Mirren and Scorsese receives top honours in Oscars

Writen by walking leaf on Monday, 26 of February , 2007 at 7:02 am, ,

British actress Dame Helen Mirren has been named best actress in this year’s Academy Awards while the most influential film-maker of this modern generation, Martin Scorsese, has finally won an Oscar as best director.

As for the best actor, Forest Whitaker was rewarded the honour with his portray as the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland.

Following the success of winning the BAFTA, Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild, Dame Helen had been the overall favourite to win the best actress Oscar with her performance in The Queen.

With this latest triumph in Hollywood, the British star will have the unique opportunity to meet the real monarch for lunch at Buckingham Palace. Queen Elizabeth II has invited Dame Helen, director Stephen Frears and screenwriter Peter Morgan.

But the best news on the night was Martin Scorsese finally winning that golden statue, as he has missed out on collecting the award on numerous occasions (for classic movies like Raging Bull and Goodfellas). For good measure, his latest movie – The Departed – also picked up the all-important best picture. In total, the remake of the classic Hong Kong movie was awarded with four Oscars.

Pan’s Labyrinth, the Spanish-language fairytale, won three Academy Awards including best cinematography, art direction and make-up. While Dreamgirls, Little Miss Sunshine and the documentary An Inconvenient Truth all came away with two awards apiece.

The best animated feature film was awarded to Happy Feet, while Germany’s Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) was the best foreign language film.

The full list of winners and nominees in the 79th Academy Awards:

BEST PICTURE
The Departed

Babel
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

BEST ACTOR
Forrest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
Peter O’Toole, Venus
Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness

BEST ACTRESS
Helen Mirren, The Queen

Penelope Cruz, Volver
Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet, Little Children

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine

Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children
Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
Mark Wahlberg, The Departed

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls

Adriana Barraza, Babel
Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
Rinko Kikuchi, Babel

BEST DIRECTING
Martin Scorsese, The Departed

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Babel
Clint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears, The Queen
Paul Greengrass, United 93

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Lives of Others, Germany

After the Wedding, Denmark
Days of Glory (Indigenes), Algeria
Pan’s Labyrinth, Spain
Water, Canada

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
William Monahan, The Departed

Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham, Dan Mazer and Todd Phillips, Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Alfonso Cuaron, Timothy J Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, Children of Men
Todd Field and Tom Perrotta, Little Children
Patrick Marber, Notes on a Scandal

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine

Guillermo Arriaga, Babel
Iris Yamashita and Paul Haggis, Letters From Iwo Jima
Guillermo del Toro, Pan’s Labyrinth
Peter Morgan, The Queen

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Happy Feet

Cars
Monster House

BEST ART DIRECTION
Pan’s Labyrinth

Dreamgirls
The Good Shepherd
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
The Prestige

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Pan’s Labyrinth

The Black Dahlia
Children of Men
The Illusionist
The Prestige

BEST SOUND MIXING
Dreamgirls

Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Flags of Our Fathers
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

BEST SOUND EDITING
Letters From Iwo Jima

Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Flags of Our Fathers
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

BEST 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

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
I Need to Wake Up from An Inconvenient Truth, by Melissa Etheridge


Listen from Dreamgirls, by Henry Krieger, Scott Cutler and Anne Preven
Love You I Do from Dreamgirls, by Henry Krieger and Siedah Garrett
Our Town from Cars, by Randy Newman
Patience from Dreamgirls, by Henry Krieger and Willie Reale

BEST COSTUME
Marie Antoinette

Curse of the Golden Flower
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
The Queen

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
An Inconvenient Truth

Deliver Us From Evil
Iraq in Fragments
Jesus Camp
My Country, My Country

BEST DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)
The Blood of Yingzhou

District Recycled Life
Rehearsing a Dream
Two Hands

BEST FILM EDITING
The Departed

Babel
Blood Diamond
Children of Men
United 93

BEST MAKEUP
Pan’s Labyrinth

Apocalypo
Click

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
The Danish Poet

Lifted
The Little Matchgirl
Maestro
No Time for Nuts

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
West Bank Story

Binta and the Great Idea (Binta Y La Gran Idea)
Eramos Pocos (One Too Many)
Helmer & Son
The Saviour

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Poseidon
Superman Returns

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