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Nominations for the 79th Annual Academy Awards (Oscars)

Best motion picture of the year
• Babel
• The Departed
• Letters From Iwo Jima
• Little Miss Sunshine
• The Queen

Achievement in directing
• Babel
• The Departed
• Letters From Iwo Jima
• The Queen
• United 93

Performance by an actor in a leading role
• Leonardo Dicaprio - Blood Diamond
• Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson
• Peter O’Toole – Venus
• Will Smith - The Pursuit Of Happyness
• Forest Whitaker - The Last King Of Scotland

Performance by an actor in a supporting role
• Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine
• Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children
• Djimon Hounsou - Blood Diamond
• Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls
• Mark Wahlberg - The Departed

Performance by an actress in a leading role
• Penélope Cruz – Volver
• Judi Dench - Notes On A Scandal
• Helen Mirren - The Queen
• Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada
• Kate Winslet - Little Children

Performance by an actress in a supporting role
• Adriana Barraza - Babel
• Cate Blanchett - Notes On A Scandal
• Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine
• Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
• Rinko Kikuchi – Babel

Best animated feature film of the year
• Cars
• Happy Feet
• Monster House

Achievement in art direction
• Dreamgirls
• The Good Shepherd
• Pan’s Labyrinth
• Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
• The Prestige

Achievement in cinematography
• The Black Dahlia
• Children Of Men
• The Illusionist
• Pan’s Labyrinth
• The Prestige

Achievement in costume design
• Curse Of The Golden Flower
• The Devil Wears Prada
• Dreamgirls
• Marie Antoinette
• The Queen

Best documentary feature
• Deliver Us From Evil
• An Inconvenient Truth
• 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

Achievement in film editing
• Babel
• Blood Diamond
• Children Of Men
• The Departed
• United 93

Best foreign language film of the year
• After The Wedding
• Days Of Glory (Indigènes)
• The Lives Of Others
• Pan’s Labyrinth
• Water

WRITTEN BY GOHER IQBAL PUNN (Bollywood Analyst)

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