The Briefing Room

Digital Content Producer’s and Millimeter’s coverage of past and present award nominees/winners

Nominations for the 79th Annual Academy Awards were announced by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis and past Oscar nominee Salma Hayek.

Ganis and Hayek, who was nominated for an Academy Award in 2002 for her lead performance in “Frida”, announced the nominations in 10 of the 24 categories at a 5:30 a.m. live news conference at the Academy‘s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Nominations in all categories then were distributed to the over 400 international media representatives in attendance and via the Internet on the official Academy Awards website.

Academy members from the various branches selected the nominees in their corresponding award categories, with the exception of the Animated Feature and Foreign Language Film categories, in which nominations were determined by vote of screening committees composed of members from several branches. All voting members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees. Ballots were mailed to 5,830 voting members in late December and were returned directly to PricewaterhouseCoopers, the international accounting firm, for tabulation.

Official screenings for members of all pictures receiving nominations will begin this weekend at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Screenings in some categories also will be held in Hollywood, at the Academy‘s Linwood Dunn Theater, as well as in London, New York and San Francisco.

The Academy‘s entire active and life membership is eligible to select the winners in all categories, although in five of them - the Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, and Foreign Language Film categories - members can vote only after attesting that they have seen all of the nominated films in the category.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2006 will be presented on Sunday, February 25, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, and televised live by the ABC Television Network at 5 p.m. PST (8 p.m. EST), beginning with a half-hour arrivals segment, “The Road to the Oscars.”

For the complete list of nominations for the 79th Annual Academy Awards, visit www.oscar.com .

Nominations for the 79th Academy Awards:

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM OF THE YEAR

“Cars” (Buena Vista) John Lasseter

“Happy Feet” (Warner Bros.) George Miller

“Monster House” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Gil Kenan

ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY

“The Black Dahlia” (Universal) Vilmos Zsigmond

“Children of Men” (Universal) Emmanuel Lubezki

“The Illusionist” (Yari Film Group) Dick Pope

“Pan‘s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) Guillermo Navarro

“The Prestige” (Buena Vista) Wally Pfister

ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING

“Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Alejandro González Iñárritu

“The Departed” (Warner Bros.) Martin Scorsese

“Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.) Clint Eastwood

“The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Stephen Frears

“United 93” (Universal and StudioCanal) Paul Greengrass

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

“Deliver Us from Evil” (Lionsgate)

A Disarming Films Production

Amy Berg and Frank Donner

“An Inconvenient Truth” (Paramount Classics and Participant Productions) A Lawrence Bender/Laurie David Production

Davis Guggenheim

“Iraq in Fragments” (Typecast Releasing)

A Typecast Pictures/Daylight Factory Production

James Longley and John Sinno

“Jesus Camp” (Magnolia Pictures)

A Loki Films Production

Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady

“My Country, My Country” (Zeitgeist Films)

A Praxis Films Production

Laura Poitras and Jocelyn Glatzer

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT

“The Blood of Yingzhou District”

A Thomas Lennon Films Production

Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon

“Recycled Life”

An Iwerks/Glad Production

Leslie Iwerks and Mike Glad

“Rehearsing a Dream”

A Simon & Goodman Picture Company Production

Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon

“Two Hands”

A Crazy Boat Pictures Production

Nathaniel Kahn and Susan Rose Behr

ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITING

“Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)

Stephen Mirrione and Douglas Crise

“Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.)

Steven Rosenblum

“Children of Men” (Universal)

Alex Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón

“The Departed” (Warner Bros.)

Thelma Schoonmaker

“United 93” (Universal and StudioCanal)

Clare Douglas, Christopher Rouse and Richard Pearson

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR

“After the Wedding” A Zentropa Entertainments 16 Production

Denmark

“Days of Glory (Indigènes)” A Tessalit Production

Algeria

“The Lives of Others” A Wiedemann & Berg Production

Germany

“Pan‘s Labyrinth” A Tequila Gang/Esperanto Filmoj/Estudios Picasso Production

Mexico

“Water” A Hamilton-Mehta Production

Canada

BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR

“Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)

An Anonymous Content/Zeta Film/Central Films Production

Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik and Steve Golin, Producers

“The Departed” (Warner Bros.)

A Warner Bros. Pictures Production

Nominees to be determined

“Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.)

A DreamWorks Pictures/Warner Bros. Pictures Production

Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg and Robert Lorenz, Producers

“Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight)

A Big Beach/Bona Fide Production

Nominees to be determined

“The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada)

A Granada Production

Andy Harries, Christine Langan and Tracey Seaward, Producers

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM

“The Danish Poet” (National Film Board of Canada)

A Mikrofilm and National Film Board of Canada Production

Torill Kove

“Lifted” (Buena Vista)

A Pixar Animation Studios Production

Gary Rydstrom

“The Little Matchgirl” (Buena Vista)

A Walt Disney Pictures Production

Roger Allers and Don Hahn

“Maestro” (Szimplafilm)

A Kedd Production

Geza M. Toth

“No Time for Nuts” (20th Century Fox)

A Blue Sky Studios Production

Chris Renaud and Michael Thurmeier

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

“Binta and the Great Idea (Binta Y La Gran Idea)”

A Peliculas Pendelton and Tus Ojos Production

Javier Fesser and Luis Manso

“Éramos Pocos (One Too Many)” (Kimuak)

An Altube Filmeak Production

Borja Cobeaga

“Helmer & Son”

A Nordisk Film Production

Soren Pilmark and Kim Magnusson

“The Saviour” (Australian Film Television and Radio School)

An Australian Film Television and Radio School Production

Peter Templeman and Stuart Parkyn

“West Bank Story”

An Ari Sandel, Pascal Vaguelsy, Amy Kim, Ravi Malhotra and Ashley Jordan Production

Ari Sandel

ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING

“Apocalypto” (Buena Vista)

Sean McCormack and Kami Asgar

“Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.)

Lon Bender

“Flags of Our Fathers” (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by Paramount)

Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman

“Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.)

Alan Robert Murray

“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man‘s Chest” (Buena Vista)

Christopher Boyes and George Watters II

ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING

“Apocalypto” (Buena Vista)

Kevin O‘Connell, Greg P. Russell and Fernando Camara

“Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.)

Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Ivan Sharrock

“Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount)

Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer and Willie Burton

“Flags of Our Fathers” (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by Paramount)

John Reitz, Dave Campbell, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin

“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man‘s Chest” (Buena Vista)

Paul Massey, Christopher Boyes and Lee Orloff

ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS

“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man‘s Chest” (Buena Vista)

John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall

“Poseidon” (Warner Bros.)

Boyd Shermis, Kim Libreri, Chaz Jarrett and John Frazier

“Superman Returns” (Warner Bros.)

Mark Stetson, Neil Corbould, Richard R. Hoover and Jon Thum