February 1, 2007

Our Picks For The 2007 Academy Awards

Filed under: OSCAR WATCH — Robert Newton @ 1:25 am

WORCESTER MOVIES WEEKLY’S
OFFICIAL 2007 OSCAR PREDICTIONS
[drag over titles to find out who we’d pick]

Our prediction and choice for Best Director, Martin Scorsese (click for more info on him).Click for a complete, printable Oscar ballot.Click to visit the official site of 'The Departed,' our prediction for Best Picture, but not the film we'd award (if we had the choice).

Our 2007 Best Actor prediction and choice, Forest Whitaker.BEST ACTOR
❐ Leonardo DiCaprio - Blood Diamond
❐ Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson
❐ Peter O’Toole - Venus
❐ Will Smith - The Pursuit Of Happyness
❐ Forest Whitaker - The Last King Of Scotland

Our 2007 Best Actress prediction and choice, Helen Mirren.BEST ACTRESS
❐ Penélope Cruz - Volver
❐ Judi Dench - Notes On A Scandal
❐ Helen Mirren - The Queen
❐ Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada
❐ Kate Winslet - Little Children

Our 2007 Best Supporting Actor prediction (but not our pick), Eddie Murphy.BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
❐ Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine
❐ Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children
❐ Djimon Hounsou - Blood Diamond
❐ Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls
❐ Mark Wahlberg - The Departed

Our 2007 Best Supporting Actress prediction and choice, Jennifer Hudson.BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
❐ Adriana Barraza - Babel
❐ Cate Blanchett - Notes On A Scandal
❐ Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine
❐ Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
❐ Rinko Kikuchi - Babel

Our 2007 Best Animated Feature prediction (but not the film we'd award).BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
❐ Cars
 ❐ Happy Feet
❐ Monster House
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Our 2007 Best Documentary Feature prediction (but not the film we'd award).BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
❐ Deliver Us From Evil
❐ An Inconvenient Truth
❐ Iraq In Fragments
❐ Jesus Camp
❐ My Country, My Country

Our 2007 Best Foreign Language Film prediction (and the film we'd award).BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
❐ After The Wedding
❐ Days Of Glory (Indigènes)
❐ The Lives Of Others
❐ Pan’s Labyrinth
❐ Water

Our prediction and choice for Best Director, Martin Scorsese.BEST DIRECTOR
❐ Alejandro González Iñárritu - Babel
❐ Martin Scorsese - The Departed
❐ Clint Eastwood - Letters From Iwo Jima
❐ Stephen Frears - The Queen
❐ Paul Greengrass - United 93

Our 2007 Best Picture prediction (but not the film we'd award), 'The Departed.'BEST PICTURE
❐ Babel
❐ The Departed
❐ Letters From Iwo Jima
❐ Little Miss Sunshine
❐ The Queen

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2 Comments »

  1. An amazing lot of fine films and superior acting, but my one unequivocal vote is for Babel as best picture for its richly nuanced study of communication / lack of communication, verbal / non-verbal, semiotic, barriers et al. Finally, there is the bookend symmetry of the opening and final scenes. I suspect Babel will stay with me until the last stages of senility.

    Comment by Bob Walters — February 4, 2007 @ 12:04 am

  2. Never have understood how the Best Picture could be directed by someone who doesn’t win Best Director — isn’t that like saying an also-ran created a winner? So, if Letters From Iwo Jima is your choice for Best Picture (over The Departed), why not Clint Eastwood for Best Director (over Martin Scorsese)?

    Comment by Tom Ewart — February 6, 2007 @ 2:02 pm

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