My Oscar Predictions

Note: How I think the Academy voted, not my own personal picks, necessarily

BEST PICTURE
® Babel
® The Departed
® Letters From Iwo Jima
® Little Miss Sunshine
® The Queen

BEST DIRECTOR
® Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu – "Babel"
® Martin Scorsese – "The Departed"
® Clint Eastwood – "Letters From Iwo Jima"
® Stephen Frears – "The Queen"
® Paul Greengrass – "United 93"

BEST ACTOR
® Leonardo DiCaprio – "Blood Diamond"
® Ryan Gosling – "Half Nelson"
® Peter O'Toole – "Venus"
® Will Smith – "The Pursuit of Happyness"
® Forest Whitaker – "The Last King of Scotland"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
® Alan Arkin – "Little Miss Sunshine"
® Jackie Earle Haley – "Little Children"
® Djimon Hounsou – "Blood Diamond"
® Eddie Murphy – "Dreamgirls"
® Mark Wahlberg – "The Departed"

BEST ACTRESS
® Penelope Cruz – "Volver"
® Judi Dench – "Notes on a Scandal"
® Helen Mirren – "The Queen"
® Meryl Streep – "The Devil Wears Prada"
® Kate Winslet – "Little Children"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
® Adriana Barraza – "Babel"
® Cate Blanchett – "Notes on a Scandal"
® Abigail Breslin – "Little Miss Sunshine"
® Jennifer Hudson – "Dreamgirls"
® Rinko Kikuchi – "Babel"

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
® Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham,
Dan Mazer and Todd Phillips – "Borat"
® Alfonso Cuaron, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata,
Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby – "Children of Men"
® William Monahan – "The Departed"
® Todd Field and Tom Perrotta – "Little Children"
® Patrick Marber – "Notes on a Scandal"

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
® Guillermo Arriaga – "Babel"
® Iris Yamashita and Paul Haggis – "Letters From Iwo Jima"
® Michael Arndt – "Little Miss Sunshine"
® Guillermo del Toro – "Pan’s Labyrinth"
® Peter Morgan – "The Queen"

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
® After the Wedding – Denmark
® Days of Glory (Indigenes) – Algeria
® The Lives of Others – Germany
® Pan's Labyrinth – Mexico
® Water – Canada

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
® The Black Dahlia
® Children of Men
® The Illusionist
® Pan's Labyrinth
® The Prestige