Here are my 2007 OSCAR predictions and I can only say that while I saw all the Best Picture nominations and some other titles (Dreamgirls, Pan's Labyrinth, Notes on a Scandal, Devil Wears Prada, Cars), I was unable to catch other nominated ones, so an educated guess is all I can give.
PICTURE-Even though Letters from Iwo Jima was the best of these, and Dreamgirls should have been nominated, and The Departed is 3/4 a great movie, and Babel starts like a great film with great ambitions, and the Queen was too 'perfect' to garner votes, a small, 'a feel good film that could' and one that is neither remarkable or extraordinary except for the fact it humorously expouses the importance of family will win-Little Miss Sunshine.
ACTOR-Forest Whitaker has paid his dues and made the most of a role of a lifetime.easy pick.
ACTRESS-Helen Mirren has paid her dues and made the most of a role of a lifetime. easy pick. deja vu.
SUPPORTING ACTOR-Eddie Murphy's comeback role. He may never do work so good or display his total talent so well. I am wistful in wishing Peter O'Toole the best and Alan Arkin needed a bit more screentime.
SUPPORTING ACTRESS-Jennifer Hudson found the right part at the right time. Just watch her climactic song "AND I AM TELLING YOU I'M NOT GOING" and you could give her the Oscar for those few minutes alone.
DIRECTOR-MARTIN SCORSESE finally gets his dues with The Departed. It would be stunning upset otherwise. Inarritu for Babel and Eastwood for Letters from Iwo Jima would be justified in any other year.
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY-Little Miss Sunshine.
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY-The Departed one of the few times a film adapted from another film (Infernal Affairs)was honored.
CINEMATOGRAPHY-Pan's Labyrinth.
VISUAL EFFECTS-Pirates of the Caribbean-Dead Mans Chest
COSTUME-Dreamgirls
EDITING-Babel although United 93 stands a great chance.
ART DIRECTION-Pan's Labyrinth despite a possible surge in Dreamgirls
MAKEUP-Pan's Labyrinth
SOUND MIXING-Deamgirls
SONG-Listen/Dreamgirls
SOUND EDITING-Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Mans Chest
ORIGINAL SCORE-The Queen but possible competition from Babel
FOREIGN -Pan's Labyrinth
DOCUMENTARY-An Inconvenient Truth
ANIMATED-Cars
I think Dreamgirls and Pan's Labyrinth could win alot of the smaller awards between them.
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