Oscar Awards 2007: Results

This is the night when the stars descend on the Kodak theatre and pose and pout and ultimately collect the trophies which will change their careers in more ways than one. We couldn't be there to capture the moments live, but we did watch it on TV like millions of others and you know what it's nice to have an unobstructed view of the stage....

This is the year when Martin Scorcese finally won an award and his film won the best picture as well, the rest was mostly as predicted except for a few surprises. Pan's Labyrinth missed out on best foreign film oscar which was really surprising.

Anyways here are the results in bold in the major categories:

Best Motion Picture of the Year

Babel
The Departed
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Leonard Di Caprio - Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson
Peter O'Toole - Venus
Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Penelope Cruz - Volver
Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal
Helen Mirren - The Queen
Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet - Little Children

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine
Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children
Djimon Hounsou - Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls
Mark Wahlberg - The Departed

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Adriana Barraza - Babel
Cate Blanchett - Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine
Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi - Babel

Best Achievement in Directing

Clint Eastwood - Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears - The Queen
Paul Greengrass - United 93
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - Babel
Martin Scorcese - The Departed

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

Guillermo Arriaga - Babel
Iris Yamashita, Paul Haggis - Letters from Iwo Jima
Michael Arndt - Littles Miss Sunshine
Guillermo Del Toro - Pan's Labyrinth
Peter Morgan - The Queen

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published

Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham, Dan Mazer, Todd Phillips - Borat
Alfanso Cuaron, Timothy Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby - Children of Men
William Monahan - The Departed
Tom Field, Tom Perrotta - Little Children
Patrick Marber - Notes on a Scandal

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

Efter Brylluppet - Denmark
Indigenes - Algeria
Laberinto Del Fauno, El - Mexico (aka Pan's Labyrinth)
Leben der Anderen, Das - Germany
Water - Canada

Overall a good event. In case someone's keeping out I was correct on 7 out of 8 predictions I made. Pretty good I would say, the only surprise being Alan Arkin for Best supporting actor.