I'll do the other categories later. For now:

Best Picture
Brokeback Mountain
Crash
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Munich
Walk the Line

Best Director
George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck.
David Cronenberg, A History of Violence
Paul Haggis, Crash
Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Steven Spielberg, Munich

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
Terrence Howard, Hustle & Flow
Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
Joaquin Phoenix, Walk the Line
David Strathairn, Good Night, and Good Luck.

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Judi Dench, Mrs. Henderson Presents
Felicity Huffman, Transamerica
Keira Knightley, Pride & Prejudice
Charlize Theron, North Country
Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
George Clooney, Syriana
Matt Dillon, Crash
Paul Giamatti, Cinderella Man
Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain
Bob Hoskins, Mrs. Henderson Presents

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams, Junebug
Maria Bello, A History of Violence
Catherine Keener, Capote
Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener
Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain

Best Original Screenplay
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Crash
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Match Point
The Squid and the Whale

My Predictions.

Best Picture
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Crash
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Walk the Line

Best Director
George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck.
David Cronenberg, A History of Violence
Paul Haggis, Crash
Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Steven Spielberg, Munich

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
Russell Crowe, Cinderella Man
Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
Joaquin Phoenix, Walk the Line
David Strathairn, Good Night, and Good Luck.

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Judi Dench, Mrs. Henderson Presents
Felicity Huffman, Transamerica
Keira Knightley, Pride & Prejudice
Charlize Theron, North Country
Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
George Clooney, Syriana
Matt Dillon, Crash
Paul Giamatti, Cinderella Man
Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain
William Hurt, History of Violence.

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams, Junebug
Maria Bello, A History of Violence
Catherine Keener, Capote
Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener
Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain

Best Original Screenplay
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Crash
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Match Point
The Squid and the Whale

Best Adapted Screenplay
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Constant Gardener
History of Voilence
Munich

I'll do the rest later.

Hey, Scott, there was a bit of a snafu with the screenplay category, and Syriana is up for orginal screenplay now instead of adapted, so make sure you change that when you finish with your predictions. .

I would like to replace Cinderella Man with Syriana for Original Screenplay predictions if Syriana is really going for original.

Subject to editing before the final deadline!

Best Picture
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Crash
Good Night and Good Luck
Walk the Line

Best Director
Woody Allen, Match Point
George Clooney, Good Night and Good Luck
David Cronenberg, A History of Violence
Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Steven Spielberg, Munich

Best Actor
Ralph Fiennes, The Constant Gardener
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
Joaquin Phoenix, Walk the Line
David Strathairn, Good Night, and Good Luck.

Best Actress
Joan Allen, The Upside of Anger
Judi Dench, Mrs. Henderson Presents
Felicity Huffman, Transamerica
Charlize Theron, North Country
Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line

Best Supporting Actor
George Clooney, Syriana
Matt Dillon, Crash
Paul Giamatti, Cinderella Man
Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain
William Hurt, A History of Violence

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, Junebug
Maria Bello, A History of Violence
Frances McDormand, North Country
Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener
Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain

Best Original Screenplay
Cinderella Man
Crash
Good Night and Good Luck
Match Point
The Squid and the Whale

Best Adapted Screenplay
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
The Constant Gardener
A History of Violence
Munich

Best Documentary
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Favela Rising
Mad Hot Ballroom
March of the Penguins
Murderball

Best Original Score
Brokeback Mountain
Charlie and the Chocolate Favtory
Cinderella Man
King Kong
Memoirs of a Geisha

Best Animated Feature
Chicken Little
The Corpse Bride
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Best Cinematography
Batman Begins
Brokeback Mountain
Good Night and Good Luck
King Kong
Memoirs of a Geisha


Bonus Questions:

1. Which Studio will recieve the most nominations? Universal

2. Which film will recieve the most nominations and how many nominations will it recieve? Brokeback Mountain, 7

3. How many of the acting nominees will be first time nominees? 9

Tie Breakers:

How many nominations will the studio with the most nominations recieve? 18

How many actors and actresses (lead and supporting) will be nominated for films released before December? 12

How many different movies will be nominated from the Big 8 categories (Picture, Director, Lead and Supp. Actor, Lead and Supp. Actress, Original and Adapted Screenplay)? 14[/quote]

Okay. Alot of people don't seemt o be following the guidelines, so I'll have to find a way to put everyone's predictions into order. Most probably for the either/or categories, the first category you list will be taken as the one for that number on the ballot and the first 3 extra categories that appear in order will be your 3 #10 categories or something like that.

Glad to see alot of you participating, but let's get some more predictions in. There is one more week left!


1. Best Picture
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Crash
Good Night, and Good Luck
Munich


2. Best Director
Ang Lee, BBM
George Clooney, GNAGL
Steven Spielberg, Mun.
Bennet Miller, Capote
Paul Haggis, Crash
(I want to include Fernando Merielles so bad!)

3. Best Actor
Philip Seymor Hoffman, Capote
Terrence Howard, H&F
Heath Ledger, BBM
David Strathairn, GNAGL
Joaquin Pheonix. WTL

4. Best Actress
Judi Dench, MHP
Felicity Huffman, Trans.
Keira Knightley, P&P
Charlize Theron, NC
Reese Witherspoon, WTL

5. Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, junebug
Maria Bello, AHOV
Catherine Keener, Capote
Rachel Weisz, CG
Michelle Williams, BBM

6. Best Adapted Screenplay
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
The Constant Gardener
A history of Violence
Munich

7. Best Documentary
Enron: The Smartest guy in the Room
Mad Hot Ballroom
March of the Penguins
Murderball
Rize

8. Best Score
Brokeback Mountain
Cinderella Man
King Kong
Memoirs of a Geisha
Munich

9. Best Animated Feature
Corpse Bride
Madagascar
Wallace and Gromit

10-1. Best Supporting Actor
George Clooney, syriana
Matt Dillion, Crash
Paul Giamatti, CM
Jake Gyllenhaal, BBM
Terrence Howard, crash

10-2. Best Original Screenplay
Cinderlla Man
Crash
Good Night, and Good Luck
Match Point
The Squid and the Whale

10-3. Best Editing
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Crash
Good Night, and Good Luck
Munich

Bonuses:
1. Focus Features (tough one between this and Universal)
2. Brokeback Mountain with 9
3. 15

Tie-Breakers:
1. 11
2. 14
3. 16

I'm going for a couple of gutsy ones.

Deadline is in like 2 hours, so hurry up everyone whoever still wants to submit!

Great predictions, Raffiki

My December predictions:

Picture - 4/5
Director - 3/5
Actor - 5/5
Actress - 4/5
Sup. Actor - 4/5
Sup. Actress - 2/5
Original Screenplay - 4/5

not bad, I suppose...

Me:

Pic: 4/5
Director: 4/5
Actor: 5/5
Actress: 4/5
Sup. actor: 4/5
Sup. Actress: 5/5
Or. screenplay: 4/5
Ad. Screenplay: 4/5

I did good

Pic: 4/5
Director: 5/5
Actor: 5/5
Actress: 4/5
Sup. actor: 4/5
Sup. Actress: 4/5
Or. screenplay: 5/5
Foreign Picture 4/5

I am content

Ya, everyone seems to have done along the lines of 4/5 and 5/5 with a few completely off misses.

I'd like to have the results by tonight, late night, but it depends on how fast I edit my paper and read 40 pages of Marx theory

If not tonight, then definitely Wednesday night it will be up. Although it's going to be a little tricky. Very few people actually followed the guidelines of the game. I know how to manuever around it but some only gave in like 6 categories.

Well, I'll figure it out.
Thanks for playing!

Is it too late to change my predictions?

Picture: 4/5
Director: 3/5
Actor: 4/5
Actress: 4/5
Supporting Actor: 5/5
Supporting Actress: 4/5
Original Screenplay: 4/5
Adaptive Screenplay: 5/5
Documentary: 3/5
Score: 2/5
Animated: 2/3
Cinematography: 4/5

That's 44 out of 58 or 75.8%. eh.

Picture - 5/5
Director - 4/5
Actor - 5/5
Actress - 4/5
Sup. Actor - 4/5
Orig. Screenplay - 4/5
Documentary - 3/5
Song - 1/3
Animated - 2/3
Sound Effects/Editing - 2/3
Visual Effects - 1/3
Cinematography - 2/3

Did great on the big ones, but slipped a bit near the end. I wish I had predicted BSA, it slipped my mind that I could choose that one at the time.

Best Picture: 5/5
Best Director: 4/5
Best Actor: 5/5
Best Actress: 4/5
Best Supporting Actor: 4/5
Best Original Screenplay: 3/5
Best Documentary: 2/5
Best Original Score: 2/5
Best Animated Feature: 2/3
Supporting Actress: 4/5
Visual Effects: 1/3
Sound Editing: 2/3

Okay, I guess. Director, Actress, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress would all be 5/5 if I had used my alternate instead.

I'm so sorry everyone, but results will be up tomorrow night because I've been buried in essays and I'm all done now, but need to sleep and I have tomorrow night off.

NOMINATION GAME SCORES!

Raffiki: 292
I'd rather not include myself though....

Xiayun: 284
Yoshue: 283
greasedlightning: 280

Dr. Lecter: 279
dar: 278
Groucho: 268
trixter: 267

Maverikk: 258
snrub: 258
android: 252
Chris: 234
Shak: 232
ScottV: 214
Levy: 210
Alex Young: 202

everyone else had incomplete ballots that would have never even reached 200. I think closest would probably have been Libs with 174.

Great job, Raffi!!

I am pretty content with my position as #5 as well. I should have not went for the risky pick of Hoskins, though.

Thanks for the time to do this!

And I guess that, if you don´t include yourself, I AM #5

Funny thing is I never expected a 5:5 matchup between Pic and Director but thought it would be best to predict it that way to hopefully get at least one category all right instead of matching up different pairs and potentially losing more.

Well, can't wait till next year