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And the Oscar Goes To…The World

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By: Rustycat | in: Movies |

Without a doubt the 2007 Oscar buzz word is diversity. It’s really good to see that Hollywood is slowly opening its doors and statues to some amazing foreign talent.
Check this out: three Mexican directors have nominated films, a British collection of remarkable women, Kate Winslet, Hellen Mirren and Judie Dench, Cate Blanchett representing Australia, Rinko Kikuchi from Japan, the Spanish Almodovar and Penelope, Djimon Hounsou from Benin somewhere in Africa, Canadian Ryan Gosling, a few well respected African American actors and…oh yeah Leonardo Dicaprio.
Definitely diversity, Ellen said it on her opening speech and I couldn’t agree more, although she could have spared us the tambourine dance…but she was funny.

And here come the main winners:

Martin Scorsese

Best picture: The Departed
Best director : Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Best actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen
Best supporting actress: Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Best supporting actor: Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
Best foreign language film: Das Leben der Anderen (aka The Lives of Others), Germany
Best animated feature film: Happy Feet
Best adapted screenplay: The Departed
Best original screenplay: Little Miss Sunshine
Best original score: Babel
Best original song: I Need to Wake Up - An Inconvenient Truth (performed by Melissa Etheridge)
Best documentary feature: An Inconvenient Truth
Best visual effects: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Best cinematography: Pan’s Labyrinth
Best art direction: Pan’s Labyrinth
Honorary Award: Ennio Morricone


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Posted on February 26, 2007

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