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Oscars 2007 Winners & Nominees

The 79th Academy Awards (2007) took place on February 25, 2007. The Departed won Best Picture and 3 more awards. Every winner and nominee in all 21 categories is below.

All 21 categories Most wins
categories
21
nominations
96
films nominated
43
winners
21
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Best Picture
The Departed
Headline winners

Oscars 2007: The Winners

The Departed won Best Picture against 4 other nominees. Martin Scorsese (Best Director), Forest Whitaker (Best Actor) and Helen Mirren (Best Actress) took the main individual prizes.

The Departed (2006) movie poster Best Picture

Best Picture

The Departed

2006 · Mystery, Thriller, Crime · $291M worldwide

4 wins from 5 nominations at the 79th Academy Awards (2007)

  • Best Director
  • Best Film Editing
  • Best Adapted Screenplay

A tense crime thriller set in South Boston, the story follows two men whose lives unexpectedly intersect. Colin Sullivan, an ambitious state trooper, rises through the ranks while secretly working for a dangerous Irish mob boss. Simultaneously, Billy Costigan infiltrates the same mob as an undercover cop. As both men navigate a perilous game of deception and corruption, they risk everything to expose the other's true identity, leading to a deadly confrontation.

About The Departed
Scoreboard

Oscars 2007: Which Films Won the Most

The Departed won 4 awards from 5 nominations. 13 films won at least once, while Blood Diamond went home empty-handed from 5 nominations. Green is wins, blue is nominations.

  1. The Departed (2006) movie poster
    The Departed 4 / 5
    2006 · Mystery, Thriller · 4 wins from 5 nominations
  2. Pan's Labyrinth (2006) movie poster
    Pan's Labyrinth 3 / 6
    2006 · Drama, Mystery · 3 wins from 6 nominations
  3. Dreamgirls (2006) movie poster
    Dreamgirls 2 / 6
    2006 · Drama, Musical · 2 wins from 6 nominations
  4. Little Miss Sunshine (2006) movie poster
    Little Miss Sunshine 2 / 4
    2006 · Adventure, Drama · 2 wins from 4 nominations
  5. An Inconvenient Truth (2006) movie poster
    An Inconvenient Truth 2 / 2
    2006 · Documentary · 2 wins from 2 nominations
  6. Babel (2006) movie poster
    Babel 1 / 7
    2006 · Drama · 1 win from 7 nominations
  7. The Queen (2006) movie poster
    The Queen 1 / 6
    2006 · Biography, Drama · 1 win from 6 nominations
  8. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) movie poster
    Letters from Iwo Jima 1 / 4
    2006 · Drama, History · 1 win from 4 nominations
  9. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) movie poster
    Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 1 / 4
    2006 · Action, Adventure · 1 win from 4 nominations
  10. The Last King of Scotland (2006) movie poster
    The Last King of Scotland 1 / 1
    2006 · Biography, Drama · 1 win from 1 nomination
Full results

All 21 Oscars 2007 Categories: Winners & Nominees

21 categories and 96 nominations. The winner of each comes first, on a green row. Search for a film or a person, show only the winners, or jump straight to a category.

21 categories · 96 nominations

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By genre

The Genres Behind the Oscars 2007 Winners

Drama led with 74 nominations across 30 films and won 13. A film with several genres counts for each one.

  1. Drama 13 wins · 74 nominations · 18%
  2. Thriller 9 wins · 28 nominations · 32%
  3. Adventure 4 wins · 23 nominations · 17%
  4. Mystery 7 wins · 20 nominations · 35%
  5. Action 1 win · 18 nominations · 6%
  6. Fantasy 4 wins · 13 nominations · 31%
  7. War 4 wins · 13 nominations · 31%
  8. History 3 wins · 11 nominations · 27%
  9. Comedy 3 wins · 11 nominations · 27%
  10. Crime 4 wins · 10 nominations · 40%
2007 season

How the Rest of the 2007 Awards Season Voted

The other 10 ceremonies of 2007, with the winner of each top prize. The Departed also won the top prize at 2 of them. Little Miss Sunshine took as many.

All 2007 awards
Earlier years

Previous Oscars Ceremonies

The 6 ceremonies before this one, with the winner of each top prize. The Oscars page has every year back to 1929.

Every Oscars ceremony

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Oscars 2007: Questions & Answers

The top prize, the film that won the most, the most-nominated film, the individual winners and the date of the 79th Academy Awards (2007), answered from the results on this page.

Who won Best Picture at the 79th Academy Awards (2007)?

The Departed (2006) won Best Picture. The other nominees were Babel, Letters from Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine and The Queen.

About The Departed

Which film won the most awards at the 79th Academy Awards (2007)?

The Departed (2006) won the most: 4 awards from 5 nominations. Pan's Labyrinth was next with 3 wins.

Which film had the most nominations at the 79th Academy Awards (2007)?

Babel (2006) led with 7 nominations and won one of them.

Who won the acting and directing awards at the 79th Academy Awards (2007)?

Best Director: Martin Scorsese for The Departed. Best Actor: Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland. Best Actress: Helen Mirren for The Queen. Best Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine. Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls.

When was the 79th Academy Awards (2007)?

The 79th Academy Awards (2007) took place on February 25, 2007. The database has 21 categories and 96 nominations for it.