Final Oscar Nomination Predictions

This is old hat by now. Throw out a guess, shot in the dark. It's a crapshoot anyway.

Here they are.

Final Oscar Nomination Predictions – January 9, 2007

Best Picture
Babel
The Departed
Dreamgirls
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

Best Director
Bill Condon, Dreamgirls
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Babel
Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima
Steven Frears, The Queen
Martin Scorsese, The Departed


Best Actor
Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Departed
Peter O’Toole, Venus
Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

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

Best Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children
Jack Nicholson, The Departed
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
Brad Pitt, Babel

Best Supporting Actress
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
Rinko Kuichi, Babel
Adriana Barraza, Babel
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls


Best Original Screenplay
Babel
Little Miss Sunshine
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Queen
Volver

Best Adapted Screenplay
Children of Men
The Departed
Dreamgirls
Little Children
Thank You For Smoking

Best Cinematography
Babel
Children of Men
The Departed
Letters from Iwo Jima
Pan’s Labyrinth

Best Animated Feature
Cars
Flushed Away
Monster House
Happy Feet
A Scanner Darkly

Best Foreign Language Film
Black Book (Paul Verhoeven, The Netherlands)
Lunacy (Jan Svankmajer, Denmark)
Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, Mexico)
Volver (Pedro Almodovar, Spain)
Water (Deepa Menta, Canada)