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)
SHOULD: Leonardo DiCaprio & Forest Whitaker
WILL: Forest Whitaker
DID: Forest Whitaker
Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine), Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children), Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond), Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls), Mark Wahlberg (The Departed)
SHOULD: Djimon Hounsou & Alan Arkin
WILL: Alan Arkin
DID: Alan Arkin
Best Actress: Penélope Cruz (Volver), Judi Dench (Notes on a Scandal), Helen Mirren (The Queen), Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada), Kate Winslet (Little Children)
SHOULD: Helen Mirren
WILL: Helen Mirren
DID: Helen Mirren
Supporting Actress: Adriana Barraza (Babel), Cate Blanchett (Notes on a Scandal), Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine), Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls), Rinko Kikuchi (Babel)
SHOULD: Abigail Breslin
WILL: Adriana Barraza
DID: Jennifer Hudson
Animated Feature: Cars, Happy Feet, Monster House.
SHOULD: Happy Feet
WILL: Happy Feet
DID: Happy Feet
Cinematography: The Black Dahlia, Children of Men, The Illusionist, Pan’s Labyrinth, The Prestige.
SHOULD: Pan’s Labyrinth
WILL: Pan’s Labyrinth
DID: Pan’s Labyrinth
Costume Design: Curse of the Golden Flower, The Devil Wears Prada, Dreamgirls, Marie Antoinette, The Queen.
SHOULD: Dreamgirls
WILL: The Queen
DID: Marie Antoinette
Best Director: Babel, The Departed, Letters from Iwo Jima, The Queen, United 93.
SHOULD: Martin Scorsese
WILL: Martin Scorsese
DID: Martin Scorsese
Documentary: Deliver us from Evil, An Invonvenient Truth, Iraq in Fragments, Jesus Camp, My Country My Country.
SHOULD: An Inconvenient Truth
WILL: An Inconvenient Truth
DID: An Inconvenient Truth
Film Editing: Babel, Blood Diamond, Children of Men, The Departed, United 93.
SHOULD: Babel
WILL: Babel
DID: The Departed
Foreign Language Film: After the Wedding, Days of Glory (Indigénes), The Lives of Others, Pan’s Labyrinth, Water.
SHOULD: Apocalypto
WILL: Pan’s Labyrinth
DID: The Lives of Others
Makeup: Apocalypto, Click, Pan’s Labyrinth
SHOULD: Apocalypto
WILL: Apocalypto
DID: Pan’s Labyrinth
Best Picture: Babel, The Departed, Letters from Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine, The Queen.
SHOULD: The Departed
WILL: Little Miss Sunshine
DID: The Departed
Writing (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
SHOULD: The Departed
WILL: Notes on a Scandal
DID: The Departed
Writing (Original Screenplay): Babel, Letters from Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine, Pan’s Labyrinth, The Queen
SHOULD: Little Miss Sunshine
WILL: Little Miss Sunshine
DID: Little Miss Sunshine
And there we have it....another year, another Oscar. Some of my shoulds turned out to be dids, and I was happy to be put right on a few - who could have seen 'The Departed' doing THAT well? I'm delighted for Scorsese...it is a well deserved sweeping!! Disappointed that Pan's Labyrith didn't get Best Foreign Language, and wasn't bothered on costumes anyway. I'm also disappointed that Jennifer Hudson got Best Supporting Actress, even though I haven't seen the movie. Don't really know why!! And as for Best Documentary? It could never have gone another direction - well done Al Gore!!
Can't wait to see the highlights tonight, as no terrestrial channel showed it last night, so I couldn't stay up late to watch them. See how Ellen got on...
Until next year............
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