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SPECIAL DISTINCTION AWARD
David Lynch and Laura Dern

BEST FEATURE
‘American Gun’
Producer: Ted Kroeber

‘The Dead Girl’
Producers: Tom Rosenberg, Henry Winterstern, Gary Lucchesi, Richard Wright, Eric Karten, Kevin Turen

‘Half Nelson’
Producers: Jamie Patricof, Alex Orlovsky, Lynette Howell, Anna Boden, Rosanne Korenberg

‘Little Miss Sunshine’
Producers: Marc Turtletaub, David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa

‘Pan’s Labyrinth’
Producers: Bertha Navarro, Alfonso Cuarón, Frida Torresblanco, Alvaro Augustin, Guillermo Del Toro

BEST DIRECTOR
Robert Altman
‘A Prairie Home Companion’

Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris
‘Little Miss Sunshine’

Ryan Fleck
‘Half Nelson’

Karen Moncrieff
‘The Dead Girl’

Steven Soderbergh
‘Bubble’

BEST FIRST FEATURE
‘Day Night Day Night’
Director: Julia Loktev
Producers: Julia Loktev, Melanie Judd, Jessica Levin

‘Man Push Cart’
Director: Ramin Bahrani
Producers: Ramin Bahrani, Pradip Ghosh, Bedford T. Bentley III

‘The Motel’
Director: Michael Kang
Producers: Matthew Greenfield, Miguel Arteta, Gina Kwon, Karin Chien

‘Sweet Land’
Director: Ali Selim Producers: Alan Cumming, James Bigham, Ali Selim

‘Wristcutters: A Love Story’
Director: Goran Dukic
Producers: Adam Sherman, Chris Coen, Tatiana Kelly, Mikal P. Lazarev

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD
‘Chalk’
Director: Mike Akel Producers: Mike Akel, Angela Alvarez, Graham Davidson, Chris Mass Writers: Chris Mass & Mike Akel

‘Four Eyed Monsters’
Writer/Director/Producers: Arin Crumley & Susan Buice

‘Old Joy’
Director: Kelly Reichardt Producers: Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy, Anish Savjani, Neil Kopp Writers: Jon Raymond & Kelly Reichardt

‘Quinceanera’
Writer/Directors: Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland Producer: Anne Clements

‘Twelve and Holding’
Director: Michael Cuesta Producers: Leslie Urdang, Michael Cuesta, Brian Bell, Jenny Schweitzer Writer: Anthony S. Cipriano

BEST SCREENPLAY
Neil Burger
‘The Illusionist’

Nicole Holofcener
‘Friends with Money’

Ron Nyswaner
‘The Painted Veil’

Jason Reitman
‘Thank You For Smoking’

Jeff Stanzler
‘Sorry, Haters’

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck
‘Half Nelson’

Goran Dukic
‘Wristcutters: A Love Story’

Dito Montiel
‘A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints’

Michael Arndt
‘Little Miss Sunshine’

Gabrielle Zevin
‘Conversations with Other Women’

BEST FEMALE LEAD
Shareeka Epps
‘Half Nelson’

Catherine O’Hara
‘For Your Consideration’

Elizabeth Reaser
‘Sweet Land’

Michelle Williams
‘Land of Plenty’

Robin Wright Penn
‘Sorry, Haters’

BEST MALE LEAD
Aaron Eckhart
‘Thank You For Smoking’

Ryan Gosling
‘Half Nelson’

Edward Norton
‘The Painted Veil’

Ahmad Razvi
‘Man Push Cart’

Forest Whitaker
‘American Gun’

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
Melonie Diaz
‘A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints’

Marcia Gay Harden
‘American Gun’

Mary Beth Hurt
‘The Dead Girl’

Frances McDormand
‘Friends with Money’

Amber Tamblyn
‘Stephanie Daley’

BEST SUPPORTING MALE
Alan Arkin
‘Little Miss Sunshine’

Raymond J. Barry
‘Steel City’

Daniel Craig
‘Infamous’

Paul Dano
‘Little Miss Sunshine’

Channing Tatum
‘A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints’

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Arin Crumley
‘Four Eyed Monsters’

Anthony Dod Mantle
‘Brothers of the Head’

Guillermo Navarro
‘Pan’s Labyrinth’

Aaron Platt
‘Wild Tigers I Have Known’

Michael Simmonds
‘Man Push Cart’

BEST DOCUMENTARY
‘A Lion in the House’
Directors: Steven Bognar & Julia Reichert

‘My Country, My Country’
Director: Laura Poitras

‘The Road to Guantanamo’
Directors: Michael Winterbottom & Mat Whitecross

‘The Trials of Darryl Hunt’
Directors: Annie Sundberg & Ricki Stern

‘You’re Gonna Miss Me’
Director: Keven McAlester

BEST FOREIGN FILM
’12:08 East of Bucharest’ (Romania)
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu

‘The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros’ (Philippines)
Director: Auraeus Solito

‘Chronicle of an Escape’ (Argentina)
Director: Israel Adrián Caetano

‘Days of Glory’ (France/Morocco/Algeria/Belgium)
Director: Rachid Bouchareb

‘The Lives of Others’ (Germany)
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

SPECIAL AWARDS – IFC/Acura Someone to Watch Award
So Yong Kim
director of ‘In Between Days’

Julia Loktev
director of ‘Day Night Day Night’

Richard Wong
director of ‘Colma: The Musical’

SPECIAL AWARDS – Axium Truer Than Fiction Award
Adele Horn
‘The Tailenders’

Eric Daniel Metzgar
‘The Chances of the World Changing’

AJ Schnack
‘Kurt Cobain About A Son’

SPECIAL AWARDS – Axium Producers Award
Julie Lynn
producer of ‘Nine Lives’ and ’10 Items or Less’

Alex Orlovsky and Jamie Patricof
producers of ‘Half Nelson’ and ‘Point & Shoot’

Howard Gertler and Tim Perell
producers of ‘Shortbus’ and ‘Pizza’

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List Of Nominees

Here is a complete list of the 79th Annual Academy Award nominations announced this morning at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, Calif.

BEST PICTURE

“Babel,” “The Departed,” “Letters From Iwo Jima,” “Little Miss Sunshine,” “The Queen.”

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.”

BEST ACTRESS

Penelope Cruz, “Volver”; Judi Dench, “Notes on a Scandal”; Helen Mirren, “The Queen”; Meryl Streep, “The Devil Wears Prada”; Kate Winslet, “Little Children.”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Alan Arkin, “Little Miss Sunshine”; Jackie Earle Haley, “Little Children”; Djimon Hounsou, “Blood Diamond”; Eddie Murphy, “Dreamgirls”; Mark Wahlberg, “The Departed.”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Adriana Barraza, “Babel”; Cate Blanchett, “Notes on a Scandal”; Abigail Breslin, “Little Miss Sunshine”; Jennifer Hudson, “Dreamgirls”; Rinko Kikuchi, “Babel.”

BEST DIRECTOR

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, “Babel”; Martin Scorsese, “The Departed”; Clint Eastwood, “Letters From Iwo Jima”; Stephen Frears, “The Queen”; Paul Greengrass, “United 93.”

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

“After the Wedding,” Denmark; “Days of Glory (Indigenes),” Algeria; “The Lives of Others,” Germany; “Pan’s Labyrinth,” Mexico; “Water,” Canada.

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham, Dan Mazer and Todd Phillips, “Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”; Alfonso Cuaron, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, “Children of Men”; William Monahan, “The Departed”; Todd Field and Tom Perrotta, “Little Children”; Patrick Marber, “Notes on a Scandal.”

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Guillermo Arriaga, “Babel”; Iris Yamashita and Paul Haggis, “Letters From Iwo Jima”; Michael Arndt, “Little Miss Sunshine”; Guillermo del Toro, “Pan’s Labyrinth”; Peter Morgan, “The Queen.”

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

“Cars,” “Happy Feet,” “Monster House.”

BEST ART DIRECTION

“Dreamgirls,” “The Good Shepherd,” “Pan’s Labyrinth,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest,” “The Prestige.”

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

“The Black Dahlia,” “Children of Men,” “The Illusionist,” “Pan’s Labyrinth,” “The Prestige.”

BEST SOUND MIXING

“Apocalypto,” “Blood Diamond,” “Dreamgirls,” “Flags of Our Fathers,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.”

BEST SOUND EDITING

“Apocalypto,” “Blood Diamond,” “Flags of Our Fathers,” “Letters From Iwo Jima,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.”

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

“Babel,” Gustavo Santaolalla; “The Good German,” Thomas Newman; “Notes on a Scandal,” Philip Glass; “Pan’s Labyrinth,” Javier Navarrete; “The Queen,” Alexandre Desplat.

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“I Need to Wake Up” from “An Inconvenient Truth,” Melissa Etheridge; “Listen” from “Dreamgirls,” Henry Krieger, Scott Cutler and Anne Preven; “Love You I Do” from “Dreamgirls,” Henry Krieger and Siedah Garrett; “Our Town” from “Cars,” Randy Newman; “Patience” from “Dreamgirls,” Henry Krieger and Willie Reale.

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

“Curse of the Golden Flower,” “The Devil Wears Prada,” “Dreamgirls,” “Marie Antoinette,” “The Queen.”

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

“Deliver Us From Evil,” “An Inconvenient Truth,” “Iraq in Fragments,” “Jesus Camp,” “My Country, My Country.”

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT

“The Blood of Yingzhou District,” “Recycled Life,” “Rehearsing a Dream,” “Two Hands.”

BEST FILM EDITING

“Babel,” “Blood Diamond,” “Children of Men,” “The Departed,” “United 93.”

BEST MAKEUP

“Apocalypto,” “Click,” “Pan’s Labyrinth.”

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM

“The Danish Poet,” “Lifted,” “The Little Matchgirl,” “Maestro,” “No Time for Nuts.”

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

“Binta and the Great Idea (Binta Y La Gran Idea),” “Eramos Pocos (One Too Many),” “Helmer & Son,” “The Saviour,” “West Bank Story.”

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest,” “Poseidon,” “Superman Returns.”

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Academy Award winners previously announced this year:

HONORARY AWARD

Ennio Morricone

JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD

Sherry Lansing

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