BEST PICTURE
Babel
Children Of Men
The Departed
Pan’s Labyrinth
United 93

BEST DIRECTOR
Alfonso Cuaron - Children of Men
Guillermo del Toro - Pan's Labyrinth
Paul Greengrass - United 93
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - Babel
Martin Scorsese - The Departed

BEST ACTOR
Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat
Leonardo Di Caprio - The Departed
Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson
Peter O’Toole - Venus
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
Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls
Jack Nicholson - The Departed
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
Little Miss Sunshine
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Queen
United 93

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Children of Men
The Departed
Little Children
The Prestige
Thank You For Smoking

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Apocalypto
Babel
Children of Men
The Fountain
Pan’s Labyrinth

BEST EDITING
Babel
Children Of Men
The Departed
The Fountain
United 93

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Babel
The Fountain
The Illusionist
Notes On A Scandal
Pan's Labyrinth

BEST DOCUMENTARY
An Inconvenient Truth
Dave Chappelle's Block Party
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
Jesus Camp
Neil Young: Heart Of Gold

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Romania)
L'Enfant (Belgium)
Pan's Labyrinth (Mexico)
Volver (Spain)
Water (India)

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House
Over the Hedge
A Scanner Darkly

BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER
Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris - Little Miss Sunshine
Ryan Fleck - Half Nelson
Rian Johnson - Brick
Neil Marshall - The Descent
Jason Reitman - Thank You for Smoking

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMER
Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat
Shareeka Epps - Half Nelson
Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi - Babel
Ellen Page - Hard Candy

Peace,
Mike.

The big surprise is Babel getting so much support. The rest of the films that got support and made the biggies (United 93, The Departed, Pan's Labyrinth and Children of Men) are part of this years big critical darlings, but Babel was not.

Peace,
Mike.

Dreamgirls can't even get a screenplay nomination when it is divided into adapted and original. If this lame duck wins any major Oscars besides Murphy/Hudson it'll rival the Crash-travesty from last year.

Yay for Abigail Breslin getting a nom.

Nothing really surprising here...::yawn::

Says...you

Where's Apocalypto? Where's Idiocracy?

9 nominations for Babel!


Once again, it dominates the nominations, with a strong passion index that reminds me of Crash last year. Only Pitt got snubbed... but he'll still make it through the Oscars I'm sure



And Pan's Labyrinth manages to steal Volver's thunder.

Yes, because a bunch of online critics are exactly the kind of people that Dreamgirls would appeal to. I'll keep that in mind.

BTW, this is another group where Babel has lead the nominees. Unless the PGA and DGA ignore it, it's totally in.

I would take these as Oscar nominations in a heartbeat. Perfection.

These guys are on top of it.

I think Letters now just becomes the weakest link. Its buzz seems to be wavering. I still see Eastwood get a DGA nom, but probably no PGA (LMS will take its spot), and SAG Ensemble, or any SAG nom for that matter, is unlikely.

dito

I don't get it, did Bill Condon pay for your gang bang, Loyal or what?

lame duck meant the quality of the movie.

Winners:

BEST PICTURE: “United 93”
BEST DIRECTOR: Martin Scorsese - “The Departed”
BEST ACTOR: Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland”
BEST ACTRESS: Helen Mirren - “The Queen”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Jackie Earle Haley - “Little Children”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Abigail Breslin - “Little Miss Sunshine”
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Guillermo del Toro - “Pan’s Labyrinth”
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Alfonso Cuaron, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby - “Children of Men”
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Emmanuel Lubeski - “Children of Men”
BEST EDITING: Clare Douglas, Richard Pearson and Christopher Rouse - “United 93”
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Clint Mansell - “The Fountain”
BEST DOCUMENTARY: “An Inconvenient Truth”
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: “Pan's Labyrinth” (Mexico)
BEST ANIMATED FILM: “A Scanner Darkly”
BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER: Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris - “Little Miss Sunshine”
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMER: Sacha Baron Cohen - “Borat”

I wish those were the Oscars. Great picks all around

Abigail Breslin was not bad in the film. But I continue to be annoyed by the kudos being thrown her way when a far better child performance- Keke Palmer in Akeelah in the Bee- is thought to have never existed.

Yes, Keke Palmer was absolutely wonderful in Akeelah and the Bee.

But the difference is that Abigail Breslin is supporting in the film, I would consider Keke Palmer the lead of her movie.

Keke is the lead, no question, but they push leads who don't get top billing into the supporting categories all the time. Especially children.

And whether Keke is supporting or not, it doesn't make the snub any more forgivable.

If I thought more than 4 or 5 people on the board had seen the movie, I'd make a KJ awards push. But it seems moot.

Y'know, I totally forgot to mention her in that Great Performances of 2006 thread for some reason. She was so good.

Meh.

I don't know. Keke Palmer was good, but she didn't blow me away or anything. Ditto for the film.

Saw it, loved it, still have Palmer on my Best Actress ballot.

Loyal enjoyed it too, I believe.