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Oscar Winners 2007 It's been a long wait for Martin Scorsese, but with The Departed the New York director finally has a little gold man for his mantlepiece. By Rebort
It was sixth time lucky for veteran director Martin Scorsese, who finally won a director's Oscar for undercover cop thriller The Departed. Scorsese, who has previously been nominated for an Oscar for directing for The Aviator (2005), Gangs of New York (2003), Goodfellas (1990), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and Raging Bull (1980), got a rousing ovation as he stepped up to receive the award from old friends Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. ''Could you double-check the envelope?'' he quipped. Capping his victory The Departed camp earned four Oscars including the award for the best picture, best editing and best adapted screenplay. Helen Mirren won best actress for her role as Elizabeth Windsor in The Queen. She likened it to doing well in class saying it was "the biggest and best gold star I've ever had in my life." Forrest Whitaker won the best actor award for his role as Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland. Whitaker gave an emotional speech about the importance of sticking to his dreams from early days growing up in South Central L.A. Pan's Labyrinth was beaten by tense drama The Lives of Others in the world cinema department, but still clinched four Oscars, including for cinematography, makeup, and art direction. Former American Idol contestant Jennifer Hudson won the award for best supporting actress for Dreamgirls and Alan Arkin won the supporting actor award for his role in Little Miss Sunshine. The ceremony still had its familiar fifties music hall feel with some of the scripted humour on the clunky and awkward side, but host Helen Degeneres managed to lighten things up, at one point dropping into the audience to ask Steven Spielberg to take a snap of her with Clint Eastwood. There was something of a green tinge to this year's Oscars - Davis Guggenheim's An Inconvenient Truth, in which Al Gore lays out the catastrophe that climate change poses, followed up its box office mega-hit success by winning the best documentary. The documentary picked up a second Oscar when Melissa Etheridge won for the theme song. THE 2007 OSCAR WINNERS Best picture Babel The Departed (winner) Letters From Iwo Jima Little Miss Sunshine The Queen Best director Clint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima Stephen Frears, The Queen Paul Greengrass, United 93 Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Babel Martin Scorsese, The Departed (winner) 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 (winner) Best actress Penelope Cruz, Volver Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal Helen Mirren, The Queen (winner) Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada Kate Winslet, Little Children Best supporting actress Adriana Barraza, Babel Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls (winner) Rinko Kikuchi, Babel Best supporting actor Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine (winner) Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls Mark Wahlberg, The Departed Best foreign language film Efter Brylluppet (aka After the Wedding), Denmark Indigenes (aka Days of Glory), Algeria El Laberinto del Fauno (aka Pan's Labyrinth), Mexico Das Leben der Anderen (aka The Lives of Others), Germany (winner) Water, Canada Best animated feature film Cars Happy Feet (winner) Monster House Best adapted screenplay Borat Children of Men The Departed (winner) Little Children Notes on a Scandal Best original screenplay Babel Letters from Iwo Jima Little Miss Sunshine (winner) The Queen Pan's Labyrinth Best original score Babel (winner) The Good German Notes on a Scandal Pan's Labyrinth The Queen Best original song I Need to Wake Up - An Inconvenient Truth (performed by Melissa Etheridge) (winner) Listen - Dreamgirls (performed by Beyonce Knowles) Love You I Do - Dreamgirls (performed by Jennifer Hudson) Our Town - Cars (performed by James Taylor) Patience - Dreamgirls (performed by Eddie Murphy, Keith Robinson, Anika Noni Rose) Best documentary feature Deliver Us From Evil An Inconvenient Truth (winner) Iraq In Fragments Jesus Camp My Country, My Country Best documentary short subject The Blood of Yingzhou District (winner) Recycled Life Rehearsing A Dream Two Hands Best visual effects Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (winner) Poseidon Superman Returns Best cinematography The Black Dahlia Children of Men The Illusionist Pan's Labyrinth (winner) The Prestige Best art direction Dreamgirls The Good Shepherd Pan's Labyrinth (winner) Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest The Prestige Best animated short film The Danish Poet (winner) Lifted The Little Matchgirl Maestro No Time for Nuts Best action short film Binta and the Great Idea Eramos Pocos (One Too Many) Helmer and Son The Saviour West Bank Story (winner) Best costume design Curse of the Golden Flower The Devil Wears Prada Dreamgirls Marie Antoinette (winner) The Queen Best make-up Apocalypto Click Pan's Labyrinth (winner) Best sound mixing Apocalypto Blood Diamond Dreamgirls (winner) Flags of our Fathers Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Sound editing Apocalypto Blood Diamond Letters from Iwo Jima (winner) Flags of our Fathers Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Best film editing Babel Blood Diamond Children of Men The Departed (winner) United 93 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Sherry Lansing Honorary Award Ennio Morricone
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