The Oscar nominations were announced this morning by AMPAS president Sid Ganis and actress Salma Hayek. Just as unsurprising as Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep making the cut were the shock omissions. Among them: Dreamgirls scoring eight nominations, but not best director and picture; Brad Pitt failing to snag a nomination for Babel, which received seven nominations and is emerging as a frontrunner for the top prize; and Ryan Gosling pulling through and landing a best actor nomination for the little-film-that-could Half Nelson. Below is the full list of 2007 nominees.
Best Picture: Babel, The Departed, Letters From Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine, The Queen
Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond; Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson; Peter O’Toole, Venus; Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness; Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Actress: Penélope Cruz, Volver; Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal; Helen Mirren, The Queen; Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada; Kate Winslet, Little Children
Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine; Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children; Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond; Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls; Mark Wahlberg, The Departed
Supporting Actress: Adriana Barraza, Babel; Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal; Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine; Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls; Rinko Kikuchi, Babel
Directing: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Babel; Martin Scorsese, The Departed; Clint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima; Stephen Frears, The Queen; Paul Greengrass, United 93
Foreign Language Film: After the Wedding, Denmark; Days of Glory (Indigenes), Algeria; The Lives of Others, Germany; Pan’s Labyrinth, Mexico; Water, Canada.
Adapted Screenplay: Sacha Baron Cohen and Anthony Hines and Peter Baynham and Dan Mazer and Todd Phillips, Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan; Alfonso Cuarón and Timothy J. Sexton and David Arata and Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, Children of Men; William Monahan, The Departed; Todd Field and Tom Perrotta, Little Children; Patrick Marber, Notes on a Scandal
Original Screenplay: Guillermo Arriaga, Babel; Iris Yamashita and Paul Haggis, Letters From Iwo Jima; Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine; Guillermo del Toro, Pan’s Labyrinth; Peter Morgan, The Queen
Animated Feature Film: Cars, Happy Feet, Monster House
Art Direction: Dreamgirls, The Good Shepherd, Pan’s Labyrinth, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, The Prestige
Cinematography: The Black Dahlia, Children of Men, The Illusionist, Pan’s Labyrinth, The Prestige
Sound Mixing: Apocalypto, Blood Diamond, Dreamgirls, Flags of Our Fathers, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Sound Editing: Apocalypto, Blood Diamond, Flags of Our Fathers, Letters From Iwo Jima, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Original Score: Babel, Gustavo Santaolalla; The Good German, Thomas Newman; Notes on a Scandal, Philip Glass; Pan’s Labyrinth, Javier Navarrete; The Queen, Alexandre Desplat.
Original Song: “I Need to Wake Up” from An Inconvenient Truth, Melissa Etheridge; “Listen” from Dreamgirls, Henry Krieger, Scott Cutler and Anne Preven; “Love You I Do” from Dreamgirls, Henry Krieger and Siedah Garrett; “Our Town” from Cars, Randy Newman; “Patience” from Dreamgirls, Henry Krieger and Willie Reale.
Costume: Curse of the Golden Flower, The Devil Wears Prada, Dreamgirls, Marie Antoinette, The Queen
Documentary Feature: Deliver Us From Evil, An Inconvenient Truth, Iraq in Fragments, Jesus Camp, My Country, My Country
Documentary (short subject): The Blood of Yingzhou District, Recycled Life, Rehearsing a Dream, Two Hands
Film Editing: Babel, Blood Diamond, Children of Men, The Departed, United 93
Makeup: Apocalypto, Click, Pan’s Labyrinth
Animated Short Film: The Danish Poet, Lifted, The Little Matchgirl, Maestro, No Time for Nuts
Live Action Short Film: Binta and the Great Idea (Binta Y La Gran Idea), Eramos Pocos (One Too Many), Helmer & Son, The Saviour, West Bank Story
Visual Effects: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Poseidon, Superman Returns
Academy Award winners previously announced this year:
HONORARY AWARD: Ennio Morricone
JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD: Sherry Lansing
This article was originally published on The House Next Door.
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