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
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It costs big money to run the Oscar race. Many people don’t realize all the money it takes to market an award winner.
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The Vegas odds for Helen Mirren to win Best Actress at Sunday’s Academy Awards skyrocketed so incredibly high, causing bookmakers to refuse future bets and pre-emptively pay out money.
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Yesterday we reported that movie critic Roger Ebert was spreading a rumor that Little Miss Sunshine would cause a major upset at the 2007 Academy Awards. Well it looks like Vegas visited the same rumor mill.
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In what appears to be an savvy marketing gimmick to promote The Simpsons Movie, Fox has released Homer Simpson’s Academy Award picks. You can check out the picks after the jump, but be forewarned, the list contains spoilers for Little Miss Sunshine and The Departed)
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AMC Theaters has announced that it will show the five movies nominated for Best Picture back-toback on the Saturday before the Academy Awards.
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Here are the winners from the 2007 Golden Globes:
“The Song of the Heart” – Happy Feet – Music & Lyrics by: Prince Rogers Nelson
Jeremy Irons – Elizabeth I
Kyra Sedgwick – The Closer
Hugh Laurie – House
Emily Blunt – Gideon’s Daughter
Cars – Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studio
Meryl Streep – The Devil Wears Prada
Eddie Murphy – Dreamgirls
Elizabeth I – Company Pictures, Channel 4, HBO Films
Bill Nighy – Gideon’s Daughter
Helen Mirren – Elizabeth I
Peter Morgan – The Queen
Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock
Ugly Betty (ABC)
Letters from Iwo Jima (USA/Japan) – Warner Bros. Pictures/DreamWorks Pictures
Alexandre Desplat – The Painted Veil
America Ferrera – Ugly Betty
Martin Scorsese – The Departed
Sacha Baron Cohen – Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Dreamgirls – DreamWorks Pictures
Helen Mirren – The Queen
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)
Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland
Babel – Anonymous Content Production/Una Producción De Zeta Film/Central Film Production/Paramount Vantage
