Dreamgirls & Babel Lead Oscar Nominations

Best Picture
Babel
The Departed
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

Best Actor
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]

Best Actress
Penelope Cruz [Volver]
Judi Dench [Notes on a Scandal]
Helen Mirren [The Queen]
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
Adriana Barraza [Babel]
Cate Blanchett [Notes on a Scandal]
Abigail Breslin [Little Miss Sunshine]
Jennifer Hudson [Dreamgirls]
Rinko Kikuchi [Babel]

Best Directing
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu [Babel]
Martin Scorsese [The Departed]
Clint Eastwood [Letters From Iwo Jima]
Stephen Frears [The Queen]
Paul Greengrass [United 93]

Best Foreign Language Film
After the Wedding [Denmark]
Days of Glory (Indigenes) [Algeria]
The Lives of Others [Germany]
Pan's Labyrinth [Mexico]
Water [Canada]

Best Adapted Screenplay
Sacha Baron Cohen and Anthony Hines and Peter Baynham and Dan Mazer and Todd Phillips [Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan]
Alfonso Cuaron and Timothy J Sexton and David Arata and Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby [Children of Men]
William Monahan [The Departed]
Todd Field and Tom Perrotta [Little Children]
Patrick Marber [Notes on a Scanda]

Best Original Screenplay
Guillermo Arriaga [Babel]
Iris Yamashita and Paul Haggis [Letters From Iwo Jima]
Michael Arndt [Little Miss Sunshine]
Guillermo del Toro [Pan's Labyrinth]
Peter Morgan [The Queen]

Best Animated Feature Film
Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House

Full List of Nominees >
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