Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg were the presenters when Martin Scorsese achieved the one thing that's been eluding him his entire career - an Oscar for Best Director. Scorsese's Boston mob drama The Departed came away the night's big winner, taking home Academy Awards for Best Picture, Editing and Adapted Screenplay as well as the Best Director honor.
2007 Academy Award Nominees and Winners
Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio - Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson
Peter O'Toole - Venus
Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness
Winner:
Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland
Best Supporting Actor
Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children
Djimon Hounsou - Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls
Mark Wahlberg - The Departed
Winner: Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine
Best Actress
Penelope Cruz - Volver
Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal
Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet - Little Children
Winner:
Helen Mirren - The Queen
Best Supporting Actress
Adriana Barraza - Babel
Cate Blanchett - Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine
Rinko Kikuchi - Babel
Winner:
Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
Best Animated Feature Film
Cars
Monster House
Winner: Happy Feet
Art Direction
Dreamgirls
The Good Shepherd
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The Prestige
Winner:
Pan's Labyrinth
Cinematography
The Black Dahlia
Children of Men
The Illusionist
The Prestige
Winner: Pan's Labyrinth
Costume Design
Curse of the Golden Flower
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
The Queen
Winner:
Marie Antoinette
Best Director
Babel - Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Letters from Iwo Jima - Clint Eastwood
The Queen - Stephen Frears
United 93 - Paul Greengrass
Winner:
The Departed - Martin Scorsese
Best Documentary Feature Film
Deliver Us From Evil
Iraq in Fragments
Jesus Camp
My Country, My Country
Winner:
An Inconvenient Truth
Best Documentary Short Subject
Recycled Life
Rehearsing a Dream
Two Hands
Winner:
The Blood of Yingzhou District
Film Editing
Babel
Blood Diamond
Children of Men
United 93
Winner:
The Departed
Best Foreign Language Film
After the Wedding
Days of Glory (Indigenes)
Pan's Labyrinth
Water
Winner: The Lives of Others
Achievement in Makeup
Apocalytpo
Click
Winner: Pan's Labyrinth
Music (Score)
The Good German
Notes on a Scandal
Pan's Labyrinth
The Queen
Winner:
Babel
Music (Original Song)
"Listen" - Dreamgirls
"Love You I Do" - Dreamgirls
"Our Town" - Cars
"Patience" - Dreamgirls
Winner: "I Need to Wake Up" - An Inconvenient Truth
Best Picture
Babel
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen
Winner:
The Departed
Animated Short Film
Lifted
The Little Matchgirl
Maestro
No Time for Nuts
Winner: The Danish Poet
Live Action Short Film
Binta and the Great Idea (Binta Y la Gran Idea)
Éramos Pocos (One Too Many)
Helmer & Son
The Saviour
Winner: West Bank Story
Sound Editing
Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Flags of Our Fathers
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dean Man's Chest
Winner: Letters from Iwo Jima
Sound Mixing
Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Flags of Our Fathers
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Winner:
Dreamgirls
Visual Effects
Poseidon
Superman Returns
Winner:
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Adapted Screenplay
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Children of Men
Little Children
Notes on a Scandal
Winner:
The Departed
Original Screenplay
Babel
Letters from Iwo Jima
Pan's Labyrinth
The Queen
Winner:
Little Miss Sunshine
