2007 Oscar Nomination Predictions

Best Picture
Babel
The Departed
Dreamgirls
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

alt: Pan's Labyrinth

Best Director
Bill Condon - Dreamgirls
Guillermo del Toro - Pan's Labyrinth
Stephen Frears - The Queen
Alejandro González Iñárritu - Babel
Martin Scorsese - The Departed

alt: Clint Eastwood - Letters from Iwo Jima

Best Actress
Penelope Cruz - Volver
Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal
Helen Mirren - The Queen
Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet - Little Children

alt: none

Best Actor
Leonardo diCaprio - The Departed
Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson
Peter O'Toole - Venus
Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker - Last King of Scotland

alt: Sasha Baron Cohen - Borat

Best Supporting Actress
Adriana Barraza - Babel
Cate Blanchett - Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine
Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi - Babel

alt: Catherine O'Hara - For Your Consideration (ironic, I know)

Best Supporting Actor
Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children
Djimon Honsou - Blood Diamond
James MacAvoy - Last King of Scotland
Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls
Jack Nicholson - The Departed

alt: Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine

Best Original Screenplay
Babel
Little Miss Sunshine
Pan's Labyrinth
The Queen
Volver

alt: Stranger Than Fiction

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Departed
The Devil Wears Prada
Last King of Scotland
Little Children
Notes on a Scandal

alt: Children of Men