2007 Academy Awards Winners
By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 25, 2007 9:16 pm EST
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
2007 Academy Awards Winners
By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 25, 2007 9:16 pm EST
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
The Departed
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
Martin Scorsese for The Departed
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
Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland
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
Helen Mirren for The Queen
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
Alan Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine
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
Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Happy Feet (George Miller) Cars Monster House
Happy Feet (George Miller)
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)
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) – Germany (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
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
An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim)
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
William Monahan for The Departed
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
Michael Arndt for Little Miss Sunshine
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
Guillermo Navarro for Pan’s Labyrinth
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
Gustavo Santaolalla for Babel
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”)
An Inconvenient Truth: Melissa Etheridge (“I Need To Wake Up”)
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
Three Awards:
Pan’s Labyrinth
Two Awards:
An Inconvenient Truth
Dreamgirls
