Academy Award Winners
Yesterday night the biggest film event took place in the U.S., the 79th Academy Awards. I don’t have much to say so I will proceed straight to the point. The Departed won 4 Oscars and Pan’s Labyrinth won 3.
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Winner: The Departed (2006) – Graham King
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Winner: Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland (2006)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Winner: Helen Mirren for The Queen (2006)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner: Alan Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner: Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls (2006)
Best Achievement in Directing
Winner: Martin Scorsese for The Departed (2006)
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Winner: Little Miss Sunshine (2006) – Michael Arndt
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
Winner: The Departed (2006) – William Monahan
Best Achievement in Cinematography
Winner: Laberinto del Fauno, El (2006) – Guillermo Navarro
Best Achievement in Editing
Winner: The Departed (2006) – Thelma Schoonmaker
Best Achievement in Art Direction
Winner: Laberinto del Fauno, El (2006) – Eugenio Caballero, Pilar Revuelta
Best Achievement in Costume Design
Winner: Marie Antoinette (2006) – Milena Canonero
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Winner: Babel (2006) – Gustavo Santaolalla
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
Winner: An Inconvenient Truth (2006) – Melissa Etheridge(”I Need To Wake Up”)
Best Achievement in Makeup
Winner: Laberinto del Fauno, El (2006) – David Martí, Montse Ribé
Best Achievement in Sound
Winner: Dreamgirls (2006) – Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer, Willie D. Burton
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Winner: Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) – Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman
Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Winner: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006) – John Knoll, Hal T. Hickel, Charles Gibson, Allen Hall
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Winner: Happy Feet (2006) – George Miller
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Winner: Leben der Anderen, Das (2006)(Germany)
Best Documentary, Features
Winner: An Inconvenient Truth (2006) – Davis Guggenheim
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
Winner: The Blood of Yingzhou District (2006) – Ruby Yang, Thomas Lennon
Best Short Film, Animated
Winner: The Danish Poet (2006) – Torill Kove
Best Short Film, Live Action
Winner: West Bank Story (2005) – Ari Sandel
Comments(28)
Well deserved “best picture” movie! Haven’t seen Pan’s Labyrinth yet, but hope to soon.
No surprises there and well deserved.
The Departed? Excellent film and I agree on the oscar choice. As for Pan’s Labyrinth … another great film and cinematography … fairly “dark” movie but I enjoyed it and think the oscars went to 2 of the best films of the year.
I will never see a James Bond winning an Oscar
The Departed sucksssss
Pan’s Labyrinth was rotten for me, as i was expecting labyrinth not some guerilla warfare.. good movie, but my expectitions falled down like Neo&Smith from the sky. The Departed is twisted bitch in the ned
others are crappy 
no oscar for Eddie..buuh!
I was so hoping that Leonardo would get an Oscar this time (actually for his efforts in Blood Diamond more than Departed)
I feel the departed was way over rated. Im glad Scorsese finally won an oscar but he has done much better films.
Really glad to see Forest Whittaker win best actor as his performance was phenomenal in Last King of Scotland.
Pan’s Labyrinth deserves the Oscars it got, as it was a really out there movie that deserved recognition.
The Departed was overrrated IMHO aswell. Glad Pan’s Labyrinth got what it deserved.
Helen Mirrer played creepy real in the queen and deserved it aswell.
I don’t understand what people liked so much about Babel, it’s a great construct but not a great movie.
The movie I’m really missing is The Prestige, what an awesome movie was that.
I agree with Polleke, “The Prestige” was imho the best movie I’ve seen last year. Christopher Nolan hasn’t that big lobby in Hollywood, I guess. At least he should have got a nomination.
http://imdb.com/name/nm0634240/awards
Pan’s Labyrinth is the best movie ive seen in years, glad it got some recognition. Forest Whitaker also deserved that oscar, he was pretty frigging scary in The Last King of Scotland.
The Illusionist was much better than Prestige. And if u prefer Prestige to Departed?? Well…that says something…
Hung like a mouse.
No Oscars for Children of Men, serious WTF.
i liked the prestige and the illusionist
Most were deserved, but still not surprised with the political awards. I wonder when they’ll actually start asking the people who go and see these movies
little miss sunshine was the biggest disappointment ever
the only funny point of little miss sunshine was the last dance part
prestige is to illusionist as capote was to infamous. acting in illusionist was remarkable (oh and jessica biel was just heavensent) but the emotional and narrative richness pales when compared to the prestige. LMS was a sweet charmer with a very simple vehicle (pun): everything is about character development. there is the delightful quirkiness you find in many similar small films these days, like napoleon dynamite: it is quirky comedy, not LOL-comedy. the departed was an awesome movie. if you’d seen infernal affairs, you’d appreciate how scorsese made the story his own: departed was very stylized and tight in terms of narrative. personally, i’d say it was better than goodfellas (at least, the ending of TD was more fulfilling: it rounded a lota things up).
i was actually surprised they snubbed o-toole of best actor. thought they’d give it to him as a pity award. he now holds the distinction of having the most # of noms (8) without having won. i dont think venus was even widely distributed; of course it didn’t help that the subject matter will probably be considered bad taste by most viewers.
pan’s labyrinth and children of men, tho undoubtedly impressive, really just hallmarked a few elements. there’s the ending scene in PL (which makes up for–and explains– the somewhat boring narrative leading up to this point) and the backdrop futuristic setting in COM (whose plot lacks depth). there’s also of course the cinematography in both films, which is truly astounding, and for which one of em is bound to win. as for best language, das leben der anderen wasnt even that good, but was mos def better than any of the contenders, including PL (storywise at least).
I was pretty pissed off that The Departed won since it is a complete knockoff from INFERNAL AFFAIRS in 2002. How can a film win when it was copied off about 90% of the original story. Only thing I was happy about was that forest whitaker won something finally. Great actor in my opionion of the least.
Apocalypto should have at least won something, the acting was great in that movie. The oscar people just don’t want to give the spanish immigrants an award. lol just my food of though.
Yeah, what happened to Apocalypto? That movie was SOOO good, I did’nt want to like it, comming from that racist Mel Gibson but
it was good. Forest Whitaker is the man, very good for a movie nobody saw that much. Pan’s Labyrinth was GREAT, but not what I expected. I expected to see much more of a fantasy world, but there were only a couple scenes of that. If you saw the commercials for the movie, you basically saw all the special effects. Infernal Affairs is still the standard, nice of us Americans to take a foreign movie and have it get best movie.
I am so glad Laberinto del Fauno received awards at Oscars. It deserved even the best film.Also Das Leben der Anderen is a great movie but I guess u really have to live in Europe especially Central Europe to understand the movie and fully apreciate it.
Jennifer Hudson wow, “U will love me….”
Awesome that Das Leben Der Anderen won Best International..
but where is the torrent of the awards? Was gonna download and watch and be surprised with the results as opposed to reading them here, but as from what I can see heres no scene release, just some random low quality MPEG2 cap of them on the Pirate Bay that will take a day to finish (TPB has terrible DL speeds), it just wasn’t worth the wait.
Children of Men deserved cinematography at least.
IMO the Babel should been the winner as Best Movie. The Departed was not that good. Only good is that Scorsese got now his Oscar and they can give up on blabla about it in next coming years, it was already on humorous scale. Maybe it was prank that they got him waiting it so long , heh. He has many good movies, but though not my favourite director.
@joey, my first impression of departed was exactly like that– total ripoff of IA. but then rewatching it a few times you appreciate how scorsese reworked it, retaining only key scenes and modifying others to make the plot stronger. @Sammy dude, babel was totally weak. if u havent seen hyperlink cinema before try syriana or 21 grams. hell even crash was better than babel. scorsese deserved the award, there were really no strong contenders in that category. i mean departed was way better than GONY and aviator so there’s no question about it being a giveaway. if you want humorous consider o’ toole who’s now what, 74, with 8 noms and no wins, more than any actor ever. his venus performance was weak but i thought they’d still give it to the guy instead of a first-timer like whitaker. fwiw i think the oscars did a pretty good job this year
An Inconvenient Truth gets an Oscar? Just Hollywood promoting their Agenda(s) – global warming and Al Gore.
While Jennifer Hudson has a set of pipes she is not an actress yet. Grammy yes but Oscar no. Don’t understand how Rinko Kikuchi, the deaf-mute girl in Babel, could not win for her amazing performance.
Apocalypto was a great movie, but the Academy is probably full of Jews…
…and sugar tits.
I actually liked the whole global warming “agenda”. So what if its Al Gore, atleast one politician is taking this issue seriously. Publicize it on a popular platform like the Oscars, and you have instant awareness.
I’m very disappointed with the Bush administration for not agreeing with the Kyoto Protocol, while its known that a majority of Americans support it.
“In March 2001, after reneging on a campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, President George W. Bush announced his administration’s opposition to the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 international accord setting limits on greenhouse gas emissions. In renouncing the protocol, the president and members of his administration have used a number of seriously flawed arguments.”
From Wikipedia:
“On August 31, 2006, the California Legislature reached an agreement with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to reduce the state’s greenhouse-gas emissions, which rank at 12th-largest in the world, by 25 percent by the year 2020. This resulted in the Global Warming Solutions Act which effectively puts California in line with the Kyoto initiative.
As of January 18, 2007, 369 US cities in 50 states, representing more than 55 million Americans support Kyoto after Mayor Greg Nickels of Seattle started a nationwide effort to get cities to agree to the protocol.”
Thanks for your nice entry. All of those whom you stated REALLY desreve the awards. Thank you again!