And the winners are

• Best Picture: The Departed
• Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
• Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
• Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen
• Best Editing: The Departed (Babel)
• Best Original Song - I Need to Wake Up, An Inconvenient Truth (Dreamgirls - Listen)
• Best Original Screenplay - Little Miss Sunshine
• Best Original Score- Babel (The Queen)
• Documentary - An Inconvenient Truth
• Documentary Short - The Blood of Yingzhou District
• Best Supporting Actress - Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
• Foreign Language Film - The Lives of Others (Pan's Labyrinth)
• Visuals Effects - Pirates
• Best Cinematography: Pan's Labyrinth (Children of Men)
• Best Costume Design: Marie Antoinette (Dreamgirls)
• Best Adapted Screenplay: The Departed
• Best Animated Feature: Happy Feet (Cars)
• Best Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine (Dreamgirls - Eddie Murphy)
• Sound Mixing: Dreamgirls
• Sound Editing: Letters from Iwo Jima
• Live Action Short: West Bank Story (Binta and the Great Idea)
• Best Animated Short: The Danish Poet (The Little Matchgirl)
• Makeup: Pan's Labyrinth
• Art Direction: Pan's Labyrinth

I got 14/24. Well, this was a difficult year. Some of my wrong predictions made me very happy such as editing, supporting actor and original song. I think the majority of people had predicted pretty much the same way as I did (at least according to the charts in Oscarwatch) and refering to the that there were quite a few surprises.

Well, I didn't do that well this year but it really doesn't matter since Marty won. I have waited this to happen for so long and pretty much lost my faith during the years. I am happy to include this to my favourite Oscar moments - Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola presenting the award to Marty. What a night!

Final predictions are up

My final predictions are up; they have been for a couple of days now but I wanted to keep my options open for the best picture. Anyway, I have decided not to change anything anymore (enough is enough). I will stick to The Departed; based mostly on my hope it will win but as we all know it - it is anyone´s game. If it wins I am happy but if it does not I am not surprised. I don´t remember the last time when the best picture was this difficult to figure out. There were quite a few other very difficult categories this year and now we will have to see how things end up on Monday (Finnish time).

Difficult year, difficult predictions.

My "No Guts, No Glory" predictions are:

• Leonardo DiCaprio (best actor)
• Mark Wahlberg (supporting actor)
• Borat (adapted screenplay)

ADG winners

Art Directors Guild winners are:

CONTEMPORARY FILM

• “Casino Royale” — Peter Lamont - WINNER

PERIOD FILM

• “Curse of the Golden Flower” — Huo Tingxiao - WINNER

FANTASY FILM

• “Pan’s Labyrinth” — Eugenio Caballero - WINNER

CDG winners

Costume Designers Guild winners are:

Period:

• Chung Man Yee, "Curse of the Golden Flower" - WINNER

Contemporary:

• Consolata Boyle for "The Queen" - WINNER

Fantasy:

• Lala Huete, "Pan's Labyrinth" - WINNER
  

Cinema Audio Society honors Dreamgirls

Cinema Audio Society honors Dreamgirls for outstanding sound mixing for 2006.

Children of Men wins ASC

Emmanuel Lubezki was honored for "Children of Men" in the feature film competition at the 21st Annual American Society of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement Awards.

Babel and the Departed win ACE Eddie awards

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (DRAMATIC):

• BABEL
  Stephen Mirrione, A.C.E. & Douglas Crise

-TIED WITH-

• THE DEPARTED
  Thelma Schoonmaker, A.C.E.

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (COMEDY OR MUSICAL):

• DREAMGIRLS
  Virginia Katz, A.C.E.

BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY:

• AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH
  Jay Cassidy, A.C.E. & Dan Sweitlik

EW predicts

From Oscarwatch:

Entertainment Weekly´s predictions are:

Best Picture

• The Departed - 25 %
• Little Miss Sunshine - 23 %
• Babel - 20 %
• The Queen -17 %
• Letters from Iwo Jima - 15 %

Best Actor

• Forest Whitaker - 30 %
• Peter O'Toole - 25 %
• Leonardo DiCaprio - 20 %
• Ryan Gosling - 14 %
• Will Smith - 10 %

Best Actress

• Helen Mirren -40 %
• Meryl Streep - 20 %
• Judi Dench - 20 %
• Kate Winslet - 10 %
• Penelope Cruz - 10 %

Supporting Actor

• Eddie Murphy - 35 %
• Alan Arkin - 30 %
• Jackie Earle Haley - 15 %
• Mark Wahlberg - 15 %
• Djimon Hounsou - 5 %

Supporting Actress

• Jennifer Hudson - 30 %
• Cate Blanchett - 25 %
• Adriana Barraza - 25 %
• Abigail Breslin - 10 %
• Rinko Kikuchi - 10 %

Director

• Martin Scorsese - 40 %
• Clint Eastwood - 25 %
• Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - 15 %
• Paul Greengrass - 10 %
• Stephen Frears - 10 %

Adapted Screenplay:

• The Departed 40 %
• Little Children 25 %
• Notes on a Scandal 15 %
• Borat 10 %
• Children of Men 10 %

Original Screenplay

• Little Miss Sunshine 30 %
• The Queen 25 %
• Babel 20 %
• Pan's Labyrinth 20 %
• Letters From Iwo Jima 5 %

And the rest:

• Art Direction: Dreamgirls
• Cinematography: Children of Men
• Editing: United 93
• Score: The Queen
• Song: Listen
• F/X: Pirates
• Sound editing: Pirates
• Sound mixing: Dreamgirls
• Costume Design: Marie Antoinette
• Makeup: Pan's Labyrinth
• Foreign Film: Pan's Labyrinth
• Animated feature: Cars
• Animated short: Little Match Girl
• Doc Feature: An Inconvenient Truth
• Doc short: Two Hands
• Live Action Short: Eramos Pocos

Departed wins Adapted, Little Miss Sunshine Wins Original

The Departed wins WGA Adapted Screenplay and Little Miss Sunshine Original Screenplay.

Marty wins the DGA

The Directors Guild of America has selected Martin Scorsese as winner of its top feature trophy for his work on the gangster thriller "The Departed.