantium”) and follows a series of events at the United States - Mexico border in 1980. A drug deal gone wrong changes the lives of three people: Llewellyn Moss, a Vietnam veteran, sheriff Ed Tom Bell and Anton Chigurh, a sociopath hired to recover the $2.4 million cash lost during the drug deal.

In fact, it was a magical night of the Coen brothers, as they also won the Best Adapted Screenplay award and the Best Director award.

The fourth award received by “No Country For Old Men,” Best Supporting Actor, went to Javier Bardem, for his role as a psychotic killer.

“No Country For Old Men” was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing (Roderick Jaynes – the Coen brothers’ alias) and Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins).

“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” said Joel Coen during his acceptance speech for the Best Adapted Screenplay award.

The award for Javier Bardem is a premiere, because this is the first Oscar for a Spanish actor in the 80-year history of the world's premier cinema awards.

“Thank you to the Coens for being crazy enough to think that I could do that and put one of the most horrible haircuts in history over my head” said Javier Bardem, while picking up his award, referring to the haircut of his hitman character Anton Chigurh.

Bardem kissed his actress mother, Pilar, his date for the evening, and co-star Josh Brolin before going to the scene to accept his award. He dedicated the award to his mother, ending his speech with a heartfelt dedication to her in Spanish.

The Coens already have an Oscar for writing the 1996 crime caper “Fargo,” but “No Country” is the most commercially successful of their 12 feature films. “No Country For Old Men” has $64 million earnings in the United States and Canada.

Accepting his Oscar for Best Director, Joel Coen talked about how he and Ethan had been making films since they were kids and said his brother had taken a camera to the airport as a boy in the 1960s to make an amateur film titled “Henry Kissinger, Man on the Go.”

“Honestly, what we do now doesn't feel that much different from what we did then,” he joked. “We're very thankful to all of you out there for letting us continue to play in our corner of the sandbox,” Joel Coen added. For Ethan, 50, saying “thank you” was all the speech he needed.

“No Country For Old Men” has already won two Golden Globe Awards at the 65th Golden Globe Awards for Javier Bardem (Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture) and for the Coen brothers (Best Screenplay – Motion Picture). Earlier that year it was also nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The Screen Actors Guild gave a nomination nod to the cast for its “Outstanding Performance” Also, the film won top honors on January 26, 2008 at the Directors Guild of America Awards for Joel and Ethan Coen.

The movie also took home three prizes at the 13th annual Critics’ Choice Award, for best picture, best director and best supporting actor. The Coens recently completed filming on “Burn After Reading,” a dark comedy starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney, about gym employees who find a CIA agent's memoirs. The movie is scheduled to be released this fall.

Here's the complete list of winners at the 80th annual Academy Awards:

Best Motion Picture: "No Country for Old Men."
Lead Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood."
Lead Actress: Marion Cotillard, "La Vie en Rose."
Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, "No Country for Old Men."
Supporting Actress: Tilda Swinton, "Michael Clayton."
Director: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men."
Foreign Language Film: "The Counterfeiters," Austria.
Adapted Screenplay: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men."
Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody, "Juno."
Animated Feature Film: "Ratatouille."
Art Direction: "Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street."
Cinematography: "There Will Be Blood."
Sound Mixing: "The Bourne Ultimatum."
Sound Editing: "The Bourne Ultimatum."
Original Score: "Atonement," Dario Marianelli.
Original Song: "Falling Slowly" from "Once," Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova.
Costume: "Elizabeth: The Golden Age."
Documentary Feature: "Taxi to the Dark Side."
Documentary Short Subject: "Freeheld."
Film Editing: "The Bourne Ultimatum."
Makeup: "La Vie en Rose."
Animated Short Film: "Peter & the Wolf."
Live Action Short Film: "Le Mozart des Pickpockets"
Visual Effects: "The Golden Compass"
Academy Award winners previously announced this year: Honorary and technical Oscars: Robert Boyle; Eastman Kodak Co.; David A. Grafton.