As usual, the academy favored performers who embodied ... respectively, came out as winners for their work in the visually dazzling “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” ...

The 80th Academy Awards will air on ABC at 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24. Leading this year’s list of nominated films with eight awards is “There Will Be Blood” and “No Country for Old Men.” ...