The 2006 Academy Awards will be presented February 25, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre.
| Best Picture | Babel |
| The Departed |
| Letters from Iwo Jima |
| Little Miss Sunshine |
| The Queen |
| Best Animated Picture | Cars |
| Happy Feet |
| Monster House |
| Actor in a Leading Role | 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 |
| Actress in a Leading Role | Penélope Cruz, Volver |
| Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal |
| Helen Mirren, The Queen |
| Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada |
| Kate Winslet, Little Children |
| 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 Supporting Role | Adriana Barraza, Babel |
| Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal |
| Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine |
| Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls |
| Rinko Kikuchi, Babel |
| Directing | Alejandro González Iñárritu˙, Babel |
| Martin Scorcese, The Departed |
| Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima |
| Stephen Frears, The Queen |
| Paul Greengrass, United 93 |
| Writing | | Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | Guillermo Arriaga, Babel | | Iris Yamashita and Paul Haggis, Letters from Iwo Jima | | Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine | | Guillermo del Toro, Pan’s Labyrinth | | Peter Morgan, The Queen | | Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published | Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham, and Dan Mazer Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan | | Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus, and Hawk Ostby Children of Men | | William Monahan, The Departed | | Todd Field and Tom Perrotta Little Children | | Patrick Marber, Notes on a Scandal |
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| Cinematography | Vilmos Zsigmond, The Black Dahlia |
| Emmanuel Lubezki, Children of Men |
| Dick Pope, The Illusionist |
| Guillermo Navarro Pan’s Labyrinth |
| Wally Pfister, The Prestige |
| Art Direction | Dreamgirls, John Myhre, art decoration; Nancy Haigh, set decoration |
| The Good ShepherdJeannine Oppewallart direction; Gretchen Rau and Leslie E. Rollins, set decoration |
| Pan’s Labyrinth, Eugenio Caballero, art direction; Pilar Revuelta, set decoration |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Rick Heinrichs, art direction; Cheryl Carasik, set decoration |
| The Prestige, Nathan Crowley, art direction; Julie Ochipinti, set decoration |
| Sound | | Editing | Sean McCormack and Kami Asgar, Apocalypto | | Lon Bender, Blood Diamond | | Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman, Flags of Our Fathers | | Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman, Letters from Iwo Jima | | Christopher Boyes and George Watters II, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest | | Mixing | Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell, and Fernando Camara, Apocalypto | | Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, and Ivan Sharrock, Blood Diamond | | Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer, and Willie Burton, Dreamgirls | | John Reitz, Dave Campbell, Gregg Rudloff, and Walt Martin, Flags of Our Fathers | | Paul Massey, Christopher Boyes, and Lee Orloff Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest |
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| Music | | Song | “I Need to Wake Up,” An Inconvenient Truth | | “Listen”, Dreamgirls | | “Love You I Do”, Dreamgirls | | “Our Town”, Cars | | “Patience”, Dreamgirls | | Original Score | Gustavo Santaolalla, Babel | | Thomas Newman, The Good German | | Philip Glass. Notes on a Scandal | | Javier Navarrete, Pan’s Labyrinth | | Alexandre Desplat, The Queen |
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| Film Editing | Stephen Mirrione and Douglas Crise, Babel |
| Steven Rosenblum, Blood Diamond |
| Alex Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuaron, Children of Men |
| Thelma Schoonmaker, The Departed |
| Clare Douglas, Christopher Rouse, and Richard Pearson, United 93 |
| Costume Design | Yee Chung Man, Curse of the Golden Flower |
| Patricia Field, The Devil Wears Prada |
| Sharen Davis, Dreamgirls |
| Milena Canonero, Marie Antoinette |
| Consolata Boyle, The Queen |
| Makeup | Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano, Apocalypto |
| Kazuhiro Tsuji and Bill Corso, Click |
| David Marti and Montse Ribe, “Pan’s Labyrinth |
| Visual Effects | John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson, and Allen Hall, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest |
| Boyd Shermis, Kim Libreri, Chas Jarrett, and John Frazier, Poseidon |
| Mark Stetson, Neil Corbould, Richard R. Hoover, and Jon Thum, Superman Returns |
| Short Films | | Animation | The Danish Poet (Torill Kove) | | Lifted (Gary Rydstrom) | | The Little Matchgirl (Roger Allers and Don Hahn) | | Maestro (Geza M. Toth) | | No Time for Nuts (Chris Renaud and Michael Thurmeier) | | Live Action | Binta and the Great Idea (Binta Y La Gran Idea) (Javier Fesser and Luis Manso) | | Éramos Pocos (One Too Many) (Borja Cobeaga) | | Helmer & Son (Soren Pilmark and Kim Magnusson) | | The Saviour (Peter Templeman and Stuart Parkyn) | | West Bank Story (Ari Sandel) |
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| Documentary | | Short Subject | The Blood of Yingzhou District (Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon) | | Recycled Life (Leslie Iwerks and Mike Glad) | | Rehearsing a Dream (Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon) | | Two Hands (Nathaniel Kahn and Susan Rose Behr) | | Feature | Deliver Us from Evil (Amy Berg and Frank Donner) | | An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim) | | Iraq in Fragments (James Longley and John Sinno) | | Jesus Camp (Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady) | | My Country, My Country (Laura Poitras and Jocelyn Glatzer) |
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| Foreign Language Film | After the Wedding, Denmark |
| Days of Glory (Indigènes), Algeria |
| The Lives of Others, Germany |
| Pan’s Labyrinth, Mexico |
| Water, Canada |
