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Lancemc said:Performance by an actor in a leading role
Forest Whitaker - THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Eddie Murphy - DREAMGIRLS
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Kate Winslet - LITTLE CHILDREN
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Abigail Breslin - LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
Best animated feature film of the year
CARS
Achievement in art direction
PAN'S LABYRINTH
Achievement in cinematography
CHILDREN OF MEN
Achievement in costume design
CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER
Achievement in directing
BABEL
Best documentary feature
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH
Achievement in film editing
BABEL
Best foreign language film of the year
PAN'S LABYRINTH
Achievement in makeup
PAN'S LABYRINTH
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
PAN'S LABYRINTH
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
Something from DREAMGIRLS
Best motion picture of the year
BABEL
Achievement in sound editing
LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA
Achievement in sound mixing
DREAMGIRLS
Achievement in visual effects
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST
Adapted screenplay
LITTLE CHILDREN
Original screenplay
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
I think these were my picks, and I don't really remember how close I was all together aside from the obvious ones.
Wow. Little Children was my #2 of the year, and I didn't have any faith in its chances. It was terribly underpromoted by its studio, and though Kate Winslet was overdue, Helen Mirren won practically every single critics award imaginable. She was a steamroller.
Abigail Breslin? Really?
While Babel SEEMED like it would be up the Academy's alley, I didn't think it was going to win. Most of the film was in a foreign language, and I imagine the section with the horny deaf Japanese girl creeped out a lot of Academy members. Whenever I thought The Departed couldn't win, I would have a much harder time making the case for any of the other entries. They wanted to give Marty his due last year, and giving it Best Picture as well helped to legitimize the decision. I don't think it was a cheap make-up award anyway, because Marty's direction is always top-of-the-line, and the film was a well-made, well-acted, well-scripted Shakespearean thriller. It's just as good, if not better, than The French Connection, and blows the overrated genre trash of Silence of the Lambs out of the water.
/rant