This morning past Oscar nominee Salma Hayek and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ President Sid Ganis announced the nominees for the 79th Academy Awards. The complete list of nominees can be found below.
Best motion picture of the year
Babel (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
The Departed (Warner Bros.)
Letters from Iwo Jima (Warner Bros.)
Little Miss Sunshine (Fox Searchlight)
The Queen (Miramax, Pathé and Granada)
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Leonardo DiCaprio in Blood Diamond (Warner Bros.)
Ryan Gosling in Half Nelson (THINKFilm)
Peter O’Toole in Venus (Miramax, Filmfour and UK Council)
Will Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland (Fox Searchlight)
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Alan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine (Fox Searchlight)
Jackie Earle Haley in Little Children (New Line)
Djimon Hounsou in Blood Diamond (Warner Bros.)
Eddie Murphy in Dreamgirls (DreamWorks and Paramount)
Mark Wahlberg in The Departed (Warner Bros.)
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Penélope Cruz in Volver (Sony Pictures Classics)
Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal (Fox Searchlight)
Helen Mirren in The Queen (Miramax, Pathé and Granada)
Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada (20th Century Fox)
Kate Winslet in Little Children (New Line)
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Adriana Barraza in Babel (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
Cate Blanchett in Notes on a Scandal (Fox Searchlight)
Abigail Breslin in Little Miss Sunshine (Fox Searchlight)
Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls (DreamWorks and Paramount)
Rinko Kikuchi in Babel (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
Best animated feature film of the year
Cars (Buena Vista)
Happy Feet (Warner Bros.)
Monster House (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Achievement in art direction
Dreamgirls (DreamWorks and Paramount)
The Good Shepherd (Universal)
Pan’s Labyrinth (Picturehouse)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Buena Vista)
The Prestige (Buena Vista)
Achievement in cinematography
The Black Dahlia (Universal) Vilmos Zsigmond
Children of Men (Universal) Emmanuel Lubezki
The Illusionist (Yari Film Group) Dick Pope
Pan’s Labyrinth (Picturehouse) Guillermo Navarro
The Prestige (Buena Vista) Wally Pfister
Achievement in costume design
Curse of the Golden Flower (Sony Pictures Classics) Yee Chung Man
The Devil Wears Prada (20th Century Fox) Patricia Field
Dreamgirls (DreamWorks and Paramount) Sharen Davis
Marie Antoinette (Sony Pictures Releasing) Milena Canonero
The Queen (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Consolata Boyle
Achievement in directing
Alejandro González Iñárritu for Babel (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
Martin Scorsese for The Departed (Warner Bros.)
Clint Eastwood for Letters from Iwo Jima (Warner Bros.)
Stephen Frears for The Queen (Miramax, Pathé and Granada)
Paul Greengrass for United 93 (Universal and StudioCanal)
Best documentary feature
Deliver Us from Evil (Lionsgate)
An Inconvenient Truth (Paramount Classics and Participant Productions)
Iraq in Fragments (Typecast Releasing)
Jesus Camp (Magnolia Pictures)
My Country, My Country (Zeitgeist Films)
Best documentary short subject
The Blood of Yingzhou District
Recycled Life
Rehearsing a Dream
Two Hands
Achievement in film editing
Babel (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
Blood Diamond (Warner Bros.)
Children of Men (Universal)
The Departed (Warner Bros.)
United 93 (Universal and StudioCanal)
Best foreign language film of the year
After the Wedding A Zentropa Entertainments 16 Production
Days of Glory (Indigènes)
The Lives of Others
Pan’s Labyrinth
Water
Achievement in makeup
Apocalypto (Buena Vista)
Click (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Pan’s Labyrinth (Picturehouse)
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
Babel (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Gustavo Santaolalla
The Good German (Warner Bros.) Thomas Newman
Notes on a Scandal (Fox Searchlight) Philip Glass
Pan’s Labyrinth (Picturehouse) Javier Navarrete
The Queen (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Alexandre Desplat
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
“I Need to Wake Up” from An Inconvenient Truth
“Listen” from Dreamgirls
“Love You I Do” from Dreamgirls
“Our Town” from Cars
“Patience” from Dreamgirls
Achievement in sound editing
Apocalypto (Buena Vista)
Blood Diamond (Warner Bros.)
Flags of Our Fathers (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by Paramount)
Letters from Iwo Jima (Warner Bros.)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Buena Vista)
Achievement in sound mixing
Apocalypto (Buena Vista)
Blood Diamond (Warner Bros.)
Dreamgirls (DreamWorks and Paramount)
Flags of Our Fathers (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by Paramount)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Buena Vista)
Achievement in visual effects
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Buena Vista)
Poseidon (Warner Bros.)
Superman Returns (Warner Bros.)
Adapted screenplay
Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (20th Century Fox)
Children of Men (Universal)
The Departed (Warner Bros.)
Little Children (New Line)
Notes on a Scandal (Fox Searchlight)
Original screenplay
Babel (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
Letters from Iwo Jima (Warner Bros.)
Little Miss Sunshine (Fox Searchlight)
Pan’s Labyrinth (Picturehouse)
The Queen (Miramax, Pathé and Granada)
Best animated short film
The Danish Poet (National Film Board of Canada)
Lifted (Buena Vista)
The Little Matchgirl (Buena Vista)
Maestro (Szimplafilm)
No Time for Nuts (20th Century Fox)
Best live action short film
Binta and the Great Idea (Binta Y La Gran Idea)
Éramos Pocos (One Too Many)
Helmer & Son
The Saviour
West Bank Story
NOMINATION TALLIES
- Dreamgirls (8)
- Babel (7)
- The Queen (6)
- Pan’s Labyrinth (6)
- The Departed (5)
- Blood Diamond (5)
- Letters from Iwo Jima (4)
- Little Miss Sunshine (4)
- Notes on a Scandal (4)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (4)
- Little Children (3)
- Children of Men (3)
- Apocalypto (3)
- United 93 (2)
- The Devil Wears Prada (2)
- Flags of Our Fathers (2)
