79th Academy Awards
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The 79th Academy Award ceremony (also known as the Oscars), honoring the best in film for 2006, took place on February 25 2007 5:00 p.m. PT/8:00 p.m. ET at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on ABC. Ellen DeGeneres hosted the ceremony for the first time. The producer was Laura Ziskin. The announcers were Don LaFontaine and Gina Tuttle.
The nominees were announced on January 23 at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC) by Academy president Sid Ganis and actress Salma Hayek, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in the Academy's Beverly Hills headquarters. Bolstered by three nominations for Best Song, the musical Dreamgirls received eight nominations, becoming the first film ever to receive the most nominations in a particular Academy Awards ceremony without being nominated for Best Picture. Babel received the second highest number of nominations with seven.
The Departed was the evening's biggest winner taking home four awards including Best Picture, Best Director (Martin Scorsese), Best Adapted...
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