The winners are noted in bold:
Best motion picture of the year
And the nominees for the 80th Annual Academy Awards (Oscars) are….
Best motion picture of the year
2007 Oscar Winners:
Best Motion Picture: The Departed
Best Director: Martin Scorsese (The Departed)
Best Actress: Helen Mirren (The Queen)
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)
Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls)
Best Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine)
Best Foreign Langauge Film:The Lives of Others
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Departed
Best Original Screenplay: Little Miss Sunshine
Best Visual Effects: Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Best Costume Design: Marie Antoinette
Best Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth
Best Film Editing: The Departed
For a complete list and more coverage visit The Academy Awards official site at www.oscar.com.
One of the best and truly remarkable directors in the past twenty years (at least) has yet to win an Oscar! But, perhaps this year’s Academy Awards will Lucci (as in Susan Lucci) Scorsese and put the poor man out of his misery and give him the award (Best Director for The Departed) he bloody well deserves. If you give a toss about the Emmy’s or daytime TV, you’ll remember that Susan Lucci was nominated 18 times before finally earning a Best Actress win at the 1999 Emmys. I hope to goodness Scorsese, who is a hell of a better director than Lucci is an actress, does not have to wait so ridiculously long. But, it’s well know that more likely than not, if you win the coveted Directors Guild Of America’s Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement, you will win the Best Director award at the Oscars the same year. Only 6 times since the DGA’s inception in 1949 has this not occured. I’m crossing my fingers that the Academy doesn’t screw Scorsese this year!
Best Motion Picture Drama: Babel, The Departed, Letters from Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine, The Queen
Best Director: Martin Scorsese (The Departed), Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Babel), Clint Eastwood (Letters from Iwo Jima), Stephen Frears (The Queen), Paul Greengrass (United 93)
Best Documentary: Deliver Us from Evil, An Inconvenient Truth, Iraq in Fragments, Jesus Camp, My Country, My Country
Best Actress: Helen Mirren (The Queen), Penelope Cruz (Volver), Judi Dench (Notes on a Scandal), Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada), Kate Winslet (Little Children)
Best Actor : 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)
Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls), Runko Kikuchi (Babel), Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine), Cate Blanchett (Notes on a Scandal), Adriana Barazza (Babel)
Best Supporting Actor: Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls), Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine), Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children), Djimon Honsou (Blood Diamond), Mark Wahlberg (The Departed)
Best Foreign Langauge Film:After the Wedding, Days of Glory, The Lives of Others, Pan’s Labyrinth, Water
Best Original Screenplay: The Queen, Pan’s Labyrinth, Little Miss Sunshine, Letters from Iwo Jima, Babel, Little Miss Sunshine
Best Adapted Screenplay:Borat, Children of Men, The Departed, Little Children, Notes on a Scandal
Best Animated Film: Cars, Happy Feet, Monster House
Best Costume Design: Curse of the Golden Flower, The Devil Wears Prada, Dreamgirls, Marie Antoinette, The Queen
Best Art Direction: Dreamgirls, The Good Shepherd, Pan’s Labyrinth, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, The Prestige
Best Cinematography: The Black Dahlia, Children of Men, The Illusionist, Pan’s Labyrinth, The Prestige
Best Original Score: Babel, The Good German, Notes on a Scandal, Pan’s Labyrinth, The Queen
Best Original Song: I Need to Wake Up (Inconvenient Truth), Listen (Dreamgirls), Love You I Do (Dreamgirls), Our Town (Cars), Patience (Dreamgirls)For a complete list visit Oscars.org.
MOTION PICTURES:
Best Motion Picture Drama: Babel
Best Musical or Comedy: Dreamgirls
Best Director: Martin Scorsese (The Departed)
Best Actress (Comedy/Musical): Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada)
Best Actress (Drama): Helen Mirren (The Queen)
Best Actor (Drama): Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)
Best Actor (Comedy/Musical): Sacha Cohen (Borat)
Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls)
Best Supporting Actor: Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls)
Best Foreign Langauge Film:Letters From Iwo Jima
Best Screenplay: The Queen
TELEVISION:
Best TV Drama: Grey’s Anatomy
Best TV Comedy/Musical: Ugly Betty
Best TV Actress (Comedy/Musical): America Ferrera (Ugly Betty)
Best TV Actress (Drama): Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer)
Best TV Actor (Drama): Hugh Laurie (House)
Best Actor (Comedy/Musical): Alec Baldwin (30 Rock)
Best TV Mini-Series/Made-for-TV-Movie: Elizabeth I
Best Actress TV Mini-Series/Made-for-TV-Movie: Helen Mirren (Elizabeth I)
Best Actor TV Mini-Series/Made-for-TV-Movie: Bill Nighy (Gideon’s Daughter)
Best Supporting Actress TV Series, Mini-Series, Made-for-TV-Movie: Emily Blunt (Gideon’s Daughter)
Best Supporting Actor TV Series, Mini-Series, Made-for-TV-Movie: Jeremy Irons (Elizabeth I)
For a complete list and more coverage visit The Golden Globes official site at www.HFPA.org.
Quel supris! Well, not really. It’s never a surprise who gets nods for the Globes. There are disappointments and happy dances, but never surprises…for me anyway. Leonardo Dicaprio and Clint Eastwood each got two nods. DiCaprio for best actor in The Departed and in Blood Diamond. I think he’ll win for The Departed. Clint Eastwoods two directing nods are for Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima. I don’t give a toss which one he wins for… Well, no, I do care if he wins ’cause I really want Scorsese, who’s nominated for directing The Departed, which I loved!! Fortunately none of Eastwoods films are nominated for Best Picture, but The Departed is along with Babel, Little Children, The Queen and Bobby.
