The Oscars

[LSPoorEeyorick]

I'll list what I'd vote for and what I guess will win. If they're the same I'll just list the one. (I'm taking some risks this year, but that's fun.)

Best Picture
Little Miss Sunshine

Best Actor
Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland

Best Actress
Helen Mirren - The Queen

Best Supporting Actor
I'd vote for: Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine
Will win: Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls

Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls

Best Director
I'd vote for: Clint Eastwood - Letters from Iwo Jima
Will win: 2. Martin Scorcese - The Departed
(or possibly Clint. The academy really doesn't like Scorcese.)

Best Original Screenplay
Michael Arndt - Little Miss Sunshine

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

Best Cinematography
Will win: Emmanuel Lubeski - Children of Men
I'd vote for: Guillermo Navarro - Pan's Labyrinth

Best Art Direction:
Pan's Labyrinth

Best Costume Designi
Patricia Field - The Devil Wears Prada


Best Sound Mixing
Dreamgirls

Best Achievement in Editing
Will win: Thelma Shoonmaker - The Departed
Would vote for: Children of Men (non-editing notwithstanding.)

Best Sound Editing
Letters from Iwo Jima

Best Visual Effects
Pirates of the Caribbean

Best Make-Up
Pan's Labyrinth

Best Song
Will win: Dreamgirls, "Patience"
Would vote for: Cars, "Our Town"

Best Score
Javier Navarette - Pan's Labyrinth

Best Short Film, Animated
The Danish Poet

Best Short Film, Live Action
Bintu and the Great Idea

Best Short Documentary
Rehearsing a Dream

Best Feature Documentary
An Inconvenient Truth (but we hope Tom's friend will win for Iraq in Piece)

Best Foreign Language Film
Pan's Labyrinth

Best Animated Feature
Cars