Dad and I like to call it early and then see how close we are. Follows are my picks, as in, who/what I’d like to see win (P), and the one I think will win (F), for most Oscar categories. I’ve left it blank where I have no idea. Leave your picks in the comments and we’ll see how we do:
| Performance by an actor in a leading role |
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| Leonardo DiCaprio in “Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.) | |
| Ryan Gosling in “Half Nelson” (THINKFilm) | |
| Peter O’Toole in “Venus” (Miramax, Filmfour and UK Film Council) | |
| Will Smith in “The Pursuit of Happyness” (Sony Pictures Releasing) (P) (F) | |
| Forest Whitaker in “The Last King of Scotland” (Fox Searchlight) | |
| Performance by an actor in a supporting role |
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| Alan Arkin in “Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight) | |
| Jackie Earle Haley in “Little Children” (New Line) | |
| Djimon Hounsou in “Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.) | |
| Eddie Murphy in “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) (F) | |
| Mark Wahlberg in “The Departed” (Warner Bros.) (P) | |
| Performance by an actress in a leading role |
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| Penélope Cruz in “Volver” (Sony Pictures Classics) | |
| Judi Dench in “Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight) | |
| Helen Mirren in “The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) (F) | |
| Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada” (20th Century Fox) (P) | |
| Kate Winslet in “Little Children” (New Line) | |
| Performance by an actress in a supporting role |
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| Adriana Barraza in “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) | |
| Cate Blanchett in “Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight) | |
| Abigail Breslin in “Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight) | |
| Jennifer Hudson in “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) (P) (F) | |
| Rinko Kikuchi in “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) | |
| Best animated feature film of the year |
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| “Cars” (Buena Vista) John Lasseter | |
| “Happy Feet” (Warner Bros.) George Miller (F) | |
| “Monster House” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Gil Kenan (P) | |
| Achievement in art direction |
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| “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) (P) (F) Art Direction: John Myhre Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh |
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| “The Good Shepherd” (Universal) Art Direction: Jeannine Oppewall Set Decoration: Gretchen Rau and Leslie E. Rollins |
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| “Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) Art Direction: Eugenio Caballero Set Decoration: Pilar Revuelta |
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| “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (Buena Vista) Art Direction: Rick Heinrichs Set Decoration: Cheryl Carasik |
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| “The Prestige” (Buena Vista) Art Direction: Nathan Crowley Set Decoration: Julie Ochipinti |
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| Achievement in cinematography |
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| “The Black Dahlia” (Universal) Vilmos Zsigmond | |
| “Children of Men” (Universal) Emmanuel Lubezki | |
| “The Illusionist” (Yari Film Group) Dick Pope | |
| “Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) Guillermo Navarro | |
| “The Prestige” (Buena Vista) Wally Pfister | |
| Achievement in costume design |
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| “Curse of the Golden Flower” (Sony Pictures Classics) Yee Chung Man | |
| “The Devil Wears Prada” (20th Century Fox) Patricia Field (P) | |
| “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) Sharen Davis (F) | |
| “Marie Antoinette” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Milena Canonero | |
| “The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Consolata Boyle | |
| Achievement in directing |
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| “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Alejandro González Iñárritu | |
| “The Departed” (Warner Bros.) Martin Scorsese (P) | |
| “Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.) Clint Eastwood (F) | |
| “The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Stephen Frears | |
| “United 93” (Universal and StudioCanal) Paul Greengrass | |
| Best documentary feature |
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| “Deliver Us from Evil” (Lionsgate) A Disarming Films Production Amy Berg and Frank Donner |
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| “An Inconvenient Truth” (Paramount Classics and Participant Productions) (P) (F) A Lawrence Bender/Laurie David Production Davis Guggenheim |
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| “Iraq in Fragments” (Typecast Releasing in association with HBO Documentary Films) A Typecast Pictures/Daylight Factory Production James Longley and John Sinno |
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| “Jesus Camp” (Magnolia Pictures) A Loki Films Production Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady |
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| “My Country, My Country” (Zeitgeist Films) A Praxis Films Production Laura Poitras and Jocelyn Glatzer |
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| Best documentary short subject |
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| “The Blood of Yingzhou District” A Thomas Lennon Films Production Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon |
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| “Recycled Life” An Iwerks/Glad Production Leslie Iwerks and Mike Glad |
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| “Rehearsing a Dream” A Simon & Goodman Picture Company Production Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon |
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| “Two Hands” A Crazy Boat Pictures Production Nathaniel Kahn and Susan Rose Behr |
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| Achievement in film editing |
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| “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Stephen Mirrione and Douglas Crise |
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| “Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.) Steven Rosenblum |
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| “Children of Men” (Universal) Alex Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón |
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| “The Departed” (Warner Bros.) Thelma Schoonmaker |
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| “United 93” (Universal and StudioCanal) Clare Douglas, Christopher Rouse and Richard Pearson |
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| Best foreign language film of the year |
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| “After the Wedding” A Zentropa Entertainments 16 Production Denmark |
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| “Days of Glory (Indigènes)” A Tessalit Production Algeria |
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| “The Lives of Others” A Wiedemann & Berg Production Germany |
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| “Pan’s Labyrinth” A Tequila Gang/Esperanto Filmoj/Estudios Picasso Production Mexico |
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| “Water” A Hamilton-Mehta Production Canada |
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| Achievement in makeup |
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| “Apocalypto” (Buena Vista) Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano | |
| “Click” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Kazuhiro Tsuji and Bill Corso | |
| “Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) David Martí and Montse Ribé | |
| Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score) |
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| “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Gustavo Santaolalla | |
| “The Good German” (Warner Bros.) Thomas Newman | |
| “Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight) Philip Glass | |
| “Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) Javier Navarrete | |
| “The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Alexandre Desplat | |
| Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song) |
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| “I Need to Wake Up” from “An Inconvenient Truth” (Paramount Classics and Participant Productions) Music and Lyric by Melissa Etheridge |
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| “Listen” from “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) Music by Henry Krieger and Scott Cutler Lyric by Anne Preven |
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| “Love You I Do” from “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) Music by Henry Krieger Lyric by Siedah Garrett |
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| “Our Town” from “Cars” (Buena Vista) Music and Lyric by Randy Newman |
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| “Patience” from “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) Music by Henry Krieger Lyric by Willie Reale |
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| Best motion picture of the year |
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| “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) An Anonymous Content/Zeta Film/Central Films Production Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik and Steve Golin, Producers |
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| “The Departed” (Warner Bros.) (F) A Warner Bros. Pictures Production Graham King, Producer |
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| “Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.) A DreamWorks Pictures/Warner Bros. Pictures Production Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg and Robert Lorenz, Producers |
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| “Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight) (P) A Big Beach/Bona Fide Production David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub, Producers |
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| “The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) A Granada Production Andy Harries, Christine Langan and Tracey Seaward, Producers |
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| Best animated short film |
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| “The Danish Poet” (National Film Board of Canada) A Mikrofilm and National Film Board of Canada Production Torill Kove |
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| “Lifted” (Buena Vista) A Pixar Animation Studios Production Gary Rydstrom |
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| “The Little Matchgirl” (Buena Vista) A Walt Disney Pictures Production Roger Allers and Don Hahn |
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| “Maestro” (SzimplaFilm) A Kedd Production Géza M. Tóth |
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| “No Time for Nuts” (20th Century Fox) A Blue Sky Studios Production Chris Renaud and Michael Thurmeier |
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| Best live action short film |
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| “Binta and the Great Idea (Binta Y La Gran Idea)” A Peliculas Pendelton and Tus Ojos Production Javier Fesser and Luis Manso |
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| “Éramos Pocos (One Too Many)” (Kimuak) An Altube Filmeak Production Borja Cobeaga |
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| “Helmer & Son” A Nordisk Film Production Søren Pilmark and Kim Magnusson |
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| “The Saviour” (Australian Film Television and Radio School) An Australian Film Television and Radio School Production Peter Templeman and Stuart Parkyn |
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| “West Bank Story” An Ari Sandel, Pascal Vaguelsy, Amy Kim, Ravi Malhotra and Ashley Jordan Production Ari Sandel |
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| Achievement in sound editing |
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| “Apocalypto” (Buena Vista) Sean McCormack and Kami Asgar |
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| “Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.) Lon Bender |
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| “Flags of Our Fathers” (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by Paramount) Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman |
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| “Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.) Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman |
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| “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (Buena Vista) Christopher Boyes and George Watters II |
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| Achievement in sound mixing |
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| “Apocalypto” (Buena Vista) Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell and Fernando Cámara |
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| “Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.) Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Ivan Sharrock |
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| “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer and Willie Burton |
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| “Flags of Our Fathers” (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by Paramount) John Reitz, Dave Campbell, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin |
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| “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (Buena Vista) Paul Massey, Christopher Boyes and Lee Orloff |
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| Achievement in visual effects |
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| “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (Buena Vista) John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall |
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| “Poseidon” (Warner Bros.) Boyd Shermis, Kim Libreri, Chas Jarrett and John Frazier |
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| “Superman Returns” (Warner Bros.) Mark Stetson, Neil Corbould, Richard R. Hoover and Jon Thum |
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| Adapted screenplay |
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| “Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” (20th Century Fox) Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Peter Baynham & Dan Mazer Story by Sacha Baron Cohen & Peter Baynham & Anthony Hines & Todd Phillips |
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| “Children of Men” (Universal) Screenplay by Alfonso Cuarón & Timothy J. Sexton and David Arata and Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby |
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| “The Departed” (Warner Bros.) Screenplay by William Monahan |
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| “Little Children” (New Line) Screenplay by Todd Field & Tom Perrotta |
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| “Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight) Screenplay by Patrick Marber |
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| Original screenplay |
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| “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Written by Guillermo Arriaga |
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| “Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.) (F) Screenplay by Iris Yamashita Story by Iris Yamashita & Paul Haggis |
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| “Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight) (P) Written by Michael Arndt |
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| “Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) Written by Guillermo del Toro |
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| “The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Written by Peter Morgan |
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