79th Academy Awards

THE FILMS OF 2006

Best Motion Picture of the Year

WINNER

Letters from Iwo Jima

Little Miss Sunshine

Best Directing

Martin Scorsese
The Departed

WINNER

Clint Eastwood
Letters from Iwo Jima

Stephen Frears
The Queen

Paul Greengrass
United 93

Alejandro González Iñárritu
Babel

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Forest Whitaker
The Last King of Scotland

WINNER

Leonardo DiCaprio
Blood Diamond

Ryan Gosling
Half Nelson

Peter O’Toole
Venus

Will Smith
The Pursuit of Happyness

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Helen Mirren
The Queen

WINNER

Penélope Cruz
Volver

Judi Dench
Notes on a Scandal

Meryl Streep
The Devil Wears Prada

Kate Winslet
Little Children

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Alan Arkin
Little Miss Sunshine

WINNER

Jackie Earle Haley
Little Children

Djimon Hounsou
Blood Diamond

Eddie Murphy
Dreamgirls

Mark Wahlberg
The Departed

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Jennifer Hudson
Dreamgirls

WINNER

Adriana Barraza
Babel

Cate Blanchett
Notes on a Scandal

Abigail Breslin
Little Miss Sunshine

Rinko Kikuchi
Babel

Best Original Screenplay

Michael Arndt
Little Miss Sunshine

WINNER

Guillermo Arriaga
Babel

Iris Yamashita
Paul Haggis
Letters from Iwo Jima

Guillermo del Toro
Pan’s Labyrinth

Peter Morgan
The Queen

Best Adapted Screenplay

William Monahan
The Departed

WINNER

Sacha Baron Cohen
Anthony Hines
Peter Baynham
Dan Mazer
Todd Phillips
Borat!

Alfonso Cuarón
Timothy J. Sexton
David Arata
Mark Fergus
Hawk Ostby
Children of Men

Todd Field
Tom Perrotta
Little Children

Patrick Marber
Notes on a Scandal

Best Cinematography

Guillermo Navarro
Pan’s Labyrinth

WINNER

Vilmos Zsigmond
The Black Dahlia

Emmanuel Lubezki
Children of Men

Dick Pope
The Illusionist

Wally Pfister
The Prestige

Best Film Editing

Thelma Schoonmaker
The Departed

WINNER

Douglas Crise
Stephen Mirrione
Babel

Steven Rosenblum
Blood Diamond

Alfonso Cuarón
Álex Rodríguez
Children of Men

Clare Douglas
Richard Pearson
Christopher Rouse
United 93

Best Costume Design

Milena Canonero
Marie Antoinette

WINNER

Chung-Man Yee
Curse of the Golden Flower

Patricia Field
The Devil Wears Prada

Sharen Davis
Dreamgirls

Consolata Boyle
The Queen

Best Art Direction

Eugenio Caballero
Pilar Revuelta
Pan’s Labyrinth

WINNER

John Myhre
Nancy Haigh
Dreamgirls

Jeannine Oppewall
Gretchen Rau
Leslie E. Rollins
The Good Shepherd

Rick Heinrichs
Cheryl Carasik
Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man’s Chest

Nathan Crowley
Julie Ochipinti
The Prestige

Best Music, Original Score

Gustavo Santaolalla
Babel

WINNER

Thomas Newman
The Good German

Philip Glass
Notes on a Scandal

Javier Navarrete
Pan’s Labyrinth

Alexandre Desplat
The Queen

Best Music, Original Song

“I NEED TO WAKE UP“

Melissa Etheridge
An Inconvenient Truth

WINNER

“LISTEN“

Henry Krieger
Scott Cutler
Anne Preven
Dreamgirls

“LOVE YOU I DO“

Henry Krieger
Siedah Garrett
Dreamgirls

Randy Newman
Cars

Henry Krieger
Willie Reale
Dreamgirls

Best Makeup

Pan’s Labyrinth

WINNER

Best Sound Mixing

WINNER

Blood Diamond

Flags of Our Fathers

Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man’s Chest

Best Sound Editing

Letters from Iwo Jima

WINNER

Blood Diamond

Flags of Our Fathers

Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man’s Chest

Best Visual Effects

Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man’s Chest

WINNER

Superman Returns

Best Foreign Language Film

The Lives of Others

WINNER

After the Wedding

Days of Glory

Pan’s Labyrinth

Water

Best Animated Feature Film

WINNER

Monster House