Oscar - 2006

 

The Oscars for movies that premiered in 2006.

Who was up that year, and who won?  Look below!

A star ( * ) next to a title denotes that I've seen it.

 

Nominees Winners

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

Forest Whitaker

The Last King of Scotland

 

 

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

Alan Arkin

Little Miss Sunshine

 

 

Actress in a Leading Role

Penelope Cruz - Volver

*Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal

*Helen Mirren - The Queen

*Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada

*Kate Winslet - Little Children

Helen Mirren

The Queen

 

 

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

Jennifer Hudson

Dreamgirls

 

 

Best Animated Feature Film

*Cars

*Happy Feet

*Monster House

Happy Feet

   

Art Direction

*Dreamgirls

The Good Shepherd

*Pan's Labyrinth

*Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

*The Prestige

Pan's Labyrinth

   

Cinematography

*The Black Dahlia

*Children of Men

*The Illusionist

*Pan's Labyrinth

*The Prestige

Pan's Labyrinth

 

 

Costume Design

Curse of the Golden Flower

*The Devil Wears Prada

*Dreamgirls

*Marie Antoinette

*The Queen

Marie Antoinette

 

 

Directing

*Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - Babel

*Martin Scorcese - The Departed

Clint Eastwood - Letters from Iwo Jima

*Stephen Frears - The Queen

*Paul Greengrass - United 93

Martin Scorcese

The Departed

 

 

Documentary Feature

Deliver Us from Evil

*An Inconvenient Truth

Iraq in Fragments

Jesus Camp

My Country. My Country

An Inconvenient Truth

 

 

Documentary Short

The Blood of Yingzhou District

Recycled Life

Rehearsing a Dream

Two Hands

The Blood of Yingzhou District

 

 

Film Editing

*Babel

*Blood Diamond

*Children of Men

*The Departed

*United 93

The Departed

 

 

Foreign Language Film

After the Wedding (Denmark)

Days of Glory (Algeria)

The Lives of Others (Germany)

*Pan's Labyrinth (Mexico)

Water (Canada)

The Lives of Others

 

 

Makeup

*Apocalypto

*Click

*Pan's Labyrinth

Pan's Labyrinth

   

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

Babel

Gustavo Santaolalla

 

 

Original Song

*I Need to Wake Up - An Inconvenient Truth

*Listen - Dreamgirls

*Love You I Do - Dreamgirls

*Our Town - Cars

*Patience - Dreamgirls

I Need to Wake Up

An Inconvenient Truth

(Melissa Ethridge)

 

 

Best Picture

*Babel

*The Departed

Letters from Iwo Jima

*Little Miss Sunshine

*The Queen

The Departed

 

 

Animated Short

The Danish Poet

Lifted

The Little Matchgirl

Maestro

No Time for Nuts

The Danish Poet

 

 

Live Action Short

Binta and the Great Idea

One Too Many

Helmer & Son

The Saviour

West Bank Story

West Bank Story

 

 

Sound Editing

*Apocalypto

*Blood Diamond

Flags of our Fathers

Letters from Iwo Jima

*Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Letters from Iwo Jima

 

 

Sound Mixing

*Apocalypto

*Blood Diamond

*Dreamgirls

Flags of our Fathers

*Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Dreamgirls

 

 

Visual Effects

*Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

*Poseidon

*Superman Returns

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

 

 

Adapted Screenplay

*Borat

*Children of Men

*The Departed

*Little Children

*Notes on a Scandal

The Departed

 

 

Original Screenplay

*Babel

Letters from Iwo Jima

*Little Miss Sunshine

*Pan's Labyrinth

*The Queen

Little Miss Sunshine