My Oscar Nomination Predictions

So I was pretty bored with The Golden Globe Awards this past week. I was happy to see Eddie Murphy and Sacha Baron Cohen win some stuff, but I didn’t like Ugly Betty stealing the television comedy award from The Office. The acceptance speeches were pretty lackluster, except for Borat and Hugh Laurie. But who really cares about The Golden Globes, they are only voted by the Hollywood Foreign Press; it’s the Emmys and the Oscars that raise the bar. And speaking of Oscars, the nominations will be coming out on Tuesday morning. I thought I would try my luck and predict who will be nominated by the academy this year. Bear in mind that these are not all the ones I want in the race but what I think Hollywood will do. I have added my own single submission for consideration, but it’s a little late for that.
Here they are:

My Brave Oscar Nomination Predictions

Best Picture
Babel, The Departed, Dreamgirls, Little Miss Sunshine, Pan’s Labyrinth
For Your Consideration: Thank You For Smoking

Best Actor
Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat), Leonardo DiCaprio (The Departed), Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson), Peter O’Toole (Venus), Forrest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)
For Your Consideration: Aaron Eckhart (Thank You for Smoking)

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)
For Your Consideration: Maggie Gyllenhaal (Sherrybaby)

Best Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine), Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond), Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls), Jack Nicholson (The Departed), Brad Pitt (Babel)
For Your Consideration: Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine)

Best Supporting Actress
Adriana Barrazati (Babel), Cate Blanchett (Notes on a Scandal), Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine), Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls), Rinko Kikuchi (Babel)
For Your Consideration: Catherine O’Hara (For Your Consideration)

Best Director
Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth), Clint Eastwood (Letters from Iwo Jima), Paul Greengrass (United 93), Alejandro Gonzalaz Inarritu (Babel), Martin Scorsese (The Departed)
For Your Conisderation: Jason Reitman (Thank You For Smoking)

Best Foreign Film
Apocalypto, Letters from Iwo Jima, The Lives of Others, Pan’s Labyrinth, Volver
For Your Consideration: ?

Best Animated Feature Film
Cars, Monster House, A Scanner Darkly
For Your Consideration: Ice Age: The Meltdown

Best Song
A Father’s Way (The Pursuit of Happyness), Listen (Dreamgirls), Never Gonna Break My Faith (Bobby), A Song of the Heart (Happy Feet), Try Not Remember (Home of the Brave)
For Your Consideration: O Kazakhstan (Borat)

Best Musical Score
Apocalytpto, Babel, Blood Diamond, The Fountain, The Painted Veil
For Your Consideration: Little Miss Sunshine

Best Original Screenplay
Babel, Little Miss Sunshine, Pan’s Labyrinth, The Queen, Stranger Than Fiction
For Your Consideration: Brick

Best Adapted Screenplay
Children of Men, The Departed, Little Children, Notes on a Scandal, Thank You For Smoking
For Your Consideration: Borat

Best Art Direction
Babel, The Departed, Dreamgirls, The Painted Veil, Pan’s Labyrinth
For Your Consideration: Lucky Number Slevin

Best Cinematography
Babel, The Departed, Dreamgirls, Letters from Iwo Jima, Pan’s Labyrinth
For Your Consideration: The Fountain

Best Film Editing
Babel, The Departed, Dreamgirls, The Fountain, Thank You For Smoking
For Your Consideration: Brick

Best Costume
The Devil Wears Prada, Dreamgirls, Letters from Iwo Jima, Marie Antoinette, The Painted Veil
For Your Consideration: Little Miss Sunshine

Best Make Up
The Devil Wears Prada, Dreamgirls, The Fountain, Marie Antoinette, Pan’s Labyrinth
For Your Consideration: Little Miss Sunshine

Best Sound
The Departed, Dreamgirls, Poseidon, Superman Returns, United 93
Four Your Conisderation: Stranger Than Fiction

Best Sound Editing
Poseidon, Superman Returns, United 93
For Your Consideration: Children of Men

Best Visual Effects
The Fountain, Pan’s Labyrinth, Superman Returns
For Your Consideration: The Prestige

I’m not going to bother with Documentaries or the Short Films because I have no idea, but I do guarentee that The Inconvenient Truth will make it into the documentary category and probably win. My next blog will most likely be focusing on the some of the recent films and shows I have seen and wished I had put on my Top 10 of 2006 like: Children of Men, Brick and Dexter. Till next time . . .