Best Picture
Will Win: Little Miss Sunshine
Deserves To Win: Letters From Iwo Jima
Actor In A Leading Role
Will Win: Forest Whitaker - The Last King Of Scotland
Deserves To Win: Peter O’Toole - Venus
Actress In A Leading Role
Will Win: Helen Mirren - The Queen
Deserves To Win: Judi Dench - Notes On A Scandal
Actor In A Supporting Role
Will Win: Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls
Deserves To Win: Mark Wahlberg - The Departed
Actress In A Supporting Role
Will Win: Cate Blanchett - Notes On A Scandal
Deserves To Win: Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
Directing
Will Win: Clint Eastwood - Letters From Iwo Jima
Deserves To Win: Paul Greengrass - United 93
Writing (Original Screenplay)
Will Win: Letters From Iwo Jima
Deserves To Win: The Queen
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Will Win: Notes On A Scandal
Deserves To Win: Children Of Men
Art Direction
Will Win: Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Deserves To Win: The Good Shepherd
Cinematography
Will Win: The Illusionist
Deserves To Win: The Black Dahlia
Costume Design
Will Win: Marie Antoinette
Deserves To Win: Curse Of The Golden Flower
Documentary Feature
Will Win: An Inconvenient Truth
Deserves To Win: My Country, My Country
Documentary Short Subject
Will Win: The Blood Of Yingzhou District
Deserves To Win: Rehearsing A Dream
Film Editing
Will Win: Blood Diamond
Deserves To Win: Babel
Foreign Language Film
Will Win: The Lives Of Others
Deserves To Win: Water
Makeup
Will Win: Apocalypto
Deserves To Win: Apocalypto
Music (Song)
Will Win: “Love You I Do” - Dreamgirls
Deserves To Win: “Patience” - Dreamgirls
Music (Score)
Will Win: Babel
Deserves To Win: Notes On A Scandal
Short Film (Animated)
Will Win: The Danish Poet
Deserves To Win: The Little Matchgirl
Short Film (Live Action)
Will Win: West Bank Story
Deserves To Win: Éramos Pocos
Sound Editing
Will Win: Apocalypto
Deserves To Win: Blood Diamond
Sound Mixing
Will Win: Apocalypto
Deserves To Win: Dreamgirls
Visual Effects
Will Win: Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Deserves To Win: Superman Returns
Animated Feature Film
Will Win: Cars
Deserves To Win: Cars
Snubbed for Best Picture
Snubbed for Best Actor
Snubbed for Best Actress
Snubbed for Best Director
Mel Gibson - Apocalypto