Ellen DeGeneres
Daniel Craig and
Nicole Kidman
Abigail
Breslin and Jayden Smith
Bill Conti
A Sound Effects
Choir
Rachel Weisz
Ellen DeGeneres and
Martin Scorsese
Randy Newman composed
"Our Town" from Cars. Vocals by...
...James
Taylor.
Melissa
Etheridge
Kate Capshaw
and Steven Spielberg
Al Gore
and Leonardo Di Caprio
Helen Mirren and
Tom Hanks
Anne Hathaway
and Emily Blunt
Tom Cruise
presents the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Sherry Lansing.
Steven
Spielberg, Clint Eastwood and Ellen DeGeneres
Florian
Henckel von Donnersmarck
Sid Ganis,
Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas
Clint Eastwood presents
Ennio Morricone with an Honorary Award.
Three nominated songs
from Dreamgirls.
Jodie Foster
Francis Ford
Coppola, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg
present the Best Director Award...
...to Martin
Scorsese.
Jack Nicholson and Diane
Keaton present the Best Picture Award.
BEST PICTURE
Babel -- Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik and Steve Golin, Producers
* The Departed -- Graham King, Producer
Letters from Iwo Jima -- Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg and Robert Lorenz, Producers
Little Miss Sunshine -- David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub, Producers
The Queen -- Andy Harries, Christine Langan and Tracey Seaward, Producers
DIRECTING
Babel -- Alejandro González Iñárritu
* The Departed -- Martin Scorsese
Letters from Iwo Jima -- Clint Eastwood
The Queen -- Stephen Frears
United 93 -- Paul Greengrass
ACTRESS IN A LEADING
ROLE
Penélope Cruz -- Volver {"Raimunda"}
Judi Dench -- Notes on a Scandal {"Barbara Covett"}
* Helen Mirren -- The Queen {"The Queen"}
Meryl Streep -- The Devil Wears Prada {"Miranda Priestly"}
Kate Winslet -- Little Children {"Sarah Pierce"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Adriana Barraza -- Babel {"Amelia"}
Cate Blanchett -- Notes on a Scandal {"Sheba Hart"}
Abigail Breslin -- Little Miss Sunshine {"Olive"}
* Jennifer Hudson -- Dreamgirls {"Effie White"}
Rinko Kikuchi -- Babel {"Chieko"}
ACTOR IN A LEADING
ROLE
Leonardo DiCaprio -- Blood Diamond {"Danny Archer"}
Ryan Gosling -- Half Nelson {"Dan Dunne"}
Peter O'Toole -- Venus {"Maurice"}
Will Smith -- The Pursuit of Happyness {"Chris Gardner"}
* Forest Whitaker -- The Last King of Scotland {"Idi Amin"}
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
* Alan Arkin -- Little Miss Sunshine {"Grandpa"}
Jackie Earle Haley -- Little Children {"Ronnie J. McGorvey"}
Djimon Hounsou -- Blood Diamond {"Solomon Vandy"}
Eddie Murphy -- Dreamgirls {"James 'Thunder' Early"}
Mark Wahlberg -- The Departed {"Dignam"}
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Cars -- John Lasseter
* Happy Feet -- George Miller
Monster House -- Gil Kenan
ART DIRECTION
Dreamgirls -- Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh
The Good Shepherd -- Art Direction: Jeannine Oppewall; Set Decoration: Gretchen Rau and
Leslie E. Rollins
* Pan's Labyrinth -- Art Direction: Eugenio Caballero; Set Decoration: Pilar Revuelta
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest -- Art Direction: Rick Heinrichs; Set
Decoration: Cheryl Carasik
The Prestige -- Art Direction: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Julie Ochipinti
CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Black Dahlia -- Vilmos Zsigmond
Children of Men -- Emmanuel Lubezki
The Illusionist -- Dick Pope
* Pan's Labyrinth -- Guillermo Navarro
The Prestige -- Wally Pfister
COSTUME DESIGN
Curse of the Golden Flower -- Yee Chung Man
The Devil Wears Prada -- Patricia Field
Dreamgirls -- Sharen Davis
* Marie Antoinette -- Milena Canonero
The Queen -- Consolata Boyle
DOCUMENTARY (Feature)
Deliver Us from Evil -- Amy Berg and Frank Donner
* An Inconvenient Truth -- Davis Guggenheim
Iraq in Fragments -- James Longley and John Sinno
Jesus Camp -- Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
My Country, My Country -- Laura Poitras and Jocelyn Glatzer
DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)
* The Blood of Yingzhou District -- Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon
Recycled Life -- Leslie Iwerks and Mike Glad
Rehearsing a Dream -- Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon
Two Hands -- Nathaniel Kahn and Susan Rose Behr
FILM EDITING
Babel -- Stephen Mirrione and Douglas Crise
Blood Diamond -- Steven Rosenblum
Children of Men -- Alex Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón
* The Departed -- Thelma Schoonmaker
United 93 -- Clare Douglas, Christopher Rouse and Richard Pearson
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
After the Wedding -- Denmark
Days of Glory (Indigènes) -- Algeria
* The Lives of Others -- Germany
Pan's Labyrinth -- Mexico
Water -- Canada
MAKEUP
Apocalypto -- Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
Click -- Kazuhiro Tsuji and Bill Corso
* Pan's Labyrinth -- David Martí and Montse Ribé
MUSIC (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
MUSIC (Original Song)
* "I Need to Wake Up" from An Inconvenient Truth -- Music and Lyric by Melissa
Etheridge
"Listen" from Dreamgirls -- Music by Henry Krieger and Scott Cutler; Lyric by
Anne Preven
"Love You I Do" from Dreamgirls -- Music by Henry Krieger; Lyric by Siedah
Garrett
"Our Town" from Cars -- Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
"Patience" from Dreamgirls -- Music by Henry Krieger; Lyric by Willie Reale
SHORT FILM (Animated)
* The Danish Poet -- Torill Kove
Lifted -- Gary Rydstrom
The Little Matchgirl -- Roger Allers and Don Hahn
Maestro -- Géza M. Tóth
No Time for Nuts -- Chris Renaud and Michael Thurmeier
SHORT FILM (Live Action)
Binta and the Great Idea (Binta Y La Gran Idea) -- Javier Fesser and Luis Manso
Éramos Pocos (One Too Many) -- Borja Cobeaga
Helmer & Son -- Søren Pilmark and Kim Magnusson
The Saviour -- Peter Templeman and Stuart Parkyn
* West Bank Story -- Ari Sandel
SOUND EDITING
Apocalypto -- Sean McCormack and Kami Asgar
Blood Diamond -- Lon Bender
Flags of Our Fathers -- Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
* Letters from Iwo Jima -- Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest -- Christopher Boyes and George Watters II
SOUND MIXING
Apocalypto -- Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Fernando Cámara
Blood Diamond -- Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Ivan Sharrock
* Dreamgirls -- Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer and Willie Burton
Flags of Our Fathers -- John Reitz, Dave Campbell, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest -- Paul Massey, Christopher Boyes and Lee
Orloff
VISUAL EFFECTS
* Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest -- John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and
Allen Hall
Poseidon -- Boyd Shermis, Kim Libreri, Chas Jarrett and John Frazier
Superman Returns -- Mark Stetson, Neil Corbould, Richard R. Hoover and Jon Thum
WRITING (Adapted Screenplay)
Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan --
Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Peter Baynham & Dan Mazer;
Story by Sacha Baron Cohen & Peter Baynham & Anthony Hines & Todd Phillips
Children of Men -- Screenplay by Alfonso Cuarón & Timothy J. Sexton and David Arata
and Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby
* The Departed -- Screenplay by William Monahan
Little Children -- Screenplay by Todd Field & Tom Perrotta
Notes on a Scandal -- Screenplay by Patrick Marber
WRITING (Original Screenplay)
Babel -- Written by Guillermo Arriaga
Letters from Iwo Jima -- Screenplay by Iris Yamashita; Story by Iris Yamashita & Paul
Haggis
* Little Miss Sunshine -- Written by Michael Arndt
Pan's Labyrinth -- Written by Guillermo del Toro
The Queen -- Written by Peter Morgan
JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD
* Sherry Lansing
HONORARY AWARD
* To Ennio Morricone in recognition of his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to
the art of film music.
GORDON E. SAWYER AWARD
* Ray Feeney
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)
* To PHILLIP J. FEINER, JIM HOUSTON, DENIS LECONTE and CHRIS BUSHMAN of Pacific Title and
Art Studio for the design and development of the Rosetta process for creating digital YCM
archival masters for digital film restoration. With elements that may be recombined either
digitally or optically, the Rosetta Separations process offers a uniquely great
versatility in achieving high-quality results for digital YCM archiving. [Laboratory]
* To STEVE SULLIVAN, COLIN DAVIDSON, MAX CHEN and FRANCESCO CALLARI for the design and
development of the ILM Image-based Modeling System. This highly integrated system
facilitates interactive construction and editing of 3D models from digital photographs and
addresses the three-dimensional scanning needs of motion pictures in unique and innovative
ways. [Digital Imaging Technology]
* To DR. BILL COLLIS, SIMON ROBINSON, BEN KENT and DR. ANIL KOKARAM for the design and
development of the Furnace integrated suite of software tools that robustly utilizes
temporal coherence for enhancing visual effects in motion picture sequences. The Furnace
toolsets modularity, flexibility and robustness has set a high standard of quality
for optical flow-based image manipulation. [Digital Imaging Technology]
* To HOWARD PRESTON and MIRKO KOVACEVIC for the design and engineering of the Preston
Cinema Systems FI+Z wireless remote system. Pioneering unprecedented reliability and
flexibility in wireless lens and camera operation, the FI+Z has continued to be a leader
in innovation since its introduction in 1994. [Photography]
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
* To JOSHUA PINES and CHRIS KUTCKA of Technicolor Digital Intermediates for the design and
development of the TDI process for creating archival separations from digital image data.
The TDI process is based on the production of digital separation negatives creating
archival elements that can be scanned and digitally recombined in the future. [Laboratory]
* To WILLIAM FEIGHTNER and CHRIS EDWARDS of E-Film for the design and development of the
E-Film process for creating archival separations from digital image data. The E-Film
process is based on the production of digital separation negatives creating archival
elements that can be scanned and digitally recombined in the future. [Laboratory]
* To ALBERT RIDILLA, PAPKEN SHAHBAZIAN, RONALD BELKNAP and JAY McGARRIGLE for the design
and development of the Hollywood Film Company Brumagic MPST Densitometer. The Brumagic
MPST was designed specifically to measure density in the motion picture soundtrack and has
become the densitometer of choice for reading soundtrack negative and positive densities
worldwide. [Sound]
* To KLEMENS KEHRER, JOSEF HANDLER, THOMAS SMIDEK and MARC SHIPMAN MUELLER for the design
and development of the Arriflex 235 Camera System. Designed for handheld photography, the
features of this small, lightweight MOS camera also allow it to be used as a secondary
production camera. [Camera]
* To FLORIAN KAINZ for the design and engineering of OpenEXR, a software package
implementing 16-bit, floating point, high dynamic range image files. Widely adopted,
OpenEXR is engineered to meet the requirements of the visual effects industry by providing
for lossless and lossy compression of tiered and tiled images. [Digital Imaging
Technology]
* To WALTER TRAUNINGER and ERNST TSCHIDA for the design and engineering of the Arri WRC
wireless remote lens control system. This highly modular system permits accurate and
reliable wireless control with multiple hand controls of all lens functions. [Photography]
* To CHRISTIAN TSCHIDA and MARTIN WAITZ of cmotion for the design and engineering of the
cmotion Wireless Remote System. The graphical user interface of the cmotion System eases
the difficult task of following focus, and the unique lens tag system recalls the
calibration for each lens. [Photography]
* To PETER LITWINOWICZ and PIERRE JASMIN for the design and development of the RE:Vision
Effects family of software tools for optical flow-based image manipulation. A unique user
interface and relatively low cost have made these tools ubiquitous in the visual effects
community. [Digital Imaging Technology]
AWARD OF COMMENDATION
* To IOAN ALLEN, J. WAYNE ANDERSON, MARY ANN ANDERSON, TED COSTAS, PAUL R. GOLDBERG, SHAWN
JONES, THOMAS KUHN, DR. ALAN MASSON, COLIN MOSSMAN, MARTIN RICHARDS, FRANK RICOTTA and
RICHARD C. SEHLIN for their contributions to the environmentally responsible industry
conversion from silver-based to cyan dye analog soundtracks.
JOHN A. BONNER MEDAL OF COMMENDATION
* To Richard Edlund for his outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high
standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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