Academy Awards
79th edition
- February 25, 2007
- United States
United StatesThe 79th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2006 and took place February 25, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Laura Ziskin and directed by Louis J. Horvitz. Actress Ellen DeGeneres hosted for the first time. Two weeks earlier in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California held on February 10, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Awards
Most Awarded
2 or more wins- The Departed 4
- Pan's Labyrinth 3
- An Inconvenient Truth 2
- Dreamgirls 2
- Little Miss Sunshine 2
Most Nominated
3 or more nominations- Dreamgirls 8
- Babel 7
- Pan's Labyrinth 6
- The Queen 6
- Blood Diamond 5
- The Departed 5
- Letters from Iwo Jima 4
- Little Miss Sunshine 4
- Notes on a Scandal 4
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 4
- Apocalypto 3
- Children of Men 3
- Little Children 3
Most Unluckiest
wins / nominations- Dreamgirls 2 / 8
- Babel 1 / 7
- The Queen 1 / 6
- Blood Diamond 0 / 5
- Notes on a Scandal 0 / 4
- Pan's Labyrinth 3 / 6
- Letters from Iwo Jima 1 / 4
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 1 / 4
- Apocalypto 0 / 3
- Children of Men 0 / 3
- Little Children 0 / 3
- Little Miss Sunshine 2 / 4
Only one nomination
- After the Wedding
- Binta and the Great Idea
- The Black Dahlia
- The Blood of Yingzhou District
- Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
- Click
- Curse of the Golden Flower
- The Danish Poet
- Days of Glory
- Deliver Us from Evil
- The Good German
- The Good Shepherd
- Half Nelson
- Happy Feet
- Helmer & Son
- The Illusionist
- Iraq in Fragments
- Jesus Camp
- The Last King of Scotland
- Lifted
- The Little Matchgirl
- The Lives of Others
- Maestro
- Marie Antoinette
- Monster House
- My Country, My Country
- No Time for Nuts
- One Too Many
- Poseidon
- The Pursuit of Happyness
- Recycled Life
- Rehearsing a Dream
- The Saviour
- Superman Returns
- Two Hands: The Leon Fleisher Story
- Venus
- Volver
- Water
- West Bank Story
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