2006 Oscar Predictions for April

BEST PICTURE
Flags of Our Fathers (Dreamworks)
The Good Shepherd (Universal Pictures)
Dreamgirls (Dreamworks)
Goya's Ghosts (no distributor)
Breaking and Entering (The Weinstein Co.)

I put Dreamgirls up there against my better judgement. I think it could be a marginal sucess but not Oscar worthy.

Marie Antoinette (Columbia Pictures)
All The King's Men (Columbia Pictures)
The Departed (Warner Brothers)
Little Children (New Line)
A Prairie Home Companion (Picturehouse)

Babel (Paramount)
The Good German (Steven Soderbergh)
A Good Year (20th Century Fox)
World Trade Center (Paramount/Universal)

BEST DIRECTOR
Clint Eastwood (Flags of Our Fathers)
Robert DeNiro (The Good Shepherd)
Robert Altman (A Prairie Home Companion)
Milos Forman (Goya’s Ghosts)
Martin Scorsese (The Departed)

Sofia Coppola (Mare Antoinette)
Bill Condon (Dreamgirls)
Todd Field (Little Children)
Steven Soderbergh (The Good German)
Anthony Minghella (Breaking and Entering)

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Babel)
David Lynch (Island Empire)
Steve Zaillian (All The King's Men)
Oliver Stone (World Trade Center)
Chris Nolan (The Prestige)

BEST ACTOR
Matt Damon (The Good Shepherd, The Departed)
Javier Bardem (Goya’s Ghosts)
Sean Penn (All The King’s Men)
Brad Pitt (Babel)
Jude Law (Breaking and Entering)

Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)
Leonardo DiCaprio (The Departed)
Benico Del Toro (Gorilla)
Ryan Philippe (Flags of Our Fathers)

Russell Crowe (A Good Year)
Ed Harris (Copying Beethoven)
Stellan Skarsgard (Goya’s Ghost)
George Clooney (The Good German)
Nicolas Cage (WTC)

BEST ACTRESS
Annette Bening (Running with Scissors)
Kate Winslet (Little Children)
Nicole Kidman (Fur)
Cate Blanchett (The Good German or Babel)
Naomi Watts (The Painted Veil)

Juliette Binoche (Breaking and Entering)
Kirsten Dunst (Mare Antoinette)
Julianne Moore (Children of Men)
Laura Dern (Island Empire)
Anna Paquin (Margaret)

Beyonce Knowles (Dreamgirls)
Scarlett Johansson (Scoop,)
Meryl Streep (A Prairie Home Companion)
Robin Wright Penn (Breaking and Entering)
Penelope Cruz (Volver)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Jack Nicholson (The Departed)
Gael Garcia Bernal (Babel)
Javier Bardem (Che)
Albert Finney (A Good Year)
Robert Downey Jr. (Fur)
Tim Robbins (Hot Stuff)

Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls)
James Gandolfini (All the King’s Men)
Jude Law (All the King’s Men)
Barry Pepper (Flags of Our Fathers)
Jason Scharwrtzman (Maria Antoinette)
Kevin Kline (A Prairie Home Companion)

Jamie Bell (Flags of Our Fathers)
Matt Damon (Margaret)
Robert Di Niero (The Good Shepherd)
Robert Duvall (Lucky You)
William Hurt (The Good Shepherd)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Lily Tomlin (A Prairie Home Companion)
Natalie Portman (Goya’s Ghosts)
Angelina Jolie (The Good Shepherd)
Jennifer Connelly (Little Children)
Kate Winslet (Al The King’s Men)
Meryl Streep (Conquistadora)
Patricia Clarkson (All the King’s Men)

Maria Bello (WTC)
Judi Dench (Notes on a Scandal)
Robin Wright Penn (Breaking and Entering)
Sandra Bullock (Infamous)

Jennifer Houston (Dreamgirls)
Scarlett Johansson (The Prestige)
Cate Blanchett (The Good German)
Ellen Burstyn (The Fountain)
Jill Clayburgh (Running with Scissors)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Good Shepherd (Eric Roth)
Babel (Guillermo Arriaga)
Breaking and Entering (Anthony Minghella)
For Your Consideration (Eugene Levy & Chris Guest)
Goya's Ghost (Jean-Claude Carrière, Milos Forman)
Hotstuff (Shawn Slovo)

The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky & Ari Handel)
Inland Empire (David Lynch)
Scoop (Woody Allen)
Southland Tales (Richard Kelly)
The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry)

American Dreamz (Paul Weitz)
Breach (Adam Mazer, Billy Ray and William Rotko)
Cars (John Lasseter)
Lady In The Water (M. Night Shyamalan)
Volver (Pedro Almodovar)
WTC (Andrea Berloff)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Flags of Our Fathers (Paul Haggis)
All The King’s Men (Steven Zallian)
Little Children (Todd Field, Tom Perrotta)
Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
The Good German (Paul Aattanasio)

A Prairie Home Companion (Garrison Keillor)
Running with Scissors (Ryan Murphy)
Ask the Dust (Robert Towne)
Dreamgirls (Bill Condon)
The Painted Veil (Ron Nyswaner)

The Departed
Zodiac (James Vanderbilt)
As You Like It (Kenneth Branagh)
The Children Of Men (Alfonso Cuaron, David Arata, Timothy Sexton)
A Good Year (Marc Klein)
Notes on a Scandal (Patrick Marber)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Assassination of Jesse James…
The Good Shepherd
The Black Dahlia
Flags of Our Fathers
Goya’s Ghosts

Miami Vice
Apocalypto Ask the Dust
Breaking and Entering
Bable
The Departed

Dreamgirls
Children of Men
Zodiac

FILM EDITING
Flags of Our Fathers
The Good Shepherd
The Departed
Miami Vice
Babel

Goya’s Ghosts
Breaking and Entering

ART DIRECTION/SET DECORATION
Marie Antoinette
Goya’s Ghosts
Dreamgirls
Apocalypto
The Good German
The Black Dahlia
Flags of Our Fathers
A Prairie Home Companion
Children of Men
The Prestige
Eragon
The Fountain

COSTUME DESIGN
Marie Antoinette
Goya’s Ghosts
The Black Dahila
The Assassination of Jesse James …
The Prestige
Dreamgirls
Flags of Our Fathers
The Fountain
All The King’s Men
Ask the Dust

MAKEUP
Marie Antoinette
Apocalypto
Pan’s Labyrinth
Pirates of the Caribbean 2
Flags of Our Fathers
Eragon
Goya’s Ghosts
Apocalypto
Dreamgirls
The Prestige

SOUND MIXING
Cars
Dreamgirls
Flags of Our Fathers
The Good German
The Good Shepherd
Goya’s Ghosts
Marie Antoinette
Babel
The Departed
Pirates of the Caribbean 2

SOUND EDITING
Cars
Flags of Our Fathers
Pirates of the Caribbean 2
Mission Impossible III
The Good Shepherd
Superman Returns
X-Men: The Last Stand

VISUAL EFFECTS
X-Men: The Last Stand
Superman Returns
Poseidon

ORIGINAL SCORE
ORIGINAL SONG
FOREIGN FILM

ANIMATED FEATURE
Cars (Disney/Pixar)
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
A Scanner Darkly (Warner Indep.)
Tales From Earthsea (?)
Flushed Away (Aardman)
Happy Feet (WB)
The Ant Bully (WB)
Arthur and the Minimoys
Barnyard (Nickelodeon)
Meet the Robinsons (Disney)
Monster House (Columbia)
Open Season (Sony)
Over the Hedge (Dreamworks)
The Wild (Disney)
Yankee Irving (Fox)

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
Sicko (Michael Moore)
An Inconvenient Truth
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
God Grew Tried of Us (Christopher Dillon Quinn, Tom Walker)
Fuck
Awesome I Fucking Shot That
95 Miles to Go
Tales of the Rat Fink
Wordplay
The Heart of the Game
Who Killed the Electric Car?
The U.S. Vs. John Lennon
Our Band is Crisis
The Real Dirt on Farmer John
Shakespeare Behind Bars
Te Beauty Academy of Kabul
The Lady in Question is Charles Busch

ANIMATED SHORT FILM
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
LIVE ACTION SHORT