Nominations for the 79th Annual Academy Awards

(11-year-old “Little Miss Sunshine” star Abigail Breslin nominated for Best Supporting Actress)

Major Categories

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 González Iñárritu, Babel
* Martin Scorsese, The Departed
* Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima
* Stephen Frears, The Queen
* Paul Greengrass, United 93

Best Original Screenplay:

* Babel
* Letters from Iwo Jima
* Little Miss Sunshine
* Pan’s Labyrinth
* The Queen

Best Adapted Screenplay:

* Borat
* Children of Men
* The Departed
* Little Children
* Notes on a Scandal

Foreign Language Film:

* After the Wedding
* Days of Glory
* The Lives of Others
* Pan’s Labyrinth
* Water

Animated Feature:

* Cars
* Happy Feet
* Monster House

Music (Score):

* Babel
* The Good German
* Notes on a Scandal
* Pan’s Labyrinth
* The Queen

Music (Song):

* “I Need to Wake Up” – An Inconvenient Truth
* “Listen” – Dreamgirls
* “Love You I Do” – Dreamgirls
* “Our Town” – Cars
* “Patience” – Dreamgirls