2006: 79th Academy Awards
Best motion picture of the year
Babel (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik and Steve Golin, Producers
* The Departed (Warner Bros.) Graham King, Producer
Letters from Iwo Jima (Warner Bros.) Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg and Robert Lorenz, Producers
Little Miss Sunshine (Fox Searchlight) David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub, Producers
The Queen (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Andy Harries, Christine Langan and Tracey Seaward, Producers
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Leonardo DiCaprio in Blood Diamond (Warner Bros.)
Ryan Gosling in Half Nelson (THINKFilm)
Peter O’Toole in Venus (Miramax, Filmfour and UK Council)
Will Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness (Sony Pictures Releasing)
* Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland (Fox Searchlight)
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Penélope Cruz in Volver (Sony Pictures Classics)
Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal (Fox Searchlight)
* Helen Mirren in The Queen (Miramax, Pathé and Granada)
Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada (20th Century Fox)
Kate Winslet in Little Children (New Line)
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
* Alan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine (Fox Searchlight)
Jackie Earle Haley in Little Children (New Line)
Djimon Hounsou in Blood Diamond (Warner Bros.)
Eddie Murphy in Dreamgirls (DreamWorks and Paramount)
Mark Wahlberg in The Departed (Warner Bros.)
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Adriana Barraza in Babel (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
Cate Blanchett in Notes on a Scandal (Fox Searchlight)
Abigail Breslin in Little Miss Sunshine (Fox Searchlight)
* Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls (DreamWorks and Paramount)
Rinko Kikuchi in Babel (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
Achievement in directing
Babel (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Alejandro González Iñárritu
* The Departed (Warner Bros.) Martin Scorsese
Letters from Iwo Jima (Warner Bros.) Clint Eastwood
The Queen (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Stephen Frears
United 93 (Universal and StudioCanal) Paul Greengrass
Adapted screenplay
Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (20th Century Fox) 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 (Universal) Screenplay by Alfonso Cuarón & Timothy J. Sexton and David Arata and Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby
* The Departed (Warner Bros.) Screenplay by William Monahan
Little Children (New Line) Screenplay by Todd Field & Tom Perrotta
Notes on a Scandal (Fox Searchlight) Screenplay by Patrick Marber
Original screenplay
Babel (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Written by Guillermo Arriaga
Letters from Iwo Jima (Warner Bros.) Screenplay by Iris Yamashita, Story by Iris Yamashita & Paul Haggis
* Little Miss Sunshine (Fox Searchlight) Written by Michael Arndt
Pan’s Labyrinth (Picturehouse) Written by Guillermo del Toro
The Queen (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Written by Peter Morgan
Achievement in cinematography
The Black Dahlia (Universal) Vilmos Zsigmond
Children of Men (Universal) Emmanuel Lubezki
The Illusionist (Yari Film Group) Dick Pope
* Pan’s Labyrinth (Picturehouse) Guillermo Navarro
The Prestige (Buena Vista) Wally Pfister
Achievement in art direction
Dreamgirls (DreamWorks and Paramount) Art Direction: John Myhre, Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh
The Good Shepherd (Universal) Art Direction: Jeannine Oppewall, Set Decoration: Gretchen Rau and Leslie E. Rollins
* Pan’s Labyrinth (Picturehouse) Art Direction: Eugenio Caballero, Set Decoration: Pilar Revuelta
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Buena Vista) Art Direction: Rick Heinrichs, Set Decoration: Cheryl Carasik
The Prestige (Buena Vista) Art Direction: Nathan Crowley, Set Decoration: Julie Ochipinti
Achievement in sound mixing
Apocalypto (Buena Vista) Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell and Fernando Camara
Blood Diamond (Warner Bros.) Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Ivan Sharrock
* Dreamgirls (DreamWorks and Paramount) Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer and Willie Burton
Flags of Our Fathers (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by Paramount) John Reitz, Dave Campbell, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Buena Vista) Paul Massey, Christopher Boyes and Lee Orloff
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
* Babel (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Gustavo Santaolalla
The Good German (Warner Bros.) Thomas Newman
Notes on a Scandal (Fox Searchlight) Philip Glass
Pan’s Labyrinth (Picturehouse) Javier Navarrete
The Queen (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Alexandre Desplat
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
Listen from Dreamgirls (DreamWorks and Paramount) Music by Henry Krieger and Scott Cutler, Lyric by Anne Preven
Love You I Do from Dreamgirls (DreamWorks and Paramount) Music by Henry Krieger, Lyric by Siedah Garrett
Our Town from Cars (Buena Vista) Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
Patience from Dreamgirls (DreamWorks and Paramount) Music by Henry Krieger, Lyric by Willie Reale
Achievement in film editing
Babel (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Stephen Mirrione and Douglas Crise
Blood Diamond (Warner Bros.) Steven Rosenblum
Children of Men (Universal) Alex Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón
* The Departed (Warner Bros.) Thelma Schoonmaker
United 93 (Universal and StudioCanal) Clare Douglas, Christopher Rouse and Richard Pearson
Achievement in costume design
Curse of the Golden Flower (Sony Pictures Classics) Yee Chung Man
The Devil Wears Prada (20th Century Fox) Patricia Field
Dreamgirls (DreamWorks and Paramount) Sharen Davis
* Marie Antoinette (Sony Pictures Releasing) Milena Canonero
The Queen (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Consolata Boyle
Achievement in makeup
Apocalypto (Buena Vista) Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
Click (Sony Pictures Releasing) Kazuhiro Tsuji and Bill Corso
* Pan’s Labyrinth (Picturehouse) David Marti and Montse Ribe
Achievement in visual effects
* Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Buena Vista) John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall
Poseidon (Warner Bros.) Boyd Shermis, Kim Libreri, Chas Jarrett and John Frazier
Superman Returns (Warner Bros.) Mark Stetson, Neil Corbould, Richard R. Hoover and Jon Thum
Achievement in sound editing
Apocalypto (Buena Vista) Sean McCormack and Kami Asgar
Blood Diamond (Warner Bros.) Lon Bender
Flags of Our Fathers (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by Paramount) Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
* Letters from Iwo Jima (Warner Bros.) Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Buena Vista) Christopher Boyes and George Watters II
Best animated short film
* The Danish Poet (National Film Board of Canada), Torill Kove
Lifted (Buena Vista), Gary Rydstrom
The Little Matchgirl (Buena Vista), Roger Allers and Don Hahn
Maestro (Szimplafilm), Geza M. Toth
No Time for Nuts (20th Century Fox), Chris Renaud and Michael Thurmeier
Best live action short film
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, Soren Pilmark and Kim Magnusson
The Saviour (Australian Film Television and Radio School), Peter Templeman and Stuart Parkyn
* West Bank Story, Ari Sandel
Best documentary feature
Deliver Us from Evil (Lionsgate), Amy Berg and Frank Donner
* An Inconvenient Truth (Paramount Classics and Participant Productions), Davis Guggenheim
Iraq in Fragments (Typecast Releasing), James Longley and John Sinno
Jesus Camp (Magnolia Pictures), Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
My Country, My Country (Zeitgeist Films), Laura Poitras and Jocelyn Glatzer
Best documentary short subject
* The Blood of Yingzhou District, Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon
Recycled Life, Leslie Iwerks and Mike Glad
Rehearsing a Dream, Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon
Two Hands, Nathaniel Kahn and Susan Rose Behr
Best foreign language film of the year
After the Wedding - Denmark
Days of Glory (Indigènes) - Algeria
* The Lives of Others - Germany
Pan’s Labyrinth - Mexico
Water - Canada
Best animated feature film of the year
Cars (Buena Vista) John Lasseter
* Happy Feet (Warner Bros.) George Miller
Monster House (Sony Pictures Releasing) Gil Kenan
Honorary Oscar: Ennio Morricone
The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award: Sherry Lansing
Gordon E. Sawyer Award: Ray Feeney
Technical Achievement Awards (Academy Certificate)
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.
To Bill 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.
To Albert Ridilla, Papken Shahbazian, Ronald Belknap and Jay McGarrigle for the design and development of the Hollywood Film Company Brumagic MPST Densitometer.
To Klemens Kehrer, Josef Handler, Thomas Smidek and Marc Shipman Mueller for the design and development of the Arriflex 235 Camera System.
To Florian Kainz for the design and engineering of OpenEXR, a software package implementing 16-bit, floating-point, high dynamic range image files.
To Walter Trauniger and Ernst Tschida for the design and engineering of the Arri WRC wireless remote lens control system.
To Christian Tschida and Martin Waitz of cmotion for the design and engineering of the cmotion Wireless Remote System.
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.
Scientific and Engineering Awards (Academy Plaque)
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.
To Steve Sullivan, Colin Davidson, Max Chen and Francesco Callari for the design and development of the ILM Image-based Modeling System.
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.
To Howard Preston and Mirko Kovacevic for the design and engineering of the Preston Cinema Systems FI+Z wireless remote system.
Award of Commendation (Special Award)
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.
John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation (Medallion)
To Richard Edlund for his “outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.”