Have you filled out your Oscar ballot yet? I sure have! Some categories really are a toss-up — Best Picture, for example — while others are highly predictable.

Helen Mirren has already won about a gazillion awards for her performance in The Queen, and if anyone else gets the little gold man for that category, it will truly be shocking. The Best Supporting Actor and Actress categories, however, could easily end up surprising everyone. As for the visual categories, I have high hopes for Children of Men and Pan's Labyrinth in many of the visual categories and will be supremely disappointed if they lose.

As for the other categories, I present to you my predictions for this year's Academy Awards:

BEST PICTURE
Babel

BEST DIRECTOR
Martin Scorsese, The Departed

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BEST ACTOR
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

BEST ACTRESS
Helen Mirren, The Queen

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Cars

ART DIRECTION
Pan's Labyrinth

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Children of Men

COSTUME DESIGN
Curse of the Golden Flower

BEST DOCUMENTARY
An Inconvenient Truth

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
The Blood of Yingzhou District

FILM EDITING
Children of Men

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Pan’s Labyrinth (Mexico)

ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP
Pan’s Labyrinth

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Babel

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Listen” from Dreamgirls
Music by Henry Krieger and Scott Cutler
Lyric by Anne Preven

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
“The Danish Poet” (National Film Board of Canada)

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT
“West Bank Story”

ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING
Letters from Iwo Jima

ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING
Dreamgirls

ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

ADAPATED SCREENPLAY
Children of Men

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Little Miss Sunshine

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