Comparison charts

Here are some comparisions between Oscar nominations, Golden Globes, Critics Choices, SAG and how Entertainment Weekly predicted:

Actor
Oscar	GG	CC	SAG	EW
DiCaprio/BD	DiCaprio/BD	DiCaprio/BD	DiCaprio/BD
Gosling		Gosling	Gosling	Gosling
O´Toole	O´Toole	O´Toole	O´Toole	O´Toole
Smith	Smith	Smith	Smith	Smith
Whitaker	Whitaker	Whitaker	Whitaker	Whitaker
	DiCaprio/TD	DiCaprio/TD		DiCaprio/TD
	Baron Cohen
	Depp
	Eckhart
	Ejiofor
	Ferrell
Actress
Oscar	GG	CC	SAG	EW
Cruz	Cruz	Cruz	Cruz	Cruz
Dench	Dench	Dench	Dench	Dench
Mirren	Mirren	Mirren	Mirren	Mirren
Streep	Streep	Streep	Streep	Streep
Winslet	Winslet	Winslet	Winslet	Winslet
	Gyllenhaal
	Bening
	Collette
	Knowles
	Zellweger
Supporting Actor
Oscar	GG	CC	SAG	EW
Arkin		Arkin	Arkin	Arkin
Earle Haley			Earle Haley	Earle Haley
Hounsou		Hounsou	Hounsou	Hounsou
Murphy	Murphy	Murphy	Murphy	Murphy
Wahlberg	Wahlberg
	Nicholson	Nicholson		Nicholson
	Affleck	Affleck
	Pitt
		Beach
			DiCaprio
Supporting Actress
Oscar	GG	CC	SAG	EW
Barraza	Barraza	Barraza	Barraza	Barraza
Blanchett	Blanchett	Blanchett	Blanchett	Blanchett
Breslin			Breslin	Breslin
Hudson	Hudson	Hudson	Hudson	Hudson
Kikuchi	Kikuchi	Kikuchi	Kikuchi	Kikuchi
		O´Hara
		Thompson
	Blunt
Director
Oscar	GG	CC	DGA	EW
Eastwood/LFIJ	Eastwood/LFIJ	Eastwood/LFIJ		Eastwood/LFIJ
González Iñárritu	González Iñárritu		González Iñárritu	González Iñárritu
Greengrass		Greengrass
Frears	Frears	Frears	Frears	Frears
Scorsese	Scorsese	Scorsese	Scorsese	Scorsese
		Condon	Condon	Condon
	Eastwood/FOOF
			Dayton/Faris
Picture
Oscar	GG	CC	PGA	EW
Babel	Babel	Babel	Babel	Babel
The Departed	The Departed	The Departed	The Departed	The Departed
Letters from Iwo Jima		Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine	Little Miss Sunshine	Little Miss Sunshine	Little Miss Sunshine	Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen	The Queen	The Queen	The Queen	The Queen
	Dreamgirls	Dreamgirls	Dreamgirls	Dreamgirls
	Bobby
	Little Children	Little Children
	Borat
	The Devil Wears Prada
	Thank You For Smoking
		Blood Diamond
		Notes on a Scandal
		United 93

Stats and facts

From Variety:

• With his eighth acting nom, for "Venus," Peter O'Toole is a winner either way. If he wins, great; if not, he goes down in the record books as the actor with the most noms without a win (he was previously tied with Richard Burton).
• With her 14th nom, Meryl Streep ("The Devil Wears Prada") furthers her lead for most nominated actor ever. Runners-up are Jack Nicholson and Katharine Hepburn, with 12 apiece.
• Kevin O'Connell, nommed for sound mixing in "Apocalypto," scores his 19th nom. He furthers his status as the Academy's most nominated individual who, so far, hasn't won. Distant runners-up are composer Alex North and art director Roland Anderson, at 15 each.
• "Dreamgirls" is the first live-action film to have three of its songs nominated. Two animated films can lay claim to the same record: "The Lion King" in 1994 and "Beauty and the Beast" in 1991.
• "I Need to Wake Up" from "An Inconvenient Truth" is the first song from a docu to be nominated since "More" from "Mondo Cane" was up for the award in 1963.
• Alan Arkin has gone 38 years since his last nom --1968's "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" -- the same amount of time Jack Palance spent between "Shane" in 1953 and "City Slickers" in 1991. Henry Fonda is still the title holder at 41 years between acting noms.
• With "Little Children," Kate Winslet, 31, becomes the youngest actress to garner five noms. She has made 19 movies. Previous record holder was Olivia de Haviland, who secured her fifth at the age of 33. By that time -- 1950 -- she had made 33 films.
• Ten-year-old Abigail Breslin, should she win the supporting actress trophy, will tie Tatum O'Neal as the youngest Oscar winner. O'Neal, however, at the time of her win at the 1974 ceremony, was six months younger than Breslin will be in February.
• Gary Rydstrom received his 14th nomination Tuesday. His "Lifted" is up for animated short, marking the first time he has been nominated outside the the sound and sound editing categories.
• Only two nominees are competing against themselves: Henry Krieger is up for three songs and Alan Robert Murray could win in sound editing for either "Letters From Iwo Jima" or "Flags of Our Fathers."
• The 71 letters, collected into 12 words, appears to make "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" the longest title of a film ever nominated for an Oscar. In the fiction category, it easily topples the 54 letters of "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" and in the land of docs, edges out the 65-letter "Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade" from 1990.

From Oscarwatch:

• From Phil Welsh:If Forest Whitaker takes home the Best Actor Oscar, it will be only the third time in Oscar history that the film possessing the year's Best Actor was not nominated for any other award. The other three times were 1987 when Michael Douglas won for Wall Street, 1968 when Cliff Robertson won for Charly, and 1950 when Jose Ferrer won for Cyrano de Bergerac.
• From Phil Welsh: If Jennifer Hudson and Eddie Murphy take home the Best Supporting Actress and Actor awards, it will be only the second time in Oscar history that a film possessed two acting winners while not being nominated for best picture. The other time? 1963 when Patricia Neal and Melvyn Douglas won Actress and Supporting Actor for Hud, which was left off the nominees list.
• From Adam: The best pictures have a total of only 26 nominations. That's the smallest number since1932/33(6th Oscars). In fact, this is the smallest number of nominations since there was a "Best Picture" category, before that there was "Outstanding Motion Picture".
• From Adam: Only once since the first Oscar ceremony (1927/1928) that none of the "Best Pictures/Outstanding Motion Pictures" have a cinematography nomination.

From The Envelope:

• Never before in Oscar history has the film with the most nominations failed to reap a bid in the best-picture race. ("Dreamgirls" has eight, but not the top one.) A few films have had more noms and didn't get a best-pic bid (nine each for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" in 1977 and "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" in 1969), but other movies had more noms. "The Turning Point" topped "Close Encounters" and "Anne of the Thousand Days" had more than "Horses."
• This year there's a breakthrough number of black nominees in the acting races (five): Forest Whitaker ("Last King of Scotland"), Will Smith ("Pursuit of Happyness"), Eddie Murphy and Jennifer Hudson ("Dreamgirls") and Djimon Hounsou ("Blood Diamond"). This ties the previous record set in 2004 when Jamie Foxx scored two noms ("Ray," "Collateral") plus there were bids for "Hotel Rwanda" stars Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo and Morgan Freeman ("Million Dollar Baby").
• It's a big, breakthrough year for Latinos at the Oscars, with such Latin-helmed pix like "Babel," "Pan's Labyrinth" and "Volver" in the derby, even "Children of Men." Also, actresses such as Penelope Cruz ("Volver") and Adriana Barraza ("Babel"). Our forums poster "OJODIAMANTE" has made a list of the Latin nominees in all categories.

Latin Movies:
- Babel (Alejandro Gonzales Iñárritu) Best Picture Nominee
- Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro) Best Foreign Picture Nominee
- Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
- Volver (Pedro Almodovar)
Latin Actresses
- Penélope Cruz (Volver)
- Adriana Barraza (Babel)
Latin Director
- Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu - (Babel)
Latin Art Director
- Eugenio Caballero - (Pan’s Labyrinth)
Latin cinematography Directors
- Guillermo Navarro (Pan’s Labyrinth)
- Emmanuel Lubezki (Children of Men)
Latinos in a film editing
- Alex Rodriguez & Alfonso Cuarón (Children of men)
Latin Writters in music for Motion Picture(Original Score)
- Gustavo Santaolalla (Babel)
- Javier Navarrete (Pan’s Labyrinth)
Latinos in Best live action short film
- Javier Fesser & Luis Manso - “Binta and the Great Idea (Binta Y La Gran Idea)”
- Borja Cobeaga - “Éramos Pocos (One Too Many)”
Latinos in sound mixing
- Fernando Camara (Apocalypto)
Latinos in Adapted screenplay
- Alfonso Cuarón & David Arata (Children of Men)
Latinos in Original Screenplay
- Guillermo Arriaga (Babel)
- Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth)

Some very welcomed surprises, some upsets and the rest we already knew

Thank god the Academy has some surprises left for us every year; some are good and some are bad. Here are some of my thoughts:

• Picture: Apparently Clint found his way here. This feels like last year´s Munich. We thought Letters from Iwo Jima is dead, but here it is (just like Munich). I´m surprised that Dreamgirls did not get in but somehow I had that feeling (but no guts to drop it).
• Director: I am extremely happy that Paul Greengrass got nominated. I had him on my list for a really long time but after losing my faith I had to drop him as there did not seem to be enough support from the Guilds. With Oscars you will have to give up your own preferences (and hopes) and just follow the buzz; but sometimes these things still might come true.
• Actor: First of all: Academy, please change your rules and let there be more than one nomination/actor in a same acting category. This rule is ancient and stupid. There are years with many good performances from the same actor in the same category. Look what you did for Leo! He is now nominated for Blood Diamond instead for The Departed. So, please do change the rules and let the leading roles be leading and supporting roles be supporting.
• Actor in supporting role: I was hoping both Jack Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg to be nominated for The Departed but now Mark replaced Jack. I cannot be too disapointed but I was hoping to see Jack again in the Oscars. Hopefully he will be representing atleast. He is the heart of the show; if you did not know that - please watch this year´s Golden Globes, watch and learn.
  
• Adapted screenplay: As I already wrote, this category was diffult to predict. I knew Children of Men would be nominated but I did not know which one to leave out.
  
• Original screenplay and foreign film: I am surprised that Volver was left out from both original screenplay and especially foreign film categories. I guess it had to make room for Pan´s Labyrinth which ended up with six nominations. I am very happy for Pan´s Labyrinth! I haven´t seen it but everyone seem to love it.
• Original score: Well this is interesting; one completely correct prediction, two completely wrong predictions and two right composers with wrong films.

And how did I do? As I already knew in advance. Not so well: The big six was ok but the big eight; I did so poorly with the screenplays. And the rest; i don´t know where to begin. But this was a diffult year and apparently after a good year comes a diffult year. And after a difficult year comes; well, who knows.

• The big eight: 32/40 (80%)
  
• 21 categories (not including Animated short, Live action short film, Documentary short): 65/99 (65,7 %)
  

Most nominations for Dreamgirls

8 Nominations

• Dreamgirls
  

7 Nominations

• Babel

6 Nominations

• Pan´s Labyrinth
• The Queen
  

5 Nominations

• Blood Diamond
• The Departed
  

4 Nominations

• Letters from Iwo Jima
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Notes on a Scandal
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man´s Chest
  

3 Nominations

• Apocalypto
• Children of Men
• Little Children
  

2 Nominations

• Cars
• The Devil Wears Prada
• Flags of Our Fathers
• An Inconvenient Truth
• The Prestige
• United 93

They are here!

BEST PICTURE

• Babel
• The Departed
• Dreamgirls --> Letters From Iwo Jima
  
• Little Miss Sunshine
• The Queen

BEST DIRECTOR

• Bill Condon - Dreamgirls --> Paul Greengrass - United 93
  
• Clint Eastwood - Letters from Iwo Jima
• Stephen Frears - The Queen
• Alejandro González Iñárritu - Babel
• Martin Scorsese - The Departed



BEST ACTOR

• Leonardo DiCaprio - The Departed --> Leonardo DiCaprio - Blood Diamond
  
• Ryan Gosling -€“ Half Nelson
• 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
• Djimon Hounsou - Blood Diamond
• Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls
• Jack Nicholson - The Departed --> Mark Wahlberg - The Departed
  



BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Adriana Barraza - Babel
• Cate Blanchett - Notes on a Scandal
• Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine
• Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
• Rinko Kikuchi -€“ Babel



BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• Babel - Guillermo Arriaga, Alejandro González Iñárritu
• The Queen - Peter Morgan
• Volver - Pedro Almodovar --> Pan´s Labyrinth - Guillermo del Toro
• United 93 - Paul Greengrass --> Letters from Iwo Jima - Iris Yamashita
• Little Miss Sunshine - Michael Arndt



BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• The Departed - William Monahan
• The Devil Wears Prada - Aline Brosh McKenna --> Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan - Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Peter Baynham & Dan Mazer
• Thank You For Smoking - Jason Reitman --> Children of Men - Alfonso Cuarón & Timothy J. Sexton and David Arata and Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby
• Notes on a Scandal - Patrick Marber
• Little Children - Todd Field, Tom Perrotta



ANIMATED FEATURE

• Happy Feet
• Cars
• Flushed Away --> Monster House
  



DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

• An Inconvenient Truth
• Deliver Us from Evil
• Shut Up & Sing --> My Country, My Country
  
• Jesus Camp
• Iraq in Fragments



FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• Pan´s Labyrinth - Mexico
• Volver - Spain --> After the Wedding - Denmark
  
• The Lives of the Others - Germany
• Water - Canada
• Days of Glory - Algeria



CINEMATOGRAPHY

• The Illusionist
• Babel --> The Black Dahlia
  
• Children of Men
• Pan´s Labyrinth
• Apocalypto --> The Prestige
  



EDITING

• The Departed
• Babel
• The Queen --> Blood Diamond
  
• Dreamgirls --> Children of Men
  
• United 93



ART DIRECTION

• Marie Antoinette --> The Good Shepherd
  
• Children of Men --> Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man´s Chest
  
• Pan´s Labyrinth
• Dreamgirls
• Curse of the Golden Flower --> The Prestige
  



COSTUME DESIGN

• Marie Antoinette
• Dreamgirls
• Pan´s Labyrinth --> The Devil Wears Prada
  
• The Illusionist --> The Queen
  
• Curse of the Golden Flower



MAKEUP

• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest --> Click
  
• Apocalypto
• Pan´s Labyrinth



VISUAL EFFECTS

• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
• Superman Returns
• X-Men: The Last Stand --> Poseidon
  



SOUND MIXING

• The Departed --> Apocalypto
  
• Dreamgirls
• Flags of Our Fathers
• Babel --> Blood Diamond
  
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest



SOUND EDITING

• Casino Royale --> Apocalypto
  
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
• Superman Returns --> Blood Diamond
  
• Flags of Our Fathers
• Cars --> Letters from Iwo Jima
  



ORIGINAL SCORE

• Babel - Gustavo Santaolalla
• The Da Vinci Code - Hans Zimmer --> The Good German - Thomas Newman
  
• The Painted Veil - Alexandre Desplat --> The Queen - Alexandre Desplat
  
• The Illusionist - Philip Glass --> Notes on a Scandal - Philip Glass
• The Fountain - Clint Mansell --> Pan´s Labyrinth - Javier Navarrete



ORIGINAL SONG

• Dreamgirls - Listen
• Happy Feet - The Song of the Heart --> Dreamgirls - Love You I Do
  
• An Incovenient Truth - I Need to Wake Up
• Charlotte´s Web - Ordinary Miracle --> Cars - Our Town
  
• Bobby - Never Gonna Break My Faith --> Dreamgirls - Patience
  



ANIMATED SHORT

• No Time for Nuts
• The Danish Poet
  
• Lifted
• The Little Match Girl
• Maestro

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM


• Binta and the Great Idea (Binta y La Gran Idea)
  
• Eramos Pocos (One Too Many)
  
• Helmer & Son
  
• The Saviour
  
• West Bank Story

DOCUMENTARY SHORT

• The Blood of Yingzhou District
  
• Recycled Life
  
• Rehearsing a Dream
  
• Two Hands

Little Miss Sunshine wins PGA

Little Miss Sunshine and Cars (animated feature) win PGA. Well, the best picture race gets more interesting every day.

My Final Predictions.

My final predictions are here. What can i say - this year felt really difficult. The best picture, director, original screenplay and the acting categories were allright but the rest (sigh). This year we do not have easy frontrunners based on an epic (or historical screenplay) with costumes, beautiful art direction, cinematography, music etc. We do not even have "big" movies (without best picture chances) like this as Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima (apparently) failed. Years with contemporary films are like this - extremely difficult. Therefore I am not expecting that many correct predictions. But as we know - anything can happen.

This year my heart goes to Helen Mirren and The Departed with fabulous cast and especially my alltime favourite - Marty. I hope this is the year.

Art Directors Guild noms

Period Film
----------------------------

• Curse of the Golden Flower, PD: Huo Tingxiao
• Dreamgirls, PD: John Myhre
• Flags of Our Fathers, PD: Henry Bumstead
• The Good Shepherd, PD: Jeannine Oppewall
• The Prestige, PD: Nathan Crowley

Fantasy Film
------------

• Children of Men, PD: Geoffrey Kirland
• Pan's Labyrinth, PD: Eugenio Caballero
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, PD: Rick Heinrichs
• Superman Returns, PD: Guy Hendrix Dyas
• V for Vendetta, PD: Own Paterson

Contemporary Film
-----------------

• Babel, PD: Brigette Broch
• Casino Royale, PD: Peter Lamont
• The Da Vinci Code, PD: Allan Cameron
• The Departed, PD: Kristi Zea
• The Queen, PD: Alan MacDonald

Cinema Audio Society noms

• "Flags of Our Fathers"
• "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"
• "Babel"
• "Blood Diamond"
• "Dreamgirls"

Golden Globe winners

• Best Picture, Drama: Babel
• Best Actor, Drama: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
• Best Actress, Drama: Helen Mirren, The Queen
  
• Best Picture Musical/Comedy: Dreamgirls
• Best Actor Musical/Comedy: Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat
• Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
• Best Score: The Painted Veil
• Foreign Film: Letters From Iwo Jima
• Best Screenplay: The Queen
• Best Supporting Actor - Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
• Best Actress, Musical/Comedy - Meryl Streep, Devil Wears Prada
• Best Animated Film: Cars
• Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson
• Original Song: Prince, Happy Feet

Critics Choice winners

Broadcast Film Critics announce their winners:

• Best Picture: The Departed
  
• Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, Last King of Scotland
• Best Actress: Helen MIrren, The Queen
• Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
• Best Doc: An Inconvenient Truth
• Best Song: Listen, Dreamgirls
• Film Score: Philip Glass, The Illusionist
• Best Animated Film: Cars
• Best Acting Ensemble: Little Miss Sunshine!
• Best Foreign Film: Letters from Iwo Jima
• Best Writer: Michael Arndt - Little Miss Sunshine
• Best Picture Made for Television: Elizabeth I
• Winner Best Young Actor: Paul Dano, Little Miss Sunshine
• Winner Best Young Actress: Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
• Winner Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
  
• Winner Best Supporting Actor: Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
• Best Family Film: Charlotte's Web
• Best Comedy: Borat

Entertainment Weekly Predicts the Oscars

Best Picture

• Babel
• The Departed
• Dreamgirls
  
• Little Miss Sunshine
  
• The Queen

• FYC: Children of Men

Best Actor

• Leonardo Dicaprio, The Departed
• Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
• Peter O'Toole, Venus
• Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness
• Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

• FYC: Matt Damon, The Good Shepherd

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

• FYC: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Sherrybaby

Best Supp. Actor

• Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
• Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children
• Djimon Honsou, Blood Diamond
• Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
• Jack Nicholson, The Departed

• FYC: Stanley Tucci, The Devil Wears Prada

Best Supp. Actress

• Adriana Barraza, Babel
• Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
• Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
• Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
• Rinko Kikuchi, Babel

• FYC: Frances McDormand, Friends With Money

Best Director

• Bill Condon, Dreamgirls
• Clint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima
• Stephen Frears, The Queen
• Alejandro Inarritu, Babel
• Martin Scorsese, The Departed

• FYC: Guillermo Del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth

Best Original Screenplay

• Babel
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Letters From Iwo Jima
• Pan's Labyrinth
• The Queen

• FYC: Volver

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Children of Men
• The Departed
• Little Children
• Notes on a Scandal
• Thank You For Smoking

• FYC: Borat
  

BAFTA nominees

BAFTA nominees are:

FILM

• BABEL - Alejandro González Iñárritu/Jon Kilik/Steve Golin
• THE DEPARTED - Brad Pitt/Brad Grey/Graham King
• THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND - Andrea Calderwood/Lisa Bryer/Charles Steel
• LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE*
• THE QUEEN - Tracey Seaward/Christine Langan/Andy Harries

THE ALEXANDER KORDA AWARD for the Outstanding British Film of the Year

• CASINO ROYALE - Michael G Wilson/Barbara Broccoli/Martin Campbell/Neal Purvis/Robert Wade/Paul Haggis
• THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND - Andrea Calderwood/Lisa Bryer/Charles Steel/Kevin Macdonald/Peter Morgan/Jeremy Brock
• NOTES ON A SCANDAL - Scott Rudin/Robert Fox/Richard Eyre/Patrick Marber
• THE QUEEN - Tracey Seaward/Christine Langan/Andy Harries/Stephen Frears/Peter Morgan
• UNITED 93 - Tim Bevan/Lloyd Levin/Paul Greengrass

THE CARL FOREMAN AWARD for Special Achievement by a British Director, Writer or Producer in their First Feature Film

• ANDREA ARNOLD (Director) - Red Road
• JULIAN GILBEY (Director) - Rollin' with the Nines
• CHRISTINE LANGAN (Producer) - Pierrepoint
• GARY TARN (Director) - Black Sun
• PAUL ANDREW WILLIAMS (Director) - London to Brighton

THE DAVID LEAN AWARD for Achievement in Direction

• BABEL - Alejandro González Iñárritu
• THE DEPARTED - Martin Scorsese
• LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE - Jonathan Dayton/Valerie Faris
• THE QUEEN - Stephen Frears
• UNITED 93 - Paul Greengrass

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• BABEL - Guillermo Arriaga
• LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE - Michael Arndt
• PAN'S LABYRINTH - Guillermo del Toro
• THE QUEEN - Peter Morgan
• UNITED 93 - Paul Greengrass

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• CASINO ROYALE - Neal Purvis/Robert Wade/Paul Haggis
• THE DEPARTED - William Monahan
• THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA - Aline Brosh McKenna
• THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND - Peter Morgan/Jeremy Brock
• NOTES ON A SCANDAL - Patrick Marber

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

• APOCALYPTO - Mel Gibson/Bruce Davey
• BLACK BOOK (ZWARTBOEK) - Teun Hilte/San Fu Maltha/Jens Meurer/Paul Verhoeven
• PAN'S LABYRINTH - Alfonso Cuarón/Bertha Navarro/Frida Torresblanco/Guillermo del Toro
• RANG DE BASANTI (PAINT IT YELLOW) - Ronnie Screwvala/Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
• VOLVER - Agustín Almodóvar/Pedro Almodóvar

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

• CARS - John Lasseter
• FLUSHED AWAY - David Bowers/Sam Fell
• HAPPY FEET - George Miller

ACTOR in a LEADING ROLE

• DANIEL CRAIG - Casino Royale
• LEONARDO DICAPRIO - The Departed
• RICHARD GRIFFITHS - The History Boys
• PETER O'TOOLE - Venus
• FOREST WHITAKER - The Last King of Scotland

ACTRESS in a LEADING ROLE

• PENELOPE CRUZ - Volver
• JUDI DENCH - Notes on a Scandal
• HELEN MIRREN - The Queen
• MERYL STREEP - The Devil Wears Prada
• KATE WINSLET - Little Children

ACTOR in a SUPPORTING ROLE

• ALAN ARKIN - Little Miss Sunshine
• JAMES MCAVOY - The Last King of Scotland
• JACK NICHOLSON - The Departed
• LESLIE PHILLIPS - Venus
• MICHAEL SHEEN - The Queen

ACTRESS in a SUPPORTING ROLE

• EMILY BLUNT - The Devil Wears Prada
• ABIGAIL BRESLIN - Little Miss Sunshine
• TONI COLETTE - Little Miss Sunshine
• FRANCES DE LA TOUR - The History Boys
• JENNIFER HUDSON - Dreamgirls

THE ANTHONY ASQUITH AWARD for Achievement in Film Music

• BABEL - Gustavo Santaolalla
• CASINO ROYALE - David Arnold
• DREAMGIRLS - Henry Krieger
• HAPPY FEET - John Powell
• THE QUEEN - Alexandre Desplat

CINEMATOGRAPHY

• BABEL - Rodrigo Prieto
• CASINO ROYALE - Phil Meheux
• CHILDREN OF MEN - Emmanuel Lubezki
• PAN'S LABYRINTH - Guillermo Navarro
• UNITED 93 - Barry Ackroyd

EDITING

• BABEL - Stephen Mirrione/Douglas Crise
• CASINO ROYALE - Stuart Baird
• THE DEPARTED - Thelma Schoonmaker
• THE QUEEN - Lucia Zucchetti
• UNITED 93 - Clare Douglas/Christopher Rouse/Richard Pearson

PRODUCTION DESIGN

• CASINO ROYALE - Peter Lamont/Simon Wakefield
• CHILDREN OF MEN - Geoffrey Kirkland/Jim Clay/Jennifer Williams
• MARIE ANTOINETTE - K K Barrett/Véronique Melery
• PAN'S LABYRINTH - Eugenio Caballero/Pilar Revuelta
• PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST - Rick Heinrichs/Cheryl A Carasik

COSTUME DESIGN

• THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA - Patricia Field
• MARIE ANTOINETTE - Milena Canonero
• PAN'S LABYRINTH - Lala Huete
• PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST - Penny Rose
• THE QUEEN - Consolata Boyle

SOUND

• BABEL - José García/Jon Taylor/Chris Minkler/Martín Hernández
• CASINO ROYALE - Chris Munro/Eddy Joseph/Mike Prestwood Smith/Martin Cantwell/Mark Taylor
• PAN'S LABYRINTH - Martín Hernández/Jamie Bashkt
• PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST - Christopher Boyes/George Watters II/ Paul Massey/Lee Orloff
• UNITED 93 - Chris Munro/Mike Prestwood Smith/Douglas Cooper/Oliver Tarney/Eddy Joseph

ACHIEVEMENT IN SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

• CASINO ROYALE - Steve Begg/Chris Corbould
• CHILDREN OF MEN - Frazer Churchill/Tim Webber/Michael Eames/Paul Corbould
• PAN'S LABYRINTH - Edward Irastorza/Everett Burrell
• PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST - John Knoll/Hal Hickel/Charles Gibson
• SUPERMAN RETURNS - Mark Stetson

MAKE UP & HAIR

• THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA - Nicki Ledermann/Angel De Angelis
• MARIE ANTOINETTE - Jean-Luc Russier/Desiree Corridoni
• PAN'S LABYRINTH*
• PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST - Ve Neill/Martin Samuel
• THE QUEEN - Daniel Phillips

SHORT ANIMATION FILM

• DREAMS AND DESIRES - FAMILY TIES - Les Mills/Joanna Quinn
• GUY 101 - Ian Gouldstone
• PETER AND THE WOLF - Hugh Welchman/Alan Dewhurst/Suzie Templeton

SHORT FILM

• CARE - Rachel Bailey/Corinna Faith/Tracy Bass
• CUBS - Lisa Williams/Tom Harper
• DO NOT ERASE - Asitha Ameresekere
• HIKIKOMORI - Karley Duffy/Paul Wright
• KISSING, TICKLING AND BEING BORED - David Smith/Jim McRoberts

THE ORANGE RISING STAR AWARD (nominees announced on 8 Jan 2007)

• EMILY BLUNT
• EVA GREEN
• NAOMIE HARRIS
• CILLIAN MURPHY
• BEN WHISHAW

Eddie nominations

The Eddie noms are:

Drama:

• "Babel," Stephen Mirrione, Douglas Crise
• "Casino Royale," Stuart Baird
• "The Departed," Thelma Schoonmaker
• "The Queen," Lucia Zuccheti
• "United 93," Clare Douglas, Christopher Rouse, Richard Pearson

Comedy/Musical:

• "The Devil Wears Prada," Mark Livolsi
• "Dreamgirls," Virginia Katz
• "Little Miss Sunshine," Pamela Martin
• "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," Craig Wood, Stephen Rivkin
• "Thank You for Smoking," Dan Glauberman

Writers Guild nominations

WGA nominations are:

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• Babel, Written by Guillermo Arriaga, Paramount Vantage
• Little Miss Sunshine, Written by Michael Arndt, Fox Searchlight Pictures
• The Queen, Written by Peter Morgan, Miramax Films
• Stranger Than Fiction, Written by Zach Helm, Sony Pictures Entertainment
• United 93, Written by Paul Greengrass, Universal Pictures

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Peter Baynham & Dan Mazer, Story by Sacha Baron Cohen & Peter Baynham & Anthony Hines & Todd Phillips, Based on a Character Created by Sacha Baron Cohen, Twentieth Century Fox
• The Departed, Screenplay by William Monahan, Based on the Motion Picture Internal Affairs, Written by Alan Mak and Felix Chong, Warner Bros. Pictures
• The Devil Wears Prada, Screenplay by Aline Brosh McKenna, Based on the Novel by Lauren Weisberger, Twentieth Century Fox
• Little Children, Screenplay by Todd Field & Tom Perrotta, Based on the Novel by Tom Perrotta, New Line Cinema
• Thank You for Smoking, Screenplay by Jason Reitman, Based on the Novel by Christopher Buckley, Fox Searchlight Pictures

ASC noms

Cinematographers nominees are:

• Children of Men
• The Illusionist
• The Good Shepherd
• Apocalypto
• The Black Dahlia

Costume Designers Guild announces their nominees

The nominees are:

• Milena Canonero for "Marie Antoinette"
• Sharen Davis, "Dreamgirls"
• Chung Man Yee, "Curse of the Golden Flower"
• Ngila Dickson, "The Illusionist"
• Penny Rose, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest."

Contemporary:

• Patricia Field for "The Devil Wears Prada"
• Consolata Boyle for "The Queen"
• Nancy Steiner for "Little Miss Sunshine"
• "Casino Royale"
• Michael Wilkinson "Babel"

Fantasy:

• Kym Barrett for "Eragon"
• Renee April, "The Fountain"
• Sammy Sheldon, "V for Vendetta"
• Lala Huete, "Pan's Labyrinth"
• Judianna Makovsky, "X-Men: The Last Stand."

DGA nominations

DGA noms are:

• Bill Condon, Dreamgirls
• Jonathan Dayton Valerie Faris, Little Miss Sunshine
• Stephen Frears, The Queen
• Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Babel
• Martin Scorsese, The Departed

VES Nominations

The VES nominations are:

Outstanding Special Effects in a Motion Picture

• Casino Royale
  Chris Corbould, Peter Notley, Ian Lowe, Roy Quinn
• Superman Returns
  Neil Corbould, David Brighton, David Young, Robert Higgie

Best Single Visual Effect of the Year

• Children of Men - Birth Sequence
  Tim Webber, Lucy Killick, Andy Kind, Craig Bardsley
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  John Knoll, Ned Gorman, Jakub Pistecky, Tom Fejes
• Poseidon
  Boyd Shermis, Rhonda Gunner, Kim Libreri, Philippe Rebours
• X-Men: The Last Stand
  Eric Saindon, Cyndi Ochs, GG Heitmann, Roger Shortt

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture

• Charlotte's Web
  Karin Joy, John Berton, Blair Clark, John Dietz
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  John Knoll, Jill Brooks, Hal Hickel, Charlie Gibson
• The Fountain
  Jeremy Dawson, Dan Schrecker, Mark Soper, Peter Parks

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Motion Picture

• Blood Diamond
  Jeffrey Okun, Thomas Boland, Tim Crosbie, Neil Greenberg
• Children of Men
  Lucy Killick, Frazer Churchill, Timothy Webber, Paul Corbould
• Flags of Our Fathers
  Michael Owens, Matthew Butler, Bryan Grill, Julian Levi
• The Da Vinci Code
  Barrie Hemsley, Angus Bickerton, Gary Brozenich, Paul Riddle

Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Motion Picture

• Charlotte's Web - Templeton
  Todd Labonte, Jason Armstrong, Sven Jensen, David Richard Nelson
• Charlotte's Web - Wilbur
  Grant Adam, Daniel Fotheringham, Avi Goodman, Paul Buckley
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest n Davy Jones
  Steve Walton, Jung-Seung Hong, Marc Chu, James Tooley

Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Motion Picture

• Cars - Mater
  Larry The Cable Guy, Mike Krummhoefener, Tom Sanocki, Nancy Kato
• Monster House - House
  Umberto Lazzari, Mike Kimmel, Kui Han Lee, Owen Demers
• Happy Feet - Mumbleis Banishment
  Damien Grey, Tim Gibson, Carl PrudiHomme

Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Motion Picture

• Mission: Impossible III
  Russell Earl, Richard Bluff, Giles Hancock, Dennis Martin
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  Chris Stoski, Susumu Yukuhiro, Jack Mongovan, Greg Salter

Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Motion Picture (contid)

• Poseidon
  Mohen Leo, Daniel Pearson, Willi Geiger, Matt Brumit

Outstanding Models and Miniatures in a Motion Picture

• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  Bruce Holcomb, Ron Woodall, Charlie Bailey, Carl Miller
• The Good Shepherd
  Matthew Gratzner, Forest Fischer, Enrico Altmann, Leigh-Alexandra Jacob
• V For Vendetta
  Jose Granell, Nigel Stone

Outstanding Compositing in a Motion Picture

• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  Eddie Pasquarello, Francois Lambert, Jeff Sutherland, Tory Mercer
• Poseidon
  Pat Brennan, Mark Hopkins, Nelson Sepulveda, Mark Nettleton
• The DaVinci Code - Saint Sulpice Sequence
  Mathew Krentz, Jordan Benwick, Enrico Perei, Rafal Kaniewski

Scripter noms

The USC Scripter nominations are:

• Children of Men
• The Devil Wears Prada
• The Illusionist
• The Last King of Scotland
• Notes on a Scandal

SAG nominees

Screen Actors Guild announced their nominations:

Nominees (Film)

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 Actress

• Adriana Barraza, Babel
• Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
• Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
• Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
• Rinko Kikuchi, Babel

Best Actor

• Leonardo Dicaprio, Blood Diamond
• Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
• Peter O'Toole, Venus
• Will Smith, Pursuit of Happyness
• Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

Best Supporting Actor

• Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
• Leonardo DiCaprio, The Departed
• Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children
• Djimon Honsou, Blood Diamond
• Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls

Ensemble

• Babel
• Bobby
• The Departed
• Dreamgirls
• Little Miss Sunshine

PGA noms

The PGA nominees are:

• Babel
• The Departed
• Dreamgirls
• Little Miss Sunshine
• The Queen

Animated:

• Cars
• Flushed Away
• Happy Feet
• Ice Age: The Meltdown
• Monster House

Golden Globes noms

Picture, Drama:

• "Babel"
• "Bobby"
• "The Departed"
• "Little Children"
• "The Queen"

Actress, Drama:

• Penelope Cruz, "Volver"
• Judi Dench, "Notes on a Scandal"
• Maggie Gyllenhaal, "Sherrybaby"
• Helen Mirren, "The Queen"
• Kate Winslet, "Little Children"

Actor, Drama:

• Leonardo DiCaprio, "Blood Diamond"
• Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Departed"
• Peter O'Toole, "Venus"
• Will Smith, "The Pursuit of Happyness"
• Forest Whitaker, "The Last King of Scotland"

Picture, Musical or Comedy:

• "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan"
• "The Devil Wears Prada"
• "Dreamgirls"
• "Little Miss Sunshine"
• "Thank You for Smoking"

Actress, Musical or Comedy:

• Annette Bening, "Running With Scissors"
• Toni Collette, "Little Miss Sunshine"
• Beyonce Knowles, "Dreamgirls"
• Meryl Streep, "The Devil Wears Prada"
• Renee Zellweger, "Miss Potter"

Actor, Musical or Comedy:

• Sacha Baron Cohen, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan"
• Johnny Depp, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"
• Aaron Eckhart, "Thank You for Smoking"
• Chiwetel Ejiofor, "Kinky Boots"
• Will Ferrell, "Stranger than Fiction"

Supporting Actress:

• Adriana Barraza, "Babel"
• Cate Blanchett, "Notes on a Scandal"
• Emily Blunt, "The Devil Wears Prada"
• Jennifer Hudson, "Dreamgirls"
• Rinko Kikuchi, "Babel"

Supporting Actor:

• Ben Affleck, "Hollywoodland"
• Eddie Murphy, "Dreamgirls"
• Jack Nicholson, "The Departed"
• Brad Pitt, "Babel"
• Mark Wahlberg, "The Departed"

Director:

• Clint Eastwood, "Flags of Our Fathers"
• Clint Eastwood, "Letters from Iwo Jima"
• Steven Frears, "The Queen"
• Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, "Babel"
• Martin Scorsese, "The Departed"

Screenplay:

• Guillermo Arriaga, "Babel"
• Todd Field and Tom Perrotta, "Little Children"
• Patrick Marber, "Notes on a Scandal"
• William Monahan, "The Departed"
• Peter Morgan, "The Queen"

Foreign Language:

• "Apocalypto," USA
• "Letters from Iwo Jima," USA/Japan
• "The Lives of Others," Germany
• "Pan's Labyrinth," Mexico
• "Volver" Spain

Animated Film:

• "Cars"
• "Happy Feet"
• "Monster House"

Original Score:

• Alexandre Desplat, "The Painted Veil"
• Clint Mansell, "The Fountain"
• Gustavo Santaolalla, "Babel"
• Carlo Siliotto, "Nomad"
• Hans Zimmer, "The Da Vinci Code"

Original Song:

• "A Father's Way" from "The Pursuit of Happyness"
• "Listen" from "Dreamgirls"
• "Never Gonna Break My Faith" from "Bobby"
• "The Song of the Heart" from "Happy Feet"
• "Try Not to Remember" from "Home of the Brave"
  

Broadcast Film Critics announce their nominations

NOMINEES FOR THE 12TH ANNUAL CRITICS’ CHOICE AWARDS

BEST PICTURE:

• Babel
• Blood Diamond
• The Departed
• Dreamgirls
• Letters from Iwo Jima
• Little Children
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Notes on a Scandal
• The Queen
• United 93

BEST ACTOR:

• Leonardo DiCaprio – “Blood Diamond”
• Leonardo DiCaprio – “The Departed”
• Ryan Gosling – “Half Nelson”
• 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:

• Ben Affleck – “Hollywoodland”
• Alan Arkin – “Little Miss Sunshine”
• Adam Beach – “Flags of Our Fathers”
• Djimon Hounsou – “Blood Diamond”
• Eddie Murphy – “Dreamgirls”
• Jack Nicholson – “The Departed”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

• Adriana Barraza – “Babel”
• Cate Blanchett – “Notes on a Scandal”
• Jennifer Hudson – “Dreamgirls”
• Rinko Kikuchi – “Babel”
• Catherine O’Hara – “For Your Consideration”
• Emma Thompson – “Stranger Than Fiction”

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE:

• Babel
• Bobby
• The Departed
• Dreamgirls
• Little Miss Sunshine
• A Prairie Home Companion

BEST DIRECTOR:

• Bill Condon – “Dreamgirls”
• Clint Eastwood – “Letters from Iwo Jima”
• Stephen Frears – “The Queen”
• Paul Greengrass – “United 93”
• Martin Scorsese – “The Departed”

BEST WRITER:

• Michael Arndt – “Little Miss Sunshine”
• Guillermo Arriaga – “Babel”
• Todd Field and Tom Perrotta – “Little Children”
• Zach Helm – “Stranger Than Fiction”
• William Monahan – “The Departed”
• Peter Morgan – “The Queen”

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE:

• “Cars”
• “Flushed Away”
• “Happy Feet”
• “Monster House”
• “Over the Hedge”

BEST YOUNG ACTOR:

• Cameron Bright – “Thank You For Smoking”
• Joseph Cross – “Running With Scissors”
• Paul Dano – “Little Miss Sunshine”
• Freddie Highmore – “A Good Year”
• Jaden Christopher Syre Smith – “The Pursuit of Happyness”

BEST YOUNG ACTRESS:

• Ivana Baquero – “Pan’s Labyrinth”
• Abigail Breslin – “Little Miss Sunshine”
• Shareeka Epps – “Half Nelson”
• Dakota Fanning – “Charlotte’s Web”
• Keke Palmer – “Akeelah and the Bee”

BEST COMEDY MOVIE:

• Borat
• For Your Consideration
• Little Miss Sunshine
• The Devil Wears Prada
• Thank You For Smoking

BEST FAMILY FILM (LIVE ACTION):

• Akeelah and the Bee
• Charlotte’s Web
• Flicka
• Lassie
• Pirates of the Caribbean 2

BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION:

• Elizabeth I
• The Librarian
• Nightmares & Dreamscapes
• The Ron Clark Story
• When the Levees Broke

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:

• Apocalypto
• Days of Glory
• Letters from Iwo Jima
• Pan’s Labyrinth
• Volver
• Water

BEST SONG:

• “I Need to Wake Up” – Melissa Etheridge – “An Inconvenient Truth”
• “Listen” – Beyonce – “Dreamgirls”
• “My Little Girl” – Tim McGraw – “Flicka”
• “The Neighbor” – Dixie Chicks – “Shut Up & Sing”
• “Never Gonna Break My Faith” – Aretha Franklin and Mary J. Blige – “Bobby”
• “Ordinary Miracle” – Sarah McLachlan – “Charlotte’s Web”

BEST SOUNDTRACK:

• Babel
• Cars
• Dreamgirls
• Happy Feet
• Marie Antoinette

BEST COMPOSER:

• Philip Glass – “The Illusionist”
• Clint Mansell – “The Fountain”
• Thomas Newman – “The Good German”
• Gustavo Santaolalla – “Babel”
• Howard Shore – “The Departed”
• Hans Zimmer – “The Da Vinci Code”

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:

• An Inconvenient Truth
• Shut Up & Sing
• This Film Is Not Yet Rated
• Who Killed the Electric Car?
• Wordplay

Los Angeles Critics Association Winners

From Oscarwatch:

Picture: "Letters From Iwo Jima"
Runner-up: "The Queen"

Director: Paul Greengrass, "United 93"
Runner-up: Clint Eastwood, "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima"

Actor: Sacha Baron Cohen, "Borat" and Forest Whitaker, "The Last King of Scotland" (tie) (no runner-up)

Actress: Helen Mirren, "The Queen"
Runner-up: Penelope Cruz, "Volver"

Supporting actor: Michael Sheen, "The Queen"
Runner-up: Sergi Lopez, "Pan's Labyrinth"

Supporting actress: Luminita Gheorghiu, "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu"
Runner-up: Jennifer Hudson, "Dreamgirls"

Screenplay: Peter Morgan, "The Queen"
Runner-up: Michael Arndt, "Little Miss Sunshine"

Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, "Children of Men"
Runner-up: Tom Stern, "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima"

Production design: Eugenio Caballero, "Pan's Labyrinth"
Runner-up: Jim Clay and Geoffrey Kirkland, "Children of Men"

Music: Alexandre Desplat, "The Queen" and "The Painted Veil"
Runner-up: Thomas Newman, "The Good German" and "Little Children"

Foreign-language film: "The Lives of Others"
Runner-up: "Volver"

Documentary/non-fiction film: "An Inconvenient Truth"
Runner-up: "Darwin's Nightmare"

Animation: "Happy Feet"
Runner-up: "Cars"

Douglas Edwards experimental/independent film/video award: "Old Joy" (Kelly Reichardt) and "In Between Days" (So Yong Kim)

New generation award: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris (directors) and Michael Arndt (screenwriter), "Little Miss Sunshine"

NY Film Critics Online Awards

From Oscarwatch:

Picture
THE QUEEN

Director
STEPHEN FREARS - The Queen

Screenplay
PETER MORGAN - The Queen

Cinematography
DICK POPE - The Illusionist

Actor
FOREST WHITAKER - The Last King of Scotland

Actress
HELEN MIRREN - The Queen

Supporting Actor
MICHAEL SHEEN - The Queen

Supporting Actress
JENNIFER HUDSON - Dreamgirls (tie)
CATHERINE O'HARA - For Your Consideration (tie)

Ensemble Cast
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE

Debut as Director
JONATHAN DAYTON, VALERIE FARIS - Little Miss Sunshine

Breakthrough Performer
JENNIFER HUDSON - Dreamgirls

Film Score
PHILIP GLASS - The Illusionist

Documentary Feature
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH

Animated Feature
HAPPY FEET

Foreign Language Picture
PAN'S LABYRINTH

Humanitarian Award
DEEPA MEHTA (Water) for taking risks to create films about the difficulties of social change in India especially as it affects women.

Ten Best Pictures (Alphabetical)
BABEL (Paramount Vantage)
THE FOUNTAIN (Warner Bros.)
INLAND EMPIRE (Absurda)
LITTLE CHILDREN (New Line)
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (Fox Searchlight)
PAN'S LABYRINTH (Picturehouse)
THE QUEEN (Miramax)
THANK YOU FOR SMOKING (Fox Searchlight)
VOLVER (Sony Pictures Classics)
WATER (Fox Searchlight)

Boston Film Critics Winners

From Oscarwatch:

Best Picture:

The Departed

(United 93, runner-up)

Best Director:

Martin Scorsese, The Departed

(Paul Greengrass, United 93, runner-up)

Best Actor:

Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

(Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson, runner-up)

Best Actress:

Helen Mirren, The Queen

(Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal, runner-up)

Best Supporting Actor:

Mark Wahlberg, The Departed

(TIE: Michael Sheen, The Queen; Alec Baldwin, The Departed/Running with

Scissors/The Good Shepherd, runners-up)

Best Supporting Actress:

Shareeka Epps, Half Nelson

(Meryl Streep, The Devil Wore Prada, runner-up)

Best Ensemble Cast:

United 93

(The Departed, runner-up)

Best Screenplay:

William Monahan, The Departed

(Peter Morgan, The Queen, runner-up)

Best Foreign Language Film:

Pan's Labyrinth

(Volver, runner-up)

Best Documentary:

TIE: Deliver Us From Evil/Shut Up & Sing

(51 Birch Street, runner-up)

Best New Filmmaker:

Ryan Fleck, Half Nelson

(Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris, Little Miss Sunshine, runners-up)

Best Cinematography:

Guillermo Navarro. Pan's Labyrinth

(TIE: Stuart Dryburgh, The Painted Veil; Xiaoding Zhao, Curse of the Golden

Flower, runners-up)

AFI Movies of the Year

From Oscarwatch:

AFI MOVIES OF THE YEAR—OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

BABEL
BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
DREAMGIRLS
HALF NELSON
HAPPY FEET
INSIDE MAN
LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
UNITED 93

National Board of Review Winners

From Oscarwatch

Best Film: LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA
Best Director: MARTIN SCORSESE, The Departed
Best Actor: FOREST WHITAKER, The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress: HELEN MIRREN, The Queen
Best Supporting Actor: DJIMON HOUNSOU, Blood Diamond
Best Supporting Actress: CATHERINE O'HARA, For Your Consideration
Best Foreign Film: VOLVER
Best Documentary: AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH
Best Animated Feature: CARS
Best Ensemble Cast: THE DEPARTED
Breakthrough Performance by an Actor: RYAN GOSLING, Half Nelson
Breakthrough Performance by an Actress: (2)
JENNIFER HUDSON, Dreamgirls and RINKO KIKUCHI, Babel
Best Directorial Debut: JASON REITMAN, Thank You for Smoking
Best Original Screenplay: ZACH HELM, Stranger Than Fiction
Best Adapted Screenplay: RON NYSWANER, The Painted Veil

The top 10 from the National Board of Review:

"Letters From Iwo Jima"

"Babel"

"Blood Diamond"

"The Departed"

"The Devil Wears Prada"

"Flags Of Our Fathers"

"The History Boys"

"Little Miss Sunshine"

"Notes on a Scandal"

"The Painted Veil"

Top Five Foreign Films:

VOLVER

(and, in alphabetical order)

CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER

DAYS OF GLORY

PAN'S LABYRINTH

WATER

Top Five Documentary Films
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH

(and, in alphabetical order)

51 BIRCH STREET

IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS

SHUT UP & SING

WORDPLAY

Top Independent Films
(in alphabetical order)

AKEELAH AND THE BEE

BOBBY

CATCH A FIRE

COPYING BEETHOVEN

A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS

HALF NELSON

THE ILLUSIONIST

LONESOME JIM

SHERRYBABY

10 ITEMS OR LESS

THANK YOU FOR SMOKING

Career Achievement - ELI WALLACH
Billy Wilder Award for Excellence in Directing - JONATHAN DEMME
Career Achievement in Producing - IRWIN WINKLER
William K. Everson Film History Award - DONALD KRIM
The BVLGARI Award for NBR Freedom of Expression - WATER and WORLD TRADE CENTER

And we are back

We are back for the new Oscar season with preliminary predictions. The Oscar buzz is increasing and therefore more updates are coming in the near future.

Oscar winners are here

The season is over and the winners are here:

Best Picture: Crash
Best Director: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Best Original Screenplay: Crash
Best Adapted Screenplay: Brokeback Mountain
Best Actress: Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line
Best Cinematography: Memoirs of a Geisha
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote Editing: Crash
Foreign Language: Tsotsi
Sound Editing: King Kong
Best Song: It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp
Best Sound Mixing: King Kong
Original Score: Brokeback Mountain
Art Direction: Memoirs of a Geisha
Documentary Feature: March of the Penguins
Documentary Short: A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
Best Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener
Makeup: Chronicles of Narnia
Costumes: Memoirs of a Geisha
Animated Short: The Moon and the Son
Live Action Short: Six Shooter
Best Animated Feature: Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Best Visual Effects: King Kong
Best Supporting Actor: George Clooney, Syriana

I did pretty well: 18/24. I missed: cinematography, documentary short, song, picture, animated short film and live action short film.

Final Predictions Are Up

My final predictions are up and running. There has been no surprises this year and we will see on Sunday (actually on Monday here in Finland) if it stays that way.

Entertainment Weekly Predicts the Oscars

Entertainment Weekly´s Oscar Predictions:

Best Actress:

Reese Witherspoon 50 %
Felicity Huffman 35 %

Best Actor:

Philip Seymour Hoffman 35 %
Heath Ledger 30 %

Best Supporting Actress:

Rachel Weisz 35 %
Michelle Williams 30 %

Best Supporting Actor:

George Clooney 30 %
Matt Dillon 25 %
Paul Giamatti 25 %

Best Director:

Ang Lee 40 %
George Clooney 20 %
Paul Haggis 20 %

Best Picture:

Brokeback Mountain 35 %
Crash 30 %

Adapted Screenplay:

Brokeback Mountain 35 %
Capote 30 %

Best Original Screenplay:

Crash 35 %
Good Night, and Good Luck. 30 %

The Other Categories:

Art Direction: Geisha
Editing: Crash
Score: Geisha
Song: Into the Deep
VFX: King Kong
Sound Editing: King Kong
Sound Mixing: Walk the Line
Costume: Geisha
Cinematography: Brokeback Mountain
Makeup: Narnia
Foreign Language: Tsotsi
Animated: Wallace and Gromit
Animated Short: 9
Doc Feature: March of the Penguins
Doc Short: Death of Kevin Carter
Live Action Short: Ausreisser

Contenders 2006

From the Oscarwatch forums 2006 films with Oscar potential (plot outlines from IMDB):

Flags Of Our Fathers

dir: Clint Eastwood

The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at The Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in WWII.

The Departed

dir: Martin Scorsese

The remake of the 2002 Hong Kong hit film revolves around a rivalry between the Massachusetts police force and an Irish-American gang. A gangster is chosen to infiltrate the police force while a young police officer is chosen to infiltrate the gang. When their paths cross, what will be the result?

Youth Without Youth

dir: Francis Ford Coppola

A pre-WWII drama where a life-changing incident turns a professor into a fugitive.

Marie Antoinette

dir: Sofia Coppola

Based on Antonia Fraser's book about the ill-fated Archduchess of Austria and later Queen of France, 'Marie Antoinette' tells the story of the most misunderstood and abused woman in history, from her birth in Imperial Austria to her later life in France.

Dreamgirls

dir: Bill Condon

Based on the Broadway musical, a trio of black female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960's.

The Good Shepherd

dir: Robert DeNiro

The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life.

The DaVinci Code

dir: Ron Howard

A murder in the Louvre and clues in Da Vinci paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years -- which could shake the foundations of Christianity.

A Good Year

dir: Ridley Scott

An Englishman (Crowe) inherits a vineyard in Provence. Upon arriving at his new property, he meets an American woman who claims that the land is hers.

The Good German

dir: Steven Soderbergh

In post-war Berlin to find his former mistress, an American journalist is lured into a murder mystery.

Breaking and Entering

dir: Anthony Minghella

An architect's dealings with a young thief cause him to re-evaluate his life.

Goya's Ghost

dir: Milos Forman

Painter Francisco Goya faces a scandal involving his muse, who is labeled a heretic by a monk.

Scoop

dir: Woody Allen

An American student (Johansson) in London begins an affair with an aristocrat.

Flight 93

dir: Paul Greengrass

A real time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.

September/World Trade Center

dir: Oliver Stone

Two Port Authority police officers become trapped under the rubble of the World Trade Center.

Fur

dir: Steven Shainberg

A chronicle of the life of Diane Arbus, the revered photographer whose images captured attention in the early 1960s. After her suicide in 1971, she became the first American photographer to be exhibited at the Venice Biennale.

Notes on a Scandal

dir: Richard Eyre

A pottery teacher (Blanchett) enters into an affair with one of her students, causing upheaval in her personal and professional lives.

Che

dir: Steven Soderbergh

An epic about Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara, who fought for the people.

All the Kings Men

dir: Steven Zaillian

Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana.

A Prairie Home Companion

dir: Robert Altman

A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren (Streep), and a host of others hold court.

Inland Empire

dir: David Lynch

Set in the inland valley outside of Los Angeles, David Lynch's new film is a mystery about a woman in trouble.

Little Children

dir: Todd Field

Little Children centers on a group of young marrieds, whose lives intersect on the playgrounds, town pools and streets of their small community in surprising and potentially dangerous ways.

Volver

dir: Pedro Almodovar

After her death, a mother (Maura) returns to her home town in order to fix the situations should couldn't resolve during her life. Of her family left in the town, her ghost slowly becomes a comfort to her daughters (Cruz, Dueñas), as well as her grandchild (Cobo).

The Painted Veil

dir: John Curran

A woman becomes dissatisfied with her marriage, as her husband favors of his research over time with her. An affair leads her on a journey of self-discovery, and her new dedication to fighting cholera brings her to the Far East.

Margaret

dir: Kenneth Lonergan

A young woman (Paquin) witnesses a bus accident, and is caught up in the aftermath, where the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many people's lives.

The Black Dahlia

dir: Brian DePalma

An adaptation of James Ellroy's 1940s-set novel about two L.A. cops who head up the hunt for the killer of fledgling actress Elizabeth Short.

Copying Beethoven

dir: Agnieszka Holland

A fictionalized account of the last year of Beethoven's life.

Babel

dir: Alejandro González Iñárritu

Three stories set in Morocco, Tunisia, Mexico and Japan. The story begins with a tragedy striking a married couple on vacation.

Infamous

dir: Douglas McGrath

While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote (Jones) develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.

The Children of Men

dir: Alfonso Cuaron

In 2027, in a chaotic world in which man can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of mankind.

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If released:

Red Sun, Black Sand

dir: Clint Eastwood

Team of Rivals

dir: Steven Spielberg

WGA for Brokeback Mountain and Crash

The Writers Guild of America announced the winners of the 2006 Writers Guild Awards as follows:

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

CRASH, Screenplay by Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco, Story by Paul Haggis, Lionsgate

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, Screenplay by Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana, Based on the Short Story by Annie Proulx, Focus Features

Entertainment Weekly´s Oscar Issue

Entertainment Weekly´s Nominee´s Spotlight gives us:

1. Picture: Brokeback Mountain
1. Director: Ang Lee
1. Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman
1. Actress: Reese Witherspoon
1. Supporting Actor: George Clooney
1. Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz

Please see for more details www.ew.com

Pretty good predictions this year

I was in 3rd tied place in the Oscarwatch´s predict the nominees contest. I did pretty well this year but I will have to admit that this year had no surprises (although I was hoping for them). I guess this has been one of my best years ever but of course predicting the winners is a whole another game...

Please see www.oscarwatch.com for more details.

Oscar nomination predictions

As they were:


BEST PICTURE

• Brokeback Mountain
• Walk the Line -->MUNICH
• Good Night, and Good Luck
• Crash
• Capote


• Spoiler: The Constant Gardener



BEST DIRECTOR

• Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
• George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck
• Fernando Meirelles - The Constant Gardener -->BENNETT MILLER - CAPOTE
• Paul Haggis - Crash
• Steven Spielberg - Munich


• Spoiler: Bennett Miller - Capote



BEST ACTOR

• Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain
• Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
• Joaquin Phoenix - Walk the Line
• David Strathairn - Good Night, and Good Luck
• Terrence Howard - Hustle & Flow


• Spoiler: Russell Crowe - Cinderella Man



BEST ACTRESS

• Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line
• Felicity Huffman - Transamerica
• Charlize Theron - North Country
• Judi Dench - Mrs. Henderson Presents
• Keira Knightley - Pride and Prejudice


• Spoiler: Joan Allen - The Upside of Anger



BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• George Clooney - Syriana
• Paul Giamatti - Cinderella Man
• Matt Dillon - Crash
• Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain
• Bob Hoskins - Mrs. Henderson Presents -->WILLIAM HURT - A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE


• Spoiler: William Hurt - A History of Violence



BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener
• Michelle Williams - Brokeback Mountain
• Frances McDormand - North Country
• Maria Bello - A History of Violence -->AMY ADAMS - JUNEBUG
• Catherine Keener - Capote


• Spoiler: Amy Adams - Junebug



BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• Grant Heslov, George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck
• Paul Haggis, Robert Moresco - Crash
• Stephen Gaghan - Syriana
• Woody Allen - Match Point
• Noah Baumbach - The Squid and the Whale


• Spoiler: Akiva Goldsman, Cliff Hollingsworth - Cinderella Man



BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana - Brokeback Mountain
• Dan Futterman - Capote
• Jeffrey Caine - The Constant Gardener
• Josh Olson - A History of Violence
• Tony Kushner & Eric Roth - Munich


• Spoiler: Dennis & Mangold - Walk the Line



BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

• Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
• Tim Burton´s The Corpse Bride
• Madagascar -->HOWL´S MOVING CASTLE



BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM

• Fan and the Flower -->BADGERED
• Milch -->THE MOON AND THE SON: AN IMAGINED CONVERSATION
• Moongirl -->THE MYSTERIOUS GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORATIONS OF JASPER MORELLO
• xx -->9
• xx-->ONE MAN BAND



BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• Tsotsi - South Africa
• Paradise Now - Palestine
• Joyeux Noel - France
• The Promise - China -->SOPHIE SCHOLL - THE FINAL DAYS - GERMANY
• Mother of Mine - Finland -->DON´T TELL - ITALY



BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

• March of the Penguins
  
• Murderball
• Mad, Hot Ballroom -->DARWIN´S NIGHTMARE
• Favela Rising -->STREET FIGHT
• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room



BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

• xx -->THE DEATH OF KEVIN CARTER: CASUALTY OF THE BANG BANB CLUB
• xx -->GOD SLEEPS IN RWANDA
• xx -->THE MUSHROOM CLUB
• xx -->A NOTE OF TRIUMPH: THE GOLDEN AGE OF NORMAN CORWIN



BEST ART DIRECTION

• King Kong
• Chronicles of Narnia -->HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Good Night, and Good Luck
• Walk the Line -->PRIDE AND PREJUDICE



VISUAL EFFECTS

• King Kong
• Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith --> THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION
• War of the Worlds



BEST COSTUME DESIGN

• Pride and Prejudice
• Mrs. Henderson Presents
• Walk the Line
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory



BEST MAKE UP

• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• Mrs. Henderson Presents -->STAR WARS: EPISODE III REVENGE OF THE SITH
• Cinderella Man



BEST EDITING

• Crash
• Brokeback Mountain -->CINDERELLA MAN
• The Constant Gardener
• Good Night, and Good Luck -->MUNICH
• Walk the Line



BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Brokeback Mountain
• Good Night, and Good Luck
• King Kong -->BATMAN BEGINS
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• The Constant Gardener -->THE NEW WORLD



BEST SOUND MIXING

• Walk the Line
• King Kong
• Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• War of the Worlds
• Memoirs of a Geisha



BEST SOUND EDITING

• King Kong
• Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith -->MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
• War of the Worlds



BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

• John Williams - Memoirs of a Geisha
• Gustavo Santaollala - Brokeback Mountain
• James Newton Howard - King Kong -->THE CONSTANT GARDENER
• Thomas Newman - Cinderella Man -->PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
• John Williams - Munich



BEST SONG

• Hustle and Flow, Terence Howard - Hustle and Flow -->IT´S HARD OUT HERE FOR A PIMP - HUSTLE & FLOW
• Travelin' Thru, Dolly Parton - Transamerica
• In the Deep - Crash

Correct nominations: 80/109