My Oscar Predictions

This is completely irrelevant and unimportant but I have decide to make my picks for the 2007 Oscar Season:
Best Picture
Winner: The Departed Scorsece(sp?) is basically a lock for Best Picture/Director this year
Runners Up: Babel, Little Miss Sunshine Babel's got good reviews and Little Miss Sunshine should be the token comedy nominee but both have little chance at winning.

Best Director
Winner: Martin Scorcese for The Departed. 6 noms, no wins for him? He's got it locked
Runners Up: Pedro Almordovar for Volver and Bill Condon for Dreamgirls. Almordovar (21 Grams) is a lock for a nom but Condon could go either way.

Best Actor
Winner: Peter O'Toole for Venus. Guys old, bad health, 7 noms and 0 wins. Usually means a win. Academy should be ashamed for not giving it to him in Lawrence of Arabia, perhaps the best acting performence of all time.
Runners Up: Leonardo Dicaprio for The Departed and Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland. Dicaprio's a lock with his great job in The Departed and Whitaker may have delivered the best job of the year but he's black and the buzz has gone wayyyyyyyy down.

Best Actress
Winner: Helen Mirren for The Queen. Skip this, she already's got it won.
Runners Up: Meryl Streep for The Devil Wears Prada and Penelope Cruz for Volver. Streep gets nominated like every year and Cruz's performence is good enough for a nod. However, they have ZERO chance of winning.

Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Jack Nicholson for The Departed. It's Jack, Hollywood loves him and it's another great performence.
Runners Up: Brad Pitt for Babel and Ben Affleck for Hollywoodland. Apparently, Affleck can actually act. Go Figure. Pitt's performence is good and it's between him and Jack right now.

Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Abigail Breslin for Little Miss Sunshine. 10-years old. This may be going out on a limb but so was Crash last year and that won. This category is up for grabs basically
Runners Up: Cate Blanchett for Notes on a Scandal and Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls. Blanchett's got 3 good ones this year so she'll get a nom, perhaps a win too. Hudson is the token black nominee this year, that's not racist, it's Hollywood.

Best Original Screenplay/Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner, Original: Babel Winner, Adapted: The Departed
These two basically have locks on these respective categories. Not much comes close.

Animated Film
Winner: Happy Feet. A lock at this point.