79th Academy Awards (2007)
The 79th Academy Awards ceremony honoured the best films of 2006 and took place on 25 February 2007 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. Ellen DeGeneres hosted the ceremony for the first time. The producer was Laura Ziskin. The announcers were Don LaFontaine and Gina Tuttle. The ceremony was directed by Louis J. Horvitz.
The nominees were announced on 23 January 2007 by Academy president Sid Ganis and actress Salma Hayek, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in the Academy's Beverly Hills headquarters. The musical "Dreamgirls" received eight nominations, becoming the first film ever to receive the most nominations in a particular Academy Awards ceremony without being nominated for Best Picture. "Babel" received the second highest number of nominations with seven.
"The Departed" won highest number of awards. The movie scored in 4 categories including Best Picture and Best Director.
The Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Maggie Gyllenhaal on 10 February 2007, in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
- WINNER
Best Picture
The Departed
Babel
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen
Best Director
The Departed
- Martin Scorsese
Letters from Iwo Jima
- Clint Eastwood
The Queen
- Stephen Frears
Babel
- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
United 93
- Paul Greengrass
Best Original Screenplay
Little Miss Sunshine
- Michael Arndt
Babel
- Guillermo Arriaga
Letters from Iwo Jima
- Iris Yamashita, Paul Haggis
Pan's Labyrinth
- Guillermo del Toro
The Queen
- Peter Morgan
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Departed
- William Monahan
Borat
- Anthony Hines, Dan Mazer, Todd Phillips
Children of Men
- Alfonso Cuaron, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby
Little Children
- Todd Field, Tom Perotta
Notes on a Scandal
- Patrick Marber
Best Actor in a Leading Role
The Last King of Scotland
- Forest Whitaker
Blood Diamond
- Leonardo DiCaprio
Half Nelson
- Ryan Gosling
Venus
- Peter O'Toole
The Pursuit of Happyness
- Will Smith
Best Actress in a Leading Role
The Queen
- Helen Mirren
Volver
- Penelope Cruz
Notes on a Scandal
- Judi Dench
The Devil Wears Prada
- Meryl Streep
Little Children
- Kate Winslet
Best Supporting Actor
Little Miss Sunshine
- Alan Arkin
Little Children
- Jackie Earle Haley
Blood Diamond
- Djimon Hounsou
Dreamgirls
- Eddie Murphy
The Departed
- Mark Wahlberg
Best Supporting Actress
Dreamgirls
- Jennifer Hudson
Babel
- Adriana Barraza
Notes on a Scandal
- Cate Blanchett
Little Miss Sunshine
- Abigail Breslin
Babel
- Rinko Kikuchi
Best Art Direction
Pan's Labyrinth
Dreamgirls
The Good Shepherd
Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest
The Prestige
Best Cinematography
Pan's Labyrinth
- Guillermo Navarro
The Black Dahlia
- Vilmos Zsigmond
Children of Men
- Emmanuel Lubezki
The Illusionist
- Dick Pope
The Prestige
- Wally Pfister
Best Original Song
An Inconvenient Truth
for "I Need to Wake Up"
Dreamgirls
for "Listen"
Dreamgirls
for "Love You I Do"
Cars
for "Our Town"
Dreamgirls
for "Patience"
Best Original Score
Babel
- Gustavo Santaolalla
The Good German
- Thomas Newman
Notes on a Scandal
- Phillip Glass
Pan's Labyrinth
- Javier Navarrete
The Queen
- Alexandre Desplat
Best Sound Mixing
Dreamgirls
Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Flags of Our Fathers
Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest
Best Sound Editing
Letters from Iwo Jima
Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Flags of Our Fathers
Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest
Best Visual Effects
Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest
Poseidon
Superman Returns
Best Costume Design
Marie Antoinette
- Milena Canonero
Curse of the Golden Flower
- Chung Man Yee
The Devil Wears Prada
- Patricia Field
Dreamgirls
- Sharen Davis
The Queen
- Consolata Boyle
Best Makeup
Pan's Labyrinth
Apocalypto
Click
Best Animated Feature
Happy Feet
Cars
Monster House
Best Animated Short Film
The Danish Poet
- Torill Kove
Lifted
- Gary Rydstrom
The Little Matchgirl
- Roger Allers, Don Hahn
Maestro
- Géza M Tóth
No Time for Nuts
- Chris Renaud, Mike Thurmeier
Best Documentary Feature
An Inconvenient Truth
- Davis Guggenheim
Deliver Us From Evil
- Amy Berg, Frank Donner
Iraq in Fragments
- James Longley, John Sinno
Jesus Camp
- Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
My Country, My Country
- Laura Poitras, Jocelyn Glatzer
Best Documentary Short Subject
The Blood of Yingzhou District
- Ruby Yang, Thomas Lennon
Recycled Life
- Leslie Iwerks, Mike Glad
Rehearsing a Dream
- Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon
Two Hands: The Leon Fleisher Story
- Nathaniel Kahn, Susan Rose Behr
Best Foreign Language Film
The Lives of Others
After the Wedding
Days of Glory
Pan's Labyrinth
Water
Academy Honorary Award
Ennio Morricone
Best Live Action Short Film
West Bank Story
- Ari Sandel
Binta and the Great Idea
- Javier Fesser, Luis Manso
Eramos Pocos
- Borja Cobeaga
Helmer & Son
- Søren Pilmark, Kim Magnusson
The Saviour
- Peter Templeman, Stuart Parkyn
Best Film Editing
The Departed
- Thelma Schoonmaker
Babel
- Douglas Crise, Stephen Mirrione
Blood Diamond
- Steven Rosenblum
Children of Men
- Alfonso Cuaron, Alex Rodriguez
United 93
- Clare Douglas, Richard Pearson, Christopher Rouse
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Sherry Lansing