2007 Academy Awards Winners

[Man|-|unter]

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 Gonz?lez I??rritu 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

* Pen?lope 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 (Indig?nes) - 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 Mart?, Montse Rib?)

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



I think in Best Foreign Language Film, Pan?s Labyrinth deserves it, though I haven't seen The Lives of Others.

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[Dax]

Too bad Children of Men didn't win best cinematography but I can see why Pan's Labyrinth won, twas also a good movie.

Meh, whatever. Life goes on.

 

[Qonfused]

Little Miss should have won more, tbh.

Departed kind of owned the whole show.

 

[dream431ca]

Pan's Labyrinth was my favorite.

 

[Stigmata]

Little Miss should have won more, tbh.

Departed kind of owned the whole show.

Yeah.

Also I firmly believe Adventure Time should have been up for Best Animated Short.

 

[Cormeh]

Nothing against Forest Whitaker, but I really wanted Peter O'Toole to get the award for best actor.

Probably his last kick at the ball.

 

[gick]

Aw, hell, I'm really cheesed off about that.

How the **** did Children of Men not win best cinematography? I just dont understand it.

How the **** did Pan's Labyrinth not win best Foreign Language?

GRRRRRR!

Also, best director should have gone to Paul Greengrass, IMO. I get the feeling they gave Scorsese the Oscar for his body of work, rather than The Departed.

They got Best Actor and Best Make-Up bang on the money though.

 

[Icarusintel]

What a crock of shit. The Academy just proved to me it's still just a bunch of Hollywood dumbasses sitting around having one big circle jerk.

Pan's Labyrinth not winning Best Foreign Film is criminal.

An Inconvenient Truth winning out for Best Original Song is ridiculous.

The Departed really shouldn't have won for what it did. There were far better candidates in each of the categories. If they wanted to give Scorsese an Oscar they should have done it for one of his older movies. Giving it to him now just to make up for not giving it to him then just means movies that should have won didn't.

Bah, f*ck the Academy.

 

[StardogChampion]

Pan's Labyrinth should've won more and probably Children of Men too.

The Departed is practically exactly the same as Infernal Affairs, the movie it's based on, and should've only been up for Best Director.

 

[gick]

Well at least Babel didnt win best pic/best director.

Thing is, The Departed is a hell of a good movie (3rd or 4th best of the year IMO) but best picture/director? No way.

 

[Sparta]

The Departed is practically exactly the same as Infernal Affairs, the movie it's based on, and should've only been up for Best Director.

Not at all. The storyline may be copy and paste but there is so many things The Departed did better than Infernal Affairs that its not fair to compare the two.

I'm happy Scorsese got best director, but i agree with whomever said Paul Greengrass should've won for United 93. That film was easily the best directed picture.

I'm surprised Jennifer Hudson won considering how amazing the performances were from the two actresses in Babel.

 

[jimbo118]

I'm surprised Jennifer Hudson won considering how amazing the performances were from the two actresses in Babel.

Ya that raised my eyebrow too, my friend saw it and was wondering what the hell all the fuss was about with her performance, i personally havent seen it...

 

[DeusExMachina]

I just wish Children of Men had made best movie. I think that was the best film of 2006.

 

[French Ninja]

I haven't taken anything the academy says seriously ever since Shakespeare in Love beat Saving Private Ryan for best picture.

What the fvck?!

Edit: The Jack Black/Will Farrel duet was funny though.

 

[Sparta]

I haven't taken anything the academy says seriously ever since Shakespeare in Love beat Saving Private Ryan for best picture.

What the fvck?!

Edit: The Jack Black/Will Farrel duet was funny though.

Yeah, that was ****ing ridiculous. If i remember that film winning was largely due to the Weinstein brothers buying out the voters through lobbying and gifts.

 

[Docm30]

I didn't see any of the movies nominated for anything except Children of Men, and that didn't deserve to win anything. Except cinematography, but that's about all it had going for it---the writing was just awful.

 

[Sulkdodds]

How the **** did Children of Men not win best cinematography? I just dont understand it.

Bonkers, eh? But...

How the **** did Pan's Labyrinth not win best Foreign Language?

Because Das Leben der Anderen is really rather good. Though I'm not sure which I'd choose, I can understand the decision.

 

[Absinthe]

As somebody who hasn't seen or has no intention of seeing half of these movies, I find myself heavily shrugging my shoulders at the whole affair.

 

[The Monkey]

The Lives of Others is awesome.

 

[gick]

Bonkers, eh? But...

Because Das Leben der Anderen is really rather good. Though I'm not sure which I'd choose, I can understand the decision.

I agree, its a very good film, but i still think Pan's was better.

Im probably a bit biased though, as im a bit of a Del Toro fanboy.