..Gary Dretzka
..Noah Forrest
..Leonard Klady
..David Poland
..Douglas Pratt
..Ray Pride
..Kim Voynar
..Michael Wilmington

BEST ACTRESS
Actress - Film	Comment
Dame Helen Mirren - The Queen	Lock
Dame-to-Be Kate Winslet - Little Children	Lock
Great Dame Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada	Lock
Dame Judi Dench - Notes On A Scandal	Lock
Dame, She's Hot Penelope Cruz - Volver	Could fall for Cate
Cate Blanchette - The Good German	Double dip year?
Annette Bening - Running With Scissors	Already feels like she may be trying to hard
Maria Bello - World Trade Center
Beyonce Knowles - Dreamgirls
Naomi Watts - The Painted Veil
Renee Zellweger - Miss Potter

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Actress - Film	Comment
Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls	I am telling you...
Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine	She's a super freak
Cate Blanchette - Notes of a Scandal	Academy members will probably be warmer to this film... so perhaps warmer to this performance
Phyllis Somerville - Little Children	She can do it... everyone talks about her turn
Maggie Gyllenhaal - World Trade Center	In part because she is one of only two familiar faces
Rinko Kikuchi - Babel
Cate Blanchette - Babel
Shareeka Epps - Half Nelson
Emma Thompson - Stranger Than Fiction

 

Charts from October 12 PictureX Director xx...Actor/Supporting Actor XActress/Supporting Actress xScreenplay/Adapted Screenplay

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October 19, 2006
- by David Poland