Editor's Final Predictions

Here are my final predictions. I've changed some of them from my analyses, but not many. My predicted winner is in red, and my runner-up is underlined.

BEST PICTURE

Babel
The Departed

Letters From Iwo Jima

Little Miss Sunshine

The Queen

BEST DIRECTOR

Alejandro González Iñárritu-Babel

Clint Eastwood-Letters From Iwo Jima

Stephen Frears-The Queen

Paul Greengrass-United 93

Martin Scorsese-The Departed

BEST ACTOR

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

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

Letters From Iwo Jima

Little Miss Sunshine

Pan’s Labyrinth

The Queen

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Children of Men

The Departed

Little Children

Notes on a Scandal

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

After the Wedding

Days of Glory

The Lives of Others

Pan’s Labyrinth
Water

BEST ANIMATED FILM

Cars

Happy Feet

Monster House

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Deliver Us From Evil

An Inconvenient Truth

Iraq in Fragments

Jesus Camp

My Country, My Country

BEST FILM EDITING

Babel

Blood Diamond

Children of Men

The Departed

United 93

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Black Dahlia

Children of Men

The Illusionist

Pan’s Labyrinth

The Prestige

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Babel

The Good German

Notes on a Scandal

Pan’s Labyrinth

The Queen

BEST ART DIRECTION

Dreamgirls

The Good Shepherd

Pan’s Labryinth

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

The Prestige

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

I Need to Wake Up-An Inconvenient Truth

Listen-Dreamgirls

Love You I Do-Dreamgirls

Our Town-Cars

Patience-Dreamgirls

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Curse of the Golden Flower

The Devil Wears Prada

Dreamgirls

Marie Antoinette

The Queen

BEST MAKEUP

Apocalypto

Click

Pan’s Labyrinth

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Poseidon

Superman Returns

BEST SOUND MIXING

Apocalypto

Blood Diamond

Dreamgirls

Flags of Our Fathers

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

BEST SOUND EDITING

Apocalypto

Blood Diamond

Flags of Our Fathers

Letters From Iwo Jima

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT

Binta and the Great Idea

Eramos Pocos

Helmer & Son

The Saviour

West Bank Story

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

The Danish Poet

Lifted

The Little Matchgirl

No Time for Nuts

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

The Blood of Yingzhou District

Recycled Life

Rehearsing a Dream

Two Hands

I can't wait for tonight! Ellen DeGeneres should be great!