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Oscars 2007: The winners

  • 26-02-2007 7:21am
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    Rabies
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    List from news.bbc.co.uk

    Oscars 2007: The winners

    Here is the full list of Oscars presented at the 79th Academy Awards, with the winners listed in bold:

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

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


    Best actor
    Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond
    Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
    Peter O'Toole, Venus
    Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness
    Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland


    Best actress
    Penelope Cruz, Volver
    Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
    Helen Mirren, The Queen
    Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada
    Kate Winslet, Little Children


    Best supporting actress
    Adriana Barraza, Babel
    Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
    Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
    Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
    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
    Efter Brylluppet (aka After the Wedding), Denmark
    Indigenes (aka Days of Glory), Algeria
    El Laberinto del Fauno (aka Pan's Labyrinth), Mexico
    Das Leben der Anderen (aka The Lives of Others), Germany
    Water, Canada


    Best animated feature film
    Cars
    Happy Feet
    Monster House




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


    Best original screenplay
    Babel
    Letters from Iwo Jima
    Little Miss Sunshine
    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
    Deliver Us From Evil
    An Inconvenient Truth
    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
    The Black Dahlia
    Children of Men
    The Illusionist
    Pan's Labyrinth
    The Prestige

    Best art direction
    Dreamgirls
    The Good Shepherd
    Pan's Labyrinth
    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
    Binta and the Great Idea
    Eramos Pocos (One Too Many)
    Helmer and Son
    The Saviour
    West Bank Story


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


    Best make-up
    Apocalypto
    Click
    Pan's Labyrinth


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

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


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


    Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
    Sherry Lansing

    Honorary Award
    Ennio Morricone


    edit:
    I know there is another thread, but that has 7 pages of pre/post oscar talk.


Comments

  • #2
    rivers
    Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭rivers


    so scorcese finally got it. well deserved imo. at least it wasnt for gangs of new york a couple of years back...

    I thought djimon honsou should've taken the best supporting actor award but oh well...


  • #3
    The Denouncer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 435 ✭✭The Denouncer


    Haven't seen just about everything in that list, except I thought Cars was better than Happy Feet.


  • #4
    Petey2006
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭Petey2006


    Is anyone really surprised? Probably the most predictable Oscar ceremony in recent history. Another celebration of mediocrity.


  • #5
    justfortherecor
    Registered Users Posts: 708 ✭✭✭justfortherecor


    I'm just thankful Babel won nothing of significance.


  • #6
    MisterAnarchy
    Registered Users Posts: 14,521 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    Petey2006 wrote:
    Is anyone really surprised? Probably the most predictable Oscar ceremony in recent history. Another celebration of mediocrity.
    Yip here here.
    Funny isnt it that The Departed wins best film and Infernal Affairs the infinitely superior film on which it was based didnt even get nominated in 2003 for best foreign film .


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  • #7
    fade2black
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    Delighted with that award for Ennio. Anyone know where I can watch that segment without have to sit through the durge?


  • #8
    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,774 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    In the other Oscars thread, i predicted all the awards of any real significance anyways. That is:

    Best picture: The Departed
    Best director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
    Best actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
    Best actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen
    Best supporting actress: Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
    Best supporting actor: Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine

    No real suprises in it really to be honest!


  • #9
    MisterAnarchy
    Registered Users Posts: 14,521 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    Worrying trend appearing
    In 4 of ther last 5 years a major acting award has gone to a musical.
    2003:Catherine Zeta Jones, Chicago
    2005:Jamie Foxx,Ray
    2006:Reese Witherspoon,Walk the Line
    2007:Jennifer Hudson,Dreamgirls
    This years awards were one of the weakest ever,nothing outstanding.
    Have a look at 1994's Best Picture category
    Forest Gump
    Pulp Fiction
    Shawshank Redemption
    Quiz Show
    Four weddings and a funeral
    All these 5 are arguably better than any winner since.


  • #10
    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,774 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    MisterAnarchy wrote:
    Worrying trend appearing
    In 4 of ther last 5 years a major acting award has gone to a musical.
    Yep.. as i've said numerous times before, bio-pics and / or musicals have been cleaning up at The Oscars.

    And it's a trend i don't expect to change anytime soon.


  • #11
    cashback
    Registered Users Posts: 1,598 ✭✭✭cashback


    MisterAnarchy wrote:
    This years awards were one of the weakest ever,nothing outstanding.
    Have a look at 1994's Best Picture category
    Forest Gump
    Pulp Fiction
    Shawshank Redemption
    Quiz Show
    Four weddings and a funeral
    All these 5 are arguably better than any winner since.

    Well, I wouldn't rate Four Weddings and Forrest Gump as great films.
    I'd say American Beauty in 1999 is better than those two.
    Although that is an exception. A lot of Best Picture winners in the last ten years have been undeserving.
    Crash? A Beautiful Mind?


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  • #12
    MisterAnarchy
    Registered Users Posts: 14,521 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    cashback wrote:
    Well, I wouldn't rate Four Weddings and Forrest Gump as great films.
    I'd say American Beauty in 1999 is better than those two.
    Although that is an exception. A lot of Best Picture winners in the last ten years have been undeserving.
    Crash? A Beautiful Mind?
    Thought Crash was very good,didnt like American Beauty at all though I agree most of the winners in the last few years were undeserving
    Chicago,Shakespeare in Love,Titanic ,all pretty poor films .


  • #13
    rivers
    Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭rivers


    back to infernal affairs again...the direction was not half as good as the departed neither was the acting. Andy Lau? come on, he has 2 acting faces. Tony leung is good though.
    In relation to scorcese getting the oscar, i guess it's the culmination of his work and not especially the departed. He should have gotten it 30 years ago and a number of times since, so maybe they're thinking this is the best film he's done in a long time, let's give it now before he dies.

    p.s i thought the departed was great...


  • #14
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,988 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Caught the list on Ceefax(!) and found it terribly dull. Not one surprise amongst them.

    'The Departed' is entertaining, but I wouldn't have thought it "Best Picture" material. It's worth winning though if it kept "Babel" from the golden trophy.

    Very glad that I didn't have the opportunity to waste my time watching this. Dull.


  • #15
    panda100
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    I cant believe the guy from Little Miss sunshine won an Oscar. Was his role that demanding!I didnt think twice about him after watching the film. I dont understand why Little Miss sunshine got nominated for best film and Pans Labryinth didnt.


  • #16
    supernic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭supernic


    Pan's Labyrinth was nominated for best foreign film


  • #17
    BlitzKrieg
    Registered Users Posts: 14,685 ✭✭✭✭BlitzKrieg


    Funny isnt it that The Departed wins best film and Infernal Affairs the infinitely superior film on which it was based didnt even get nominated in 2003 for best foreign film .

    Because the oscars are horrible unfair to foreign films.

    Each country is only allowed nominate 1 film each year for the best foriegn language film catagory.

    As a result the Chinese film board most likely felt that one of its other films had a better chance at getting selected over infernal affairs.


  • #18
    lostexpectation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    im looking for the technical oscars to see who actually won most...

    how many of them are there?

    I cant find it the oscars site even

    is this them
    http://oscar.com/oscarnight/?pn=scientificandengineering


  • #19
    Playboy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Playboy


    panda100 wrote:
    I cant believe the guy from Little Miss sunshine won an Oscar. Was his role that demanding!I didnt think twice about him after watching the film. I dont understand why Little Miss sunshine got nominated for best film and Pans Labryinth didnt.

    He was the best thing in that movie by a country mile. Well deserved imo. He is one character in that movie that I wont forget


  • #20
    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,774 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Second Playboy's opinion... Arkin played the character down to a tee. And he was absoutely fanastic in it.


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