Who Won 79th Annual Academy Awards?

Feb 25, 2007

The 79th Academy Awards were held in the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on February 25, 2007 and hosted by Ellen DeGeneres. "The Departed" ended up being the big winner of the night by winning Best Picture, Best Director for Martin Scorsese, Screenplay, and Editing. "Pan's Labyrinth" won three design related Oscars. "Dreamgirls" had gone into the evening with the most nominations (eight) and won two Academy Awards (supporting actress Jennifer Hudson and sound mixing).

Best Picture	The Departed  Graham King, producer
Best Actor	Forest Whitaker (The Last King Of Scotland)
Best Actress	Helen Mirren (The Queen)
Best Supporting Actor	Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine)
Best Supporting Actress	Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls)
Best Director	Martin Scorsese (The Departed)
Adapted Screenplay	The Departed  Screenplay by William Monahan
Original Screenplay	Little Miss Sunshine  Written by Michael Arndt
Animated Feature Film	Happy Feet  George Miller
Foreign Language Film	The Lives Of Others  Germany
Documentary Feature	An Inconvenient Truth  Davis Guggenheim
Documentary Short	The Blood of Yingzhou District  Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon
Short Film (Live Action)	West Bank Story  Ari Sandel
Short Film (Animated)	The Danish Poet  Torill Kove
Film Editing	The Departed  Thelma Schoonmaker
Cinematography	Pan's Labyrinth  Guillermo Navarro
Costume Design	Marie Antoinette  Milena Canonero
Makeup	Pan's Labyrinth  David Martí and Montse Ribé
Art Direction	Pan's Labyrinth  Art Direction: Eugenio Caballero; Set Decoration: Pilar Revuelta
Sound Editing	Letters From Iwo Jima  Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
Sound Mixing	Dreamgirls  Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer and Willie Burton
Visual Effects	Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest  John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall
Original Score	Babel  Gustavo Santaolalla, Composer
Original Song	"I Need To Wake Up" (An Inconvenient Truth) Music and Lyric by Melissa Etheridge