Dreamgirls Leads Oscar Nods, Yet Snubbed for Best Pic
Nominations for the 79th Annual Academy Awards were announced on Tuesday morning by Salma Hayek - presumably because of the abundance of Latino names that she so
deliciously enunciated - and
Dreamgirls bested the rest with eight total nods, yet was conspicuously left out of the best-picture race.
Babel followed with seven noms. Here's a look at the major contests:
Best Picture
Babel,
The Departed,
Letters from Iwo Jima,
Little Miss Sunshine,
The Queen
Lead Actress
Penélope Cruz (
Volver), Judi Dench (
Notes on a Scandal), Helen Mirren (
The Queen), Meryl Streep (
The Devil Wears Prada), Kate Winslet (
Little Children)
Lead 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)
Supporting Actress
Adriana Barraza (
Babel), Cate Blanchett (
Notes on a Scandal), Abigail Breslin (
Little Miss Sunshine), Jennifer Hudson (
Dreamgirls), Rinko Kikuchi (
Babel)
Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin (
Little Miss Sunshine), Jackie Earle Haley (
Little Children), Djimon Hounsou (
Blood Diamond), Eddie Murphy (
Dreamgirls), Mark Wahlberg (
The Departed)
Animated Film
Cars,
Happy Feet (gee, that wasn't a documentary?),
Monster House
Documentary
Deliver Us from Evil,
An Inconvenient Truth,
Iraq in Fragments,
Jesus Camp,
My Country, My Country
Foreign-language Film
After the Wedding,
Days of Glory,
The Lives of Others,
Pan's Labyrinth,
Water
Director
Alejandro González Iñárritu (
Babel), Martin Scorsese (
The Departed), Clint Eastwood (
Letters from Iwo Jima), Stephen Frears (
The Queen), Paul Greengrass (
United 93)
Original Screenplay
Babel,
Letters from Iwo Jima,
Little Miss Sunshine,
Pan's Labyrinth,
The Queen
Adapted Screenplay
Borat,
Children of Men,
The Departed,
Little Children,
Notes on a Scandal
Having typed up all that, how about a film titled "Little Miss Sunshine's Children of Men"?
