Posted by
Emmett of the Unblinking Eye on Monday, January 22, 2007 5:20:52 PM
Best Actor and Best Actress are always a crap shoot (but not as much as the Supporting categories), mainly because nobody knows nothing, and most rely on the prior nominations from the
Screen Actors Guild or the dreaded
Golden Globes. So it's pretty much guesswork -- except for the winners.
So the nominees for Best Actor will be:
Leonardo DiCaprio for
Blood DiamondWill Smith for
The Pursuit of HappynessPeter O'Toole for Venus
Sacha Baron Cohen in the excremental but extremely funny
Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of KazakhstanAnd the absolute, dead bang, positive winner is:
Forest Whitaker for
The Last King of Scotland.
Who should be in there? Lop off Cohen, and insert
Ryan Gosling for
Half Nelson.
And for Best Actress:
Judi Dench for
Notes on a Scandal
Kate Winslet for
Little ChildrenMeryl Streep (the winner in any other year) for
The Devil Wears PradaMaggie Gyllenhaal for
Sherrybaby
And the other absolute, dead bang, positive winner is:
Helen Mirren for
The Queen