Here is the shortlist for the 79th Academy Awards, held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, with the winners listed in bold:

Best picture
Winner: Departed, The (2006)
Babel (2006)
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Queen, The (2006)

Best director
Winner: Martin Scorsese, Departed, The (2006)
Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Stephen Frears, Queen, The (2006)
Paul Greengrass, United 93 (2006)
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Babel (2006)

Best actor
Winner: Forest Whitaker, Last King of Scotland, The (2006)
Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond (2006)
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson (2006)
Peter O'Toole, Venus (2006)
Will Smith, Pursuit of Happyness, The (2006)

Best actress
Winner: Dame Helen Mirren, Queen, The (2006)
Penélope Cruz, Volver (2006)
Dame Judi Dench, Notes On A Scandal (2006)
Meryl Streep, Devil Wears Prada, The (2006)
Kate Winslet, Little Children (2006)

Best supporting actress
Winner: Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls (2006)
Adriana Barraza, Babel (2006)
Cate Blanchett, Notes On A Scandal (2006)
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Rinko Kikuchi, Babel (2006)

Best supporting actor
Winner: Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children (2006)
Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond (2006)
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls (2006)
Mark Wahlberg, Departed, The (2006)

Best foreign language film
Winner: Das Leben der Anderen (aka The Lives of Others), Germany
Efter Brylluppet (aka After the Wedding), Denmark
Indigenes (aka Days of Glory), Algeria
El Laberinto del Fauno (aka Pan's Labyrinth), Mexico
Water, Canada

Best animated feature film
Winner: Happy Feet (2006)
Cars (2006)
Monster House (2006)

Best adapted screenplay
Winner: Departed, The (2006)
Borat (2006)
Children of Men (2006)
Little Children (2006)
Notes On A Scandal (2006)

Best original screenplay
Winner: Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Babel (2006)
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Queen, The (2006)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

Best original score
Winner: Babel (2006)
Good German, The (2006)
Notes On A Scandal (2006)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Queen, The (2006)

Best original song
Winner: I Need to Wake Up - An Inconvenient Truth (performed by Melissa Etheridge)
Listen - Dreamgirls (performed by Beyonce Knowles)
Love You I Do - Dreamgirls (performed by Jennifer Hudson)
Our Town - Cars (performed by James Taylor)
Patience - Dreamgirls (performed by Eddie Murphy, Keith Robinson, Anika Noni Rose)

Best documentary feature
Winner: An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Deliver Us from Evil (2006)
Iraq in Fragments (2006)
Jesus Camp (2006)
My Country, My Country (2006)

Best documentary short subject
Winner: The Blood of Yingzhou District
Recycled Life
Rehearsing A Dream
Two Hands

Best visual effects
Winner: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Poseidon (2006)
Superman Returns (2006)

Best cinematography
Winner: Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Black Dahlia (2005)
Children of Men (2006)
illusionist, The (2006)
Prestige, The (2006)

Best art direction
Winner: Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Dreamgirls (2006)
Good Shepherd, The (2006)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Prestige, The (2006)

Best animated short film
Winner: The Danish Poet
Lifted
The Little Matchgirl
Maestro
No Time for Nuts

Best action short film
Winner: West Bank Story
Binta and the Great Idea
Eramos Pocos (One Too Many)
Helmer and Son
The Saviour

Best costume design
Winner: Marie-Antoinette (2006)
Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)
Devil Wears Prada, The (2006)
Dreamgirls (2006)
Queen, The (2006)

Best make-up
Winner: Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Apocalypto (2006)
Click (2006)

Best sound mixing
Winner: Dreamgirls (2006)
Apocalypto (2006)
Blood Diamond (2006)
Flags of our Fathers (2006)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)

Sound editing
Winner: Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Apocalypto (2006)
Blood Diamond (2006)
Flags of our Fathers (2006)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)

Best film editing
Winner: Departed, The (2006)
Babel (2006)
Blood Diamond (2006)
Children of Men (2006)
United 93 (2006)

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Sherry Lansing

Honorary Award
Ennio Morricone