2007 Oscar predictions

I'm usually more wrong than I'm right, but it's fun to guess.

+ = I think should win
Y = I think will win
bolded = actually won

Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio/Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling/Half Nelson
Peter O'Toole/Venus
Will Smith/The Pursuit Of Happyness
+ Y Forest Whitaker/The Last King Of Scotland

I've only seen the first film here and I didn't think Leo's performance warranted an Oscar. I'm hearing Forest Whitaker is the one to beat.
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Best Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin/Little Miss Sunshine
Jackie Earle Haley/Little Children
Y Djimon Hounsou/Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy/Dreamgirls
+ Mark Wahlberg/The Departed

I've seen the first, third and fifth films.
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Best Actress
Penélope Cruz/Volver
+ Judi Dench/Notes On A Scandal
Y Helen Mirren/The Queen
Meryl Streep/The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet/Little Children

I've only seen the second film.
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Best Supporting Actress
Adriana Barraza/ Babel
+ Cate Blanchett/Notes On A Scandal
Abigail Breslin/Little Miss Sunshine
Jennifer Hudson/Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi/Babel

I haven't seen the fourth film.
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Best Animated Feature Film
Cars
Y Happy Feet
Monster House

Haven't seen any of these.
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Art Direction
Dreamgirls
The Good Shepherd
Y Pan's Labyrinth
+ Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The Prestige

I saw the second, third and fifth.
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Cinematography
The Black Dahlia
+ Y Children Of Men
The Illusionist
Pan's Labyrinth
The Prestige

I haven't seen the first one.
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Costume Design
Curse Of The Golden Flower
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
Marie Antoinette
The Queen

Haven't seen any of these.
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Directing
Babel
+ Y The Departed
Letters From Iwo Jima
The Queen
United 93

Haven't seen the third or fourth. I hope Scorcese wins for The Departed.
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Documentary Feature
Deliver Us From Evil
+ An Inconvenient Truth
Iraq In Fragments
Jesus Camp
My Country, My Country

I want to see Jesus Camp! This is the one where they were brainwashing kids in the name of God and George Bush. I've only seen the Al Gore movie, though.
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Documentary Short
The Blood Of Yingzhou District
Recycled Life
Rehearsing A Dream
Two Hands

Haven't seen any of these.
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Film Editing
Babel
Blood Diamond
Y Children Of Men
The Departed
+ United 93

Hard to choose a winner here. All good choices.

Foreign Language Film
After the Wedding
Days of Glory (Indigènes)
The Lives Of Others
Y Pan's Labyrinth
+ Water

Only saw the last two.
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Makeup
+ Apocalypto
Click
Y Pan's LabyrinthPan's Labyrinth

Saw all three. Click was such crap!
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Music (Score)
Babel
The Good German
+Y Notes On A Scandal
Pan's Labyrinth

Notes On A Scandal has a score by Philip Glass, who is famous.
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Music (Song)
An Inconvenient Truth
Dreamgirls
Dreamgirls
Cars
Dreamgirls

I don't recall the songs from the Al Gore film and didn't see the others.
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Best Picture
Babel
+ The Departed
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
Y The Queen



Sound Editing
+ Y Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Flags Of Our Fathers
Letters From Iwo Jima
Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Sound Mixing
+ Y Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Dreamgirls
Flags Of Our Fathers
Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Visual Effects
Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Poseidon
+ Y Superman Returns

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Borat Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan
Y Children Of Men
The Departed
Little Children
+ Notes On A Scandal

Writing (Original Screenplay)
+ Babel
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
Y Pan's Labyrinth
The Queen
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