Oscar Nods Tomorrow! Here are my predictions....

[manzy219]

...for the Big Eight:

Best Picture
The Departed
The Queen
Babel
Dreamgirls
Little Miss Sunshine

Wildcards: United 93, Letters from Iwo Jima

Best Director
Martin Scorsese - The Departed
Stephen Frears - The Queen
Alejandro González Iñárritu - Babel
Bill Condon - Dreamgirls
Clint Eastwood - Letters from Iwo Jima

Wildcards: Paul Greengrass - United 93, Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris - Little Miss Sunshine

Best Actor
Leonard DiCaprio - The Departed
Forest Whitaker - Last King of Scotland
Peter O’Toole - Venus
Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness
Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson

Wildcards: Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat

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

Wildcards: Beyonce Knowles - Dreamgirls, Maggie Gyllenhaal - Sherrybaby

Best Supporting Actor
Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls
Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine
Jack Nicholson - The Departed
Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children
Djimon Hounsou - Blood Diamond

Wildcards: (oh how I wish these two could get nominated) Michael Sheen - The Queen, Mark Wahlberg - The Departed

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

Wildcards: Toni Collette - Little Miss Sunshine, Emily Blunt - The Devil Wears Prada

Best Original Screenplay
The Queen
Babel
Little Miss Sunshine
Letters from Iwo Jima
Pan’s Labyrinth

Wildcards: United 93, Volver

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Departed
Children of Men
Little Children
Notes on a Scandal
Thank You for Smoking

Wildcards: The Devil Wears Prada, Borat

Good luck to all my peeps...and you know who you are!!