Oscar Nominations

Announced live tomorrow morning 5:38PST.

Some predix (not preferences):

Dreamgirls: 11 (Pic, Murphy & Hudson, Director & Scrnply, Cinematography, Art Dir., Costumes, Editing, Sound, Song)
Babel: 7 (Pic, Barraza & Kikuchi, Director & Scrnply, Editing, Score)
The Departed: 7 (Pic, DiCaprio, Nicholson & Wahlberg, Director & Scrnply, Editing)
Pan’s Labyrinth: 6 (Director & Scrnply, Art Dir., Score, MakeUp, Foreign Lang. Film)
The Queen: 5 (Pic, Mirren, Director & Scrnply, Costumes)
Children of Men: 4 (Scrnply, Cinematography, Art Dir., Sound)
Little Miss Sunshine: 4 (Pic, Arkin & Breslin, Scrnply)
Notes on a Scandal: 4 (Dench & Blanchett, Scrnply, Score)
Apocalypto: 3 (Cinematography, Score, MakeUp)
Volver: 3 (Cruz, Scrnply, Foreign Lang. Film)

2 each for Blood Diamond (Hounsou, Sound), Cars (Anim. Feature, Sound Editing), The Devil Wears Prada (Streep, Costumes), Happy Feet (Anim. Feature, Song), The Illusionist (Cinematography, Costumes), An Inconvenient Truth (Doc, Song), Letters from Iwo Jima (Sound, Sound Editing), Little Children (Winslet, Scrnply), Marie Antoinette (Art Dir., Costumes), PotC: Dead Man’s Chest (VFX, MakeUp), The Prestige (Art Dir., Sound Editing), The Pursuit of Happyness (Smith, Song), and Superman Returns (Sound Editing, VFX)

And 1 each for Bobby (Song), Borat (Cohen), Casino Royale (Editing), Flushed Away (Anim. Feature), The Fountain (Score), The Good Shepherd (Cinematography), The Last King of Scotland (Whitaker), Monster House (Sound Editing), Poseidon (VFX), United 93 (Editing), Venus (O’Toole), and World Trade Center (Sound)

All reasonable predictions, but I admit I’m going to be quite surprised if Flags of our Fathers isn’t up for something. Perhaps it’ll split votes with its sister movie.

Letters From Iwo Jima is better than Flags. It should be the more award-worthy of the two pieces.