Enter our Luscious Academy Award Contest

1. Best Actress
Penélope Cruz in “Volver” (Sony Pictures Classics)
Judi Dench in “Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight)
Helen Mirren in “The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada)
Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada” (20th Century Fox)
Kate Winslet in “Little Children” (New Line)

2. Best Supporting Actress
Adriana Barraza in “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
Cate Blanchett in “Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight)
Abigail Breslin in “Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight)
Jennifer Hudson in “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount)
Rinko Kikuchi in “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)

3. Best Actor:
Leonardo DiCaprio in “Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.)
Ryan Gosling in “Half Nelson” (THINKFilm)
Peter O’Toole in “Venus” (Miramax, Filmfour and UK Film Council)
Will Smith in “The Pursuit of Happyness” (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Forest Whitaker in “The Last King of Scotland” (Fox Searchlight)

4. Best Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin in “Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight)
Jackie Earle Haley in “Little Children” (New Line)
Djimon Hounsou in “Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.)
Eddie Murphy in “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount)
Mark Wahlberg in “The Departed” (Warner Bros.)

5. Best Director
Alejandro González Iñárritu, “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
Martin Scorsese, “The Departed” (Warner Bros.)
“Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.) Clint Eastwood
“The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Stephen Frears
“United 93” (Universal and StudioCanal) Paul Greengrass

6. Best Film
“Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
“The Departed” (Warner Bros.)
“Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.)
“Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight)
“The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada)

7. Best Costume Design:
“Curse of the Golden Flower” (Sony Pictures Classics) Yee Chung Man
“The Devil Wears Prada” (20th Century Fox) Patricia Field
“Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) Sharen Davis
“Marie Antoinette” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Milena Canonero
“The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Consolata Boyle

8. Best Documentary Feature
“Deliver Us from Evil” (Lionsgate), Amy Berg and Frank Donner
“An Inconvenient Truth” (Paramount Classics and Participant Productions), Davis Guggenheim
“Iraq in Fragments” (Typecast Releasing / HBOFilms), James Longley and John Sinno
“Jesus Camp” (Magnolia Pictures), Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
“My Country, My Country” (Zeitgeist Films), Laura Poitras and Jocelyn Glatzer

9. Best Foreign Film
“After the Wedding” A Zentropa Entertainments 16 Production, Denmark
“Days of Glory (Indigènes)” A Tessalit Production, Algeria
“The Lives of Others” A Wiedemann & Berg Production, Germany
“Pan’s Labyrinth” A Tequila Gang/Esperanto Filmoj/Estudios Picasso Production, Mexico
“Water” A Hamilton-Mehta Production, Canada

10. Best Original Song Written for a Motion Picture
“I Need to Wake Up” from “An Inconvenient Truth” (Paramount Classics and Participant Productions), Music and Lyric by Melissa Etheridge
“Listen” from “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount), Music by Henry Krieger and Scott Cutler, Lyric by Anne Preven
“Love You I Do” from “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount), Music by Henry Krieger,
Lyric by Siedah Garrett
“Our Town” from “Cars” (Buena Vista), Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
“Patience” from “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount), Music by Henry Krieger
Lyric by Willie Reale

Tiebreaker:

11. Best Adapted screenplay
“Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” (20th Century Fox)
Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Peter Baynham & Dan Mazer
Story by Sacha Baron Cohen & Peter Baynham & Anthony Hines & Todd Phillips
“Children of Men” (Universal)
Screenplay by Alfonso Cuarón & Timothy J. Sexton and David Arata and Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby
“The Departed” (Warner Bros.)
Screenplay by William Monahan
“Little Children” (New Line)
Screenplay by Todd Field & Tom Perrotta
“Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight)
Screenplay by Patrick Marber

photo by Danny Clinch