79th Academy Awards

79th Academy Awards
Official poster
DateFebruary 25, 2007
SiteKodak Theatre
Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Hosted byEllen DeGeneres[1]
Preshow hostsChris Connelly
Lisa Ling[2]
André Leon Talley[3]
Allyson Waterman[4]
Produced byLaura Ziskin[5]
Directed byLouis J. Horvitz[6]
Highlights
Best PictureThe Departed
Most awardsThe Departed (4)
Most nominationsDreamgirls (8)
TV in the United States
NetworkABC
Duration3 hours, 51 minutes[7]
Ratings39.92 million
23.59% (Nielsen ratings)[8]

The 79th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2006 and took place February 25, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Laura Ziskin and directed by Louis J. Horvitz. Actress Ellen DeGeneres hosted for the first time.[9] Two weeks earlier in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California held on February 10, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Maggie Gyllenhaal.[10]

The Departed won four awards, including Best Picture.[11][12] Other winners included Pan's Labyrinth with three awards, Dreamgirls, An Inconvenient Truth, and Little Miss Sunshine with two, and Babel, The Blood of Yingzhou District, The Danish Poet, Happy Feet, The Last King of Scotland, Letters from Iwo Jima, The Lives of Others, Marie Antoinette, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, The Queen, and West Bank Story with one. The telecast garnered nearly 40 million viewers in the United States.

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