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'Dreamgirls' gets 8 Oscar nominations |
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Written by asap
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Tuesday, 23 January 2007 |
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This promotional photo provided by DreamWorks, shows actor Eddie Murphy in a scene from "Dreamgirls".
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It could be a golden Academy Awards night for "Dreamgirls," but the musical won't take home the top prize.
"Dreamgirls" earned eight Oscar nominations on Tuesday morning, but was shut out of the best picture category. Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett's "Babel" wasn't far behind with seven nominations and a nod in the top category.
And the nominees are:
BEST PICTURE
"Babel," "The Departed," "Letters From Iwo Jima," "Little Miss Sunshine," "The Queen"
BEST ACTRESS
Penelope Cruz, "Volver"; Judi Dench, "Notes on a Scandal"; Helen Mirren, "The Queen"; Meryl Streep, "The Devil Wears Prada"; Kate Winslet, "Little Children"
BEST ACTOR
Leonardo DiCaprio, "Blood Diamond"; Ryan Gosling, "Half Nelson"; Peter O'Toole, "Venus"; Will Smith, "The Pursuit of Happyness"; Forest Whitaker, "The Last King of Scotland"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Adriana Barraza, "Babel"; Cate Blanchett, "Notes on a Scandal"; Abigail Breslin, "Little Miss Sunshine"; Jennifer Hudson, "Dreamgirls"; Rinko Kikuchi, "Babel"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alan Arkin, "Little Miss Sunshine"; Jackie Earle Haley, "Little Children"; Djimon Hounsou, "Blood Diamond"; Eddie Murphy, "Dreamgirls"; Mark Wahlberg, "The Departed"
BEST DIRECTOR
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, "Babel"; Martin Scorsese, "The Departed"; Clint Eastwood, "Letters From Iwo Jima"; Stephen Frears, "The Queen"; Paul Greengrass, "United 93."
WORTH NOTING
• Front-runners in the acting categories • Mirren, Whitaker, Hudson and Murphy • all won at the Golden Globes.
• Streep gets her 14th Oscar nomination
• If O'Toole loses it would put him in the recordbooks for the most — at eight — losses.
• If Scorsese doesn't win for best director he would be the losingest director ever with six losses.
• Ten-year-old Abigail Breslin is the fourth-youngest actress ever nominated.
• The 2007 Oscars get the award for most ethnically diverse with five black, two Hispanic and one Asian nominee.
• Three of "Dreamgirls" eight nomiantions were in the original song category.
WHO DIDN'T GET NOMINATED?
• Sacha Baron Cohen for "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan"
• Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette and Steve Carell for "Little Miss Sunshine"
• "Volver" from Spanish director Pedro Almodovar for best foreign-language picture
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