British royals join Gore, Scorsese and West Bank in 2007 Oscars

British films picked up the double whammy of acting awards at the Oscars, with statues for Best Actor to Forrest Whitaker for the UK's Last King of Scotland, and Best Actress to Helen Mirren for The Queen. Martin Scorsese finally picked up a long awaited Best Director nod for The Departed, which went home with four awards. Al Gore's environemntal wake up call An Inconvenient Truth picked up two awards, while a musical set in the middle east West Bank Stories, won best live action short.

Best picture
The Departed
Babel
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

Best director
Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Clint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears, The Queen
Paul Greengrass, United 93
Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Babel

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 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 supporting actress
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Adriana Barraza, Babel
Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
Rinko Kikuchi, Babel

Best supporting actor
Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children
Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
Mark Wahlberg, The Departed

Best foreign language film
Das Leben der Anderen (aka The Lives of Others), Germany
Efter Brylluppet (aka After the Wedding), Denmark
Indigenes (aka Days of Glory), Algeria
El Laberinto del Fauno (aka Pan's Labyrinth), Mexico
Water, Canada

Best animated feature film
Happy Feet
Cars
Monster House

Best adapted screenplay
The Departed
Borat
Children of Men
Little Children
Notes on a Scandal

Best original screenplay
Little Miss Sunshine
Babel
Letters from Iwo Jima
The Queen
Pan's Labyrinth

Best original score
Babel
The Good German
Notes on a Scandal
Pan's Labyrinth
The Queen

Best original song
I Need to Wake Up - An Inconvenient Truth (performed by Melissa Etheridge)
Listen - Dreamgirls (performed by Beyonce Knowles)
Love You I Do - Dreamgirls (performed by Jennifer Hudson)
Our Town - Cars (performed by James Taylor)
Patience - Dreamgirls (performed by Eddie Murphy, Keith Robinson, Anika Noni Rose)

Best documentary feature
An Inconvenient Truth
Deliver Us From Evil
Iraq In Fragments
Jesus Camp
My Country, My Country

Best documentary short subject
The Blood of Yingzhou District
Recycled Life
Rehearsing A Dream
Two Hands

Best visual effects
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Poseidon
Superman Returns

Best cinematography
Pan's Labyrinth
The Black Dahlia
Children of Men
The Illusionist
The Prestige

Best art direction
Pan's Labyrinth
Dreamgirls
The Good Shepherd
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The Prestige

Best animated short film
The Danish Poet
Lifted
The Little Matchgirl
Maestro
No Time for Nuts

Best action short film
West Bank Story
Binta and the Great Idea
Eramos Pocos (One Too Many)
Helmer and Son
The Saviour

Best costume design
Marie Antoinette
Curse of the Golden Flower
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
The Queen

Best make-up
Pan's Labyrinth
Apocalypto
Click

Best sound mixing
Dreamgirls
Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Flags of our Fathers
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Sound editing
Letters from Iwo Jima
Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Flags of our Fathers
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Best film editing
The Departed
Babel
Blood Diamond
Children of Men
United 93

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Sherry Lansing

Honorary Award
Ennio Morricone

by Admin

Published 25 February 2007