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Academy Awards, USA: 2007

Oscar

Date:25 February
Host:Ellen DeGeneres
Location:Kodak Theatre, Hollywood & Highland, Los Angeles, California, USA

Best Motion Picture of the Year
  Winner:
 
  Other Nominees:
 
  • Babel (2006) - Alejandro González Iñárritu; Jon Kilik; Steve Golin
  • Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) - Clint Eastwood; Steven Spielberg; Robert Lorenz (I)
  • 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:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Blood Diamond (2006) - Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Half Nelson (2006) - Ryan Gosling (I)
  • The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) - Will Smith (I)
  • Venus (2006/I) - Peter O'Toole (I)

  • Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Little Children (2006) - Kate Winslet
  • Notes on a Scandal (2006) - Judi Dench
  • The Devil Wears Prada (2006) - Meryl Streep
  • Volver (2006/I) - Penélope Cruz

  • Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Blood Diamond (2006) - Djimon Hounsou
  • Dreamgirls (2006) - Eddie Murphy (I)
  • Little Children (2006) - Jackie Earle Haley
  • The Departed (2006) - Mark Wahlberg (I)

  • Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Babel (2006) - Adriana Barraza
  • Babel (2006) - Rinko Kikuchi
  • Little Miss Sunshine (2006) - Abigail Breslin
  • Notes on a Scandal (2006) - Cate Blanchett

  • Best Achievement in Directing
      Winner:
     
      Other 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:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Babel (2006) - Guillermo Arriaga (I)
  • El laberinto del fauno (2006) - Guillermo del Toro
  • Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) - Iris Yamashita (screenplay/story); Paul Haggis (story)
  • The Queen (2006) - Peter Morgan (I)

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

  • Best Achievement in Cinematography
      Winner:
     
      Other 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:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Dreamgirls (2006) - John Myhre (art director); Nancy Haigh (set decorator)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) - Rick Heinrichs (art director); Cheryl Carasik (set decorator)
  • The Good Shepherd (2006) - Jeannine Claudia Oppewall (art director); Gretchen Rau (set decorator); Leslie E. Rollins (set decorator)
  • The Prestige (2006) - Nathan Crowley (art director); Julie Ochipinti (set decorator)

  • Best Achievement in Costume Design
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Dreamgirls (2006) - Sharen Davis
  • Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia (2006) - Chung Man Yee
  • The Devil Wears Prada (2006) - Patricia Field
  • The Queen (2006) - Consolata Boyle

  • Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Apocalypto (2006) - Kevin O'Connell (II); Greg P. Russell; Fernando Cámara (I)
  • Blood Diamond (2006) - Andy Nelson (I); Anna Behlmer; Ivan Sharrock
  • Flags of Our Fathers (2006) - John T. Reitz; David E. Campbell; Gregg Rudloff; Walt Martin
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) - Paul Massey (I); Christopher Boyes; Lee Orloff

  • Best Achievement in Editing
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Babel (2006) - Douglas Crise; Stephen Mirrione
  • Blood Diamond (2006) - Steven Rosenblum
  • Children of Men (2006) - Alfonso Cuarón; Alex Rodríguez (I)
  • United 93 (2006) - Clare Douglas; Richard Pearson (I); Christopher Rouse

  • Best Achievement in Sound Editing
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Apocalypto (2006) - Sean McCormack (I); 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:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Poseidon (2006) - Boyd Shermis; Kim Libreri; Chas Jarrett; John Frazier (I)
  • Superman Returns (2006) - Mark Stetson; Neil Corbould; Richard R. Hoover; Jon Thum

  • Best Achievement in Makeup
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Apocalypto (2006) - Aldo Signoretti; Vittorio Sodano
  • Click (2006/I) - Kazuhiro Tsuji; Bill Corso

  • Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Cars (2006) - Randy Newman (I)
    - For the song "Our Town".
  • Dreamgirls (2006) - Henry Krieger (I) (music); Scott Cutler (music); Anne Preven (lyrics)
    - For the song "Listen".
  • Dreamgirls (2006) - Henry Krieger (I) (music); Siedah Garrett (lyrics)
    - For the song "Love You I Do".
  • Dreamgirls (2006) - Henry Krieger (I) (music); Willie Reale (lyrics)
    - For the song "Patience".

  • Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • El laberinto del fauno (2006) - Javier Navarrete (I)
  • Notes on a Scandal (2006) - Philip Glass
  • The Good German (2006) - Thomas Newman (I)
  • The Queen (2006) - Alexandre Desplat

  • Best Short Film, Animated
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Lifted (2006) - Gary Rydstrom
  • Maestro (2005) - Géza M. Tóth
  • No Time for Nuts (2006) - Chris Renaud; Mike Thurmeier
  • The Little Matchgirl (2006) - Roger Allers; Don Hahn (I)

  • Best Short Film, Live Action
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Binta y la gran idea (2004) - Javier Fesser (I); Luis Manso
  • Helmer & søn (2006) - Søren Pilmark; Kim Magnusson
  • The Saviour (2005) - Peter Templeman (I); Stuart Parkyn
  • Éramos pocos (2005) - Borja Cobeaga

  • Best Documentary, Short Subjects
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Recycled Life (2006) - Leslie Iwerks; Mike Glad
  • Rehearsing a Dream (2006) - Karen Goodman (II); Kirk Simon
  • Two Hands: The Leon Fleisher Story (2006) - Nathaniel Kahn (I); Susan Rose Behr

  • Best Documentary, Features
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • "P.O.V." (1988) {My Country, My Country (#19.12)} - Laura Poitras; Jocelyn Glatzer
  • Deliver Us from Evil (2006) - Amy Berg (II); Frank Donner
  • Iraq in Fragments (2006) - James Longley; Yahya Sinno
  • Jesus Camp (2006) - Heidi Ewing (I); Rachel Grady

  • Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Efter brylluppet (2006)
    - Denmark.
  • El laberinto del fauno (2006)
    - Mexico.
  • Indigènes (2006)
    - Algeria.
  • Water (2005/I)
    - Canada.

  • Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Cars (2006) - John Lasseter
  • Monster House (2006) - Gil Kenan (I)

  • Honorary Award

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

    Medal of Commendation

      Awarded to:
     

    Award of Commendation

      Awarded to:
     
    • 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

      Awarded to:
     

    Academy Award of Merit

    Date:10 February
    Host:Maggie Gyllenhaal
    Location:Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Scientific and Engineering Award

      Winners:
     
    • Dr. Bill Collis; Simon Robinson; Ben Kent (V); 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 (Pacific Title and Art Studio); Jim Houston (I) (Pacific Title and Art Studio); Denis Leconte (Pacific Title and Art Studio); Chris Bushman (I) (Pacific Title and Art Studio)
      - 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 (II); Max Chen (I); Francesco Callari (II)
      - For the design and development of the ILM Image-based Modeling System.

    Technical Achievement Award

      Winners:
     
    • Bill Feightner (E-Film); Chris Edwards (XXVIII) (E-Film)
      - 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 (Technicolor Digital Intermediates); Chris Kutcka (Technicolor Digital Intermediates)
      - 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 (cmotion); Martin Waitz (cmotion)
      - For the design and engineering of the cmotion Wireless Remote System.

    Gordon E. Sawyer Award

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