Daniel's Final Predictions for the 79th Annual Academy Awards (nominations)

Best Picture
Babel
The Departed
Dreamgirls
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

Best Directing
Babel, Alejandro Gonzáles Iñaritu
The Departed, Martin Scorsese
Children of Men, Alfonso Cuaron
Letters from Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood
The Queen, Stephen Frears

Best Actor in a Leading Role
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 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

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

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

Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Departed
Children of Men
Little Children
Notes on a Scandal
Thank You for Smoking

Best Writing (Original Screenplay)
Babel
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen
Stranger than Fiction
Pan's Labyrinth

Best Music (Original Score)
Babel
The Fountain
Letters from Iwo Jima
The Da Vinci Code
The Painted Veil

Best Music (Original Song)
An Inconvenient Truth
Dreamgirls
Happy Feet
Bobby
The Pursuit of Happyness

Best Art Direction/Set Decoration
Curse of the Golden Flower
Children of Men
Dreamgirls
Pan's Labyrinth
Marie Antoinette

Best Cinematography
Curse of the Golden Flower
Children of Men
The Departed
Marie Antoinette
Letters from Iwo Jima

Best Costume Design
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
Bobby
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Marie Antoinette

Best Film Editing
Babel
Children of Men
The Departed
Little Miss Sunshine
United 93

Best Makeup
Apocalypto
Pan’s Labyrinth
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Best Sound Mixing
The Departed
Dreamgirls
Letters from Iwo Jima
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Superman Returns

Best Sound Editing
United 93
Dreamgirls
The Departed
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Letters from Iwo Jima

Best Visual Effects
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Superman Returns
X-Men: The Last Stand

Best Animated Feature Film
Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House

Best Documentary Feature
An Inconvenient Truth
Deliver Us from Evil
Iraq in Fragments
Jesus Camp
Shut Up and Sing

Best Foreign Language Film
Volver (Spain)
Nomad (Kazakhstan)
Pan’s Labyrinth (Mexico)
The Lives of Others (Germany)
Water (Canada)

We'll see for sure on Tuesday.