Oscar Nominations Announced

I don't have the list right now, but I'll see if I can find it.

Happy, yet shocked, that Letters From Iwo Jima got nominated for BP over Dreamgirls.

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 Winslett - 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 Animated Feature
Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House

Achievement in Art Direction
Dreamgirls
The Good Shepherd
Pan's Labyrinth
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The Prestige

Achievement in Cinematography
The Black Dahlia
Children of Men
The Illusionist
Pan's Labyrinth
The Prestige

Achievement in Costume Design
Curse of the Golden Flower
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
Marie Antoinette
The Queen

Best Documentary Feature
Deliver us From Evil
An Inconvenient Truth
Iraq in Fragments
Jesus Camp
My Country, my Country

Best Documentary Short Subject
The Blood of Yingzhou District
Recycled Life
Rehearsing a Dream
Two Hands

Achievement in Film Editing
Babel
Blood Diamond
Children of Men
The Departed
United 93

Best Foreing Language Film of the Year
After the Wedding
Days of Glory
The Lives of Others
Pan's Labyrinth
Water

And so on, and so on.


You can find the other noms HERE

It's actually Little Miss Sunshine that was nominated for Best Picture, not Little Children.

Whoops! I just started writing "Little" and I think my head went elsewhere.

Eh, Little Miss Sunshine, Little Children, Little Richard, it's all good.

I'm surprised The Departed got so many nominations, and disappointed that Children of Men didn't get more. Anyway, here are my predictions:

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 Winslett - 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

Adapted Screenplay
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Children of Men
The Departed
Little Children
Notes on a Scandal

Original Screenplay
Babel
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
Pan's Labyrinth
The Queen

I'll take a stab at this thing this time around...

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 Winslett - 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

Adapted Screenplay
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Children of Men
The Departed
Little Children
Notes on a Scandal

Original Screenplay
Babel
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
Pan's Labyrinth
The Queen


Taking some stabs in the dark here, as I still haven't seen some of these flicks...

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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 Winslett - 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 Animated Feature
Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House

Achievement in Art Direction
Dreamgirls
The Good Shepherd
Pan's Labyrinth
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The Prestige

Achievement in Cinematography
The Black Dahlia
Children of Men
The Illusionist
Pan's Labyrinth
The Prestige

Achievement in Costume Design
Curse of the Golden Flower
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
Marie Antoinette
The Queen

Best Documentary Feature
Deliver us From Evil
An Inconvenient Truth
Iraq in Fragments
Jesus Camp
My Country, my Country

Best Documentary Short Subject
The Blood of Yingzhou District
Recycled Life
Rehearsing a Dream
Two Hands

Achievement in Film Editing
Babel
Blood Diamond
Children of Men
The Departed
United 93

Best Foreing Language Film of the Year
After the Wedding
Days of Glory
The Lives of Others
Pan's Labyrinth
Water

And so on, and so on.


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Pan's Labyrinth really should have been nominated for best film, to my mind it's far and away the best of the year. Out of those that are up for it I'd have to go with Babel. Unfortunately I haven't seen enough movies this year for it to be worth me picking from the other categories.

ACK! I'm still yet to see alot fo these films. Off to see Pan's tomorrow and then Venus at the weekend, so hopefully i can catch up!

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As usual most of these films haven't been released in the UK yet...

It's too bad that Drew Barrymore isn't normally recognized for her work. If I had the option, I would put her on the best actresses list.

As usual, I haven't seen many of these movies yet either here in Korea.

Best Picture
Babel

Best Director
Martin Scorsese - The Departed

Best Actor
Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland

Best Supporting Actor
Djimon Hounsou - Blood Diamond

Best Actress
Helen Mirren - The Queen

Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls

Best Animated Feature
Happy Feet

Achievement in Art Direction
Dreamgirls

Achievement in Cinematography
Pan's Labyrinth

Achievement in Costume Design
The Queen

Best Documentary Feature
???

Best Documentary Short Subject
???

Achievement in Film Editing
Blood Diamond

Best Foreing Language Film of the Year
Pan's Labyrinth

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Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Leonardo DiCaprio in "Blood Diamond"
Ryan Gosling in “Half Nelson”
Peter O’Toole in “Venus”
Will Smith in “The Pursuit of Happyness”
Forest Whitaker in “The Last King of Scotland”

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (???)

Alan Arkin in “Little Miss Sunshine”
Jackie Earle Haley in “Little Children”
Djimon Hounsou in “Blood Diamond”
Eddie Murphy in “Dreamgirls”
Mark Wahlberg in “The Departed”


Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Penélope Cruz in “Volver”
Judi Dench in “Notes on a Scandal”
Helen Mirren in “The Queen”
Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada”
Kate Winslet in “Little Children”

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Adriana Barraza in “Babel”
Cate Blanchett in “Notes on a Scandal”
Abigail Breslin in “Little Miss Sunshine”
Jennifer Hudson in “Dreamgirls”
Rinko Kikuchi in “Babel”

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

“Cars”
“Happy Feet”
“Monster House”

Achievement in Art Direction

“Dreamgirls”
“The Good Shepherd”
“Pan’s Labyrinth”
“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”
“The Prestige”

Achievement in Cinematography

“The Black Dahlia”
“Children of Men”
“The Illusionist”
“Pan’s Labyrinth”
“The Prestige”

Achievement in Costume Design

“Curse of the Golden Flower”
“The Devil Wears Prada”
“Dreamgirls”
“Marie Antoinette”
“The Queen”

Achievement in Directing

“Babel” - Alejandro González Iñárritu
“The Departed” - Martin Scorsese
“Letters from Iwo Jima” - Clint Eastwood
“The Queen” - Stephen Frears
“United 93” - Paul Greengrass

Best Documentary Feature

“Deliver Us from Evil”
“An Inconvenient Truth”
“Iraq in Fragments”
“Jesus Camp”
“My Country, My Country”

Achievement in Film Editing

“Babel”
“Blood Diamond”
“Children of Men”
“The Departed”
“United 93”


Best Foreign Language Film of the Year


After the Wedding
Days of Glory (Indigènes)
The Lives Of Others
Pan's Labyrinth
Water


Achievement in Makeup

Apocalypto
Click
Pan's Labyrinth


Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original score) ??

“Babel”
“The Good German”
“Notes on a Scandal”
“Pan’s Labyrinth”
“The Queen”


Achievement in music written for Motion Pictures (Original song)

“I Need to Wake Up” from “An Inconvenient Truth”
“Listen” from “Dreamgirls”
“Love You I Do” from “Dreamgirls”
“Our Town” from “Cars”
“Patience” from “Dreamgirls”


Best Motion Picture of the Year


“Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
“The Departed” (Warner Bros.)
“Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.)
“Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight)
“The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada)

Best Animated Short Film

“The Danish Poet”
“Lifted”
“The Little Matchgirl”
“Maestro”
“No Time for Nuts”


Best Live Action Short Film

“Binta and the Great Idea (Binta Y La Gran Idea)”
“Éramos Pocos (One Too Many)”
“Helmer & Son”
“The Saviour”
“West Bank Story”

Achievement in Sound Mixing

“Apocalypto”
“Blood Diamond”
“Dreamgirls”
“Flags of Our Fathers”
“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”

Achievement in Visual Effects

“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”
“Poseidon”
“Superman Returns”

Adapted Screenplay

“Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”
“Children of Men”
“The Departed”
“Little Children”
“Notes on a Scandal”

Original Screenplay

“Babel”
“Letters from Iwo Jima”
“Little Miss Sunshine”
“Pan’s Labyrinth”
“The Queen”

Predictions:

Best Picture - Letters From Iwo Jima
Best Director - Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Best Actor - Forest Whitaker
Best Actress - Helen Mirren
Supporting Actress - Jennifer Hudson
Supporting Actor - Alan Arkin
Animated Feature - Monster House
Art Direction - Pan's Labyrinth
Cinematography - Children of Men
Costume Design - Marie Antoinette
Documentary - An Inconvenient Truth
Short Subject - no clue! I'll say Recycled Life.
Film Editing - United 93
Foreign Language Film - Pan's Labyrinth
Adapted Screenplay - Children of Men
Original Screenplay - Babel
Makeup - Pan's Labyrinth

Ok, still haven't seen all the nominated films but I'll do my predictions anyway...

Best Picture

Letters From Iwo Jima


Best Director
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - Babel


Best Actor

Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland

Best Supporting Actor

Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children

Best Actress

Helen Mirren - The Queen

Best Supporting Actress

Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls

Best Animated Feature

Happy Feet

Achievement in Art Direction

Pan's Labyrinth

Achievement in Cinematography

Children of Men

Achievement in Costume Design

Dreamgirls

Best Documentary Feature

An Inconvenient Truth

Best Documentary Short Subject

Recycled Life

Achievement in Film Editing

Blood Diamond

Best Foreing Language Film of the Year

Pan's Labyrinth

We did an Oscar prediction ballet in my Film class and these were my picks for the major categories. They seem pretty sound to me.

Best Picture
The Departed

Best Director
Martin Scorsese (The Departed)

Best Actor
Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)

Best Actress
Helen Mirren (The Queen)

Best Supporting Actor
Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls)

Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls)

Best Original Screenplay
Alan Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine)

Best Adapted Screenplay
William Monahan (The Departed)

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After watching Babel, I've decided to change my "Best Supporting Actress" pick to Rinko Kikuchi. Not that I'm even convinced she'll win, but she ought to. Performances like that don't come 'round every day.

And although I'd love to see Inarritu get the "Best Directing" statue, because the subtle scope and complex organization of the film were handled flawlessly, I don't think Eastwood can escape the Oscars this year without winning.

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 Winslett - 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 Animated Feature
Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House

Achievement in Art Direction
Dreamgirls
The Good Shepherd
Pan's Labyrinth
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The Prestige

Achievement in Cinematography
The Black Dahlia
Children of Men
The Illusionist
Pan's Labyrinth
The Prestige

Achievement in Costume Design
Curse of the Golden Flower
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
Marie Antoinette
The Queen

Best Documentary Feature
Deliver us From Evil
An Inconvenient Truth
Iraq in Fragments
Jesus Camp
My Country, my Country

Best Documentary Short Subject
The Blood of Yingzhou District
Recycled Life
Rehearsing a Dream
Two Hands

Achievement in Film Editing
Babel
Blood Diamond
Children of Men
The Departed
United 93

Best Foreing Language Film of the Year
After the Wedding
Days of Glory
The Lives of Others
Pan's Labyrinth
Water

PICTURE
Little Miss Sunshine

DIRECTOR
Martin Scorsese

ACTOR
Forest Whitaker

ACTRESS
Helen Mirren

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Eddie Murphy

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Rinko Kikuchi

ORIGINAL SCRRENPLAY
Babel, Guillermo Arriaga

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Departed, William Monahan

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I already posted individual choices in the various threads here, but here they all are in one place:

Best Picture
The Departed

Best Director
Martin Scorsese

Best Actor
Forest Whitaker

Best Actress
Helen Mirren

Best Supporting Actor
Eddie Murphy

Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Hudson

Best Original Screenplay
Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine

Best Adapted Screenplay
William Monahan, The Departed

Gotta say, though; I sure as hell hope Holden's right about Best Picture. 'Twould bring a smile to my face.