Overview of Oscar Predictions
...announced March 5, 2006...

PICTURE:
Brokeback Mountain
(Focus Features)

Capote
(Sony Picture Classics)
Crash
(Lions Gate)
Good Night, and Good Luck.
(Warner Bros. Indie)
Munich
(
Universal)

DIRECTOR:
George Clooney
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Paul Haggis
Crash
Ang Lee
Brokeback Mountain
Bennett Miller
Capote
Steven Spielberg
Munich

LEAD ACTOR:
Philip S. Hoffman
Capote
Terrence Howard
Hustle & Flow
Heath Ledger
Brokeback Mountain
Joaquin Phoenix
Walk the Line
David Strathairn
Good Night, and Good Luck.

LEAD ACTRESS:
Judi Dench

Mrs. Henderson Presents
Felicity Huffman
Transamerica
Keira Knightley
Pride & Prejudice
Charlize Theron
North Country
Reese Witherspoon
Walk the Line
SUPPORTING ACTOR:
George Clooney
Syriana
Matt Dillon

Crash
Paul Giamatti
Cinderella Man
Jake Gyllenhaal
Brokeback Mountain
William Hurt
A History of Violence
SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Amy Adams
Junebug
Catherine Keener
Capote
Frances McDormand
A History of Violence
Rachel Weisz
The Constant Gardener

Michelle Williams
Brokeback Mountain
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
Brokeback Mountain
McMurtry & Ossana

The Constant Gardener
Caine
Capote
Dan Futterman
A History of Violence
Olson
Munich
Kushner & Roth

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Crash
Haggis & Moresco

Good Night, and Good Luck.
Clooney & Heslov
Match Point
Allen
The Squid and the Whale
Baumbach
Syriana
Gaghan

ANIMATED FEATURE:
Howl's Moving Castle
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The Corpse Bride
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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
FOREIGN FILM:
Don't Tell
(from Italy)
Joyeux Noel
(from France)
Paradise Now
(from Palestine)

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
(from Germany)
Tsotsi
(from South Africa)
ART DIRECTION:
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
---
Good Night, and Good Luck.
---
King Kong
---
Memoirs of a Geisha
---
Pride & Prejudice

CINEMATO-
GRAPHY:

Batman Begins
---
Brokeback Mountain
---
Good Night, and Good Luck.
---
Memoirs of a Geisha
---
The New World

COSTUME DESIGN:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
---
Memoirs of a Geisha
---
Mrs. Henderson Presents
---
Pride & Prejudice
---
Walk the Line
FILM EDITING:
Cinderella Man
---
The Constant Gardener
---
Crash
---
Munich
---
Walk the Line
MAKEUP:
Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
------
Cinderella Man

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Star Wars - Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
ORIGINAL SCORE:
Brokeback Mountain
---
The Constant Gardener
---
Memoirs of a Geisha
---
Munich
---
Pride & Prejudice

ORIGINAL SONG:
Crash
"In the Deep"
---
Hustle & Flow
"It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp"
---
Transamerica
"Travelin' Thru"

SOUND:
Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
---
King Kong
---
Memoirs of a Geisha
---
Walk the Line
---
War of the Worlds
SOUND EDITING:
King Kong
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Memoirs of a Geisha
------
War of the Worlds
VISUAL EFFECTS:
Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
------
King Kong
------
War of the Worlds
DOCUMENTARY:
Darwin's Nightmare
---
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
---
March of the Penguins
---
Murderball
---
Street Fight

SHORT FORM DOCUMENTARY:
The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club
---
God Sleeps in Rwanda
---
The Mushroom Club
---
A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin

ANIMATED SHORT FILM:
Badgered
---
The Moon and the Sun: An Imagined Conversation
---
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
---
9
---
One Man Band
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM:
Ausreisser (The Runaway)
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Cashback
---
The Last Farm
---
Our Time Is Up
---
Six Shooter

Memoirs winning three will KILL me. And GO DOLLY!!!