Academy Awards Nominations

The Nominations for the 79th Academy Awards - The Oscars -have been announced.

Dreamgirls leads the way with eight nominations followed closely by Babel with seven and the British hope The Queen with six, including a Best Actress nomination for Helen Mirren. Here is the full list:

ACTOR in a LEADING ROLE

Leonardo Dicaprio - Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson
Peter O'Toole - Venus
Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whittaker - The Last King of Scotland

ACTOR in a SUPPORTING ROLE

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

ACTRESS in a LEADING ROLE

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

ACTRESS in a SUPPORTING ROLE

Adriana Barraza - Babel
Cate Blanchett - Notes On a Scandal
Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine
Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi - Babel

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House

ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION

Dreamgirls
The Good Shepherd
Pan's Labyrinth
Pirate's of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The Prestige

ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Black Dahlia
Children Of Men
The Illusionist
Pan's Labyrinth
The Prestige

ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN

Curese of the Golden Flower
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
Marie Antoinette
The Queen

ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING

Babel - Alejandro González Iñárritu
The Departed - Martin Scorsese
Letters From Iwo Jima - Clint Eastwood
The Queen - Stephen Frears
United 93 - Paul Greengrass

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Deliver Us From Evil
An Inconvenient Truth
Iraq in Fragments
Jesus Camp
My Country, My Country

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT

The Blood of Yingzhou District
Recycled Life
Rehearsing A Dream
Two Hands

ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITING

Babel
Blood Diamond
Children of Men
The Departed
United 93

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR

After The Wedding
Days of Glory
The Lives of Others
Pan's Labyrinth
Water

ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKE UP

Apocalypto
Click
Pan's Labyrinth

ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC - ORIGINAL SCORE

Babel
The Good German
Notes On a Scandal
Pan's Labyrinth
The Queen

ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC - ORIGINAL SONG

An Inconvenient Truth
Dreamgirls
Dreamgirls
Cars
Dreamgirls

BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR

Babel
The Departed
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM

The Danish Poet
Lifted
The Little Match Girl
Maestro
No Time For Nuts

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

Binta and the Great Idea
One Too Many
Helmer & Son
The Saviour
West Bank Story

ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING

Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Flags of Our Fathers
Letters From Iwo Jima
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING

Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Dreamgirls
Flags of Our Fathers
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Poseidon
Superman Returns

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Borat
Children of Men
The Departed
Little Children
Notes On a Scandal

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Babel
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
Pan's Labyrinth
The Queen