Nominations announced:

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

Best Director:
Alejandro Gonzalez Inaritu -Babel
Martin Scorsese -The Departed
Stephen Frears -The Queen
Paul Greengrass -United 93
Clint Eastwood -Letters from Iwo Jima

Best Actor:
Leonardo DiCaprio -Blood Diamond
Forest Whitaker -The Last King of Scotland
Peter O'Toole -Venus
Ryan Gosling -Half Nelson
Will Smith -The Pursuit of Happyness

Best Actress:
Helen Mirren -The Queen
Penelope Cruz -Volver
Meryl Streep -The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet -Little Children
Judi Dench -Notes on A Scandal

Best Supporting Actor:
Alan Arkin -Little Miss Sunshine
Eddie Murphy -Dreamgirls
Mark Wahlberg -The Departed
Jackie Earle Haley -Little Children
Djimon Honsou -Blood Diamond

Best Supporting Actress:
Rinko Kikuchi -Babel
Abigail Breslin -Little Miss Sunshine
Adriana Barraza -Babel
Jennifer Hudson -Dreamgirls
Cate Blanchett -Notes on A Scandal

Original Screenplay:
Babel
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
Pan's Labyrinth
The Queen

Adapted Screenplay:
Borat
Children of Men
The Departed
Little Children
Notes on a Scandal

Foreign:
After the Wedding
Days of Glory
Lives of Others
Pan's Labyrinth
Water

Best Documentary:
Deliver Us from Evil
An Inconvenient Truth
Iraq in Fragments
Jesus Camp
My Country, My Country

Animated:
Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House

Best Cinematography:
The Black Dahlia
The Illusionist
Children of Men
Pan's Labyrinth
The Prestige

Best Editing:
Children of Men
The Departed
United 93
Babel
Blood Diamond

Best Art Direction:
The Good Shepherd
Pan's Labyrinth
The Prestige
Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Men's Chest
Dreamgirls

Costume Design:
Curse of The Golden Flower
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
Marie Antoinette
The Queen

Original Score:
Babel
The Good German
Notes on A Scandal
Pan's Labyrinth
The Queen

Original Song:
Dreamgirls, "Love You I Do" -Jennifer Hudson
Dreamgirls, "Listen" - Beyonce Knowles
An Inconvenient Truth, "I Need You to Wake Up" -Melissa Etheridge
Dreamgirls, "Patience" -Eddie Murphy
Cars, "Our Town" -James Taylor

Sound Editing:
Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Flags of Our Fathers
Letters from Iwo Jima
Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Men's Chest

Sound Mixing:
Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Dreamgirls
Flags of Our Fathers
Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Men's Chest

Makeup:
Apocalypto
Click
Pan's Labyrinth

Short Film (Animated)
The Danish Poet
Lifted
The Little Match Girl
Maestro
No Time for Nuts

Short Film (Live Action)
Binta and The Great Idea
Eramos Pocos
Helmer and Son
The Saviour
West Bank Story

Documentary Short Subject:
The Blood of Yingzhou District
Recycled Life
Rehearsing A Dream
Two Hands

Just thought I'd mention that Éramos pocos, one of the nominees for Best Short Film - Live Action, actually played here in Oklahoma City today.

Damned funny, too. I reviewed it here: dustbury.com: Right in the shorts (http://www.dustbury.com/backlog/2007/01/right_in_the_shorts.html)

Wow JBrown84 .. you really are detailed!

Wow JBrown84 .. you really are detailed!

copy and paste! :D

tee hee, here I was thinking.. wow jbrown84 is realllyyy bored today!

I finally got to see The Departed over the weekend! It was incredible. My fiancee liked it even though she gets offended pretty easily by crude material. And don't get me wrong - this movie says the 'F' word about 200+ times, and uses most of the severe curse words in excess. As well, it is explicitly violent throughout its entirety!

But as far as the Academy Awards go, I'd like to see it win Best Picture/Director. And one for Mark Walberg too. I know it's not the kind of movie they reward with the highest honors...but it is a better movie than 'Little Miss Sunshine' or 'The Queen'.

...I'm sure it's better than Babel too.

Best Picture should go to Babel or The Departed, and Best Director will most assuredly go to Scorsese.

I'm just glad Dreamgirls didn't get a best picture nomination like it was expected to.