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February 28, 2007

79th Annual Academy Award Winners

The 2006 Academy Award winners were announced Sunday, February 25. Nominees are listed below for the major awards; winners are indicated with an *. Check out previous winners for Motion Picture, Documentary Feature, Foreign Language Film, and Animated Feature.

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Nominees
Leonardo DiCaprio in Blood Diamond (In Theaters)
Ryan Gosling in Half Nelson (In Theaters)
Peter O?Toole in Venus (In Theaters)
Will Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness (In Theaters) - Read the Book
* Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland (In Theaters) - Read the Book

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Nominees
Pen?lope Cruz in Volver (In Theaters)
Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal (In Theaters) - Read the Book
* Helen Mirren in The Queen (In Theaters)
Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada - Read the Book
Kate Winslet in Little Children (In Theaters) - Read the Book

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Nominees
* Alan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine
Jackie Earle Haley in Little Children (In Theaters) - Read the Book
Djimon Hounsou in Blood Diamond (In Theaters)
Eddie Murphy in Dreamgirls (In Theaters)
Mark Wahlberg in The Departed

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Nominees
Adriana Barraza in Babel
Cate Blanchett in Notes on a Scandal (In Theaters) - Read the Book
Abigail Breslin in Little Miss Sunshine
* Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls (In Theaters)
Rinko Kikuchi in Babel

Achievement in Directing Nominees
Babel - Alejandro Gonz?lez I??rritu (In Theaters)
* The Departed - Martin Scorsese
Letters from Iwo Jima - Clint Eastwood (In Theaters)
The Queen - Stephen Frears (In Theaters)
United 93 - Paul Greengrass

Best Motion Picture of the Year Nominees
Babel
* The Departed
Letters from Iwo Jima (In Theaters)
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen (In Theaters)

Best Animated Feature of the Year Nominees
Cars
* Happy Feet (In Theaters)
Monster House

Best Documentary Feature Nominees
Deliver Us from Evil
* An Inconvenient Truth
Iraq in Fragments
Jesus Camp
My Country, My Country

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year Nominees
After the Wedding (Denmark)
Days of Glory (Indig?nes) (Algeria)
* The Lives of Others (Germany)
Pan?s Labyrinth (Mexico) (In Theaters)
Water (Canada)