2007 Academy Awards Winners
February 25th, 2007 | 3 CommentsLet’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. (…)