Award Resource Guide
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences® - 2006 Academy Awards®

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences® (AMPAS)
Academy Awards® (79th)
Nominations: January 23, 2007
Awards: February 25, 2007


Below are the nominations & winners for the 79th Annual Academy Awards®.

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Best Picture
"Babel" (Paramount Vantage) Anonymous Content, Una Produccion De Zeta Film, Central Films, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Jon Kilik and Steve Golin
WINNER "The Departed" (Warner Bros.) Warner Bros., Vertigo, Initial Entertainment Group, Plan B Entertainment, Graham King
"Letters From Iwo Jima" (Warner Bros.) Warner Bros. Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg and Robert Lorenz
"Little Miss Sunshine" (Fox Searchlight) Big Beach, Bona Fide Productions, David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub
"The Queen" (Miramax) Pathe Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions, Andy Harries, Christine Langan and Tracey Seaward

Best Animated Feature
"Cars" (Walt Disney Pictures) Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures
WINNER "Happy Feet" (Warner Bros.) Village Roadshow, Kennedy Miller Productions
"Monster House" (Sony Pictures Entertainment) Imagemovers

Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio in "Blood Diamond" (Warner Bros.)
Ryan Gosling in "Half Nelson" (ThinkFilm)
Peter O'Toole in "Venus" (Miramax)
Will Smith in "The Pursuit of Happyness" (Sony Pictures)
WINNER Forest Whitaker in "The Last King of Scotland" (Fox Searchlight)

Best Supporting Actor
WINNER Alan Arkin in "Little Miss Sunshine" (Fox Searchlight)
Jackie Earle Haley in "Little Children" (New Line Cinema)
Djimon Hounsou in "Blood Diamond" (Warner Bros.)
Eddie Murphy in "Dreamgirls" (DreamWorks SKG, Paramount Pictures)
Mark Wahlberg in "The Departed" (Warner Bros.)

Best Actress
Penelope Cruz in "Volver" (Sony Pictures Classics)
Judi Dench in "Notes on a Scandal" (Fox Searchlight)
WINNER Helen Mirren in "The Queen" (Miramax)
Meryl Streep in "The Devil Wears Prada" (20th Century Fox)
Kate Winslet in "Little Children" (New Line Cinema)

Best Supporting Actress
Adriana Barraza in "Babel" (Paramount Vantage)
Cate Blanchett in "Notes on a Scandal" (Fox Searchlight)
Abigail Breslin in "Little Miss Sunshine" (Fox Searchlight)
WINNER Jennifer Hudson in "Dreamgirls" (DreamWorks SKG, Paramount Pictures)
Rinko Kikuchi in "Babel" (Paramount Vantage)

Best Director
"Babel" (Paramount Vantage) Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
WINNER "The Departed" (Warner Bros.) Martin Scorsese
"Letters From Iwo Jima" (Warner Bros.) Clint Eastwood
"The Queen" (Miramax) Stephen Frears
"United 93" (Universal Pictures) Paul Greengrass

Best Art Direction
"Dreamgirls" (DreamWorks SKG, Paramount Pictures) Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh
"The Good Shepherd" (Universal Pictures) Art Direction: Jeannine Oppewall; Set Decoration: Gretchen Rau and Leslie E. Rollins
WINNER "Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)" (Picturehouse) Art Direction: Eugenio Caballero; Set Decoration: Pilar Revuelta
"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" (Buena Vista) Art Direction: Rick Heinrichs; Set Decoration: Cheryl Carasik
"The Prestige" (Buena Vista) Art Direction: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Julie Ochipinti

Best Cinematography
"The Black Dahlia" (Universal Pictures) Vilmos Zsigmond
"Children of Men" (Universal Pictures) Emmanuel Lubezki
"The Illusionist" (Yari Film Group) Dick Pope
WINNER "Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)" (Picturehouse) Guillermo Navarro
"The Prestige" (Buena Vista) Wally Pfister

Best Costume Design
"Curse of the Golden Flower" (Sony Pictures Classics) Yee Chung Man
"The Devil Wears Prada" (20th Century Fox) Patricia Field
"Dreamgirls" (DreamWorks SKG, Paramount Pictures) Sharen Davis
WINNER "Marie Antoinette" (Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures) Milena Canonero
"The Queen" (Miramax) Consolata Boyle

Best Documentary
"Deliver Us From Evil" (Lionsgate Films) Disarming Films, Amy Berg and Frank Donner
WINNER "An Inconvenient Truth" (Paramount Classics) Participant Productions, Davis Guggenheim
"Iraq in Fragments" (Typecast Films) HBO Films, Daylight Factory, Typecast Pictures, James Longley and John Sinno
"Jesus Camp" Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
"My Country, My Country" (Zeitgeist) P.O.V. Theatricals, Laura Poitras and Jocelyn Glatzer

Best Documentary Short
WINNER "The Blood of Yingzhou District" Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon
"Recycled Life" Leslie Iwerks and Mike Glad
"Rehearsing a Dream" Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon
"Two Hands" Nathaniel Kahn and Susan Rose Behr

Best Film Editing
"Babel" (Paramount Vantage) Stephen Mirrione and Douglas Crise
"Blood Diamond" (Warner Bros.) Steven Rosenblum
"Children of Men" (Universal Pictures) Alex Rodriguez and Alfonso Cuaron
WINNER "The Departed" (Warner Bros.) Thelma Schoonmaker
"United 93" (Universal Pictures) Clare Douglas, Christopher Rouse and Richard Pearson

Best Foreign Film
"After the Wedding" (IFC Films) Zentropa Entertainments, Denmark
"Days of Glory (Indigenes)" (The Weinstein Company) Studio Canal, France 2 Cinema, France 3 Cinema, Algeria, France
"The Lives of Others" (Sony Pictures Classics) Germany
"Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)" (Picturehouse) Tequila Gang, Esperanto Filmoj, Estudios Picasso, Mexico
"Water" (Fox Searchlight) Telefilm Canada, Deepa Mehta Films, Canada, India

Best Makeup
"Apocalypto" (Buena Vista) Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
"Click" (Sony Pictures) Kazuhiro Tsuji and Bill Corso
WINNER "Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)" (Picturehouse) David Marti and Montse Ribe

Best Original Score
WINNER "Babel" (Paramount Vantage) Gustavo Santaolalla
"The Good German" (Warner Bros.) Thomas Newman
"Notes on a Scandal" (Fox Searchlight) Philip Glass
"Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)" (Picturehouse) Javier Navarrete
"The Queen" (Miramax) Alexandre Desplat

Best Original Song
WINNER "I Need to Wake Up" from "An Inconvenient Truth" (Paramount Classics) Music and Lyric by Melissa Etheridge
"Listen" from "Dreamgirls" (DreamWorks SKG, Paramount Pictures) Music by Henry Krieger and Scott Cutler; Lyric by Anne Preven
"Love You I Do" from "Dreamgirls" (DreamWorks SKG, Paramount Pictures) Music by Henry Krieger; Lyric by Siedah Garrett
"Our Town" from "Cars" (Walt Disney Pictures) Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
"Patience" from "Dreamgirls" (DreamWorks SKG, Paramount Pictures) Music by Henry Krieger; Lyric by Willie Reale

Best Animated Short
WINNER "The Danish Poet" Torill Kove
"Lifted" Gary Rydstrom
"The Little Matchgirl" Roger Allers and Don Hahn
"Maestro" Geza M. Toth
"No Time for Nuts" Chris Renaud and Michael Thurmeier

Best Live-Action Short
"Binta and the Great Idea (Binta Y La Gran Idea)" Javier Fesser and Luis Manso
"Eramos Pocos (One Too Many)" Borja Cobeaga
"Helmer & Son" Soren Pilmark and Kim Magnusson
"The Saviour" Peter Templeman and Stuart Parkyn
WINNER "West Bank Story" Ari Sandel

Best Sound Editing
"Apocalypto" (Buena Vista) Sean McCormack and Kami Asgar
"Blood Diamond" (Warner Bros.) Lon Bender
"Flags of Our Fathers" (DreamWorks SKG) Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
WINNER "Letters From Iwo Jima" (Warner Bros.) Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" (Buena Vista) Christopher Boyes and George Watters II

Best Sound Mixing
"Apocalypto" (Buena Vista) Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Fernando Camara
"Blood Diamond" (Warner Bros.) Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Ivan Sharrock
WINNER "Dreamgirls" (DreamWorks SKG, Paramount Pictures) Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer and Willie Burton
"Flags of Our Fathers" (DreamWorks SKG) John Reitz, Dave Campbell, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin
"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" (Buena Vista) Paul Massey, Christopher Boyes and Lee Orloff

Best Visual Effects
WINNER "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" (Buena Vista) John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall
"Poseidon" (Warner Bros.) Boyd Shermis, Kim Libreri, Chaz Jarrett and John Frazier
"Superman Returns" (Warner Bros. Pictures) Mark Stetson, Neil Corbould, Richard R. Hoover and Jon Thum

Best Adapted Screenplay
"Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" (20th Century Fox) Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Peter Baynham & Dan Mazer; Story by Sacha Baron Cohen & Peter Baynham & Anthony Hines & Todd Phillips
"Children of Men" (Universal Pictures) Screenplay by Alfonso Cuarón & Timothy J. Sexton and David Arata and Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby
WINNER "The Departed" (Warner Bros.) Screenplay by William Monahan
"Little Children" (New Line Cinema) Screenplay by Todd Field & Tom Perrotta
"Notes on a Scandal" (Fox Searchlight) Screenplay by Patrick Marber

Best Original Screenplay
"Babel" (Paramount Vantage) Written by Guillermo Arriaga
WINNER "Little Miss Sunshine" (Fox Searchlight) Written by Michael Arndt
"Letters From Iwo Jima" (Warner Bros.) Screenplay by Iris Yamashita; Story by Iris Yamashita & Paul Haggis
"Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)" (Picturehouse) Written by Guillermo del Toro
"The Queen" (Miramax) Written by Peter Morgan

Honorary Academy Award
WINNER Ennio Morricone


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