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OSCAR WINNERS FOR THE YEAR 2006 79th ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS FOR 2006 On January 23, 2007, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 79th Annual Academy Awards. Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2006 were be presented on Sunday, February 25, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®. Ellen DeGeneris was the host. And the winners are... Performance by an actor in a leading role 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) Performance by an actress in a leading role Helen Mirren in “The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Performance by an actress in a supporting role Jennifer Hudson in “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) Best animated feature film of the year “Happy Feet” (Warner Bros.) George Miller Achievement in art direction “Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) Art Direction: Eugenio Caballero Set Decoration: Pilar Revuelta Achievement in cinematography “Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) Guillermo Navarro Achievement in costume design “Marie Antoinette” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Milena Canonero Achievement in directing “The Departed” (Warner Bros.) Martin Scorsese Best documentary feature “An Inconvenient Truth” (Paramount Classics and Participant Productions) A Lawrence Bender/Laurie David Production Davis Guggenheim Best documentary short subject “The Blood of Yingzhou District” A Thomas Lennon Films Production Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon Achievement in film editing “The Departed” (Warner Bros.) Thelma Schoonmaker Best foreign language film of the year “The Lives of Others” A Wiedemann & Berg Production Germany Achievement in makeup “Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) David Marti and Montse Ribe Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score) “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Gustavo Santaolalla Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song) “I Need to Wake Up” from “An Inconvenient Truth” (Paramount Classics and Participant Productions) Music and Lyric by Melissa Etheridge Best motion picture of the year “The Departed” (Warner Bros.) A Warner Bros. Pictures Production Nominees to be determined Best animated short film “The Danish Poet” (National Film Board of Canada) A Mikrofilm and National Film Board of Canada Production Torill Kove Best live action short film “West Bank Story” An Ari Sandel, Pascal Vaguelsy, Amy Kim, Ravi Malhotra and Ashley Jordan Production Ari Sandel Achievement in sound editing “Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.) Alan Robert Murray Achievement in sound mixing “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer and Willie Burton Achievement in visual effects “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (Buena Vista) John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall Adapted screenplay “The Departed” (Warner Bros.) Screenplay by William Monahan Original screenplay “Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight) Written by Michael Arndt Copyright 2007 AMPAS Registered RETURN TO I-REVIEWMOVIES.COM VISIT THE STARLITE PAGE