Academy Award Nominations & Oscar Winners - 2006

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Below are the Academy Award nominees and winners for 2006. Which movie was given the Best Picture Oscar? Who won the Best Actor Oscar? Which movies were denied an Academy Award?

Best Picture
WINNER: The Departed - (My pick)	A+
Babel	B
Letters From Iwo Jima - (My prediction)	A-
Little Miss Sunshine	A-
The Queen	B+
Best Director
WINNER: The Departed - Martin Scorsese (My pick and prediction)	A+
Babel - Alejandro González Iñárritu	B
Letters From Iwo Jima - Clint Eastwood	A-
The Queen - Stephen Frears	B+
United 93 - Paul Greengrass	A
Best Actor in a Leading Role
WINNER: The Last King of Scotland - Forest Whitaker (My prediction)	B
Venus - Peter O'Toole
Blood Diamond - Leonardo DiCaprio	B
Half Nelson - Ryan Gosling	B-
The Pursuit of Happyness - Will Smith (My pick)	A-
Best Actress in a Leading Role
WINNER: The Queen - Helen Mirren (My prediction)	B+
The Devil Wears Prada - Meryl Streep (My pick)	B+
Little Children - Kate Winslet	A-
Notes on a Scandal - Judi Dench	B
Volver - Penelope Cruz	B
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
WINNER: Little Miss Sunshine - Alan Arkin	A-
Blood Diamond - Djimon Hounsou	B
The Departed - Mark Wahlberg	A+
Dreamgirls - Eddie Murphy (My prediction)	B-
Little Children - Jackie Earle Haley (My pick)	A-
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
WINNER: Dreamgirls - Jennifer Hudson (My prediction)	B-
Babel - Adriana Barraza (My pick)	B
Babel - Rinko Kikuchi	B
Little Miss Sunshine - Abigail Breslin	A-
Notes on a Scandal - Cate Blanchett	B
Best Original Screenplay
WINNER: Little Miss Sunshine	A-
Babel	B
Letters From Iwo Jima	A-
Pan's Labyrinth - (My pick)	A
The Queen - (My prediction)	B+
Best Adapted Screenplay
WINNER: The Departed - (My prediction)	A+
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan	B
Children of Men	A+
Little Children - (My pick)	A-
Notes on a Scandal	B
Best Foreign Picture
WINNER: The Lives of Others	A-
After the Wedding
Days of Glory (Indigènes)	B
Pan's Labyrinth - (My pick and prediction)	A
Water
Best Documentary Picture
WINNER: Inconvenient Truth, An - (My pick and prediction)	A-
Iraq in Fragments
My Country My Country
Deliver Us From Evil	B-
Jesus Camp	B
Best Animated Picture
WINNER: Happy Feet
Cars - (My prediction)	D+
Monster House - (My pick)	A
Best Art Direction
WINNER: Pan's Labyrinth - (My pick and prediction)	A
Dreamgirls	B-
The Good Shepherd	B-
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	C
The Prestige	B+
Best Cinematography
WINNER: Pan's Labyrinth - (My prediction)	A
The Black Dahlia	C+
Children of Men - (My pick)	A+
The Illusionist	B
The Prestige	B+
Best Costume Design
WINNER: Marie Antoinette	B+
Curse of the Golden Flower - (My pick)	B
The Devil Wears Prada	B+
Dreamgirls - (My prediction)	B-
The Queen	B+
Best Film Editing
WINNER: The Departed	A+
Babel	B
Blood Diamond	B
Children of Men	A+
United 93 - (My pick and prediction)	A
Best Makeup
WINNER: Pan's Labyrinth - (My prediction)	A
Apocalypto - (My pick)	A-
Click	C
Best Original Score
WINNER: Babel	B
The Good German	C
Notes on a Scandal - (My pick and prediction)	B
Pan's Labyrinth	A
The Queen	B+
Best Original Song
WINNER: Inconvenient Truth, An - Melissa Etheridge ("I Need To Wake Up")	A-
Cars - Randy Newman ("Our Town")	D+
Dreamgirls - Henry Krieger, Scott Cutler, Anne Preven ("Listen")	B-
Dreamgirls - Henry Krieger, Siedah Garrett ("Love You I Do")	B-
Dreamgirls - Henry Krieger, Willie Reale ("Patience")	B-
Best Sound Mixing
WINNER: Dreamgirls	B-
Apocalypto	A-
Blood Diamond	B
Flags of Our Fathers	B-
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	C
Best Sound Editing
WINNER: Letters From Iwo Jima	A-
Apocalypto	A-
Blood Diamond	B
Flags of Our Fathers	B-
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	C
Best Visual Effects
WINNER: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - (My pick and prediction)	C
Poseidon	B-
Superman Returns	A
Best Documentary Short
WINNER: The Blood of Yingzhou District
Recycled Life
Rehearsing a Dream
Two Hands
Best Animated Short Film
WINNER: The Danish Poet
Lifted
Maestro
No Time for Nuts
The Little Matchgirl
Best Live-Action Short Film
WINNER: West Bank Story
Binta y la gran idea
Helmer & Son
The Saviour
Éramos pocos