Thursday, February 22, 2007

OSCARS: I Pick Who Should Win!

Rankings:

Best Picture:
1. The Queen
2. The Departed
3. Babel
4. Little Miss Sunshine
Not Seen: Letters From Iwo Jima

Best Directing:
1. Martin Scorsese - The Departed
2. Paul Greengrass - United 93
3. Stephen Frears - The Queen
4. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - Babel
NS: Clint Eastwood - Letters From Iwo Jima

Best Actor:
1. Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson
2. Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland
3. Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness
NS: Leonardo Dicaprio (Blood Diamond) & Peter O'Toole (Venus)

Best Actress:
1. Helen Mirren - The Queen
2. Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal
3. Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada (this is supporting, and she should WIN there)
4. Penelope Cruz - Volver
5. Kate Winslet - Little Children

Best Supporting Actor:
1. Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children
2. Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls
3. Mark Wahlberg - The Departed
4. Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine
NS: Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond)
I really don't mind anyone winning here. Arkin is a great actor and he was very fun. Mark Wahlberg has inspired me with the picture above and is quite a good actor sometimes. Eddie Murphy is the best thing about Dreamgirls. But Haley is the best here.

Best Supporting Actress:
(This is a waste of a category. In all honesty, none of them deserve it.)
1. Rinko Kikuchi - Babel
2. Cate Blanchett - Notes on a Scandal
3. Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine
4. Adriana Barraza - Babel
5. Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls

Original Screenplay:
1. The Queen
2. Little Miss Sunshine
3. Babel
NS: Letters From Iwo Jima & Pan's Labyrinth

Adapted Screenplay:
1. The Departed
2. Notes on a Scandal
3. Children of Men
4. Little Children
5. Borat

Art Direction:
1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
2. The Prestige
3. Dreamgirls
NS: The Good Shepherd & Pan's Labyrinth

Cinematography:
1. Children of Men
2. The Illusionist
3. The Black Dahlia
4. The Prestige
NS: Pan's Labyrinth

Costume Design:
1. Marie Antoinette
2. Dreamgirls
3. The Devil Wears Prada
4. The Queen
NS: Curse of the Golden Flower

Film Editing:
1. The Departed
2. United 93
3. Children of Men
4. Babel
NS: Blood Diamond

Original Score:
1. The Queen
2. Notes on a Scandal
3. Babel
NS: The Good German, Pan's Labyrinth

Original Song:
1. Love You I Do
2. Listen
3. Our Town
4. Patience
5. I Need to Wake Up

Sound Mixing:
1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
2. Dreamgirls
3. Flags of Our Fathers

Visual Effects:
1. Superman Returns
2. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
3. Poseidon

And who are you rooting for?

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