Nominations for the 79th Annual Academy Awards were announced (Tuesday, January 23) by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis and past Oscar nominee Salma Hayek.
Ganis and Hayek, who was nominated for an Academy Award in 2002 for her lead performance in Frida, announced the nominations in 10 of the 24 categories at a 5:30 a.m. live news conference at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Nominations in all categories then were distributed to the over 400 international media representatives in attendance and via the Internet on the official Academy Awards Web site, www.oscar.com.
Academy members from the various branches selected the nominees in their corresponding award categories, with the exception of the Animated Feature and Foreign Language Film categories, in which nominations were determined by vote of screening committees composed of members from several branches. All voting members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees. Ballots were mailed to 5,830 voting members in late December and were returned directly to PricewaterhouseCoopers, the international accounting firm, for tabulation.
Official screenings for members of all pictures receiving nominations will begin this weekend at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Screenings in some categories also will be held in Hollywood, at the Academy's Linwood Dunn Theater, as well as in London, New York and San Francisco.
The Academy's entire active and life membership is eligible to select the winners in all categories, although in five of them - the Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, and Foreign Language Film categories - members can vote only after attesting that they have seen all of the nominated films in the category.
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2006 will be presented on Sunday, February 25, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, and televised live by the ABC Television Network at 5 p.m. PST (8 p.m. EST), beginning with a half-hour arrivals segment, The Road to the Oscars.
The complete list of nominations for the 79th Annual Academy Awards are:
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 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 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 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)
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
Achievement in art direction Dreamgirls (DreamWorks and Paramount) Art Direction: Nancy Haigh Set Decoration: John Myhre The Good Shepherd (Universal) Art Direction: Gretchen Rau and Leslie E. Rollins Set Decoration: Jeannine Oppewall Pan's Labyrinth (Picturehouse) Art Direction: Pilar Revuelta Set Decoration: Eugenio Caballero Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Buena Vista) Art Direction: Cheryl A. Carasik Set Decoration: Rick Heinrichs The Prestige (Buena Vista) Art Direction: Julie Ochipinti Set Decoration: Nathan Crowley
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
Best documentary feature Deliver Us from Evil (Lionsgate) A Disarming Films Production Amy Berg and Frank Donner An Inconvenient Truth (Paramount Classics and Participant Productions) A Lawrence Bender/Laurie David Production Davis Guggenheim Iraq in Fragments (Typecast Releasing) A Typecast Pictures/Daylight Factory Production James Longley and John Sinno Jesus Camp (Magnolia Pictures) A Loki Films Production Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady My Country, My Country (Zeitgeist Films) A Praxis Films Production Laura Poitras and Jocelyn Glatzer
Best documentary short subject The Blood of Yingzhou District A Thomas Lennon Films Production Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon Recycled Life An Iwerks/Glad Production Leslie Iwerks and Mike Glad Rehearsing a Dream A Simon & Goodman Picture Company Production Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon Two Hands A Crazy Boat Pictures Production Nathaniel Kahn and Susan Rose Behr
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
Best foreign language film of the year After the Wedding A Zentropa Entertainments 16 Production Denmark Days of Glory (Indigenes) A Tessalit Production Algeria The Lives of Others A Wiedemann & Berg Production Germany Pan's Labyrinth A Tequila Gang/Esperanto Filmoj/Estudios Picasso Production Mexico Water A Hamilton-Mehta Production Canada
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 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
Best motion picture of the year Babel (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) An Anonymous Content/Zeta Film/Central Films Production Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik and Steve Golin, Producers The Departed (Warner Bros.) A Warner Bros. Pictures Production Nominees to be determined Letters from Iwo Jima (Warner Bros.) A DreamWorks Pictures/Warner Bros. Pictures Production Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg and Robert Lorenz, Producers Little Miss Sunshine (Fox Searchlight) A Big Beach/Bona Fide Production Nominees to be determined The Queen (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) A Granada Production Andy Harries, Christine Langan and Tracey Seaward, Producers
Best animated short film The Danish Poet (National Film Board of Canada) A Mikrofilm and National Film Board of Canada Production Torill Kove Lifted (Buena Vista) A Pixar Animation Studios Production Gary Rydstrom The Little Matchgirl (Buena Vista) A Walt Disney Pictures Production Roger Allers and Don Hahn Maestro (Szimplafilm) A Kedd Production Geza M. Toth No Time for Nuts (20th Century Fox) A Blue Sky Studios Production Chris Renaud and Michael Thurmeier
Best live action short film Binta and the Great Idea (Binta Y La Gran Idea) A Peliculas Pendelton and Tus Ojos Production Javier Fesser and Luis Manso Éramos Pocos (One Too Many) (Kimuak) An Altube Filmeak Production Borja Cobeaga Helmer & Son A Nordisk Film Production Soren Pilmark and Kim Magnusson The Saviour (Australian Film Television and Radio School) An Australian Film Television and Radio School Production Peter Templeman and Stuart Parkyn West Bank Story An Ari Sandel, Pascal Vaguelsy, Amy Kim, Ravi Malhotra and Ashley Jordan Production Ari Sandel
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 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, Chaz Jarrett and John Frazier Superman Returns (Warner Bros.) Mark Stetson, Neil Corbould, Richard R. Hoover and Jon Thum
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
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Nominations for the 79th Annual Academy Awards were announced (Tuesday, January 23) by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis and past Oscar nominee Salma Hayek.