Since this is the last Monday before the Oscars, and since I have travel scheduled and won’t have much time for movie viewing in the coming week, here are what I assume will be my final standings (movies I’ve seen in green). I am very bad at predicting who will win. My picks are merely who I want to win.
Here are the nominees in the five major categories:
Best Picture
Babel
The Departed
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen
(5: My pick, as you know, is The Departed.)
Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio: Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling: Half Nelson
Peter O’Toole: Venus
Will Smith: The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker: The Last King of Scotland
(1: No pick.)
Best Actress
Penélope Cruz: Volver
Judi Dench: Notes on a Scandal
Helen Mirren: The Queen
Meryl Streep: The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet: Little Children
(2: All the predictive money is on Helen Mirren, and I’m okay with that.)
Best Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin: Little Miss Sunshine
Jackie Earle Haley: Little Children
Djimon Hounsou: Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy: Dreamgirls
Mark Wahlberg: The Departed
(3: I don’t know how Arkin or Wahlberg got pulled out of their respect casts as the one to nominate, I really don’t. My pick is Eddie Murphy.)
Best Supporting Actress
Adriana Barraza: Babel
Cate Blanchett: Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin: Little Miss Sunshine
Jennifer Hudson: Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi: Babel
(4: Rinko Kikuchi, no contest.)
My final score: 8 films in the major categories above, 12 in total (the additional films are Pirates of the Carribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, The Prestige, The Illusionist, and Children of Men).
