Academy Awards 2007

25th OF FEBRUARY 2007

BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR

Winner :
The Departed (2006): Graham King

Nominees :
Babel (2006): Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik, Steve Golin
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006): Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, Robert Lorenz
Little Miss Sunshine (2006): David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub
The Queen (2006): Andy Harries, Christine Langan, Tracey Seaward

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Winner :
The Last King of Scotland (2006): Forest Whitaker

Nominees :
Blood Diamond (2006): Leonardo DiCaprio
Half Nelson (2006): Ryan Gosling
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006): Will Smith
Venus (2006): Peter O'Toole

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Winner :
The Queen (2006): Helen Mirren

Nominees :
Little Children (2006): Kate Winslet
Notes on a Scandal (2006): Judi Dench
The Devil Wears Prada (2006): Meryl Streep
Volver (2006): Penélope Cruz

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role


Winner :
Little Miss Sunshine (2006): Alan Arkin

Nominees :
Blood Diamond (2006): Djimon Hounsou
Dreamgirls (2006): Eddie Murphy
Little Children (2006): Jackie Earle Haley
The Departed (2006): Mark Wahlberg

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Winner :
Dreamgirls (2006): Jennifer Hudson

Nominees :
Babel (2006): Adriana Barraza
Babel (2006): Rinko Kikuchi
Little Miss Sunshine (2006): Abigail Breslin
Notes on a Scandal: Cate Blanchett

Best Achievement in Directing

Winner :
The Departed (2006): Martin Scorsese

Nominees :
Babel (2006): Alejandro González Iñárritu
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006): Clint Eastwood
The Queen (2006): Stephen Frears
United 93 (2006): Paul Greengrass

Best Writing, Original Screenplay

Winner :
Little Miss Sunshine (2006): Michael Arndt

Nominees :
Babel (2006): Guillermo Arriaga
Pan's Labyrinth (2006): Guillermo del Toro
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006): Iris Yamashita, Paul Haggis
The Queen (2006): Peter Morgan

Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay

Winner :
The Departed (2006): William Monahan

Nominees :
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006): Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham, Dan Mazer, Todd Phillips
Children of Men (2006): Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby
Little Children (2006): Todd Field, Tom Perrotta
Notes on a Scandal (2006): Patrick Marber

Best Achievement in Cinematography

Winner :
Pan's Labyrinth (2006): Guillermo

Nominees :
Children of Men (2006): Emmanuel Lubezki
The Black Dahlia (2006): Vilmos Zsigmond
The Illusionist (2006): Dick Pope
The Prestige (2006): Wally Pfister

Best Achievement in Art Direction

Winner :
Pan's Labyrinth (2006): Eugenio Caballero, Pilar Revuelta

Nominees :
Dreamgirls (2006): John Myhre, Nancy Haigh
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006): Rick Heinrichs, Cheryl Carasik
The Good Shepherd (2006): Jeannine Claudia Oppewall, Gretchen Rau, Leslie E. Rollins
The Prestige (2006): Nathan Crowley, Julie Ochipinti

Best Achievement in Costume Design

Winner :
Marie Antoinette: Milena Canonero

Nominees :
Dreamgirls (2006): Sharen Davis
Curse of the Golden Flower (2006): Chung Man Yee
The Devil Wears Prada (2006): Patricia Field
The Queen (2006): Consolata Boyle

Best Achievement in Sound Mixing


Winner :
Dreamgirls (2006): Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer, Willie D. Burton

Nominees :
Apocalypto (2006): Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Fernando Cámara
Blood Diamond (2006): Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Ivan Sharrock
Flags of Our Fathers (2006): John T. Reitz, David E. Campbell, Gregg Rudloff, Walt Martin
Pirates of the Caribbean (2006): Dead Man's Chest: Paul Massey, Christopher Boyes, Lee Orloff

Best Achievement in Editing

Winner :
The Departed (2006): Thelma Schoonmaker
Babel (2006): Douglas Crise, Stephen Mirrione
Blood Diamond (2006): Steven Rosenblum
Children of Men (2006): Alfonso Cuarón, Alex Rodríguez
United 93 (2006): Clare Douglas, Richard Pearson, Christopher Rouse

Best Achievement in Sound Editing

Winner :
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006): Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman

Nominees :
Apocalypto (2006): Sean McCormack, Kami Asgar
Blood Diamond (2006): Lon Bender
Flags of Our Fathers (2006): Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006): Christopher Boyes, George Watters II

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

Winner :
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006): John Knoll, Hal T. Hickel, Charles Gibson, Allen Hall

Nominees :
Poseidon (2006): Boyd Shermis, Kim Libreri, Chas Jarrett, John Frazier
Superman Returns (2006): Mark Stetson, Neil Corbould, Richard R. Hoover, Jon Thum

Best Achievement in Makeup

Winner :
Pan's Labyrinth (2006): David Martí, Montse Ribé

Nominees :
Apocalypto (2006): Aldo Signoretti, Vittorio Sodano
Click (2006): Kazuhiro Tsuji, Bill Corso

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song

Winner :
An Inconvenient Truth (2006): Melissa Etheridge
For the song "I Need To Wake Up".

Nominees :
Cars (2006): Randy Newman
For the song "Our Town".
Dreamgirls (2006): Henry Krieger, Scott Cutler, Anne Preven
For the song "Listen".
Dreamgirls (2006): Henry Krieger, Siedah Garrett
For the song "Love You I Do".
Dreamgirls (2006): Henry Krieger, Willie Reale
For the song "Patience".

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score

Winner :
Babel (2006): Gustavo Santaolalla

Nominees :
Pan's Labyrinth (2006): Javier Navarrete
Notes on a Scandal (2006): Philip Glass
The Good German (2006): Thomas Newman
The Queen (2006): Alexandre Desplat

Best Short Film, Animated

Winner :
The Danish Poet (2006): Torill Kove

Nominees :
Lifted: Gary Rydstrom
Maestro: Géza M. Tóth
No Time for Nuts: Chris Renaud, Mike Thurmeier
The Little Matchgirl: Roger Allers, Don Hahn

Best Short Film, Live Action

WINNER:
West Bank Story: Ari Sandel

NOMINEES:
Binta and the Great Idea: Javier Fesser, Luis Manso
Helmer & Son: Søren Pilmark, Kim Magnusson
The Saviour: Peter Templeman, Stuart Parkyn
One Too Many: Borja Cobeaga

Best Documentary, Short Subjects:

WINNER:
The Blood of Yingzhou District: Ruby Yang, Thomas Lennon

NOMINEES:
Recycled Life: Leslie Iwerks, Mike Glad
Rehearsing a Dream: Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon
Two Hands: The Leon Fleisher Story: Nathaniel Kahn, Susan Rose Behr

Best Documentary, Features:

WINNER:
An Inconvenient Truth: Davis Guggenheim

NOMINEES:
P.O.V.: Laura Poitras, Jocelyn Glatzer
For episode "My Country, My Country (#19.12)".
Deliver Us from Evil: Amy Berg, Frank Donner
Iraq in Fragments: James Longley, John Sinno
Jesus Camp: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

WINNER:
The Lives of Others
Germany.

NOMINEES:
After the Wedding
Denmark.
Pan's Labyrinth
Mexico.
Days of Glory
Algeria.
Water
Canada.

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

WINNER:
Happy Feet: George Miller

NOMINEES:
Cars: John Lasseter
Monster House: Gil Kenan

Honorary Award:

WINNER:
Ennio Morricone:
For his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music (statuette).

Medal of Commendation

WINNER:
Richard Edlund

Award of Commendation

WINNER:
Ioan Allen, J. Wayne Anderson, Mary Ann Anderson, Ted Costas, Paul R. Goldberg, Shawn Jones, Tom Kuhn, Dr. Alan Masson, Colin Mossman, Martin Richards, Frank Ricotta, Richard C. Sehlin
For their contributions to the environmentally responsible industry conversion from silver-based to cyan dye analog soundtracks.

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

WINNER:
Sherry Lansing

Scientific and Engineering Award

WINNERS:
Dr. Bill Collis, Simon Robinson, Ben Kent, Anil Kokaram
For the design and development of the Furnace integrated suite of software tools that robustly utilizes temporal coherence for enhancing visual effects in motion picture sequences.
Phillip Feiner, Jim Houston, Denis Leconte, Chris Bushman
For the design and development of the Rosetta process for creating digital YCM archival masters for digital film restoration.
Howard Preston, Mirko Kovacevic
For the design and engineering of the Preston Cinema Systems FI+Z wireless remote system.
Steve Sullivan, Colin Davidson, Max Chen, Francesco Callari
For the design and development of the ILM Image-based Modeling System.

Technical Achievement Award

WINNERS:
Bill Feightner, Chris Edwards
For the design and development of the E-Film process for creating archival separations from digital image data.
Florian Kainz
For the design and engineering of OpenEXR, a software package implementing 16-bit, floating-point, high dynamic range image files.
Klemens Kehrer, Josef Handler, Thomas Smidek, Marc Shipman Mueller
For the design and development of the Arriflex 235 Camera System.
Peter Litwinowicz, Pierre Jasmin
For the design and development of the RE: Vision Effects family of software tools for optical flow-based image manipulation.
Joshua Pines, Chris Kutcka
For the design and development of the TDI process for creating archival separations from digital image data.
Albert Ridilla, Papken Shahbazian, Ronald Belknap, Jay McGarrigle
For the design and development of the Hollywood Film Company Brumagic MPST Densitometer.
Walter Trauniger, Ernst Tschida
For the design and engineering of the Arri WRC wireless remote lens control system.
Christian Tschida, Martin Waitz
For the design and engineering of the cmotion Wireless Remote System.

Gordon E. Sawyer Award

WINNER:
Ray Feeney
For his technological contributions, which have brought credit to the motion picture industry.

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