Final Predictions

Tomorrow is the day we have been waiting for. Personally, I find this day more exciting than the actual ceremony, which usually is pretty predictable by the time it rolls around.

Final Predicitions...including technical categories (ugh)

Best Picture:
- Babel
- Dreamgirls
- The Departed
- The Queen
- Little Miss Sunshine

Best Director:
- Bill Condon, Dreamgirls
- Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu, Babel
- Stephen Frears, The Queen
- Martin Scorsese, The Departed
- Paul Greengrass, United 93

Best Actor:
- Forest Whitaker, The Last King Of Scotland
- Peter O'Toole, Venus
- Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
- Will Smith, The Pursuit Of Happyness
- Leonardo DiCaprio, The Departed

Best Actress:
- Helen Mirren, The Queen
- Judi Dench, Notes On A Scandal
- Kate Winslet, Little Children
- Penelope Cruz, Volver
- Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada

Best Supporting Actor:
- Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
- Jack Nicholson, The Departed
- Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
- Djimon Housou, Blood Diamond
- Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children

Best Supporting Actress:
- Abigail Bresling, Little Miss Sunshine
- Cate Blanchett, Notes On A Scandal
- Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
- Rinko Kikuchi, Babel
- Adriana Barraza, Babel

Best Original Screenplay:
- United 93
- Little Miss Sunshine
- The Queen
- Babel
- Volver

Best Adapted Screenplay:
- The Departed
- Little Children
- Notes On A Scandal
- The Devil Wears Prada
- Thank You For Smoking

Foreign Film:
- The Lives Of Others, Germany
- Water, Canada
- Pan's Labyrinth, Mexico
- Volver, Spain
- Days Of Glory, Algeria

Documentary:
- Jesus Camp
- An Inconvienant Truth
- Deliver Us From Evil
- Iraq In Fragments
- Shut Up & Sing

Animated Feature Film:
- Happy Feet
- Cars
- Monster House

Cinematography:
- Apocalypto
- Children Of Men
- Babel
- The Good Shepherd
- Pan's Labyrinth

Editing:
- United 93
- Dreamgirls
- The Queen
- Babel
- The Departed

Art Direction:
- Marie Antoinette
- Dreamgirls
- Children Of Men
- Curse Of the Golden Flower
- Pan's Labyrinth

Costume Design:
- The Devil Wears Prada
- Dreamgirls
- Marie Antoinette
- Curse Of the Golden Flower
- The Painted Veil

Best Original Score:
- Babel
- Notes On A Scandal
- The Painted Veil
- The Fountain
- The Good German

Best Original Song:
- Never Gonna Break My Faith, Bobby
- Listen, Dreamgirls
- The Song Of The Heart, Happy Feet
- I Need To Wake Up, An Inconvenient Truth
- A Father's Way, The Pursuit Of Happyness

Sound Mixing:
- Casino Royale
- Dreamgirls
- Babel
- Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
- Flags Of Our Fathers

Sound Editing:
- Cars
- Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
- Superman Returns
- Flags Of Our Fathers
- Poseidon

Best Visual Effects:
- Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
- Superman Returns
- X-Men: The Last Stand

Best Makeup:
- Apocalypto
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest