The 2007 Academy Awards

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Well, the 2007 Academy Awards have just wrapped in the last hour or so. Mad South African film buffs may have actually been watching the ceremony live on DSTV, which meant getting up at - or staying up until - 3am. More rational movie fans, put off by the trials of time difference, may be watching the delayed broadcast of the ceremony tonight at 8pm on MNET.

I've included this year's Oscar results below, but out of respect for those iron-willed individuals who will spend the whole day avoiding the winners' lists in the media, the results are in white.

All in all, with the exception of 'The Biggie', Best Picture, it was a pretty dull year with no real surprises, particularly if you've been following the award season build-up.



Best Picture: The Departed
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress: Helen Mirren
Best Editing: The Departed
Best Original Song - I Need to Wake Up, Inconvenient Truth
Best Original Screenplay - Little Miss Sunshine
Best Original Score- Babel
Documentary - An Inconvenient Truth
Documentary Short - The Blood of Yingzhou District
Best Supporting Actress - Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Foreign Language Film - The Lives of Others
Visuals Effects - Pirates
Best Cinematography: Pan's Labyrinth
Best Costume Design: Marie Antoinette
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Departed
Best Animated Feature: Happy Feet
Best Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
Sound Mixing: Dreamgirls
Sound Editing: Letters from Iwo Jima
Live Action Short: West Bank Story
Best Animated Short: The Danish Poet (first upset)
Makeup: Pan's Labyrinth
Art Direction: Pan's Labyrinth

Comments

Anonymous said…
Posting the spoiler in white! Brilliant idea.

Looks like a lot of fun at uShaka! Are the slides still as "extreme" as I remember the ones at Waterworld to be when I was 6 years old? Like the kamikaze? ;)
11:29 AM
Pfangirl said…
The 3 'adult' slides are pretty intense, and with lots of little kids elsewhere in the park, you hardly ever have to wait more than a minute to ride the big ones.

Everything else is pleasant and a lot of fun, but hardly extreme. It's family friendly stuff.
9:51 AM
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