79th Academy Awards
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- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsLeonardo DiCaprioMatt DamonJack NicholsonAn undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.Winner - Best Picture
Winner - Best Director for Martin Scorsese
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Mark Wahlberg
Winner - Best Adapted Screenplay for William Monahan
Winner - Best Film Editing for Thelma Schoonmaker - DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsBrad PittCate BlanchettGael García BernalTragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, which jump starts an interlocking story involving four different families.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Alejandro González Iñárritu
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Adriana Barraza
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Rinko Kikuchi
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Guillermo Arriaga
Winner - Best Original Score for Gustavo Santaolalla
Nominated - Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione - DirectorClint EastwoodStarsKen WatanabeKazunari NinomiyaTsuyoshi IharaThe story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Clint Eastwood
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Iris Yamashita and Paul Haggis
Winner - Best Sound Editing - DirectorJonathan DaytonValerie FarisStarsSteve CarellToni ColletteGreg KinnearA family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.Nominated - Best Picture
Winner - Best Supporting Actress for Alan Arkin
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Abigail Breslin
Winner - Best Original Screenplay for Michael Arndt - DirectorStephen FrearsStarsHelen MirrenMichael SheenJames CromwellAfter the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Stephen Frears
Winner - Best Actress for Helen Mirren
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Peter Morgan
Nominated - Best Original Score for Alexandre Desplat
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Consolata Boyle - DirectorPaul GreengrassStarsDavid Alan BascheOlivia ThirlbyLiza Colón-ZayasA real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on September 11th, 2001 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.Nominated - Best Director for Paul Greengrass
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Clare Douglas, Richard Pearson and Christopher Rouse - DirectorKevin MacdonaldStarsJames McAvoyForest WhitakerGillian AndersonBased on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s.Winner - Best Actor for Forest Whitaker
- DirectorEdward ZwickStarsLeonardo DiCaprioDjimon HounsouJennifer ConnellyA fisherman, a smuggler, and a syndicate of businessmen match wits over the possession of a priceless diamond.Nominated - Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Djimon Hounsou
Nominated - Best Sound Editing
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Steven Rosenbaum - DirectorRyan FleckStarsRyan GoslingAnthony MackieShareeka EppsAn inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.Nominated - Best Actor for Ryan Gosling
- DirectorRoger MichellStarsPeter O'TooleJodie WhittakerLeslie PhillipsLife for a pair of veteran actors gets turned upside down after they meet a brash teenager.Nominated - Best Actor for Peter O'Toole
- DirectorGabriele MuccinoStarsWill SmithThandiwe NewtonJaden SmithA struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.Nominated - Best Actor for Will Smith
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsPenélope CruzCarmen MauraLola DueñasAfter her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve during her life.Nominated - Best Actress for Penélope Cruz
- DirectorRichard EyreStarsCate BlanchettJudi DenchAndrew SimpsonA veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her fifteen-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond a platonic friendship.Nominated - Best Actress for Judi Dench
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Cate Blanchett
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Patrick Marber
Nominated - Best Original Score for Philip Glass - DirectorDavid FrankelStarsAnne HathawayMeryl StreepAdrian GrenierA smart but sensible new graduate lands a job as an assistant to Miranda Priestly, the demanding editor-in-chief of a high fashion magazine.Nominated - Best Actress for Meryl Streep
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Patricia Field - DirectorTodd FieldStarsKate WinsletJennifer ConnellyPatrick WilsonThe lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations in suburban Massachusetts.Nominated - Best Actress for Kate Winslet
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Jackie Earle Haley
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Todd Field and Tom Perotta - DirectorBill CondonStarsBeyoncéJamie FoxxEddie MurphyA trio of black female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Eddie Murphy
Winner - Best Supporting Actress for Jennifer Hudson
Nominated - Best Original Song for "Listen"
Nominated - Best Original Song for "Love You I Do"
Nominated - Best Original Song for "Patience"
Winner - Best Sound Mixing
Nominated - Best Art Direction
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Sharen Davis - DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsIvana BaqueroAriadna GilSergi LópezIn the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Guillermo del Toro
Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Mexico)
Nominated - Best Original Score for Javier Navarrete
Winner - Best Art Direction
Winner - Best Cinematography for Guillermo Navarro
Winner - Best Makeup - DirectorLarry CharlesStarsSacha Baron CohenKen DavitianLuenellKazakh TV talking head Borat is dispatched to the United States to report on the greatest country in the world.Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham, Anthony Hines, Dan Mazer and Todd Phillips
- DirectorAlfonso CuarónStarsJulianne MooreClive OwenChiwetel EjioforIn 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have somehow become infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea.Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Emanuel Lubezki
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Alfonso Cuarón and Alex Rodríguez - DirectorGeorge MillerWarren ColemanJudy MorrisStarsElijah WoodBrittany MurphyHugh JackmanInto the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!Winner - Best Animated Feature
- DirectorJohn LasseterJoe RanftStarsOwen WilsonBonnie HuntPaul NewmanOn the way to the biggest race of his life, a hotshot rookie race car gets stranded in a rundown town and learns that winning isn't everything in life.Nominated - Best Animated Feature
Nominated - Best Original Song for "Our Town" - DirectorGil KenanStarsMitchel MussoSam LernerSpencer LockeThree teens discover that their neighbor's house is really a living, breathing, scary monster.Nominated - Best Animated Feature
- DirectorFlorian Henckel von DonnersmarckStarsUlrich MüheMartina GedeckSebastian KochIn 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.Winner - Best Foreign Language Film (Germany)
- DirectorSusanne BierStarsMads MikkelsenSidse Babett KnudsenRolf LassgårdA manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Denmark)
- DirectorRachid BoucharebStarsSamy NaceriRoschdy ZemSami BouajilaDuring World War II, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from German oppression, and to fight French discrimination.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Algeria)
- DirectorDeepa MehtaStarsLisa RayJohn AbrahamSeema BiswasSet in colonial India against Gandhi's rise to power, it's the story of 8-year-old Chuyia, who is widowed and sent to a home to live in penitence; once there, Chuyia's feisty presence deeply affects the lives of the other residents.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Canada)
- DirectorDavis GuggenheimStarsAl GoreBilly WestGeorge BushFilmmaker Davis Guggenheim follows Al Gore on the lecture circuit, as the former presidential candidate campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects on the environment.Winner - Best Documentary Feature
Winner - Best Original Song for "I Need to Wake Up" - DirectorAmy BergStarsOliver O'GradyThomas DoyleAdamDocumentary about Father Oliver O'Grady, a Catholic priest who was relocated to various parishes around the United States during the 1970s in an attempt by the Catholic Church to cover up his rape of dozens of children.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorJames LongleyStarsMarmar AlhilaliMohammed HaithemSuleiman MahmoudStories from modern day Iraq as told by Iraqis living in a time of war, occupation and ethnic tension.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorHeidi EwingRachel GradyStarsMike PapantonioLou EngleBecky FischerA documentary on kids who attend a summer camp hoping to become the next Billy Graham.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorLaura PoitrasDocumentary by Oscar winner Laura Poitras about the war in Iraq.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorRuby YangStarsHuang ChildrenGao JunNan NanA year in the life of children in the Province of Anhui in China, who have lost their parents to AIDS. Traditional obligations to family and village collide with terror of the disease.Winner - Best Documentary Short Subject
- DirectorLeslie IwerksStarsEdward James OlmosThe dramatic and touching story of thousands of adults, children, and generations of families who have been living and working in the largest and most toxic landfill in Central America, the Guatemala City Garbage Dump, over the last sixty years.Nominated - Best Documentary Short Subject
- DirectorKaren GoodmanKirk SimonStarsVanessa WilliamsMikhail BaryshnikovMichael Tilson ThomasSupport for the arts in America may be dwindling, but talent in our high schools isn't. Every year a group of the country's most gifted 17-year-old performing and visual artists - singled out among thousands of their peers - share a week of dreams as they learn from mentors like Mikhail Baryshnikov, Vanessa Williams, Jacques d'Amboise, Michael Tilson Thomas... and from each other. For seven transformative days, the passionate young artists revel in the support, encouragement and attention they have earned.Nominated - Best Documentary Short Subject
- DirectorNathaniel KahnStarsLeon FleisherDaniel B. DrachmanTessy BrungardtIn 1964, Leon Fleisher's career as a concert pianist was thriving. A seemingly minor accident - a cut on his right thumb - led to dystonia, the involuntary curling of his right hand's ring and little fingers. In recent interviews, Fleisher talks about what followed: the end of a marriage, despair and disappointments, surgery in 1983 that led to a brief return to the concert hall, and, finally, with Botox and Rolfing, the ability to play with two hands. In between, Fleisher discovers his ecstasies: conducting, teaching, and playing compositions for one hand commissioned in the early twentieth century for a World War I veteran.Nominated - Best Documentary Short Subject
- DirectorAri SandelStarsBen NewmarkNoureen DeWulfA.J. TannenA musical comedy set in the fast-paced, fast-food world of dueling falafel restaurants on the West Bank.Winner - Best Live Action Short Film
- DirectorJavier FesserStarsZeynabou DialloAgnile SambouAminata SaneBinta, a little girl from Senegal, tells us about the everyday life in her village, the importance of education for the girls, and about her father's great idea to make the world a better place.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film
- DirectorBorja CobeagaStarsRamón BareaMariví BilbaoAlejandro TejeríasAfter his wife leaves him, Joaquín brings his mother-in-law back home to look after him and his son.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film
- DirectorSøren PilmarkStarsPer PallesenSteen Stig LommerDitte HansenAfter an elderly man locks himself in a closet at a nursing home, his son and daughter try to persuade him to come out.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film
- DirectorPeter TemplemanStarsThomas CampbellSusan PriorRhys MuldoonA young Church elder struggles with his faith when the married woman he has been seeing breaks off their relationship.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film
- DirectorTorill KoveStarsLiv UllmannA woman ponders over the strange coincidences that made her forefathers and -mothers meet and create the premises for her becoming the person that she is.Winner - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorGary RydstromStarsSheb WooleyA teenage alien is trying to abduct a sleeping human, but doesn't know which switch to use.Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorRoger AllersA poor young girl has a burning desire to find comfort and happiness in her life. Desperate to keep warm, the girl lights the matches she sells, and envisions a very different life for herself in the fiery flames.Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorGéza M. TóthStarsÁkos AmbrusImre MadácsiAtti PacsayFive minutes before his big performance, the Maestro and his persistent mechanical assistant are getting ready. As the clock ticks, life at the top is not all it seems.Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorChris RenaudMichael ThurmeierStarsDavid CrommettDarin De PaulDann FinkScrat comes across a time machine and is transported to various times all in pursuit of his beloved acorn.Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorSteven SoderberghStarsGeorge ClooneyCate BlanchettTobey MaguireWhile in post-war Berlin to cover the Potsdam Conference, an American military journalist is drawn into a murder investigation that involves his former mistress and his driver.Nominated - Best Original Score for Thomas Newman
- DirectorMel GibsonStarsGerardo TaracenaRaoul Max TrujilloDalia HernándezAs the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, a young man is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression.Nominated - Best Sound Editing
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing
Nominated - Best Makeup - DirectorClint EastwoodStarsRyan PhillippeBarry PepperJoseph CrossThe life stories of the six men who raised the flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in World War II.Nominated - Best Sound Editing
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing - DirectorGore VerbinskiStarsJohnny DeppOrlando BloomKeira KnightleyJack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Jones' service, as other friends and foes seek the heart for their own agenda as well.Nominated - Best Sound Editing
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing
Nominated - Best Art Direction
Winner - Best Visual Effects - DirectorRobert De NiroStarsMatt DamonAngelina JolieRobert De NiroThe tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life.Nominated - Best Art Direction
- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsChristian BaleHugh JackmanScarlett JohanssonAfter a tragic accident, two stage magicians in 1890s London engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion while sacrificing everything they have to outwit each other.Nominated - Best Art Direction
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Wally Pfister - DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsJosh HartnettAaron EckhartScarlett JohanssonTwo policemen see their personal and professional lives fall apart in the wake of the "Black Dahlia" Elizabeth Short murder investigation.Nominated - Best Cinematography for Vilmos Zsigmond
- DirectorNeil BurgerStarsEdward NortonJessica BielPaul GiamattiIn turn-of-the-century Vienna, a magician uses his abilities to secure the love of a woman far above his social standing.Nominated - Best Cinematography for Dick Pope
- DirectorFrank CoraciStarsAdam SandlerKate BeckinsaleChristopher WalkenA workaholic architect finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices.Nominated - Best Makeup
- DirectorSofia CoppolaStarsKirsten DunstJason SchwartzmanRip TornThe retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 14 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the end of her reign as queen, and ultimately the fall of Versailles.Winner - Best Costume Design for Milena Canonero
- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsChow Yun-FatGong LiJay ChouDuring China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.Nominated - Best Costume Design for Chung Man Yee
- DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsRichard DreyfussKurt RussellEmmy RossumOn New Year's Eve, the luxury ocean liner Poseidon capsizes after being swamped by a rogue wave. The survivors are left to fight for their lives as they attempt to escape the sinking ship.Nominated - Best Visual Effects
- DirectorBryan SingerStarsBrandon RouthKevin SpaceyKate BosworthSuperman returns to Earth after spending five years in space examining his homeworld Krypton. But he finds things have changed while he was gone, and he must once again prove himself important to the world.Nominated - Best Visual Effects