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79th
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DateSunday, February 25 2007
SiteKodak Theatre in Hollywood, California
Hosted byEllen DeGeneres
Preshow hostsChris Connelly
Lisa Ling
Allyson Wterman
Produced byLaura Ziskin
Directed byLouis J. Horvitz
Television coverage
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The 79th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best in film for 2006, took place on February 25 2007 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. Ellen DeGeneres hosted the ceremony for the first time.[1] This was the sixth time that the Kodak Theatre has hosted the ceremonies. It was also the 32nd time that the ceremony was televised in the United States by ABC, which is under contract through 2014.[2] CTV aired the Awards in Canada. In the UK and Ireland, the ceremony was shown live on Sky Movies 1, in Germany on Pro 7. The producer was Laura Ziskin.[3]

The nominees were announced on January 23 at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC) by Academy president Sid Ganis and actress Salma Hayek, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in the Academy's Beverly Hills headquarters. Bolstered by three nominations for Best Song, the musical Dreamgirls received the most nominations (eight), but became the first film ever to receive the most nominations without being included among the nominees for Best Picture. Babel received the second-most nominations with seven.

Major winners and nominees

This is a breakdown of only major winners. For a complete list of nominees and winners, see: 79th Academy Awards nominees and winners

Feature Films

Category Winner Producers/Country
Best motion picture of the year GET THESE MOTHAFUCKING SNAKES OFF THIS MOTHAFUCKING PLANE'it was pretty funny, but it was pretty sad too. that guys just so pathetic.'

'and yet you all treat him like shit.' 'well duh. we're human. it's our job to laugh at those who are below us and not care how they feel as long as we're not the ones being laughed at. if we didnt, we wouldnt be here right now.'

Best foreign language film The Lives of Others Template:Flagcountry2
Best documentary feature An Inconvenient Lie Davis Guggenheim
Best animated feature film of the year Happy Feet George Miller

Acting

Category Winner Film
Best actor in a leading role Forest Whitaker The Last King of Scotland
Best actress in a leading role Helen Mirren The Queen
Best actor in a supporting role Alan Arkin Little Miss Sunshine
Best actress in a supporting role Jennifer Hudson Dreamgirls

Writing

Category Winner Film
Original screenplay Michael Arndt Little Miss Sunshine
Adapted screenplay William Monahan The Departed

Directing

Category Winner Film
Academy Award for Directing

Special honors

Category Winner
Academy Honorary Award Ennio Morricone
The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Sherry Lansing


Films with multiple nominations

Films with multiple wins

Three
Two

Presenters

Performers

For the second year in a row, no film received more than eight nominations, with the selections scattered among numerous films. Continuing a trend of the previous two years in the major nominations, Academy voters favored films which had struggled at the U.S. box office, although the Best Picture nominees performed slightly better than those of the previous year due to the presence of one sizable hit. The Departed had the best showing through January 21 with $121.7 million, placing the film 17th among the year's releases. However, the next best showing among the five nominees was that of Little Miss Sunshine, which placed 50th with $59.6 million. The Queen ($35.6 million), Babel ($23.7 million) and Letters from Iwo Jima ($2.4 million) completed the Best Picture field, but did not place among the year's top 80 box office hits.

Among the rest of the top 50 releases of 2006 in U.S. box office through the weekend before the nominations, only The Pursuit of Happyness (12th), Borat (15th), The Devil Wears Prada (16th) and Dreamgirls (28th) received nominations for directing, acting or writing, with only Dreamgirls gaining more than one nomination in those areas. The top 16 films in box office received a total of only 13 nominations, with 4 going to the year's top hit, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, and 2 others in the category of Animated Feature. Six of the ten nominations for Best Actor and Best Actress went to films which had grossed less than $8 million each.

For the second consecutive year, four of the Best Picture nominees were rated R (under 17 requires accompanying adult). Of the 88 nominations awarded to non-documentary feature films (apart from the Foreign Film category), a majority of 56 went to R-rated films (up from 43 one year earlier), 28 to films rated PG-13, 2 to PG-rated films (down from 16 the year before, and both for Animated Feature) and 2 to a G-rated film (the final nominee for Animated Feature). In a precise duplication of the previous year, R-rated films captured 32 of the 40 nominations for Best Picture, directing, screenwriting and acting. Non-R-rated films received exactly half of the nominations (24 of 48) in the remaining categories, primarily those in "below the line" areas (the editing, original score and sound editing categories accounted for 13 of the 24 nominations for R-rated films, while the categories for costume design, song, visual effects and animated feature accounted for 14 of the 24 nominations for non-R-rated films).

Peter O'Toole – who received his first nomination for Best Actor 44 years earlier – set a record for most years between nominations in that category, breaking Henry Fonda's record of 41 years (Katharine Hepburn received Best Actress nominations 48 years apart).

Mistakes

A mistake was made early in on the show when the awards were presented for Best Adaptive Screenplay to The Departed where the announcer incorrectly referred it being based on a Japanese film when in actual fact, it was based on a Hong Kong film, Infernal Affairs.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Ellen DeGeneres to Host 79th Academy Awards® Presentation". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2006-09-07. Retrieved 2007-01-12. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ^ "ABC and Academy Extend Oscar® Telecast Agreement". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2005-02-07. Retrieved 2007-01-12. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ "Laura Ziskin Returns As Telecast Producer for 79th Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2006-07-21. Retrieved 2007-01-12. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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