My Oscar Nomination Predictions

Best Picture
Babel
Children of Men
Dreamgirls
Little Miss Sunshine
The Departed

Best Actor
Clive Owen, Children of Men
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Departed
Peter O’Toole, Venus
Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat

Best Actress
Helen Mirren, The Queen
Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada
Penelope Cruz, Volver
Toni Collette, Little Miss Sunshine

Best Supporting Actor
Brad Pitt, Babel
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
Kevin Kline, A Prairie Home Companion
Mark Wahlberg, The Departed
Steve Carell, Little Miss Sunshine

Best Supporting Actress
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
Adriana Barraza, Babel
Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
Claire-Hope Ashitey, Children of Men
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls

Best Director
Alfonso Cuaron, Children of Men
Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima
Jonathan Dayton & Valarie Faris, Little Miss Sunshine
Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Robert Altman, A Prairie Home Companion

Best Original Screenplay
A Prairie Home Companion
Babel
Little Miss Sunshine
The Fountain
The Queen

Best Adapted Screenplay
A Scanner Darkly
Children of Men
Notes on a Scandal
The Departed
The Prestige

Best Documentary
An Inconvenient Truth
Deliver Us from Evil
Jesus Camp
My Country, My Country
The Trials of Darryl Hunt

Best Animated Feature
Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House

Best Foreign Language Film
Apocalypto
Letters from Iwo Jima
Pan’s Labryinth
The Science of Sleep
Volver

More explaining, as well as my rants and ravings on the banality of the Golden Globes, later...

UPDATE: I was recently informed by Mark from OscarCentral.com that, unlike the Golden Globes, Apocalypto and Letters from Iwo Jima are ineligible for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar because they are American-produced. It's nice to see the Academy still has some common sense in this regard.