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British actresses Dame Helen Mirren, Kate Winslet and Dame Judi Dench will go head to head for the best actress Oscar at this year's Academy Awards.British actresses Dame Helen Mirren, Kate Winslet and Dame Judi Dench will go head to head for the best actress Oscar at this year's Academy Awards.
They face competition from Penelope Cruz and Meryl Streep, who receives her 14th Oscar nomination.They face competition from Penelope Cruz and Meryl Streep, who receives her 14th Oscar nomination.
Dame Helen is also up for best film with The Queen, alongside Babel and Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima.Dame Helen is also up for best film with The Queen, alongside Babel and Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima.
Little Miss Sunshine, named best film at this week's Producers Guild Awards, is also listed, as is The Departed. Musical drama Dreamgirls has eight nominations, including three for best song, but missed out on best picture.
The 79th Academy Awards ceremony will be held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on 25 February. But independent comedy Little Miss Sunshine does enter the category, days after it was named best picture by Producers Guild of America - which has picked the Oscar winner 11 times in the last 17 years.
The Academy's best picture nominees are rounded off by Martin Scorses's mob drama The Departed.
Whitaker nominated
Forest Whitaker has won plaudits for Last King Of ScotlandThe 79th Academy Awards ceremony will be held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on 25 February.
Comedy star Ellen DeGeneres will host for the first time, following in the footsteps of Jon Stewart, Steve Martin, Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Crystal.Comedy star Ellen DeGeneres will host for the first time, following in the footsteps of Jon Stewart, Steve Martin, Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Crystal.
The best actor category is led by Forest Whitaker, who has already picked up several awards for his portrayal of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King Of Scotland. The best actor category is dominated by Forest Whitaker, who has already picked up several awards for his portrayal of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King Of Scotland.
Other nominees include Peter O'Toole, Will Smith, Ryan Gosling and Leonardo DiCaprio.Other nominees include Peter O'Toole, Will Smith, Ryan Gosling and Leonardo DiCaprio.
"To put a lot of hard work and effort into a project or a character like this, and then for it to be recognised, how can it not be nice?" said DiCaprio, who was shortlisted for his performance in African thriller Blood Diamond."To put a lot of hard work and effort into a project or a character like this, and then for it to be recognised, how can it not be nice?" said DiCaprio, who was shortlisted for his performance in African thriller Blood Diamond.
Martin Scorsese will be hoping to win best director for The Departed, but goes up against Clint Eastwood, who beat him to the title in 2004.
Other directors on the 2007 shortlist are Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for Babel, Stephen Frears for The Queen and Paul Greengrass for United 93.
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