Oscar Preview

My Oscar Preview article can be read here.

At a glance, here's what I'm predicting:

Best Picture
Will Win: “The Departed”
Should Win: “Babel”

Best Director
Will Win: Martin Scorsese, “The Departed”
Should Win: Paul Greengrass, “United 93”

Best Actor
Will Win: Forest Whitaker, “The Last King of Scotland”
Should Win: Forest Whitaker, “The Last King of Scotland”

Best Actress
Will Win: Helen Mirren, “The Queen”
Should Win: Helen Mirren, “The Queen”

Best Supporting Actor
Will Win: Eddie Murphy, “Dreamgirls”
Should Win: Jackie Earle Haley, “Little Children”

Best Supporting Actress
Will 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 Win: “The Departed”
Should Win: “Borat”

Best Foreign Language Film
Will Win: “Pan’s Labyrinth”
Should Win: “Pan’s Labyrinth”

Best Animated Feature
Will Win: “Cars”
Should Win: “Happy Feet”

Best Documentary Feature
Will Win: “An Inconvenient Truth”
Should Win: “An Inconvenient Truth”

Best Cinematography
Will Win: “Children of Men”
Should Win: “Children of Men”

Best Art Direction
Will Win: “Pan’s Labyrinth”
Should Win: “Pan’s Labyrinth”

Best Costume Design
Will Win: “Dreamgirls”
Should Win: “Curse of the Golden Flower”

Best Editing
Will Win: “Babel”
Should Win: “Babel”

Best Sound Mixing
Will Win: “Dreamgirls”
Should Win: “Apocalypto”

Best Sound Editing
Will Win: “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”
Should Win: “Letters from Iwo Jima”

Best Visual Effects
Will Win: “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”
Should Win: “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”

Best Makeup
Will Win: “Pan’s Labyrinth”
Should Win: “Pan’s Labyrinth”

Best Original Score
Will Win: “The Queen”
Should Win: “Pan’s Labyrinth”

Best Original Song
Will Win: “Listen” from “Dreamgirls”
Should Win: “Our Town” from “Cars”