Film: Academy Awards

80th Annual Academy Awards Winners Announced

Results of the 79th ACADEMY AWARDS ®
Oscar Winners

These are the results of the 79th Annual Academy Awards presentations.

Oscar winners are highlighted in bold and marked with an Oscar logo. Films with production notes are linked in blue.

Fifty Oscars, two statuettes that belonged to Hollywood legends, and one statuette for the public to hold are on display at "Meet the Oscars, New York" at Times Square Studios in New York City. The exhibition remains open through Oscar Saturday, February 24, 2007. Photo by Paul Hawthorne.

Best motion picture of the year: The Departed

Babel
The Departed
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

Performance by an actor in a leading role

Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
Peter O’Toole, Venus
Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children
Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
Mark Wahlberg, The Departed

Original screenplay

Guillermo Arriaga, Babel
Iris Yamashita, Paul Haggis, Letters from Iwo Jima
Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine
Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth
Peter Morgan, The Queen

Achievement in cinematography

The Black Dahlia
Children of Men
The Illusionist
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Prestige

Visual Effects

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Poseidon
Superman Returns

Achievement in costume design

Curse of the Golden Flower
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
Marie Antoinette
The Queen

Achievement in sound mixing

Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Dreamgirls
Flags of our Fathers
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Achievement in music written for motion pictures
(Original song)

"I Need to Wake Up," An Inconvenient Truth
"Listen," Dreamgirls
"Love You I Do," Dreamgirls
"Our Town," Cars
"Patience," Dreamgirls

Best animated feature film of the year

Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House

Best documentary feature

Deliver Us from Evil
An Inconvenient Truth
Iraq in Fragments
Jesus Camp
My Country, My Country

Best animated short film

The Danish Poet
Lifted
The Little Matchgirl
Maestro
No Time for Nuts

Achievement in directing

Babel, Alejandro González Iñárritu
The Departed, Martin Scorsese
Letters from Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood
The Queen, Stephen Frears
United 93, Paul Greengrass

Performance by an actress in a leading role

Penélope Cruz, Volver
Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
Helen Mirren, The Queen
Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet, Little Children

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

Adriana Barraza, Babel
Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi, Babel

Adapted screenplay

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Children of Men
The Departed
Little Children
Notes on a Scandal

Achievement in film editing

Babel
Blood Diamond
Children of Men
The Departed
United 93

Achievement in art direction

Dreamgirls
The Good Shepherd
Pan's Labyrinth
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The Prestige

Achievement in makeup

Apocalypto
Click
Pan's Labyrinth

Achievement in sound editing

Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Flags of Our Fathers
Letters from Iwo Jima
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

Babel
The Good German
Notes on a Scandal
Pan's Labyrinth
The Queen

Best foreign language film of the year

After the Wedding
Days of Glory (Indigènes)
The Lives of Others
Pan's Labyrinth
Water

Best documentary short subject

The Blood of Yingzhou District
Recycled Life
Rehearsing a Dream
Two Hands

Best live action short film

Binta and the Great Idea (Binta Y La Gran Idea)
Éramos Pocos (One Too Many)
Helmer & Son
The Saviour
West Bank Story

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