Nominations for the 79th Annual Academy Awards Announced

The nominations for the 79th annual Academy Awards have been announced. Dreamgirls picked up the most nominations with eight but did not get a Best Picture nomination. Three of Dreamgirls nominations all came in one category -- Original Song. Other films with four or more nominations include Babel (7), The Queen (6), Pan's Labyrinth (6), Blood Diamond (5) The Departed (5), Letters from Iwo Jima (4) and Little Miss Sunshine (4). Here is a list of this year's Oscar nominees.

Best Picture:
  • Babel
  • The Departed
  • Letters From Iwo Jima
  • Little Miss Sunshine
  • The Queen

    Actor:
  • 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

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

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

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

    Director:
  • Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Babel
  • Martin Scorsese, The Departed
  • Clint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima
  • Stephen Frears, The Queen
  • Paul Greengrass, United 93

    Best Adapted Screenplay:
  • Sacha Baron Cohen and Anthony Hines and Peter Baynham and Dan Mazer and Todd Phillips, Borat
  • Alfonso Cuaron and Timothy J. Sexton and David Arata and Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, Children of Men
  • William Monahan, The Departed
  • Todd Field and Tom Perrotta, Little Children
  • Patrick Marber, Notes on a Scandal

    Best Original Screenplay:
  • Guillermo Arriaga, Babel
  • Iris Yamashita and Paul Haggis, Letters From Iwo Jima
  • Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine
  • Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth
  • Peter Morgan, The Queen

    Best Animated Feature Film:
  • Cars
  • Happy Feet
  • Monster House

    Foreign Language Film:
  • After the Wedding Denmark
  • Days of Glory (Indigenes) Algeria
  • The Lives of Others Germany
  • Pan's Labyrinth Mexico
  • Water Canada.

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

    Cinematography:
  • The Black Dahlia
  • Children of Men<
  • The Illusionist
  • Pan's Labyrinth
  • The Prestige

    Sound Mixing:
  • Apocalypto
  • Blood Diamond
  • Dreamgirls
  • Flags of Our Fathers
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

    Sound Editing:
  • Apocalypto
  • Blood Diamond
  • Flags of Our Fathers
  • Letters From Iwo Jima
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

    Original Score:
  • Babel Gustavo Santaolalla
  • The Good German Thomas Newman
  • Notes on a Scandal Philip Glass
  • Pan's Labyrinth Javier Navarrete
  • The Queen Alexandre Desplat

    Original Song:
  • "I Need to Wake Up" from An Inconvenient Truth Melissa Etheridge
  • "Listen" from Dreamgirls Henry Krieger, Scott Cutler and Anne Preven
  • "Love You I Do" from Dreamgirls Henry Krieger and Siedah Garrett
  • "Our Town" from Cars Randy Newman
  • "Patience" from Dreamgirls Henry Krieger and Willie Reale.

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

    Animated Short Film:
  • The Danish Poet
  • Lifted
  • The Little Matchgirl
  • Maestro
  • No Time for Nuts

    Live Action Short Film:
  • Binta and the Great Idea (Binta Y La Gran Idea)
  • Eramos Pocos (One Too Many)
  • Helmer & Son
  • The Saviour
  • West Bank Story

    Documentary Feature:
  • Deliver Us From Evil
  • An Inconvenient Truth
  • Iraq in Fragments
  • Jesus Camp
  • My Country, My Country

    Documentary (short subject):
  • The Blood of Yingzhou District
  • Recycled Life
  • Rehearsing a Dream
  • Two Hands

    Film Editing:
  • Babel
  • Blood Diamond
  • Children of Men
  • The Departed
  • United 93

    Makeup:
  • Apocalypto
  • Click
  • Pan's Labyrinth

    Visual Effects:
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  • Poseidon
  • Superman Returns

    You can also see the list here on the Oscars.org website.


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    Posted on January 23, 2007
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