Let’s look at the results from the 79th Academy Awards ceremony:
Best Motion Picture of the Year:
The Departed- Babel
- Letters from Iwo Jima
- Little Miss Sunshine
- The Queen
Achievement in Directing:
Martin Scorsese for The Departed- Clint Eastwood for Letters from Iwo Jima
- Stephen Frears for The Queen
- Alejandro González Iñárritu for Babel
- Paul Greengrass for United 93
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role:
Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland- Leonardo DiCaprio for Blood Diamond
- Ryan Gosling for Half Nelson
- Peter O’Toole for Venus
- Will Smith for The Pursuit of Happyness
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role:
Helen Mirren for The Queen- Penélope Cruz for Volver
- Judi Dench for Notes on a Scandal
- Meryl Streep for The Devil Wears Prada
- Kate Winslet for Little Children
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role:
Alan Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine- Jackie Earle Haley for Little Children
- Djimon Hounsou for Blood Diamond
- Eddie Murphy for Dreamgirls
- Mark Wahlberg for The Departed
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role:
Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls- Adriana Barraza for Babel
- Cate Blanchett for Notes on a Scandal
- Abigail Breslin for Little Miss Sunshine
- Rinko Kikuchi for Babel
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Happy Feet (George Miller)- Cars
- Monster House
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year:
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) - Germany (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)- After the Wedding - Denmark (Susanne Bier)
- Days of Glory (Indigènes) - Algeria (Rachid Bouchareb)
- Pan’s Labyrinth - Spain/Mexico (Guillermo del Toro)
- Water - Canada (Deepa Mehta)
Best Documentary Film of the Year:
An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim)- Deliver Us from Evil
- An Inconvenient Truth
- Iraq in Fragments
- Jesus Camp
- My Country, My Country
Best Adapted Screenplay:
William Monahan for The Departed- Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
- Children of Men
- Little Children
- Notes on a Scandal
Best Original Screenplay:
Michael Arndt for Little Miss Sunshine- Guillermo Arriaga for Babel
- Iris Yamashita and Paul Haggis for Letters from Iwo Jima
- Guillermo del Toro for Pan’s Labyrinth
- Peter Morgan for The Queen
Best Cinematography:
Guillermo Navarro for Pan’s Labyrinth- Vilmos Zsigmond for The Black Dahlia
- Emmanuel Lubezki for Children of Men
- Dick Pope for The Illusionist
- Wally Pfister for The Prestige
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score:
Gustavo Santaolalla for Babel- Thomas Newman for The Good German
- Philip Glass for Notes on a Scandal
- Javier Navarrete for Pan’s Labyrinth
- Alexandre Desplat for The Queen
Best Original Song
An Inconvenient Truth: Melissa Etheridge (”I Need To Wake Up”)- Dreamgirls: Henry Krieger, Scott Cutler, Anne Preven (”Listen”)
- Dreamgirls: Henry Krieger, Siedah Garrett (”Love You I Do”)
- Cars: Randy Newman (”Our Town”)
- Dreamgirls: Henry Krieger, Willie Reale (”Patience”)
Other Awards
Best Art Direction: Pan’s Labyrinth (Eugenio Caballero, Pilar Revuelta)
Best Achievement in Visual Effects: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (John Knoll, Hal T. Hickel, Charles Gibson, Allen Hall)
Achievement in Make-up: Pan’s Labyrinth (David Martí, Montse Ribé)
Best Sound Editing: Letters From Iwo Jima (Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman)
Best Sound Mixing: Dreamgirls (Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer, Willie D. Burton)
Best Film Editing: The Departed (Thelma Schoonmaker)
Best Costume Design: Marie Antoinette (Milena Canonero)
Best Documentary Short Subject: The Blood of Yingzhou District (Ruby Yang, Thomas Lennon)
Best Animated Short: The Danish Poet (Torill Kove)
Best Live-Action Short: West Bank Story (Ari Sandel)
Big Winners:
Four Awards:
The Departed- Adapted Screenplay
- Best Editing
- Best Director
- Best Picture
Three Awards:
Pan’s Labyrinth- Make-up
- Art Direction
- Cinematography
Two Awards:
An Inconvenient Truth- Best Documentary
- Best Original Song
Dreamgirls- Achievement in Make-up
- Jennifer Hudson - Best Supporting Actress
February 26th, 2007 at 8:38 am
Know what song wasn’t very good? An Inconvenient Truth…
Know what was a better foreign film? come on, One guess…I think you know it wasn’t Water…one
of the better movies of 2006 from any country = best foreign film….oh i think not…Go Academy!!!
February 26th, 2007 at 8:41 am
Oh…and just because someone was Vice President…doesn’t automatically make their Documentary the best…Deliver Us From Evil was a lot better. But hey…maybe im just ranting because Pan’s Labyrinth lost
February 27th, 2007 at 12:56 am
I was also disappointed that Pan’s Labyrinth lost. Loved that movie. But The Lives of Others was also terrific. This German movie critic claims it was also a fairy tale, and gives a lot of background that I didn’t know about. I guess it helps if you understand German and know the history of East Germany.
http://www.culturekiosque.com/nouveau/cinema/the_lives_of_others.html