Best Motion Picture of the Year

WINNER

The Departed: Graham King

NOMINEES

Babel: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik, Steve Golin

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Letters from Iwo Jima: Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, Robert Lorenz

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Little Miss Sunshine: David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub

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The Queen: Andy Harries, Christine Langan, Tracey Seaward

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER

The Last King of Scotland: Forest Whitaker

NOMINEES

Blood Diamond: Leonardo DiCaprio

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Half Nelson: Ryan Gosling

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The Pursuit of Happyness: Will Smith

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Venus: Peter O'Toole

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER

The Queen: Helen Mirren

NOMINEES

The Devil Wears Prada: Meryl Streep

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Little Children: Kate Winslet

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Notes on a Scandal: Judi Dench

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Volver: Penélope Cruz

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER

Little Miss Sunshine: Alan Arkin

NOMINEES

Blood Diamond: Djimon Hounsou

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The Departed: Mark Wahlberg

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Dreamgirls: Eddie Murphy

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Little Children: Jackie Earle Haley

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

WINNER

Dreamgirls: Jennifer Hudson

NOMINEES

Babel: Adriana Barraza

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Babel: Rinko Kikuchi

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Little Miss Sunshine: Abigail Breslin

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Notes on a Scandal: Cate Blanchett

Best Achievement in Directing

WINNER

The Departed: Martin Scorsese

NOMINEES

Babel: Alejandro González Iñárritu

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Letters from Iwo Jima: Clint Eastwood

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The Queen: Stephen Frears

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United 93: Paul Greengrass

Best Writing, Original Screenplay

WINNER

Little Miss Sunshine: Michael Arndt

NOMINEES

Babel: Guillermo Arriaga

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Pan's Labyrinth: Guillermo del Toro

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Letters from Iwo Jima: Iris Yamashita (screenplay/story), Paul Haggis (story)

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The Queen: Peter Morgan

Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay

WINNER

The Departed: William Monahan

NOMINEES

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan: Sacha Baron Cohen (screenplay/story), Anthony Hines (screenplay/story), Peter Baynham (screenplay/story), Dan Mazer (screenplay), Todd Phillips (story)

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Children of Men: Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby

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Little Children: Todd Field, Tom Perrotta

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Notes on a Scandal: Patrick Marber

Best Achievement in Cinematography

WINNER

Pan's Labyrinth: Guillermo Navarro

NOMINEES

The Black Dahlia: Vilmos Zsigmond

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Children of Men: Emmanuel Lubezki

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The Illusionist: Dick Pope

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The Prestige: Wally Pfister

Best Achievement in Art Direction

WINNER

Pan's Labyrinth: Eugenio Caballero (art director), Pilar Revuelta (set decorator)

NOMINEES

Dreamgirls: John Myhre (art director), Nancy Haigh (set decorator)

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The Good Shepherd: Jeannine Claudia Oppewall (art director), Gretchen Rau (set decorator), Leslie E. Rollins (set decorator)

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: Rick Heinrichs (art director), Cheryl Carasik (set decorator)

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The Prestige: Nathan Crowley (art director), Julie Ochipinti (set decorator)

Best Achievement in Costume Design

WINNER

Marie Antoinette: Milena Canonero

NOMINEES

The Devil Wears Prada: Pat Field

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Dreamgirls: Sharen Davis

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Curse of the Golden Flower: Chung Man Yee

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The Queen: Consolata Boyle

Best Achievement in Sound Mixing

WINNER

Dreamgirls: Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer, Willie D. Burton

NOMINEES

Apocalypto: Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Fernando Cámara

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Blood Diamond: Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Ivan Sharrock

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Flags of Our Fathers: John T. Reitz, David E. Campbell, Gregg Rudloff, Walt Martin

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: Paul Massey, Christopher Boyes, Lee Orloff

Best Achievement in Film Editing

WINNER

The Departed: Thelma Schoonmaker

NOMINEES

Babel: Douglas Crise, Stephen Mirrione

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Blood Diamond: Steven Rosenblum

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United 93: Clare Douglas, Richard Pearson, Christopher Rouse

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Children of Men: Alfonso Cuarón, Alex Rodríguez

Best Achievement in Sound Editing

WINNER

Letters from Iwo Jima: Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman

NOMINEES

Apocalypto: Sean McCormack, Kami Asgar

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Blood Diamond: Lon Bender

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Flags of Our Fathers: Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: Christopher Boyes, George Watters II

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

WINNER

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: John Knoll, Hal T. Hickel, Charles Gibson, Allen Hall

NOMINEES

Poseidon: Boyd Shermis, Kim Libreri, Chas Jarrett, John Frazier

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Superman Returns: Mark Stetson, Neil Corbould, Richard R. Hoover, Jon Thum

Best Achievement in Makeup

WINNER

Pan's Labyrinth: David Martí, Montse Ribé

NOMINEES

Apocalypto: Aldo Signoretti, Vittorio Sodano

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Click: Kazuhiro Tsuji, Bill Corso

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song

WINNER

An Inconvenient Truth: Melissa Etheridge
For the song "I Need To Wake Up".

NOMINEES

Cars: Randy Newman
For the song "Our Town".

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Dreamgirls: Henry Krieger (music), Scott Cutler (music), Anne Preven (lyrics)
For the song "Listen".

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Dreamgirls: Henry Krieger (music), Siedah Garrett (lyrics)
For the song "Love You I Do".

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Dreamgirls: Henry Krieger (music), Willie Reale (lyrics)
For the song "Patience".

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score

WINNER

Babel: Gustavo Santaolalla

NOMINEES

The Good German: Thomas Newman

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Pan's Labyrinth: Javier Navarrete

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Notes on a Scandal: Philip Glass

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The Queen: Alexandre Desplat

Best Short Film, Animated

WINNER

The Danish Poet: Torill Kove

NOMINEES

Lifted: Gary Rydstrom

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The Little Matchgirl: Roger Allers, Don Hahn

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Maestro: Géza M. Tóth

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No Time for Nuts: Chris Renaud, Mike Thurmeier

Best Short Film, Live Action

WINNER

West Bank Story: Ari Sandel

NOMINEES

Binta and the Great Idea: Javier Fesser, Luis Manso

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Helmer & Son: Søren Pilmark, Kim Magnusson

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The Saviour: Peter Templeman, Stuart Parkyn

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One Too Many: Borja Cobeaga

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

WINNER

The Blood of Yingzhou District: Ruby Yang, Thomas Lennon

NOMINEES

Recycled Life: Leslie Iwerks, Mike Glad

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Rehearsing a Dream: Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon

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Two Hands: The Leon Fleisher Story: Nathaniel Kahn, Susan Rose Behr

Best Documentary, Features

WINNER

An Inconvenient Truth: Davis Guggenheim

NOMINEES

P.O.V.: Laura Poitras, Jocelyn Glatzer
For episode "My Country, My Country (#19.12)".

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Deliver Us from Evil: Amy Berg, Frank Donner

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Iraq in Fragments: James Longley, John Sinno

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Jesus Camp: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

WINNER

The Lives of Others
Germany.

NOMINEES

After the Wedding
Denmark.

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Days of Glory
Algeria.

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Pan's Labyrinth
Mexico.

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Water
Canada.

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

WINNER

Happy Feet: George Miller

NOMINEES

Cars: John Lasseter

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Monster House: Gil Kenan

WINNER

Ennio Morricone
For his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music (statuette).

WINNER

Richard Edlund

WINNER

Ioan Allen, J. Wayne Anderson, Mary Ann Anderson, Ted Costas, Paul R. Goldberg, Shawn Jones, Tom Kuhn, Dr. Alan Masson, Colin Mossman, Martin Richards, Frank Ricotta, Richard C. Sehlin
For their contributions to the environmentally responsible industry conversion from silver-based to cyan dye analog soundtracks.

WINNER

Sherry Lansing

WINNERS

Phillip Feiner (Pacific Title and Art Studio), Jim Houston (Pacific Title and Art Studio), Denis Leconte (Pacific Title and Art Studio), Chris Bushman (Pacific Title and Art Studio)
For the design and development of the Rosetta process for creating digital YCM archival masters for digital film restoration.

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Steve Sullivan, Colin Davidson, Max Chen, Francesco Callari
For the design and development of the ILM Image-based Modeling System.

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Bill Collis, Simon Robinson, Ben Kent, 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.

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Howard Preston, Mirko Kovacevic
For the design and engineering of the Preston Cinema Systems FI+Z wireless remote system.

WINNERS

Joshua Pines (Technicolor Digital Intermediates), Christopher Kutcka (Technicolor Digital Intermediates)
For the design and development of the TDI process for creating archival separations from digital image data.

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Bill Feightner (E-Film), Chris Edwards (E-Film)
For the design and development of the E-Film process for creating archival separations from digital image data.

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Albert Ridilla, Papken Shahbazian, Ronald Belknap, Jay McGarrigle
For the design and development of the Hollywood Film Company Brumagic MPST Densitometer.

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Klemens Kehrer, Josef Handler, Thomas Smidek, Marc Shipman Mueller
For the design and development of the Arriflex 235 Camera System.

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Florian Kainz
For the design and engineering of OpenEXR, a software package implementing 16-bit, floating-point, high dynamic range image files.

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Walter Trauniger, Ernst Tschida
For the design and engineering of the Arri WRC wireless remote lens control system.

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Christian Tschida (cmotion), Martin Waitz (cmotion)
For the design and engineering of the cmotion Wireless Remote System.

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Peter Litwinowicz, Pierre Jasmin
For the design and development of the RE: Vision Effects family of software tools for optical flow-based image manipulation.

WINNER

Ray Feeney
For his technological contributions, which have brought credit to the motion picture industry.