The 79th Academy Awards (2006): Nominees and Winners

NOMINATIONS		AWARDS
8 7 6 6 5 5 4 4 4 4 3 3 3	Dreamgirls Babel Pan's Labyrinth The Queen Blood Diamond The Departed Letters from Iwo Jima Little Miss Sunshine Notes on a Scandal Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Apocalypto Children of Men Little Children	4 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1	The Departed Pan's Labyrinth Dreamgirls An Inconvenient Truth Little Miss Sunshine Babel The Blood of Yingzhou District The Danish Poet Happy Feet The Last King of Scotland Letters from Iwo Jima The Lives of Others Marie Antoinette Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest The Queen West Bank Story
NOMINATION/WIN TALLY LEGEND Best Picture winner Best Picture nominee Nominations are listed for all films receiving 3 or more

PICTURE (Best Picture)

• Babel - Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu, Jon Kilik, Steve Golin
• The Departed - Graham King
• Letters from Iwo Jima - Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, Robert Lorenz
• Little Miss Sunshine - David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub
• The Queen - Andy Harries, Christine Langan, Tracey Seaward

DIRECTING

• Babel - Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu
• The Departed - Martin Scorsese
• Letters from Iwo Jima - Clint Eastwood
• The Queen - Stephen Frears
• United 93 - Paul Greengrass

ACTOR (Actor in a Leading Role)

• 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

ACTRESS (Actress in a Leading Role)

• Penlope Cruz - Volver
• Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal
• Helen Mirren - The Queen
• Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada
• Kate Winslet - Little Children

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Actor in a Supporting Role)

• Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine
• Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children
• Djimon Hounsou - Blood Diamond
• Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls
• Mark Wahlberg - The Departed

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Actress in a Supporting Role)

• Adriana Barraza - Babel
• Cate Blanchett - Notes on a Scandal
• Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine
• Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
• Rinko Kikuchi - Babel

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• Babel - Written by Guillermo Arriaga
• Letters from Iwo Jima - Screenplay by Iris Yamashita; Story by Iris Yamashita & Paul Haggis
• Little Miss Sunshine - Written by Michael Arndt
• Pan's Labyrinth - Written by Guillermo del Toro
• The Queen - Written by Peter Morgan

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• 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 Cuarn & Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby
• The Departed - Screenplay by William Monahan
• Little Children - Screenplay by Todd Field & Tom Perrotta
• Notes on a Scandal - Screenplay by Patrick Marber

ORIGINAL SONG

• "I Need to Wake Up" - An Inconvenient Truth - Music, Lyric by Melissa Etheridge
• "Listen" - Dreamgirls - Music by Henry Krieger, Scott Cutler; Lyric by Anne Preven
• "Love You I Do" - Dreamgirls - Music by Henry Krieger; Lyric by Siedah Garrett
• "Our Town" - Cars - Music, Lyric by Randy Newman
• "Patience" - Dreamgirls - Music by Henry Krieger; Lyric by Willie Reale

ORIGINAL SCORE

• Babel - Gustavo Santaolalla
• The Good German - Thomas Newman
• Notes on a Scandal - Philip Glass
• Pan's Labyrinth - Javier Navarrete
• The Queen - Alexandre Desplat

FILM EDITING

• Babel - Stephen Mirrione, Douglas Crise
• Blood Diamond - Steven Rosenblum
• Children of Men - Alex Rodrguez, Alfonso Cuarn
• The Departed - Thelma Schoonmaker
• United 93 - Clare Douglas, Christopher Rouse, Richard Pearson

CINEMATOGRAPHY

• The Black Dahlia - Vilmos Zsigmond
• Children of Men - Emmanuel Lubezki
• The Illusionist - Dick Pope
• Pan's Labyrinth - Guillermo Navarro
• The Prestige - Wally Pfister

ART DIRECTION

• Dreamgirls - Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh
• The Good Shepherd - Art Direction: Jeannine Oppewall; Set Decoration: Gretchen Rau, Leslie E. Rollins
• Pan's Labyrinth - Art Direction: Eugenio Caballero; Set Decoration: Pilar Revuelta
• 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

COSTUME DESIGN

• Curse of the Golden Flower - Yee Chung Man
• The Devil Wears Prada - Patricia Field
• Dreamgirls - Sharen Davis
• Marie Antoinette - Milena Canonero
• The Queen - Consolata Boyle

MAKEUP

• Apocalypto - Aldo Signoretti, Vittorio Sodano
• Click - Kazuhiro Tsuji, Bill Corso
• Pan's Labyrinth - David Mart, Montse Rib

SOUND MIXING

• Apocalypto - Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Fernando Cmara
• Blood Diamond - Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Ivan Sharrock
• Dreamgirls - Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer, Willie Burton
• Flags of Our Fathers - John Reitz, Dave Campbell, Gregg Rudloff, Walt Martin
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - Paul Massey, Christopher Boyes, Lee Orloff

SOUND EDITING

• Apocalypto - Sean McCormack, Kami Asgar
• Blood Diamond - Lon Bender
• Flags of Our Fathers - Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman
• Letters from Iwo Jima - Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - Christopher Boyes, George Watters II

VISUAL EFFECTS

• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson, Allen Hall
• Poseidon - Boyd Shermis, Kim Libreri, Chas Jarrett, John Frazier
• Superman Returns - Mark Stetson, Neil Corbould, Richard R. Hoover, Jon Thum

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

• Cars - John Lasseter
• Happy Feet - George Miller
• Monster House - Gil Kenan

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• After the Wedding - Denmark
• Days of Glory (Indignes) - Algeria
• The Lives of Others - Germany
• Pan's Labyrinth - Mexico
• Water - Canada

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)

• Deliver Us from Evil - Amy Berg, Frank Donner
• An Inconvenient Truth - Davis Guggenheim
• Iraq in Fragments - James Longley, John Sinno
• Jesus Camp - Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
• My Country, My Country - Laura Poitras, Jocelyn Glatzer

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)

• The Blood of Yingzhou District - Ruby Yang, Thomas Lennon
• Recycled Life - Leslie Iwerks, Mike Glad
• Rehearsing a Dream - Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon
• Two Hands - Nathaniel Kahn, Susan Rose Behr

SHORT FILM (Animated)

• The Danish Poet - Torill Kove
• Lifted - Gary Rydstrom
• The Little Matchgirl - Roger Allers, Don Hahn
• Maestro - Gza M. Tth
• No Time for Nuts - Chris Renaud, Michael Thurmeier

SHORT FILM (Live Action)

• Binta and the Great Idea (Binta Y La Gran Idea) - Javier Fesser, Luis Manso
• Éramos Pocos (One Too Many) - Borja Cobeaga
• Helmer & Son - Sren Pilmark, Kim Magnusson
• The Saviour - Peter Templeman, Stuart Parkyn
• West Bank Story - Ari Sandel

HONORARY AWARDS

• To Ennio Morricone in recognition of his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music.

JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD

• Sherry Lansing

GORDON E. SAWYER AWARD

• Ray Feeney

JOHN A. BONNER MEDAL OF COMMENDATION

• To Richard Edlund for his outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

AWARD OF COMMENDATION

• To Ioan Allen, J. Wayne Anderson, Mary Ann Anderson, Ted Costas, Paul R. Goldberg, Shawn Jones, Thomas Kuhn, Dr. Alan Masson, Colin Mossman, Martin Richards, Frank Ricotta and Richard C. Sehlin for their contributions to the environmentally responsible industry conversion from silver-based to cyan dye analog soundtracks.

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE II (Plaque)

• To DR. BILL COLLIS, SIMON ROBINSON, BEN KENT and DR. ANIL KOKARAM for the design and development of the Furnace integrated suite of software tools that robustly utilizes temporal coherence for enhancing visual effects in motion picture sequences. The Furnace toolset's modularity, flexibility and robustness has set a high standard of quality for optical flow-based image manipulation. [Digital Imaging Technology]
• To STEVE SULLIVAN, COLIN DAVIDSON, MAX CHEN and FRANCESCO CALLARI for the design and development of the ILM Image-based Modeling System. This highly integrated system facilitates interactive construction and editing of 3D models from digital photographs and addresses the three-dimensional scanning needs of motion pictures in unique and innovative ways. [Digital Imaging Technology]
• To PHILLIP J. FEINER, JIM HOUSTON, DENIS LECONTE and CHRIS BUSHMAN of Pacific Title and Art Studio for the design and development of the Rosetta process for creating digital YCM archival masters for digital film restoration. With elements that may be recombined either digitally or optically, the Rosetta Separations process offers a uniquely great versatility in achieving high-quality results for digital YCM archiving. [Laboratory]
• To HOWARD PRESTON and MIRKO KOVACEVIC for the design and engineering of the Preston Cinema Systems FI+Z wireless remote system. Pioneering unprecedented reliability and flexibility in wireless lens and camera operation, the FI+Z has continued to be a leader in innovation since its introduction in 1994. [Photography]

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE III (Certificate)

• To KLEMENS KEHRER, JOSEF HANDLER, THOMAS SMIDEK and MARC SHIPMAN MUELLER for the design and development of the Arriflex 235 Camera System. Designed for handheld photography, the features of this small, lightweight MOS camera also allow it to be used as a secondary production camera. [Camera]
• To FLORIAN KAINZ for the design and engineering of OpenEXR, a software package implementing 16-bit, floating point, high dynamic range image files. Widely adopted, OpenEXR is engineered to meet the requirements of the visual effects industry by providing for lossless and lossy compression of tiered and tiled images. [Digital Imaging Technology]
• To PETER LITWINOWICZ and PIERRE JASMIN for the design and development of the RE:Vision Effects family of software tools for optical flow-based image manipulation. A unique user interface and relatively low cost have made these tools ubiquitous in the visual effects community. [Digital Imaging Technology]
• To JOSHUA PINES and CHRIS KUTCKA of Technicolor Digital Intermediates for the design and development of the TDI process for creating archival separations from digital image data. The TDI process is based on the production of digital separation negatives creating archival elements that can be scanned and digitally recombined in the future. [Laboratory]
• To WILLIAM FEIGHTNER and CHRIS EDWARDS of E-Film for the design and development of the E-Film process for creating archival separations from digital image data. The E-Film process is based on the production of digital separation negatives creating archival elements that can be scanned and digitally recombined in the future. [Laboratory]
• To CHRISTIAN TSCHIDA and MARTIN WAITZ of cmotion for the design and engineering of the cmotion Wireless Remote System. The graphical user interface of the cmotion System eases the difficult task of following focus, and the unique lens tag system recalls the calibration for each lens. [Photography]
• To WALTER TRAUNINGER and ERNST TSCHIDA for the design and engineering of the Arri WRC wireless remote lens control system. This highly modular system permits accurate and reliable wireless control with multiple hand controls of all lens functions. [Photography]
• To ALBERT RIDILLA, PAPKEN SHAHBAZIAN, RONALD BELKNAP and JAY McGARRIGLE for the design and development of the Hollywood Film Company Brumagic MPST Densitometer. The Brumagic MPST was designed specifically to measure density in the motion picture soundtrack and has become the densitometer of choice for reading soundtrack negative and positive densities worldwide. [Sound]