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.
Ellen Degeneres is set to host the 79th Academy Awards on February 25th next year. Jon Stewart hosted last year and wasn’t at all memorable. The best I could say is he looked good in his tux. The 78th Annual Academy Awards itself was a bigger bomb with lackluster presentations of too many clips and not enough star-candy. You watch to see the stars as much as to see which stars win. Nonetheless, Ellen Degeneres may improve things this year if the Academy decides to show endless clips again this year.
