Posted February 26, 200718 yr Oscars 2007: The winners Source: bbc.co.uk Here is the shortlist for the 79th Academy Awards, held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, with the winners listed in bold: http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42613000/jpg/_42613457_damehelen_getty203b.jpg Helen Mirren In pictures Best picture The Departed Babel Letters From Iwo Jima Little Miss Sunshine The Queen Best director Martin Scorsese, The Departed Clint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima Stephen Frears, The Queen Paul Greengrass, United 93 Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Babel Best actor Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson Peter O'Toole, Venus Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness Best actress Helen Mirren, The Queen Penelope Cruz, Volver Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada Kate Winslet, Little Children Best supporting actress Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls Adriana Barraza, Babel Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine Rinko Kikuchi, Babel Best supporting actor Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls Mark Wahlberg, The Departed Best foreign language film Das Leben der Anderen (aka The Lives of Others), Germany Efter Brylluppet (aka After the Wedding), Denmark Indigenes (aka Days of Glory), Algeria El Laberinto del Fauno (aka Pan's Labyrinth), Mexico Water, Canada Best animated feature film Happy Feet Cars Monster House Best adapted screenplay The Departed Borat Children of Men Little Children Notes on a Scandal Best original screenplay Little Miss Sunshine Babel Letters from Iwo Jima The Queen Pan's Labyrinth Best original score Babel The Good German Notes on a Scandal Pan's Labyrinth The Queen Best original song I Need to Wake Up - An Inconvenient Truth (performed by Melissa Etheridge) Listen - Dreamgirls (performed by Beyonce Knowles) Love You I Do - Dreamgirls (performed by Jennifer Hudson) Our Town - Cars (performed by James Taylor) Patience - Dreamgirls (performed by Eddie Murphy, Keith Robinson, Anika Noni Rose) Best documentary feature An Inconvenient Truth Deliver Us From Evil Iraq In Fragments Jesus Camp My Country, My Country Best documentary short subject The Blood of Yingzhou District Recycled Life Rehearsing A Dream Two Hands Best visual effects Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Poseidon Superman Returns Best cinematography Pan's Labyrinth The Black Dahlia Children of Men The Illusionist The Prestige Best art direction Pan's Labyrinth Dreamgirls The Good Shepherd Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest The Prestige Best animated short film The Danish Poet Lifted The Little Matchgirl Maestro No Time for Nuts Best action short film West Bank Story Binta and the Great Idea Eramos Pocos (One Too Many) Helmer and Son The Saviour Best costume design Marie Antoinette Curse of the Golden Flower The Devil Wears Prada Dreamgirls The Queen Best make-up Pan's Labyrinth Apocalypto Click Best sound mixing Dreamgirls Apocalypto Blood Diamond Flags of our Fathers Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Sound editing Letters from Iwo Jima Apocalypto Blood Diamond Flags of our Fathers Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Best film editing The Departed Babel Blood Diamond Children of Men United 93 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Sherry Lansing Honorary Award Ennio Morricone
February 26, 200718 yr Yay thanks for postin im soo happy for Jennifer Hudson hmmm i wonder what simon cowell thins about it :P
February 26, 200718 yr Author Dame Helen crowned best actress Source: bbc.co.uk http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42613000/jpg/_42613457_damehelen_getty203b.jpg Dame Helen had described her Oscar nomination as "amazing" Dame Helen Mirren has been named best actress at the Academy Awards for her performance in The Queen. "All kids love to get gold stars, and this is the biggest and the best gold star that I have ever had," she said. A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said she was "sure that the Queen will be pleased" by Dame Helen's victory. Martin Scorsese's crime drama The Departed won four awards, including best picture, while the film-maker won his first Oscar for best director. Alan Arkin won best supporting actor for Little Miss Sunshine, which also picked up best original screenplay. Jennifer Hudson was named best supporting actress for her first film role, in the musical Dreamgirls. MULTIPLE OSCAR WINNERS 4: The Departed 3: Pan's Labyrinth 2: An Inconvenient Truth 2: Dreamgirls 2: Little Miss Sunshine The Oscars: Reporter's diary The adapted screenplay prize went to the script for The Departed, which also won for editing. The best actor Oscar went to Forest Whitaker, who had been favourite to triumph for his performance as the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland. Dame Helen had also been overwhelming favourite to add the best actress Oscar to a substantial awards haul that has included a Bafta, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild prize. She plays Elizabeth II in the British movie about the Royal Family's reaction to the 1997 death of Princess Diana. Bookmaker William Hill started paying out last week on bets on her victory, with other firms agreeing she was the strongest ever Oscars favourite. http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42613000/jpg/_42613469_forest_getty203b.jpg Best actor Whitaker's previous films include The Color of Money Academy Awards host Ellen DeGeneres had joked to the audience early in the ceremony: "It's exciting because you don't know who's going to win - unless you're British, and then you know you've a pretty good shot." Accepting her award, Dame Helen said: "For 50 years and more, Elizabeth Windsor has maintained her dignity, her sense of duty and her hairstyle. "If it wasn't for her, I most certainly wouldn't be here - ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Queen." Speaking to BBC Breakfast after the ceremony, she added: "I had to recognise the person that I was playing and everything that she means to us and to me and to the history of our country and all the rest of it." Dame Helen will now meet the real monarch for lunch, it has emerged. The Queen has invited Dame Helen, director Stephen Frears and screenwriter Peter Morgan to Buckingham Palace, Morgan said. http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42613000/jpg/_42613557_scorsesemain_afp203b.jpg Martin Scorsese remade the Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs "We have been invited to meet her," he said. "The Queen's private secretary has invited us for lunch - Stephen, Helen and myself." But Dame Helen said she did not expect a congratulatory telephone call. "I'm not expecting a call from Her Majesty, not ever," she said. "I think it's wonderful that I live in a country that allows us to make a film like this." Tony Blair, whose spokesman said he had not seen The Queen, welcomed Dame Helen's Oscar win. He said: "It takes a very special kind of actress to take on a role of this kind and to do so to universal acclaim. Helen Mirren is a very special kind of actress and her Oscar is well deserved." Mr Blair is portrayed by Michael Sheen in the movie. UK broadcaster ITV, which partly financed the film, has sent the actress its congratulations. "We're delighted Helen's fantastic performance was rewarded with a well-deserved Oscar and look forward to the film being shown on ITV in the autumn," a spokeswoman said. Scorsese had previously been nominated as best director but lost out on five occasions, for classic movies including Raging Bull and Goodfellas. Long wait "Could you double-check the envelope?" he joked as he collected his award. He went on: "So many people over the years have been wishing this for me - strangers. I walk in the street and people say something to me: 'You should win, you should win.'" The best animated feature film Oscar was awarded to Happy Feet, while Germany's Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) was the best foreign language film. The Spanish-language dark fairytale Pan's Labyrinth won three Academy Awards, for cinematography, art direction and make-up.
February 26, 200718 yr Congrats, to Jennifer Hudson she really deserved that, all though they all did :) and well done to our very own Dame Helen Mirren, BEst ACtress what an achievement :D
February 26, 200718 yr no wonder the bookies were paying out on friday. what an anti-climax, what obv awards.
February 26, 200718 yr poor peter o'toole aw he has been going go long for his best actor award, i hope he gets it one day :)
February 26, 200718 yr Well Done To all winners :winner: It was going to be close for best actress, but Helen I think deserved it :yahoo: Martin Scorsese wins an Oscar for the wrong film :rolleyes:
February 26, 200718 yr Author I am a bit miffed that Children of Men didn't win the Cinematography Oscar :angry:
February 27, 200718 yr I never thought I'd ever be disappointed to see Scorcese finally win a Best Director Oscar, but I am.... It is NOT his best work, not even close (although 'The Departed' is certainly superior to sheer rubbish like "Gangs of New York" or "The Aviator"...), and frankly I feel it was merely a sympathy vote.... How typical of Hollywood to vote for its own, and pretty much ignore the outstandingly talented Latin American geniuses Innaritu, Cuaron and Del Toro (truly fukkin' shameful if you ask me. The Oscars had the chance to celebrate the diversity, the talent and the sheer brio, flavour and passion of the Latin American film-makers and their wonderful creations, but they fukkin' well BLEW IT.... Utter c**k-suckers... <_< ), and hell, Clint I feel has a right to feel a bit bloody aggrieved as well tbh, his truly AMAZING, powerful and profoundly moving (and incredibly brave given the political climate in the US..) war films, "Flags of our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima" are head and shoulders above the ultimately rather hollow experience that is "The Departed" (a second viewing of this film has NOT really been kind, at all. I've gone back to The Andy Lau/Alan Mak original Hong Kong trilogy "Infernal Affairs" and see those as being by far the superior treatment of this story...). I just get the feeling that "The Departed" has all the correct ingredients for a classic Scorcese film, but something went wrong in the actual cooking process and it just lacks the flavour that was present in his masterful 'dishes' such as "Goodfellas", "Casino", "Mean Streets", "Taxi Driver", etc.... This is just the wrong film for him to win it for... Helen Mirren was good in a very average film, big deal.... Kate Winslett's performance in "Little Children" was by far the best acting of the two examples.. Forrest Whitaker is perhaps the only one to truly deserve his award, he was truly outstanding as Idi Amin....
February 27, 200718 yr Even thou I haven't seen the German flick that won best foreign pic I am pretty sure it is nowhere as good as Pan's Labyrinth.
February 27, 200718 yr Even thou I haven't seen the German flick that won best foreign pic I am pretty sure it is nowhere as good as Pan's Labyrinth. Frankly, I've never even heard of it, and I live in London where all sorts of obscure, left-field films show up on my radar....
February 27, 200718 yr Pans Labyrinth deserved the Best Foreign Film award, but, hey, 3 Oscars is great, whatever they're for - it's a truly magnificent movie, one everyone should see. And whilst Forest Whitaker deserves his Oscar - where was the nomination (and award) for James McAvoy who, in my opinion, MADE Last King of Scotland? The Departed is a good film, but not a great one. Scorcese has made far, far better movies. Best film of 2006 for me was Last King of Scotland.... Dame Helen was tremendous in The Queen, even if it felt uncomfortably close to a made-for-TV movie to me. And Dreamgirls... errr...... the question has to be asked... why? It's a truly AWFUL movie. Wooden performances and clunky songs.
February 27, 200718 yr Mark Kermode opinions here http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=31312
February 27, 200718 yr Pans Labyrinth deserved the Best Foreign Film award, but, hey, 3 Oscars is great, whatever they're for - it's a truly magnificent movie, one everyone should see. And whilst Forest Whitaker deserves his Oscar - where was the nomination (and award) for James McAvoy who, in my opinion, MADE Last King of Scotland? The Departed is a good film, but not a great one. Scorcese has made far, far better movies. Best film of 2006 for me was Last King of Scotland.... Dame Helen was tremendous in The Queen, even if it felt uncomfortably close to a made-for-TV movie to me. And Dreamgirls... errr...... the question has to be asked... why? It's a truly AWFUL movie. Wooden performances and clunky songs. I find it utterly bizarre and unbelievable that Pan's Labyrinth was only regarded as being a good 'technical' film (going by the awards it actually got...). It not getting the Best Foreign Language Oscar is just totally unfathomable, I really have no idea what the hell goes through these idiots' minds when they do the voting tbh.... James McAvoy's "Best Actor" nomination probably got lost in the post, along with Christian Bale's (For the disturbing and superb "Harsh Times") and Ellen Page's "Best Actress" nomination for her absolutely startling turn in "Hard Candy" (a case of the Academy not having the BALLS to give out a nod to a film that deals with an incredibly dark subject matter perhaps....?)... I rather got that 'TV Movie' vibe myself from "The Queen"... I just dont think it's really that great....
February 27, 200718 yr Christian Bale is a magnificent actor... I haven't seen Harsh Times, yet.... last I seen of him was The Machinest, whch I absolutely loved. Edited February 27, 200718 yr by russt68
February 27, 200718 yr Christian Bale is a magnificent actor... I haven't seen Harsh Times, yet.... last I seen of him was The Machinest, whch I absolutely loved. I see the character he plays in "Harsh Times" as being a sort of Travis Bickle for the 00s.... His performance was as good as De Niro, Hoffman or Pacino at their peaks... Ditto for his performance in "The Machinist"..... Christ, just what the hell does the guy have to do to get a nomination????? Ach, he'll probably get it when he's like 50, over-the-hill, lost his sharp edge (hmmmm, a bit like Scorcese really... :lol: ) and for some crappy 'romantic comedy' or something.....
February 27, 200718 yr James McAvoy's "Best Actor" nomination probably got lost in the post, along with Christian Bale's (For the disturbing and superb "Harsh Times") and Ellen Page's "Best Actress" nomination for her absolutely startling turn in "Hard Candy" (a case of the Academy not having the BALLS to give out a nod to a film that deals with an incredibly dark subject matter perhaps....?)... Man i totally agree here with you dude!!! I rather got that 'TV Movie' vibe myself from "The Queen"... I just dont think it's really that great.... then i suppose so as it is a Granada production dig the retro cheeese :lol: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/23/Granada-tv-70logo.PNG
February 27, 200718 yr I see the character he plays in "Harsh Times" as being a sort of Travis Bickle for the 00s.... i was thinking a lot about "Harsh Times" as i sat thru Babel tbh
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