And the nominees are ...
Posted: 24 January 2007 1215 hrs

	Oscar statuettes are displayed at Times Square Studios

The much awaited list has been revealed.

Penelope Cruz and Kate Winslet stand among three veteran actresses in the fight for the Best Actress Oscar.

Golden Globe winner Forest Whitaker received and Oscar nod for his role in "The Last King of Scotland", the role which won him the Golden Globe recently.


Here's the list of nominees in the major categories for the 79th Annual Academy Awards.

Best Picture

• "Babel"
• "Letters from Iwo Jima"
• "Little Miss Sunshine"
• "The Departed"
• "The Queen"

Leonardo DiCaprio for "Blood Diamond"	Ryan Gosling for "Half Nelson"	Peter O'Toole for "Venus"	Will Smith for "The Pursuit of Happyness"	Forest Whitaker for "The Last King of Scotland"

Penelope Cruz for "Volver"	Judi Dench for "Notes on a Scandal"	Helen Mirren for "The Queen"	Meryl Streep for "The Devil Wears Prada"	Kate Winslet for "Little Children"

• Alan Arkin for "Little Miss Sunshine"
• Jackie Earle Haley for "Little Children"
• Djimon Hounsou for "Blood Diamond"
• Eddie Murphy for "Dreamgirls"
• Mark Wahlberg for "The Departed"

• Adriana Barraza for "Babel"
• Cate Blanchett for "Notes On A Scandal"
• Abigail Breslin for "Little Miss Sunshine"
• Jennifer Hudson for "Dreamgirls"
• Rinko Kikuchi for "Babel"

• Clint Eastwood for "Letters from Iwo Jima"
• Stephen Frears for "The Queen"
• Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for "Babel"
• Paul Greengrass for "United 93"
• Martin Scorsese for "The Departed"

• "After the Wedding" (Denmark)
• "Days of Glory" (Algeria)
• "Pan's Labyrinth" (Mexico)
• "The Lives of Others" (Germany)
• "Water" (Canada)

• "Cars"
• "Happy Feet"
• "Monster House"

• "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" (Sacha Baron Cohen/Anthony Hines/Peter Baynham/Dan Mazer)
• "Children of Men" (Alfonso Cuaron/Timothy Sexton/David Arata/Mark Fergus/Hawk Ostby)
• "The Departed" (William Monahan)
• "Little Children" (Todd Field/Tom Perrotta)
• "Notes on a Scandal" (Patrick Marber)

• "Babel" (Guillermo Arriaga)
• "Letters from Iwo Jima" (Iris Yamashita/Paul Haggis)
• "Little Miss Sunshine" (Michael Arndt)
• "Pan's Labyrinth" (Guillermo Del Toro)
• "The Queen" (Peter Morgan)

• "An Inconvenient Truth"
• "Deliver Us from Evil"