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| Dame Helen crowned best actress | Dame Helen crowned best actress |
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| Dame Helen Mirren has been named best actress at the Academy Awards for her performance in The Queen. | Dame Helen Mirren has been named best actress at the Academy Awards for her performance in The Queen. |
| "All kids love to get gold stars, and this is the biggest and the best gold star that I have ever had," she said. | "All kids love to get gold stars, and this is the biggest and the best gold star that I have ever had," she said. |
| Martin Scorsese's crime drama The Departed won four Oscars, including best picture, while the film-maker won his first best directing honour. | Martin Scorsese's crime drama The Departed won four Oscars, including best picture, while the film-maker won his first best directing honour. |
| Alan Arkin won best supporting actor for Little Miss Sunshine, which also picked up best original screenplay. | Alan Arkin won best supporting actor for Little Miss Sunshine, which also picked up best original screenplay. |
| Jennifer Hudson was named best supporting actress for her first film role, in the musical Dreamgirls. | Jennifer Hudson was named best supporting actress for her first film role, in the musical Dreamgirls. |
| MULTIPLE OSCAR WINNERS 4: The Departed3: Pan's Labyrinth2: An Inconvenient Truth2: Dreamgirls2: Little Miss Sunshine class="" href="/1/hi/entertainment/6376191.stm">The Oscars: Reporter's diary The adapted screenplay prize went to the script for The Departed, which also won for editing. | |
| The best actor Oscar went to Forest Whitaker, who had been favourite to triumph for his performance as the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland. | The best actor Oscar went to Forest Whitaker, who had been favourite to triumph for his performance as the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland. |
| 'Pretty good shot' | 'Pretty good shot' |
| Dame Helen had also been overwhelming favourite to add the best actress Oscar to a substantial awards haul that has included a Bafta, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild prize. | Dame Helen had also been overwhelming favourite to add the best actress Oscar to a substantial awards haul that has included a Bafta, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild prize. |
| She plays Elizabeth II in the British movie about the Royal Family's reaction to the 1997 death of Princess Diana. | She plays Elizabeth II in the British movie about the Royal Family's reaction to the 1997 death of Princess Diana. |
| Bookmaker William Hill started paying out last week on bets on her victory, with other firms agreeing she was the strongest ever Oscars favourite. | Bookmaker William Hill started paying out last week on bets on her victory, with other firms agreeing she was the strongest ever Oscars favourite. |
| Martin Scorsese remade the Hong Kong thriller Infernal AffairsAcademy Awards host Ellen DeGeneres had joked to the audience early in the ceremony: "It's exciting because you don't know who's going to win - unless you're British, and then you know you've a pretty good shot." | |
| Accepting her award, Dame Helen said: "For 50 years and more, Elizabeth Windsor has maintained her dignity, her sense of duty and her hairstyle. | |
| "If it wasn't for her, I most certainly wouldn't be here - ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Queen." | "If it wasn't for her, I most certainly wouldn't be here - ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Queen." |
| Scorsese had previously been nominated as best director but lost out on five occasions, for classic movies including Raging Bull and Goodfellas. | Scorsese had previously been nominated as best director but lost out on five occasions, for classic movies including Raging Bull and Goodfellas. |
| "Could you double-check the envelope?" he joked as he collected his award. | "Could you double-check the envelope?" he joked as he collected his award. |
| He went on: "So many people over the years have been wishing this for me - strangers. I walk in the street and people say something to me: 'You should win, you should win.'" | He went on: "So many people over the years have been wishing this for me - strangers. I walk in the street and people say something to me: 'You should win, you should win.'" |
| 'Billion viewers' | |
| The best animated feature film Oscar was awarded to Happy Feet, while Germany's Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) was the best foreign language film. | |
| The Spanish-language dark fairytale Pan's Labyrinth won three Academy Awards, for cinematography, art direction and make-up. | |
| Best actor Whitaker's previous films include The Color of Money Whitaker dream 'comes true' Environmental film An Inconvenient Truth was best full-length documentary, and Melissa Etheridge's I Need to Wake Up - one of the tracks from that movie - won best original song. | |
| Dreamgirls picked up a second award for sound mixing, while Letters from Iwo Jima was rewarded with the best sound editing prize. | |
| DeGeneres opened the ceremony in Los Angeles' Kodak Theatre by telling nominees "everything is on the line for you". | |
| She urged the stars not to worry about whether they would win and the pressure of an acceptance speech in front of their peers, adding: "I'll tell you what you should worry about - there's a billion people watching right now." |