My Top Ten + Honorable Mentions, other awards, and Big 8

10. Notes on a Scandal
9. Shut Up & Sing
8. Flags of our Fathers
7. Marie-Antoinette
6. Half Nelson
5. The Queen
4. Babel
3. The Departed
2. Children of Men
1. Little Miss Sunshine

Honorable Mentions: An Inconvenient Truth, For Your Consideration, Thank You for Smoking, Casino Royale, Borat!: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Blood Diamond, Infamous

Worst of the year: Running with Scissors

Overrated film: The Last King of Scotland

Overrated performance: Djimon Housou, Blood Diamond

Underrated film: Flags of our Fathers

Underrated performance: Daniel Craig, Infamous

My Big 8 Awards

BEST PICTURE

Little Miss Sunshine**
Children of Men
The Departed
Babel
The Queen

BEST DIRECTOR

Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, Little Miss Sunshine
Martin Scorsese, The Departed**
Alfonso Cuaron, Children of Men
Stephen Frears, The Queen
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Babel

BEST ACTOR

Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Greg Kinnear, Little Miss Sunshine
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson**
Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond
Aaron Eckhart, Thank You for Smoking

BEST ACTRESS

Helen Mirren, The Queen**
Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
Kirsten Dunst, Marie-Antoinette
Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet, Little Children (haven't seen this, but there weren't any other contenders that I could think of that I thought merited a nomination)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
Daniel Craig, Infamous
Steve Carell, Little Miss Sunshine
Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine**
Mark Wahlberg, The Departed

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
Catherine O'Hara, For Your Consideration**
Adriana Barraza, Babel
Rinko Kikuchi, Babel

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Queen
Babel
Little Miss Sunshine**
Stranger than Fiction
Half Nelson

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Children of Men
Flags of our Fathers
The Departed**
Notes on a Scandal
Thank You for Smoking