The Oscars

[innerSpaceman]

And, with 3 hours to go ... here's how I'd vote if I were a member of the Academy .... (not who I think will win).
I copied the format from Alex, and I left his "ranking" of my picks ... just 'cause.


Best Picture
4. The Queen
and I also put Babel at 27 or lower

Best Actor
1. Peter O'Toole - Venus
(Forest Whitaker and Ryan Gosling unseen)

Best Actress
1. Kate Winslet - Little Children
an upset (in my own mind even) over Helen Mirren
(Judy Dench and Penelope Cruise unseen)

Best Supporting Actor
1. Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children

Best Supporting Actress
1. Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls

Best Director
1. Paul Greengrass - United 93

Best Original Screenplay
2. Guillermo del Toro - Pan's Labyrinth

Best Adapted Screenplay
1. Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fregus, Hawk Ostby - Children of Men

Best Cinematography
1. Emmanuel Lubeski - Children of Men
(unseen - The Prestige)

Best Art Direction
Pan's Labyrinth - Eugenio Caballero
- what's being evaluated is set design and, separately, the artistic design of the entire picture (which likely includes preliminary elements of set design). Set decoration, a yet separate and integral element of any picture's "look" is not recognized by the Academy.

Best Costume Design
1. Patricia Field - The Devil Wears Prada
yes, these real clothes were the best costumes of the year ... and far from being authentic high fashion, were very carefully selected for the pop-image of high fashion that the story portrays.

Best Sound Mixing
John Reitz, Dave Campbell, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin - Flags of Our Fathers

Best Achievement in Editing
1. Clare Douglas, Richard Pearson, Christopher Rouse - United 93

Best Sound Editing
Sean McCormack and Kami Asgar - Apocalypto

Best Visual Effects
1. Pirates of the Caribbean

Best Make-Up
2. Apocalypto
(Click unseen)

Best Song
Truth be told, I have no idea which Dreamgirls song was which ... 3 were nominated, and each was likely inferior to many of the ineligible songs from the original show. So I can vote neither honestly nor honorably in this category.

Best Score
Alexandre Desplat - The Queen
(Notes on a Scandal - Unseen and unheard)
I found each of the nominated scores fairly unremarkable

Best Short Film, Animated
The Danish Poet

Best Short Film, Live Action
The Saviour

Best Short Documentary
None seen.

Best Feature Documentary
An Inconvenient Truth - which I liked better than the only other one I saw, Jesus Camp

Best Foreign Language Film
I only saw Pan's Labyrinth and am completely confident it's the best foreign language film of the year.

Best Animated Feature
2. Cars
Indicating it was poor year for animated features.


In a couple of hours, we'll see how well the Academy agrees with me .... but it turns out Alex and I agree on quite a lot.