and just to reiterate: i change my mind a lot. for instance, the repeated viewing of 25th hour in one of my classes has made me realize i was crazy to have philip seymour hoffman in 10th place for that year in that category; he should actually be in first place. oh, self. who can figure me out?
Best Picture
1. The Departed
2. Children of Men
3. The Fountain
4. Inside Man
5. Dreamgirls
6. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America...
7. Volver
8. Marie-Antoinette
9. Letters from Iwo Jima
10. Pan's Labyrinth
Best Director
1. Darren Aronofsky for The Fountain
2. Martin Scorsese for The Departed
3. Alfonso Cuaron for Children of Men
4. Sofia Coppola for Marie-Antoinette
5. Paul Greengrass for United 93
6. Bill Condon for Dreamgirls
7. Spike Lee for Inside Man (#4 if you're including When the Levees Broke as well)
8. Guillermo del Toro for Pan's Labyrinth
9. Christopher Nolan for The Prestige
10. Clint Eastwood for Letters from Iwo Jima (and Flags of Our Fathers)
Best Actor
1. Hugh Jackman in The Fountain
2. Ryan Gosling in Half Nelson
3. Forrest Whittaker in Last King of Scotland
4. Clive Owen in Children of Men (<3333)
5. Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America...
6. Leonardo DiCaprio in The Departed
7. Matt Damon in The Departed
8. Daniel Craig in Casino Royale
9. Patrick Wilson in Little Children
10. Heath Ledger in Candy
Ooh...except for Whittaker, this is like a top 10 of extraordinarily good-looking men. I make good choices sometimes. ;)
Best Actress
1. Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada
2. Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal
3. Kate Winslet in Little Children
4. Penelope Cruz in Volver
5. Laura Dern in Inland Empire
6. Naomi Watts in The Painted Veil
7. Helen Mirren in The Queen (OMG calm down people.)
8. Catherine O'Hara in For Your Consideration
9. Maggie Gyllenhaal in Sherrybaby
10. Cate Blanchett in The Good German
Best Supporting Actor
1. Eddie Murphy in Dreamgirls
2. Doug Jones in Pan's Labyrinth
3. Michael Sheen in The Queen
4. Steve Carell in Little Miss Sunshine
5. Clive Owen in Inside Man (<333. I AM ALLOWED MY BIASES DAMMIT)
6. Michael Caine in Children of Men
7. Ben Affleck for Hollywoodland
8. Jackie Earle Haley for Little Children
9. Jack Nicholson for The Departed
10. Sergio Lopez for Pan's Labyrinth
(please note: in The Departed, Baldwin >>>>>> Wahlberg)
Best Supporting Actress
1. Mia Kirshner in The Black Dahlia
2. Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls (um when will people realize she wasn't just singing. When you sing for musical theater, you interpret a song!)
3. Shareeka Epps in Half Nelson (...category fraud.)
4. Claire Hope-Ashitey in Children of Men
5. Rinko Kikuchi in Babel
6. Toni Collette in Little Miss Sunshinse
7. Abigail Breslin in Little Miss Sunshine
8. Kerry Washington in The Last King of Scotland
9. Emma Thompson in Stranger than Fiction
10. Vera Farmiga in Running Scared
Best Screenplay
1. The Departed
2. Little Children
3. Children of Men
4. Volver
5. Little Miss Sunshine
6. The Painted Veil
7. Stranger than Fiction
8. Inside Man
9. Half Nelson
10. The Prestige
...I should do some major project next. Hmmm.
