Filmele "Babel", "The Departed", "Letters from Iwo Jima", "Little Miss Sunshine" si "The Queen" concureaza la Oscarul pentru cel mai bun film, potrivit site-ului LATimes.com.

Filmul "Dreamgirls" produs de Bill Condon a fost selectionat la opt categorii pentru Oscar 2007, dar a fost omis de la categoria cel mai bun film.

Premiile vor fi decernate pe 25 februarie, la Kodak Theatre din Los Angeles, a anuntat marti Academia Americana de Film.

"Babel" este regizat de Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu, "The Departed" - de Martin Scorsese, "Letters from Iwo Jima" - de Clint Eastwood, "Little Miss Sunshine" - de Jonathan Dayton si Valerie Faris, iar "The Queen" - de Stephen Frears.

Filmul "Indigenes" realizat de Rachid Bouchared a fost selectionat pentru Oscar-ul la categoria cel mai bun film strain.

Lista nominalizarilor la cele mai importate categorii:

Cel mai bun film al anului

Babel

The Departed

The Queen

Letters From Iwo Jima

Little Miss Sunshine

Cea mai buna actrita in rol principal

Meryl Streep, "The Devil Wears Prada"

Helen Mirren, "The Queen "

Penelope Cruz, "Volver"

Kate Winslet, "Little Children"

Judi Dench, "Notes on a Scandal"

Cel mai bun actor in rol principal

Leonardo DiCaprio, "Blood Diamond"

Forest Whitaker, "The Last King of Scotland"

Will Smith, "The Pursuit of Happyness"

Peter O'Toole, "Venus"

Ryan Gosling, "Half Nelson"

Cea mai buna actrita in rol secundar

Adriana Barraza, "Babel"

Cate Blanchett, "Notes on a Scandal"

Abigail Breslin, "Little Miss Sunshine"

Jennifer Hudson, "Dreamgirls"

Rinko Kikuchi, "Babel"

Cel mai bun actor in rol secundar

Alan Arkin, "Little Miss Sunshine"

Eddie Murphy, "Dreamgirls"

Mark Wahlberg, "The Departed"

Djimon Hounsou, "Blood Diamond"

Jackie Earle Haley, "Little Children"

Cel mai bun regizor

Clint Eastwood, "Letters From Iwo Jima"

Paul Greengrass, "United 93"

Martin Scorsese, "The Departed"

Stephen Frears, "The Queen"

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, "Babel"

Cel mai bun scenariu original

Guillermo Arriaga, "Babel"

Michael Arndt, "Little Miss Sunshine"

Iris Yamashita & Paul Haggis, "Letters From Iwo Jima"

Guillermo del Toro, "Pan's Labyrinth"

Peter Morgan, "The Queen"

Cel mai bun scenariu adaptat

Patrick Marber , "Notes on a Scandal"

William Monahan, "The Departed"

Sacha Baron Cohen, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan"

Todd Field & Tom Perrotta, "Little Children"

Alfonso Cuarn, "Children of Men"

Cel mai bun lungmetraj animat

Cars

Happy Feet

Monster House

Cel mai bun scurtmetraj animat

The Danish Poet, Torill Kove

Lifted, Gary Rydstrom

The Little Matchgirl, Roger Allers and Don Hahn

Maestro, Geza M. Toth

No Time for Nuts Chris Renaud and Michael Thurmeier

Cel mai bun documentar

Deliver Us from Evil, Amy Berg and Frank Donner

An Inconvenient Truth, Davis Guggenheim

Iraq in Fragments, James Longley and John Sinno

Jesus Camp, Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady

My Country, My Country, Laura Poitras and Jocelyn Glatzer

Cea mai buna imagine

Vilmos Zsigmond, The Black Dahlia

Emmanuel Lubezki , Children of Men

Dick Pope , The Illusionist

Guillermo Navarro, Pan's Labyrinth

Wally Pfister, The Prestige

Cel mai bun film strain

After the Wedding

Days of Glory (Indigenes)

The Lives Of Others

Pan's Labyrinth

Water

Cel mai bun scurt metraj

The Blood of Yingzhou District, Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon

Recycled Life, Leslie Iwerks and Mike Glad

Rehearsing a Dream, Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon

Two Hands, Nathaniel Kahn and Susan Rose Behr

Cele mai bune efecte vizuale

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

Poseidon Boyd Shermis, Kim Libreri, Chaz Jarrett and John Frazier

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

Cea mai buna coloana sonora

Babel, Gustavo Santaolalla

The Good German, Thomas Newman

Notes on a Scandal, Philip Glass

Pan's Labyrinth, Javier Navarrete

The Queen, Alexandre Desplat

Cea mai buna tema muzicala

I Need to Wake Up din An Inconvenient Truth, muzica si text de Melissa Etheridge

Listen din Dreamgirls, Muzica de Henry Krieger si Scott Cutler; versuri de Anne Preven

Love You I Do din Dreamgirls, Muzica de Henry Krieger; versuri de Siedah Garrett

Our Town from Cars, Muzica si versuri de Randy Newman

Cel mai bun mixaj de sunet

Apocalypto, Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Fernando Camara

Blood Diamond, Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Ivan Sharrock

Dreamgirls, Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer and Willie Burton

Cel mai bun machiaj

Apocalypto, Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano

Click, Kazuhiro Tsuji and Bill Corso

Pan's Labyrinth, David Marti and Montse Ribe