2006-07

It's a Wonderful Night for Oscar! Oscar, Oscar! Who Will Win?

The time for prognostication and posturing has come to an end; the winners of the 79th Academy Awards on Sunday night will be:

BEST PICTURE ✅

Will/Should win: The Departed

BEST DIRECTOR ✅

Will/Should win: Martin Scorsese, The Departed

BEST ACTOR ✅

Will/Should win: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

BEST ACTRESS ✅

Will/Should win: Helen Mirren, The Queen

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR ❌

Will/Should win: Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls

[Did win]: Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS ✅

Will/Should win: Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls

Should win: Rinko Kikuchi, Babel

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY ✅

Will win: Little Miss Sunshine

Should win: Pan's Labyrinth

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY ✅

Will/Should win: The Departed

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE ❌

Will/Should win: Cars

[Did win]: Happy Feet

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM ❌

Will/Should win: Pan's Labyrinth

[Did win]: The Lives of Othes

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE ✅

Will/Should win: An Inconvenient Truth

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY ❌

Will/Should win: Children of Men

[Did win]: Pan's Labyrinth

BEST FILM EDITING ❌

Will/Should win: Babel

[Did win]: The Departed

BEST ART DIRECTION ✅

Will/Should win: Pan's Labyrinth

BEST COSTUME DESIGN ✅

Will win: Marie Antoinette

Should win: The Devil Wears Prada

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE ❌

Will win: The Queen

Should win: Pan's Labyrinth

[Did win]: Babel

BEST ORIGINAL SONG ❌

Will win: "Listen" from Dreamgirls

Should win: "I Need to Wake Up" from An Inconvenient Truth

BEST SOUND MIXING ✅

Will win: Dreamgirls

Should win: Blood Diamond

BEST SOUND EDITING ❌

Will win: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Should win: Blood Diamond

[Did win]: Letters from Iwo Jima

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS ✅

Will/Should win: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

BEST MAKEUP ✅

Will/Should win: Pan's Labyrinth

BEST ANIMATED SHORT ❌

Will/Should win: The Little Matchgirl

[Did win]: The Danish Poet

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT ❌

Will/Should win: Eramos Pocos

[Did win]: West Bank Story

BEST DOCUMENTARY, SHORT SUBJECT ✅

Will win: The Blood of the Yingzhou District

Post-Oscars Analysis

Final score: 14/24