Full commentary later...
Best Picture
Babel
The Departed
Letters From Iwo Jima (they can't get enough)
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen
Obviously the biggest surprise is the Dreamgirls snub (YAY!!!!) for Letters.
Best Director
Alejandro Gonzales Innaritu, Babel
Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Clint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears, The Queen
Paul Greengrass, United 93 (YAY!)
Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio in Blood Diamond (sick! sick! I'm just going to pretend this is for that other film he was in this year)
Ryan Gosling in Half Nelson (YES! YES! YES!)
Peter O'Toole in Venus
Will Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress
Penelope Cruz in Volver
Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal
Helen Mirren in The Queen
Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet in Little Children
Best Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine
Jackie Earle Haley in Little Children
Djimon Honsou in Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy in Dreamgirls
Mark Wahlberg in The Departed (YES!)
The big surprise here is that Jack Nicholson was traded in for Mark Wahlberg. Nicholson's on my ballot but I don't have a problem with the snub since Wahlberg is criminally underrated and (slightly) better in the film. Marky Mark's an Oscar nominee!
Best Supporting Actress
Adriana Barazza in Babel
Cate Blanchett in Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin in Little Miss Sunshine
Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi in Babel
Boring...
The other surprise is the nomination tally, with Dreamgirls coming out on top with 8 nominations despite being ignored for Best Picture, Director and Screenplay. Babel is next up with 7 bids, The Queen and Pan's Labyrinth each have 6. The Departed has a slightly anemic 5 while Letters From Iwo Jima and Little Miss Sunshine have 4. So there isn't any real consensus going in this year.
More bitching later. The full list is here.
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