79th Academy Awards

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Picture	Best Director
The Departed Babel Letters from Iwo Jima Little Miss Sunshine The Queen	Martin Scorsese – The Departed Clint Eastwood – Letters from Iwo Jima Stephen Frears – The Queen Alejandro González Iñárritu – Babel Paul Greengrass – United 93
Best Actor	Best Actress
Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland Leonardo DiCaprio – Blood Diamond Ryan Gosling – Half Nelson Peter O'Toole – Venus Will Smith – The Pursuit of Happyness	Helen Mirren – The Queen Penélope Cruz – Volver Judi Dench – Notes on a Scandal Meryl Streep – The Devil Wears Prada Kate Winslet – Little Children
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Alan Arkin – Little Miss Sunshine Jackie Earle Haley – Little Children Djimon Hounsou – Blood Diamond Eddie Murphy – Dreamgirls Mark Wahlberg – The Departed	Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls Adriana Barraza – Babel Cate Blanchett – Notes on a Scandal Abigail Breslin – Little Miss Sunshine Rinko Kikuchi – Babel
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Little Miss Sunshine – Michael Arndt Babel – Guillermo Arriaga Letters from Iwo Jima – Iris Yamashita and Paul Haggis Pan's Labyrinth – Guillermo del Toro The Queen – Peter Morgan	The Departed – William Monahan Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan – Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham, Anthony Hines, Dan Mazer and Todd Phillips Children of Men – Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby Little Children – Todd Field and Tom Perotta Notes on a Scandal – Patrick Marber
Best Animated Feature	Best Foreign Language Film
Happy Feet Cars Monster House	The Lives of Others (Germany) After the Wedding (Denmark) Days of Glory (Indigènes) (Algeria) Pan's Labyrinth (Mexico) Water (Canada)
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short
An Inconvenient Truth – Davis Guggenheim Deliver Us From Evil – Amy Berg and Frank Donner Iraq in Fragments – James Longley and John Sinno Jesus Camp – Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady My Country, My Country – Laura Poitras and Jocelyn Glatzer	The Blood of Yingzhou District – Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon Recycled Life – Leslie Iwerks and Mike Glad Rehearsing a Dream – Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon Two Hands: The Leon Fleisher Story – Nathaniel Kahn and Susan Rose Behr
Best Live Action Short	Best Animated Short
West Bank Story – Ari Sandel Binta and the Great Idea – Javier Fesser and Luis Manso Éramos Pocos – Borja Cobeaga Helmer and Son – Soren Pilmark and Kim Magnusson The Saviour – Peter Templeman and Stuart Parkyn	The Danish Poet – Torill Kove Lifted – Gary Rydstrom The Little Matchgirl – Roger Allers and Don Hahn Maestro – Géza M. Tóth No Time for Nuts – Chris Renaud and Michael Thurmeier
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
Babel – Gustavo Santaolalla The Good German – Thomas Newman Notes on a Scandal – Philip Glass Pan's Labyrinth – Javier Navarrete The Queen – Alexandre Desplat	"I Need to Wake Up" from An Inconvenient Truth – Music and Lyric by Melissa Etheridge "Listen" from Dreamgirls – Music by Henry Krieger and Scott Cutler; Lyric by Anne Preven "Love You I Do" from Dreamgirls – Music by Henry Krieger; Lyric by Siedah Garrett "Our Town" from Cars – Music and Lyric by Randy Newman "Patience" from Dreamgirls – Music by Henry Krieger; Lyric by Willie Reale
Best Sound Editing	Best Sound Mixing
Letters from Iwo Jima – Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman Apocalypto – Sean McCormack and Kami Asgar Blood Diamond – Lon Bender Flags of Our Fathers – Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest – Christopher Boyes and George Watters II	Dreamgirls – Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer and Willie D. Burton Apocalypto – Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Fernando Cámara Blood Diamond – Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Ivan Sharrock Flags of Our Fathers – John T. Reitz, David E. Campbell, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest – Paul Massey, Christopher Boyes and Lee Orloff
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
Pan's Labyrinth – Art Direction: Eugenio Caballero; Set Decoration: Pilar Revuelta Dreamgirls – Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh The Good Shepherd – Art Direction: Jeannine Oppewall; Set Decoration: Gretchen Rau and Leslie E. Rollins Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest – Art Direction: Rick Heinrichs; Set Decoration: Cheryl A. Carasik The Prestige – Art Direction: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Julie Ochipinti	Pan's Labyrinth – Guillermo Navarro The Black Dahlia – Vilmos Zsigmond Children of Men – Emmanuel Lubezki The Illusionist – Dick Pope The Prestige – Wally Pfister
Best Makeup	Best Costume Design
Pan's Labyrinth – David Marti and Montse Ribe Apocalypto – Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano Click – Kazuhiro Tsuji and Bill Corso	Marie Antoinette – Milena Canonero Curse of the Golden Flower – Chung Man Yee The Devil Wears Prada – Patricia Field Dreamgirls – Sharen Davis The Queen – Consolata Boyle
Best Film Editing	Best Visual Effects
The Departed – Thelma Schoonmaker Babel – Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione Blood Diamond – Steven Rosenblum Children of Men – Alfonso Cuarón and Alex Rodríguez United 93 – Clare Douglas, Richard Pearson and Christopher Rouse	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest – John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall Poseidon – Boyd Shermis, Kim Libreri, Chaz Jarrett and John Frazier Superman Returns – Mark Stetson, Neil Corbould, Richard R. Hoover and Jon Thum