| Best motion picture of the year |
| Winner: |
The Departed
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| Nominees: |
| Babel |
| Letters from Iwo Jima |
| Little Miss Sunshine |
| The Queen |
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| Performance by an actor in a leading role |
| Winner: |
| Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland |
| Nominees: |
| Leonardo DiCaprio in Blood Diamond |
| Ryan Gosling in Half Nelson |
| Peter O’Toole in Venus |
| Will Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness |
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| Performance by an actor in a supporting role |
| Winner: |
| Alan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine |
| Nominees: |
| Jackie Earle Haley in Little Children |
| Djimon Hounsou in Blood Diamond |
| Eddie Murphy in Dreamgirls |
| Mark Wahlberg in The Departed |
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| Performance by an actress in a leading role |
| Winner: |
| Helen Mirren in The Queen |
| Nominees: |
| Penélope Cruz in Volver |
| Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal |
| Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada |
| Kate Winslet in Little Children |
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| Performance by an actress in a supporting role |
| Winner: |
| Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls |
| Nominees: |
| Adriana Barraza in Babel |
| Cate Blanchett in Notes on a Scandal |
| Abigail Breslin in Little Miss Sunshine |
| Rinko Kikuchi in Babel |
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| Best animated feature film of the year |
| Winner: |
Happy Feet
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| Nominees: |
| Cars |
| Monster House |
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| Achievement in art direction |
| Winner: |
Pan’s Labyrinth
Art Direction: Eugenio Caballero
Set Decoration: Pilar Revuelta |
| Nominees: |
Dreamgirls
Art Direction: John Myhre
Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh |
The Good Shepherd
Art Direction: Jeannine Oppewall
Set Decoration: Gretchen Rau and Leslie E. Rollins |
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Art Direction: Rick Heinrichs
Set Decoration: Cheryl Carasik |
The Prestige
Art Direction: Nathan Crowley
Set Decoration: Julie Ochipinti |
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| Achievement in cinematography |
| Winner: |
Pan’s Labyrinth
Guillermo Navarro |
| Nominees: |
The Black Dahlia
Vilmos Zsigmond |
Children of Men
Emmanuel Lubezki |
The Illusionist
Dick Pope |
The Prestige
Wally Pfister |
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| Achievement in costume design |
| Winner: |
Marie Antoinette
Milena Canonero |
| Nominees: |
Curse of the Golden Flower
Yee Chung Man |
The Devil Wears Prada
Patricia Field |
Dreamgirls
Sharen Davis |
The Queen
Consolata Boyle |
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| Achievement in directing |
| Winner: |
The Departed
Martin Scorsese |
| Nominees: |
Babel
Alejandro González Iñárritu |
Letters from Iwo Jima
Clint Eastwood |
The Queen
Stephen Frears |
United 93
Paul Greengrass |
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| Best documentary feature |
| Winner: |
An Inconvenient Truth
Davis Guggenheim |
| Nominees: |
Deliver Us from Evil
Amy Berg and Frank Donner |
Iraq in Fragments
James Longley and John Sinno |
My Country, My Country
Laura Poitras and Jocelyn Glatzer |
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| Best documentary short subject |
| Winner: |
The Blood of Yingzhou District
Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon |
| Nominees: |
Recycled Life
Leslie Iwerks Mike Glad |
Rehearsing a Dream
Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon |
Two Hands
Nathaniel Kahn and Susan Rose Behr |
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| Achievement in film editing |
| Winner: |
The Departed
Thelma Schoonmaker |
| Nominees: |
Babel
Stephen Mirrione and Douglas Crise |
Blood Diamond
Steven Rosenblum |
Children of Men
Alex Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón |
United 93
Clare Douglas, Christopher Rouse and Richard Pearson |
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| Best foreign language film of the year |
| Winner: |
The Lives of Others
Germany |
| Nominees: |
Days of Glory
Algeria |
Pan’s Labyrinth
Mexico |
Water
Canada |
| |
| Achievement in makeup |
| Winner: |
Pan’s Labyrinth
David Martí and Montse Ribé |
| Nominees: |
Apocalypto
Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano |
Click
Kazuhiro Tsuji and Bill Corso |
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| Achievement in music written for motion pictures / Original score |
| Winner: |
Babel
Gustavo Santaolalla |
| Nominees: |
The Good German
Thomas Newman |
Notes on a Scandal
Philip Glass |
Pan’s Labyrinth
Javier Navarrete |
The Queen
Alexandre Desplat |
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| Achievement in music written for motion pictures / Original song |
| Winner: |
"I Need to Wake Up"
from An Inconvenient Truth
Music and Lyric by Melissa Etheridge |
| Nominees: |
"Listen"
from Dreamgirls
Music by Henry Krieger and Scott Cutler
Lyric by Anne Preven |
"Love You I Do"
from Dreamgirls
Music by Henry Krieger
Lyric by Siedah Garrett |
"Our Town"
from Cars
Music and Lyric by Randy Newman |
"Patience"
from Dreamgirls
Music by Henry Krieger
Lyric by Willie Reale |
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| Best animated short film |
| Winner: |
The Danish Poet
Torill Kove |
| Nominees: |
Lifted
Gary Rydstrom |
The Little Matchgirl
Roger Allers and Don Hahn |
Maestro
Géza M. Tóth |
No Time for Nuts
Chris Renaud and Michael Thurmeier |
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| Best live action short film |
| Winner: |
West Bank Story
Ari Sandel |
| Nominees: |
Binta and the Great Idea / Binta Y La Gran Idea
Javier Fesser and Luis Manso |
Éramos Pocos / One Too Many / Kimuak
Borja Cobeaga |
Helmer & Son
Søren Pilmark and Kim Magnusson |
The Saviour
Peter Templeman and Stuart Parkyn |
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| Achievement in sound editing |
| Winner: |
Letters from Iwo Jima
Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman |
| Nominees: |
Apocalypto
Sean McCormack and Kami Asgar |
Blood Diamond
Lon Bender |
Flags of Our Fathers
Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman |
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Christopher Boyes and George Watters II |
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| Achievement in sound mixing |
| Winner: |
Dreamgirls
Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer and Willie Burton |
| Nominees: |
Apocalypto
Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell and Fernando Cámara |
Blood Diamond
Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Ivan Sharrock |
Flags of Our Fathers
John Reitz, Dave Campbell, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin |
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Paul Massey, Christopher Boyes and Lee Orloff |
| |
| Achievement in visual effects |
| Winner: |
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall |
| Nominees: |
Poseidon
Boyd Shermis, Kim Libreri, Chas Jarrett and John Frazier |
Superman Returns
Mark Stetson, Neil Corbould, Richard R. Hoover and Jon Thum |
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| Adapted screenplay |
| Winner: |
The Departed
Screenplay by William Monahan |
| Nominees: |
Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Peter Baynham & Dan Mazer
Story by Sacha Baron Cohen & Peter Baynham & Anthony Hines & Todd Phillips |
Children of Men
Screenplay by Alfonso Cuarón & Timothy J. Sexton and David Arata and Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby |
Little Children
Screenplay by Todd Field & Tom Perrotta |
Notes on a Scandal
Screenplay by Patrick Marber |
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| Original screenplay |
| Winner: |
Little Miss Sunshine
Written by Michael Arndt |
| Nominees: |
Babel
Written by Guillermo Arriaga |
Letters from Iwo Jima
Screenplay by Iris Yamashita
Story by Iris Yamashita & Paul Haggis |
Pan’s Labyrinth
Written by Guillermo del Toro |
The Queen
Written by Peter Morgan |
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