The Departed was the biggest winner with four Oscars when the 79th Annual Academy Awards was held last night. It won best motion picture of the year, best writing/screenplay based on material previously produced/published and best achievement in editing. It also gave an Oscar to Martin Scorsese for best achievement in directing.
Other winners were Forest Whitaker (Best performance by an actor in a leading role) for The Last King of Scotland, Helen Mirren (Best performance by an actress in a leading role) for The Queen. Supporting roles Oscars went to Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine) and to Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls. Here's a complete list of all the Academy Awards winners:
- Best Motion Picture of the Year - The Departed
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Forest Whitaker)
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Helen Mirren)
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Alan Arkin)
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Jennifer Hudson)
- Best Achievement in Directing (Martin Scorsese)
- Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Little Miss Sunshine)
- Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published (The Departed)
- Best Achievement in Cinematography (El Laberinto del Fauno)
- Best Achievement in Editing (The Departed)
- Best Achievement in Art Direction (El Laberinto del Fauno)
- Best Achievement in Costume Design (Marie Antoinette)
- Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score (Babel)
- Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song (An Inconvenient Truth: Melissa Etheridge - "I Need To Wake Up")
- Best Achievement in Makeup (El Laberinto del Fauno)
- Best Achievement in Sound (Dreamgirls)
- Best Achievement in Sound Editing (Letters from Iwo Jima)
- Best Achievement in Visual Effects (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest)
- Best Animated Feature Film of the Year (Happy Feet)
- Best Foreign Language Film of the Year (Das Leben der Anderen)
- Best Documentary, Features (An Inconvenient Truth)
- Best Documentary, Short Subjects (The Blood of Yingzhou District)
- Best Short Film, Animated (The Danish Poet)
- Best Short Film, Live Action (West Bank Story)
And now over to the pictures. Here's a bunch of HQ's taking from the Academy Awards and the various parties (from top to bottom: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Hayden Panettiere, Natalie Portman, Reese Witherspoon, Ali Larter and Erika Christensen - or mouse over for names).
Check back tomorrow for more HQ's from the Academy Awards...
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