2006 Oscars®

This page covers the Academy Awards® for films released in 2006, which were awarded on February 25, 2007. The predictions were last updated on February 23, 2007. I took inspiration from Oscarwatch (and their charts showing everyone else's predictions), And the Winner is..., Hollywood Elsewhere, and others.

Earlier, I attempted to predict which films and performances would be nominated. That page is here.

Any comments on this page should be addressed to Mike Weston at mike@misosoup.com.

Best Picture

My prediction: Babel
Actual winner: The Departed

Best Director

Clint Eastwood for Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears for The Queen
Alejandro González Iñárritu for Babel
Paul Greengrass for United 93
Martin Scorsese for The Departed

My prediction: Martin Scorsese for The Departed
Actual winner: Martin Scorsese for The Departed

Best Actress

My prediction: Helen Mirren for The Queen
Actual winner: Helen Mirren for The Queen

Best Actor

Leonardo DiCaprio for Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling for Half Nelson
Peter O'Toole for Venus
Will Smith for The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland

My prediction: Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland
Actual winner: Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland

Best Supporting Actor

My prediction: Eddie Murphy for Dreamgirls
Actual winner: Alan Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine

Best Supporting Actress

Adriana Barraza for Babel
Abigail Breslin for Little Miss Sunshine
Cate Blanchett for Notes on a Scandal
Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi for Babel

My prediction: Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls
Actual winner: Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls

Best Original Screenplay

My prediction: Little Miss Sunshine
Actual winner: Little Miss Sunshine

Best Adapted Screenplay

My prediction: The Departed
Actual winner: The Departed

Best Animated Film

My prediction: Cars
Actual winner: Happy Feet

The Remaining Categories

Animated short

My prediction: The Little Matchgirl
Actual winner: The Danish Poet

Art direction

My prediction: Pan's Labyrinth
Actual winner: Pan's Labyrinth

Cinematography

My prediction: Children of Men
Actual winner: Pan's Labyrinth

Costume design

My prediction: Dreamgirls
Actual winner: Marie Antoinette

Documentary feature

My prediction: An Inconvenient Truth
Actual winner: An Inconvenient Truth

Documentary short

My prediction: The Blood of Yingzhou District
Actual winner: The Blood of Yingzhou District

Editing

My prediction: Babel
Actual winner: The Departed

Foreign language film

My prediction: Pan's Labyrinth
Actual winner: The Lives of Others

Live action short

My prediction: Binta and the Great Idea
Actual winner: West Bank Story

Makeup

My prediction: Pan's Labyrinth
Actual winner: Pan's Labyrinth

Original score

My prediction: The Queen
Actual winner: Babel

Original song

My prediction: “I Need To Wake Up” from An Inconvenient Truth
Actual winner: “I Need To Wake Up” from An Inconvenient Truth

Sound editing

My prediction: Letters from Iwo Jima
Actual winner: Letters from Iwo Jima

Sound mixing

My prediction: Dreamgirls
Actual winner: Dreamgirls

Visual effects

My prediction: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Actual winner: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Results and Ballot

My prediction results: 14 out of 24
Click here for the ballot we used at our Oscar® party (Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format).

Filmography links and data courtesy of The Internet Movie Database.

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