Oscars Winners 2007

Best Art Direction: Pan's Labyrinth. Art Direction: Eugenio Caballero; Set Decoration: Pilar Revuelta

Best Makeup: Pan's Labyrinth. David Marti and Montse Ribe.

Best Animated Short Film: The Danish Poet. Torill Kove. ("First I have to apologize to Tom Hanks because I did bring a list just in case," Kove says. That's because Tom Hanks gives a pep talk every year about how to shorten acceptance speeches...)

Best Live Action Short Film: West Bank Story. Ari Sandel. Pic was about two competing falafel stands as a way of explaining the Mideast conflict. Says Sandel: "Hope is not helpless."

Best Sound Editing: Letters From Iwo Jima. Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman

Best Sound Mixing: Dreamgirls. Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer and Willie Burton.

Finally... the first third of the show has gone by, and finally there's the Supporting Actor  award being presented.

Best Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin. Little Miss Sunshine.

Best Animated Film: Happy Feet.

Best Adapted Screenplay: William Monahan, The Departed.

"Valium does work," says Monahan.

Best Costume Design: Marie Antoinette. Milena Canonero.

Is it me or does it seem that everyone winning an Oscar tonight foreign?

Best Cinematography: Guillermo Navarro. Pan's Labyrinth.

Best Visual Effects: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall.

Best Foreign Language Film: Lives of Others (Germany). 

Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson. Dreamgirls.

Hudson is breathless. "My grandmother was the biggest inspiration for everything," she says. God is thanked multiple times.

Best Documentary Short Subject: The Blood of Yingzhou District. Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon.

Best Documentary Feature: An Inconvenient Truth. Davis Guggenheim.

Gore heading to stage with Guggenheim. "We were moved to act by this man," says Guggenheim clutching Al's sleeve. Gore eagerly goes to the micriphone: "My fellow Americans ... [laughter], people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis. It's not a political issue, it's a moral issue."

Best Original Score: Gustavo Santaolalla. Babel. 

Best Original Screenplay: Michael Arndt. Little Miss Sunshine. 

Best Original Song: "I Need to Wake Up" from An Inconvenient Truth. Music and lyric by Melissa Etheridge.

Best Film Editing: Thelma Schoonmaker. The Departed. 

Best Actress: Helen Mirren. The Queen.

Best Actor: Forest Whitaker. The Last King of Scotland.

Best Director: Martin Scorsese. The Departed.

"Could you double-check the envelope, please?" Marty asks.

 

Best Picture: The Departed. 

It's over. Running time: 3 hours, 47 minutes. But if you count in that pre-show, which was supposed to be part of the real show, then it ran 4 hours, 17 minutes. Not a record (4 hours, 23 minutes), but too damn close.