2.26.2007

Oscar Predictions (with winners)

(2.26.07) UPDATE: Picks I correctly predicted are denoted with an (*), incorrect picks denoted with an (X) and have the actual winners added below. Out of the 21 categories I attempted to predict, I got only 11 right. No surprises with the big awards but I was surprised by a lot of the technical selections.

(2.22.07)
Here are my picks for Sunday's Academy Awards show:


Adapted Screenplay:
(X)Children of Men
Winner: The Departed

Original Screenplay:
(*)Little Miss Sunshine

Editing:
(X)Babel
Winner: The Departed

Cinematography:
(X)Children of Men
Winner: Pan's Labyrinth

Art Direction:
(*)Pan's Labyrinth

Costume Design:
(X)Dreamgirls
Winner: Marie Antoinette

Makeup:
(*)Pan's Labyrinth

Original Score:
(X)The Queen
Winner: Babel

Original Song:
(X)"Listen" from Dreamgirls
Winner: "I Need To Wake Up" from An Inconvenient Truth

Sound Editing:
(*)Letters From Iwo Jima

Sound Mixing:
(*)Dreamgirls

Animated Film:
(X)Cars
Winner: Happy Feet

Foreign Film:
(X)Pan's Labyrinth
Winner: The Lives of Others

Documentary Feature:
(*)An Inconvenient Truth

Supporting Actress:
(*)Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls

Supporting Actor:
(*)Alan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine

Best Actress:
(*)Helen Miren in The Queen

Best Actor:
(*)Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland

Directing:
(*)Martin Scorsese for The Departed

Best Picture:
(X)Letters From Iwo Jima
Winner: The Departed



I won't even try to pick the short film categories as I have not seen any of them, the academy should just upload the nominees to their website; it would benefit everyone involved.

1 comment:

meryl321 said...

Poor "Dreamgirls." I can't believe they didn't even get best song, they had three of the nominees!