My Predictions for tomorrow

My final Oscar nomination guesses.

BEST PICTURE
The Departed
Babel
Dreamgirls
The Queen
Little Miss Sunshine
Alternate: United 93

BEST DIRECTOR
Martin Scorsese (The Departed)
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Babel)
Stephen Frears (The Queen)
Bill Condon (Dreamgirls)
Little Miss Sunshine
Alternate: Paul Greengrass (United 93)
Dark Horse: Clint Eastwood (Letters from Iwo Jima)

BEST ACTOR
Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)
Will Smith (The Pursuit of Happyness)
Peter O’Toole (Venus)
Leonardo DiCaprio (The Departed)
Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson)
Alternate: Sasha Baron Cohen (Borat)

BEST ACTRESS
Helen Mirren (The Queen)
Judi Dench (Notes on a Scandal)
Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada)
Kate Winslet (Little Children)
Penelope Cruz (Volver)
Alternate: Annette Bening

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls)
Jack Nicholson (The Departed)
Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine)
Brad Pitt (Babel)
Mark Walhberg (The Departed)
Alternate: Dijomon Hounsou
Dark Horse: Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jennifer Houston (Dreamgirls)
Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sundhine)
Cate Blanchett (Notes on a Scandal/Babel)
Rinko Kikuchi (Babel)
Adriana Barraza (Babel)
Alternate: Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Babel
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen
Stranger than Fiction
Alternate: Volver
Dark Horse : Pan’s Labyrinth

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Departed
Thank You for Smoking
Dreamgirls
Little Children
Children of Men
Alternate: The Devil Wears Prada

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Children of Men
Pan’s Labyrinth
Apocalypto
The Departed
Babel
Alternate: Letters from Iwo Jima

ART DIRECTION/SET DECORATION
Dreamgirls
Marie Antoinette
Pan’s Labyrinth
Children of Men
Apocalypto
Alternate: Curse of the Golden Flower

FILM EDITING
Babel
The Departed
Dreamgirls
United 93
Letters from Iwo Jima
Alternate: The Queen

COSTUME DESIGN
Dreamgirls
Marie Antoinette
Pirates of the Caribbean 2
The Devil Wears Prada
The Queen
Alternate: The Illusionist

MAKEUP
Pirates of the Caribbean
Pan’s Labyrinth
Apocalypto
Alternate: X-Men: The Last Stand

ORIGINAL SCORE
Notes on a Scandal
The Queen
Babel
The Painted Veil
The Da Vinci Code
Alternate: Apocalypo

ORIGINAL SONG
Dreamgirls
Happy Feet
An Inconvenient Truth
The Pursuit of Happyness
Bobby
Alternate: Cars

SOUND MIXING/DESIGN
Dreamgirls
Apocalypto
The Departed
Pirates of the Caribbean 2
Children of Men
Alternate: Casino Royale

SOUND EDITING/EFFECTS
Cars
Pirates of the Caribbean 2
Superman Returns
Alternate: The Departed

VISUAL EFFECTS
Pirates 2
Superman Returns
X-Men: The Last Stand
Alternate: Poseidon

ANIMATED FEATURE
Happy Feet
Cars
Monster House

BEST FOREIGN FILM
Pan’s Labyrinth
Volver
The Lives of Others
The Black Book
Days of Glory
Alternate: Water

FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
An Inconvenient Truth
Deliver Us from Evil
Shut Up & Sing
The War Tapes
Jesus Camp
Alternate: Iraq in Fragments

SHORT SUBJECT
Recycled Life
The Diary of Immaculee
The Blood of Yingzhou District
Rehearsing a Dream
Dear Talula
Phoenix Dance
Two Hands