2007 Oscar ® winners announced BEST PICTURE: "The Departed" Winners | Photos Al Gore (left) and Davis Guggenheim accept the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature during the 79th Annual Academy Awards. Ellen DeGeneres "razzle dazzled" as host of the 79th Academy Awards telecast. It was DeGeneres' first time as Oscar® host, as well as her first appearance on an Academy Awards telecast. Best Supporting Actor winner Alan Arkin during the 79th Annual Academy Awards. Results | Photos BEVERLY HILLS, CA — Winners of the 79th Annual Academy Awards were announced Sunday, February 25, 2007 at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Beverly Hills, California during a four-hour presentation. The ceremonies were telecast live by ABC Television network. Academy members from the various branches selected the nominees in their corresponding award categories, with the exception of the Animated Feature and Foreign Language Film categories, in which nominations were determined by vote of screening committees composed of members from several branches. See the results of the Academy Awards. See photos from the Awards presentation ceremony.

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All voting members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees. Ballots were mailed to 5,830 voting members in late December and were returned directly to PricewaterhouseCoopers, the international accounting firm, for tabulation. Read more about voting procedures.

Official screenings for members of all pictures receiving nominations will begin this weekend at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Screenings in some categories also will be held in Hollywood, at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater, as well as in London, New York and San Francisco.

The Academy’s entire active and life membership is eligible to select the winners in all categories, although in five of them – the Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, and Foreign Language Film categories – members can vote only after attesting that they have seen all of the nominated films in the category.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2006 will be presented on Sunday, February 25, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center ®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network at 5 p.m. PST (8 p.m. EST), beginning with a half- hour arrivals segment, “The Road to the Oscars ®."