2007 Oscar Winners List

Posted on February 26, 2007

Here is the list of the Oscar award winners for the 79th annual Academy Awards. It was a big night for The Departed which won four awards including Best Picture. One of The Departed's Oscars went to Martin Scorsese who finally won a much deserved Oscar for Best Director. Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth also had a big night winning two awards: one for Best Documentary and one for Original Song.

Best Picture: The Departed (Warner Bros.) Graham King, Producer
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed (Warner Bros.)
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland (Fox Searchlight)
Best Actress: Helen Mirren in The Queen (Miramax, Pathe and Granada)
Best Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine (Fox Searchlight)
Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls (DreamWorks and Paramount)
Best Original Screenplay: Little Miss Sunshine (Fox Searchlight) Written by Michael Arndt
Best Adapated Screenplay: The Departed (Warner Bros.) Screenplay by William Monahan
Best Animated Film: Happy Feet (Warner Bros.) George Miller
Art Direction: Pan's Labyrinth (Picturehouse)
Cinematography: Pan's Labyrinth (Picturehouse) Guillermo Navarro
Costume Design: Marie Antoinette (Sony Pictures Releasing) Milena Canonero
Best Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth (Paramount Classics and Participant Productions) A Lawrence Bender/Laurie David, Production Davis Guggenheim
Best Short Documentary: The Blood of Yingzhou District A Thomas Lennon Films Production, Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon
Film Editing: The Departed (Warner Bros.) Thelma Schoonmaker
Best Foreign Language Film: The Lives of Others A Wiedemann & Berg Production, Germany
Best Makeup: Pan's Labyrinth (Picturehouse) David Marte and Montse Ribe
Original Score: "Babel" from Babel (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Gustavo Santaolalla
Original Song: "I Need to Wake Up" from An Inconvenient Truth Music and Lyric by Melissa Etheridge
Best Animated Short: The Danish Poet (National Film Board of Canada) A Mikrofilm and National Film Board of Canada, Production Torill Kove
Best Live Action Short: West Bank Story, An Ari Sandel, Pascal Vaguelsy, Amy Kim, Ravi Malhotra and Ashley Jordan Production
Sound Editing: Letters from Iwo Jima (Warner Bros.) Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman Sound Mixing: Dreamgirls (DreamWorks and Paramount) Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer and Willie Burton
Visual Effects: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Buena Vista) John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall