February 23, 2007
Final Winner Predictions

The column.


I'm fully prepared to eat crow on this one, but it's a year flimsy enough to shoot for the moon.


Gerard offered his final tech predictions yesterday, and should follow suit with his full listing here at The Blog sometime later today. As for me:


Best Picture: "Letters from Iwo Jima" (alt. "Little Miss Sunshine")
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, "The Departed" (alt. Clint Eastwood)
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, "The Last King of Scotland" (alt. Peter O'Toole)
Best Actress: Helen Mirren, "The Queen" (alt. Meryl Streep)
Best Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin, "Little Miss Sunshine" (alt. Eddie Murphy)
Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson, "Dreamgirls" (alt. Abigail Breslin)
Best Adapted Screenplay: "The Departed" (alt. "Borat")
Best Original Screenplay: "Little Miss Sunshine" (alt. "The Queen")
Best Art Direction: "Pan's Labyrinth" (alt. "Dreamgirls")
Best Cinematography: "Children of Men" (alt. "Pan's Labyrinth")
Best Costume Design: "Dreamgirls" (alt. "Curse of the Golden Flower")
Best Film Editing: "Babel" (alt. "The Departed")
Best Makeup: "Pan's Labyrinth" (alt. "Apocalypto")
Best Music, Original Score: "The Queen" (alt. "Pan's Labyrinth")
Best Music, Original Song: "An Inconvenient Truth" (alt. "Cars")
Best Sound: "Dreamgirls" (alt. "Flags of Our Fathers")
Best Sound Editing: "Letters from Iwo Jima" (alt. "Flags of Our Fathers")
Best Visual Effects: "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" (alt. "Superman Returns")
Best Animated Feature Film: "Cars" (alt. "Happy Feet")
Best Foreign Language Film: "The Lives of Others" (alt. "Pan's Labyrinth")
Best Documentary, Feature: "An Inconvenient Truth" (alt. "Deliver Us from Evil")
Best Documentary, Short Subject: "Recycled Life" (alt. "The Blood of Yingzhou District")
Best Short Film, Animated: "The Little Matchgirl" (alt. "Lifted")
Best Short Film, Live Action: "West Bank Story" (alt. "The Saviour")


And now, we wait.


Previously:
December
November
October
September

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The Producers
American Gangster' (Universal Pictures)
Charlie Wilson’s War' (Universal Pictures)
Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
Miramax
'The Great Debaters' (MGM/ Weinstein Co.)
'No Country for Old Men' (Miramax)
'There Will Be Blood' (Paramount Vantage)

Achievement in Directing
Ridley Scott 'American Gangster'
Sidney Lumet 'Before The Devil Knows You're Dead'
Denzel Washington 'The Great Debaters'
Marc Forrester 'The Kite Runner'
Joel Coen 'No Country For Old Men'
Paul Anderson Thomas 'There Will Be Blood'

Leading Man
Mathieu Amalric, Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'
Don Cheadle, 'Talk to Me'
Daniel Day-Lewis, 'There Will Be Blood'
EMILE HIRSCH in INTO THE WILD
Tommy Lee Jones, 'In the Valley of Elah'
Viggo Mortensen, 'Eastern Promises'
Denzel Washington, 'American Gangster'

Supporting Man
Casey Affleck in The Assassination of Jesse James
Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men
Philip Bosco in The Savages
Albert Finney in Before The Devil Knows You're Dead
HAL HOLBROOK in INTO THE WILD
ARMIN MUELLER STAHL in EASTERN PROMISES
Max Von Sydow, in Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)The Driving Bell and The Butterfly

Leading Ladies
Amy Adams, 'Enchanted'
Halle Berry in Things We Lost in the Fire
Cate Blanchett, 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age'
Julie Christie, 'Away From Her
Marion Cotillard, 'La Vie En Rose'La Môme
Ellen Page, 'Juno'

Supporting Women
Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There
Ramola Garai in Atonement
Jennifer Jason Leigh in Magot At The Wedding
Samantha Morton in Control
Vanessa Redgrave in Atonement
Saoirse Ronan in Atonement
Amy Ryan in Gone Baby Gone

Achievement in Directing
Ethan Coen for No County For Old Men
David Cronenberg for Eastern Promises
Marc Forrester for The Kite Runner
Ridley Scott for American Gangster
Paul Thomas Anderson for There We Be Blood
Denzel Washington for The Great Debaters

Producing
American Gangster producers Brain Grazer & Ridley Scott
Charlie Wilson's War produced by Tom Hanks
The Great Debaters producers Oprah Winfrey, Denzel Washington, and Joe Roth
The Kite Runner produced by Sam Mendes
No Country For Old Men producers Ethan Coen & Joel Coen & Scott Rubin
There We Be Blood producers Paul Thomas Anderson & Daniel Lupi & Joanne Sellar & Scott Rubin

Original Screenplay
Eastern Promises written directly for the screen by Steven Knight
The Great Debaters written directly for the screen by Robert Eisele and Suzan-Lori Parks
I'm Not There written directly for the screen by Todd Haynes & Oren Moverman
Juno written directly for the screen by Diablo Cody
Lust Caution [Se, jie] written directly for the screen by Eileen Chang & James Schamus
Ratatouille written directly for the screen by

Screenplay Adaption
American Gangster adapted by Steven Zaillian from Mark Jacobson publication
Charlie Wilson's War adapted by Aaron Sorkin from George Crile publication
The Kite Runner adapted by David Benioff from Khaled Hosseini publication
No Country Country For Old Man adapted by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen from Cormac McCarthy
There Will Be Blood adapted by Paul Thomas Anderson from Upton Sinclair's "Oil!"

Best Film Editing
American Gangster
Eastern Promises
I'm Not There
The Kite Runner
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Best Sound Mixing
American Gangster
Eastern Promises
I'm Not There
Ratatouille
Sweeney Todd

Best Sound Editing
American Gangster
Eastern Promises
I'm Not There
Ratatouille
Sweeney Todd

Best Animated Feature Film
Bee Movie
Dreamworks
Directed By: Steve Hickner, Simon J. Smith
Beowulf
Warner Bros. Pictures
Directed By: Robert Zemeckis
Persepolis
Sony Pictures Classics
Directed By: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Ratatouille
Pixar/Disney
Directed By: Brad Bird
The Simpsons Movie
20th Century Fox
Directed By: David Silverman

Best Documentary Feature Film
Darfur Now director Ted Braun
Earth directors Alastair Fothergill & Mark Linfield
The Hip-Hop Project director Matt Ruskin
No End In Sight director Charles Ferguson
Sicko director Michael Moore

Best Original Song Composed/Written for the Screen
Across The Universe "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" [Bono]
Once "Say It To Me Now" Marketa Irglova & Glen Hansard
Hairspray "I Know Where I've Been" Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman [Queen Latifah]
The Hip-Hop Project "A Mother's Cry" Chris "Kazi" Rolle [Princess f/Shameka & Senic]
Ratatouille "Le Festin" Michael Giacchino [Camille]
Sicko "I'm Alone Without You" Tom Morello [The Nightwatchman]

Original Composition Score
Across The Universe
Atonement
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Cinematography
Across The Universe
Atonement
Charlie Wilson's War
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Art Direction
Atonement
Charlie Wilson's War
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Costume Design
Atonement
Charlie Wilson's War
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Make-Up/Prospetic
Across The Universe
The Assassination of Jesse James
Sweeney Todd

Best Visual Special Effects
Transformers
Pirates of The Carribean 3
Spiderman 3

Best Foreign Language Film
Persepolis
FRANCE
Directed By: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Lust, Caution
TAIWAN
Directed By: Ang Lee
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
ROMANIA
Directed By: Cristian Mungiu
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
BRAZIL
Directed By: Cao Hamburger
The Unknown Woman
ITALY
Directed By: Giuseppe Tornatore
Alternates:
Shadows
MACEDONIA
Directed By: Milcho Manchevski
RUSSIA
Directed By: Nikita Mikhalkov
Kings
IRELAND
Directed By: Tom Collins
The Orphanage
SPAIN
Directed By: Juan Antonio Bayona
Days of Darkness
CANADA
Directed By: Denys Arcand

Music (Original Song):
Best Original Song Composed/Written for the Screen
“Come So Far (Got So Far to Go)” from Hairspray – Music by Marc Shaiman; Lyric by Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman
*“Falling Slowly” from Once – Music & Lyric by Glen Hansard
“Guaranteed” from Into the Wild – Music & Lyric by Eddie Vedder
“House is Falling Down” from In the Valley of Elah – Music & Lyric by Kathleen ‘Bird’ York
“That’s How You Know” from Enchanted – Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
Across The Universe "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" [Bono]
Once "Say It To Me Now" Marketa Irglova & Glen Hansard
Hairspray "I Know Where I've Been" Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman [Queen Latifah]
The Hip-Hop Project "A Mother's Cry" Chris "Kazi" Rolle [Princess f/Shameka & Senic]
Ratatouille "Le Festin" Michael Giacchino [Camille]
Sicko "I'm Alone Without You" Tom Morello [The Nightwatchman]

Best Adaption Sceenwriter
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
Ronald Harwood
Based on the book by Jean-Dominique Bauby
"Gone Baby Gone"
Ben Affleck, Aaron Stockard
Based on the novel by Dennis Lehane
Best Cinematographer
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
Janusz Kaminski
Best Film Editor
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
Juliette Welfling
Best Picture Producers
"Juno"
Lianne Halfon
Kelli Konop
"Juno"
Dana E. Glauberman
Best Sceenplay Written Directly For The Screen
"Michael Clayton"
Tony Gilroy
"Before the Devil Knows You're Dead"
Kelly Masterson

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