The Bagger Nostradamus

David Carr of the New York Times goes out on a limb and declares his predictions:

Picture: “The Departed”
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actor: Forest Whitaker
Actress: Helen Mirren
Supporting Actor: Eddie Murphy
Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson
Original Screenplay: “Little Miss Sunshine”
Adapted Screenplay: “The Departed”
Foreign Film:” The Lives of Others”
Animated Film: “Happy Feet”
Art Direction: “Pan’s Labyrinth”
Cinematography: “Children of Men”
Documentary: “An Inconvenient Truth”
Visual Effects: “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”
Costume: “Dreamgirls”
Sound Mixing: “Dreamgirls”
Sound Editing: “Letters From Iwo Jima”
Editing: “Babel”
Musical Score: “The Queen”
Music: “Listen” from “Dreamgirls”
Makeup: “Pan’s Labyrinth”
Documentary Short: “The Blood of Yingzhou District”
Live Action Short: “Binta and The Great Idea”
Animated Short: “The Little Match Girl”

--Lotto Picks - Carpetbagger - Movies - Oscars - Awards - David Carr - New York Times Blog

His picks are almost identical to mine (and conventional wisdom). For what it's worth, I think Eddie Murphy might not win Best Supporting Actor... But it is true that Dreamgirls could pick up that many statues despite being "snubbed" in the Best Picture nominations. Also, I think Babel might take Musical Score. There was at least one music cue in The Queen I found distracting to the scene it played under, which is a big no no.

Stay tuned to this blog starting Sunday afternoon for live thoughts and musing as the Academy Awards ceremony goes down. I have liveblogged the Oscars in the past and I will be liveblogging the Oscars again this year, come hell or Poseidon.