Best Actress

• Reese Witherspoon, "Walk the Line" (my prediction and pick)

Best Actor

• Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Capote" (my prediction and pick)

Best Supporting Actress

• Michelle Williams, "Brokeback Mountain" (my prediction)
• Frances McDormand, "North Country" (my pick)

Best Supporting Actor

• George Clooney, "Syriana" (my prediction)
• Paul Giamatti, "Cinderella Man" (my pick)

Best Art Direction

• "Memoirs of a Geisha" (my prediction and pick)

Best Cinematography

• "Memoirs of a Geisha" (my prediction)
• "Batman Begins" (my pick)

Best Costume Design

• "Memoirs of a Geisha" (my prediction and pick)

Best Makeup

• "Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith" (my prediction and pick)

Best Visual Effects

• "King Kong" (my prediction and pick)

Best Original Score

• "Memoirs of a Geisha" (my prediction and pick)

Best Original Song

• "In The Deep" (from "Crash") (my prediction)
• "It's Hard Out There for a Pimp" (from "Hustle and Flow") (my pick)

Best Sound Editing

• "King Kong" (my prediction and pick)

Best Sound Mixing

• "Walk the Line" (my prediction and pick)

Best Editing

• "Crash" (my prediction and pick)

The Not-Quite-So-Best Pictures

Best Animated Feature Film

• "Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit" (my prediction)
• "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride" (my pick)

Best Animated Short Subject

• "9" (my prediction and pick)

Best Documentary Feature

• "Murderball" (my prediction and pick)

Best Documentary Short Subject

• "God Sleeps in Rwanda" (my prediction)

Best Live-Action Short

• "Ausreisser (The Runaway)" (my prediction)

Best Foreign-Language Film

• "Tsotsi" (my prediction)

At Last! The "Big Pictures"!

Best Adapted Screenplay

• "Brokeback Mountain" (my prediction)
• "A History Of Violence" (my pick)

Best Original Screenplay

• "Crash" (my prediction)
• "Syriana" (my pick)

Best Director

• Ang Lee, "Brokeback Mountain" (my prediction)
• Bennett Miller, "Capote" (my pick)

Best Picture

• "Brokeback Mountain" (my prediction)
• "Capote" (my pick)

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