Let’s look at the results from the 79th Academy Awards ceremony:
Best Motion Picture of the Year:

- Babel
- Letters from Iwo Jima
- Little Miss Sunshine
- The Queen
Achievement in Directing:

- 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:

- 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:

- 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:

- 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:

- 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

- Cars
- Monster House
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year:

- 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:

- Deliver Us from Evil
- An Inconvenient Truth
- Iraq in Fragments
- Jesus Camp
- My Country, My Country
Best Adapted Screenplay:

- Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
- Children of Men
- Little Children
- Notes on a Scandal
Best Original Screenplay:

- 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:

- 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:

- 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

- 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:

- Adapted Screenplay
- Best Editing
- Best Director
- Best Picture
Three Awards:

- Make-up
- Art Direction
- Cinematography
Two Awards:

- Best Documentary
- Best Original Song

- Achievement in Make-up
- Jennifer Hudson – Best Supporting Actress