79th Annual Academy Awards Winners
Best motion picture – “The Departed”
Best foreign language film – “The Lives of Others”
Best documentary feature – “An Inconvenient Truth”
Best animated feature film – “Happy Feet”
Best Short Documentary – “The Blood of Yingzhou District”
Best Short Animated – “The Danish Poet”
Best Short Live Action – “West Bank Story”
Best actor in a leading role – Forest Whitaker for his role as Idi Aminfor the film “The Last King of Scotland”
Best actress in a leading role – Helen Mirren for her role as Queen Elizabeth for the film “The Queen”
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Best supporting actor - Alan Arkin for his role as Grandpa for the film “Little Miss Sunshine”
Best supporting actress – Jennifer Hudson for her role as Effie White for the film “Dreamgirls”
Original screenplay – Michael Arndt for the film “Little Miss Sunshine”
Adapted screenplay – William Monahan for the film “The Departed”
Best Director – Martin Scorsese for the film “The Departed”
Cinematography – “Laberinto del Fauno, El”
Visual Effects – “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”
Editing – “The Departed”
Art Direction – “Laberinto del Fauno, El”
Costume Design – “Marie Antoinette”
Makeup – “Laberinto del Fauno, El”
Original Score – “Babel”
Original Song – “I Need To Wake Up” Melissa Etheridge for “An Inconvenient Truth”
Sound – “Dreamgirls”
Academy Honorary Award -Ennio Morricone for contributions to the art of film music
The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award – Sherry Lansing former CEO of Paramount Pictures and the first woman to head a major studio







