2006 Myclofig Nominations!

I've thought about it, and decided that I am going to hold the Myclofigs again.

This year, like another event I'll report on later in the week, the Oscar nominations snuck up on me and I almost missed it. Last year, we had time to come up with our own list of nominations, based on movies people had actually seen. I've seen a lot of movies in 2006, literally hundreds, but only six* of the new releases I watched made the list below. There are quite a few movies on the list this year that I want to see, but I won't be able to before tomorrow. I'm still catching up on last year's nominees actually, and even now Munich is spinning in my computer's DVD drive.

Nevertheless, I intend to press onward, and treat the Myclofigs as predictions this year. I may not have seen a lot of these movies, but with the thousand-plus I have watched, I'm confident that I can make an educated guess at the very least. So, tomorrow morning you should all awake to find my predictions posted, and by tomorrow evening we'll see how close I came.

Some bloggers have already posted predictions. Feel free to join in the fun and make your own guesses from the list below:


Performance by an actor in a leading role:
Leonardo DiCaprio in “Blood Diamond”
Ryan Gosling in “Half Nelson”
Peter O'Toole in “Venus”
Will Smith in “The Pursuit of Happyness”
Forest Whitaker in “The Last King of Scotland”


Performance by an actor in a supporting role:
Alan Arkin in “Little Miss Sunshine”
Jackie Earle Haley in “Little Children”
Djimon Hounsou in “Blood Diamond”
Eddie Murphy in “Dreamgirls”
Mark Wahlberg in “The Departed”


Performance by an actress in a leading role:
Penélope Cruz in “Volver”
Judi Dench in “Notes on a Scandal”
Helen Mirren in “The Queen”
Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada”
Kate Winslet in “Little Children”


Performance by an actress in a supporting role:
Adriana Barraza in “Babel”
Cate Blanchett in “Notes on a Scandal”
Abigail Breslin in “Little Miss Sunshine”
Jennifer Hudson in “Dreamgirls”
Rinko Kikuchi in “Babel”


Best animated feature film of the year:
“Cars”
“Happy Feet”
“Monster House”*


Achievement in art direction:
“Dreamgirls”
“The Good Shepherd”
“Pan's Labyrinth”
“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest”*
“The Prestige”


Achievement in cinematography:
“The Black Dahlia”
“Children of Men”
“The Illusionist”
“Pan's Labyrinth”
“The Prestige”


Achievement in costume design:
“Curse of the Golden Flower”
“The Devil Wears Prada”
“Dreamgirls”
“Marie Antoinette”
“The Queen”


Achievement in directing:
“Babel”; Alejandro González Iñárritu
“The Departed”; Martin Scorsese
“Letters from Iwo Jima”; Clint Eastwood
“The Queen”; Stephen Frears
“United 93”; Paul Greengrass


Best documentary feature:
“Deliver Us from Evil”
“An Inconvenient Truth”
“Iraq in Fragments”
“Jesus Camp”
“My Country, My Country”


Best documentary short subject:
“The Blood of Yingzhou District”
“Recycled Life”
“Rehearsing a Dream”
“Two Hands”


Achievement in film editing:
“Babel”
“Blood Diamond”
“Children of Men”
“The Departed”
“United 93”


Best foreign language film of the year:
“After the Wedding”
“Days of Glory (Indigènes)”
“The Lives of Others”
“Pan's Labyrinth”
“Water”


Achievement in makeup:
“Apocalypto”
“Click”*
“Pan's Labyrinth”


Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score):
“Babel”
“The Good German”
“Notes on a Scandal”
“Pan's Labyrinth”
“The Queen”


Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song):
“I Need to Wake Up” from “An Inconvenient Truth”
“Listen” from “Dreamgirls”
“Love You I Do” from “Dreamgirls”
“Our Town” from “Cars”
“Patience” from “Dreamgirls”


Best motion picture of the year:
“Babel”
“The Departed”
“Letters from Iwo Jima”
“Little Miss Sunshine”
“The Queen”


Best animated short film:
“The Danish Poet”
“Lifted”
“The Little Matchgirl”
“Maestro”
“No Time for Nuts”


Best live action short film:
“Binta and the Great Idea (Binta Y La Gran Idea)”
“Éramos Pocos (One Too Many)”
“Helmer & Son”
“The Saviour”
“West Bank Story”


Achievement in sound editing:
“Apocalypto”
“Blood Diamond”
“Flags of Our Fathers”
“Letters from Iwo Jima”
“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest”*


Achievement in sound mixing:
“Apocalypto”
“Blood Diamond”
“Dreamgirls”
“Flags of Our Fathers”
“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest”*


Achievement in visual effects:
“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest”*
“Poseidon”*
“Superman Returns”*


Adapted screenplay:
“Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”*
“Children of Men”
“The Departed”
“Little Children”
“Notes on a Scandal”


Original screenplay:
“Babel”
“Letters from Iwo Jima”
“Little Miss Sunshine”
“Pan's Labyrinth”
“The Queen”


* denotes the movies I have seen at the time of this posting.