Discuss the race for the ghetto categories here.

The nominees:

Best animated feature film of the year
“Cars” (Buena Vista) John Lasseter
“Happy Feet” (Warner Bros.) George Miller
“Monster House” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Gil Kenan

Best documentary feature
“Deliver Us from Evil” (Lionsgate)
A Disarming Films Production
Amy Berg and Frank Donner
“An Inconvenient Truth” (Paramount Classics and Participant Productions)
A Lawrence Bender/Laurie David Production
Davis Guggenheim
“Iraq in Fragments” (Typecast Releasing)
A Typecast Pictures/Daylight Factory Production
James Longley and John Sinno
“Jesus Camp” (Magnolia Pictures)
A Loki Films Production
Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
“My Country, My Country” (Zeitgeist Films)
A Praxis Films Production
Laura Poitras and Jocelyn Glatzer

Best foreign language film of the year
“After the Wedding” A Zentropa Entertainments 16 Production
Denmark
“Days of Glory (Indigènes)” A Tessalit Production
Algeria
“The Lives of Others” A Wiedemann & Berg Production
Germany
“Pan’s Labyrinth” A Tequila Gang/Esperanto Filmoj/Estudios Picasso Production
Mexico
“Water” A Hamilton-Mehta Production
Canada

Where the hell is Over the Hedge??!??

That was the best animated film last year. Oh well, Cars will do, but why'd they waste a nomination on that POS Monster House?

My rankings:

Best animated feature film of the year
1. Cars (Buena Vista) John Lasseter
2. Happy Feet (Warner Bros.) George Miller
3. Monster House (Sony Pictures Releasing) Gil Kenan

Best documentary feature
1. An Inconvenient Truth (Paramount Classics and Participant Productions)
Lawrence Bender/Laurie David Production
Davis Guggenheim
2. Deliver Us from Evil (Lionsgate)
A Disarming Films Production
Amy Berg and Frank Donner
3. Iraq in Fragments (Typecast Releasing)
A Typecast Pictures/Daylight Factory Production
James Longley and John Sinno
4. Jesus Camp (Magnolia Pictures)
A Loki Films Production
Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
5. My Country, My Country (Zeitgeist Films)
A Praxis Films Production
Laura Poitras and Jocelyn Glatzer

Best foreign language film of the year
1. Pan’s Labyrinth A Tequila Gang/Esperanto Filmoj/Estudios Picasso Production
Mexico
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2. The Lives of Others A Wiedemann & Berg Production
Germany
3. Water A Hamilton-Mehta Production
Canada
4. Days of Glory (Indigènes) A Tessalit Production
Algeria
5. After the Wedding A Zentropa Entertainments 16 Production
Denmark

I see no change from my predictions one month ago and no reason to give an explanation. They're all 95% locked. Though I guess you could make a decent argument that Pan's is only 94% though, as voters might not find a fantasy worthy of winning Foreign Language film, and go for The Lives of Other instead. Still, those ranking haven't changed at all.

Predix...

Best Animated Feature: Cars
Best Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth
Best Foreign Language Film: The Lives of Others

Foreign film is kinda interesting because although everyone is assuming it will be pan's labyrinth, none of the films have really been up against each other so far this year...with volver and letters from iwo jima winning most foreign film awards.

box office means little since you can only vote if you have seen ALL films in this category so pan's labyrinth gets no advantage because of that. it's fantasy aspect kinda hurts it. multiple nominations don't mean much either since you have to see all films to vote for best foreign film, not so for other categories so again that might not give much of an advantage to pans. (think amelie)

still pan's labyrinth has much better reviews than any other film this year, any film in the category, amelie, and any film in a long long time for that matter so i think it will take it even if im not confident about it.

best documentary will go to an inconvenient truth, im sure about that

animated...cars has won everything til now so i won't bet against it even though happy feet has better reviews.

Damn it, I almost went three-for-three. Penguins, burn in hell.