Best Original Score

• *Babel
• The Good German
• Notes on a Scandal
• Pan's Labyrinth
• The Queen

Original Song

• *"I Need to Wake Up," An Inconvenient Truth
• "Listen," Dreamgirls
• "Love You I Do," Dreamgirls
• "Our Town," Cars
• "Patience," Dreamgirls

Best Animated Short Film

• *The Danish Poet
• Lifted
• The Little Matchgirl
• Maestro
• No Time for Nuts

Achievement in Sound Mixing

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

Achievement in Sound Editing

• Apocalypto
• Blood Diamond
• Flags of our Fathers
• *Letters from Iwo Jima
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest