Daniel Day-Lewis won for best actor, however his footwear left many of us miffed. Was I the only one frustrated that E! didn’t really show full-lengths of the clothes?

That must be why I was later told about Day-Lewis’ shoes. Sure, men can wear brown shoes with anything now. However, the red carpet seemed like the wrong place to wear work boots. It’s like his wife picked his shoes???

I’m not going to comment on her look–I leave that to the real experts.

Tilde Swinton appeared stunned when she was announced as the best supporting actress. And she insisted during back-stage interviews that she wasn’t faking it. She expected Rudy Dee to win. “I really just had a reverse ‘Zoolander’ moment when I think I heard someone else’s name and suddenly heard my own,” she said. “I’m still recovering from that moment, and I have no idea what happened after that.”

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Ever since they made “Blood Simple,” the Coen brothers have edited their films under the pseudonym Roderick Jaynes. They had asked the academy, if they won, could they have two statues, but the academy said no because only one name was listed on the credits. It didn’t matter because Jaynes didn’t win, anyway. But had he * they * won, the Coens would have set an Oscar record by being the first filmmakers to win four awards for the same movie.

The nominees are:

“Atonement” (Focus Features) A Working Title Production: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster, Producers

“Juno” (A Mandate Pictures/Mr. Mudd Production) A Mandate Pictures/Mr. Mudd Production: Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick and Russell Smith, Producers

“Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.) A Clayton Productions, LLC Production: Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox and Kerry Orent, Producers

“No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) A Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Production: Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers

“There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) A JoAnne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company Production: JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Lupi, Producers

Covert picks: “No Country for Old Men.” A genre crime thriller executed with such flawless intelligence and craftsmanship that it becomes a work of art.

The nominees are:

“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (Miramax/Pathé Renn), Julian Schnabel

“Juno” (A Mandate Pictures/Mr. Mudd Production), Jason Reitman

“Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.), Tony Gilroy

“No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

“There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax), Paul Thomas Anderson

Covert picks: Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, “No Country for Old Men.” After 25 years of making beautifully formed, commercially negligible outsider films, the Coens will be welcomed into the Hollywood establishment for their first modest hit.

The nominees are:

George Clooney in “Michael Clayton”

Daniel Day-Lewis in “There Will Be Blood”

Johnny Depp in “Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”

Tommy Lee Jones in “In the Valley of Elah”

Viggo Mortensen in “Eastern Promises”

Covert picks: Daniel Day-Lewis, “There Will Be Blood.” As a power-mad, spiritually bankrupt oilman, the actor of his generation delivers the performance of his career. So far.