BEST PICTURE
Picture - Studio	Comment
Dreamgirls	The Queens... the trailer lands in theaters today
The Good German	Soderbergh's film has finally got a trailer... and it looks both classical and political in a way that may be reasonably construed as modern
The Queen	Ads are being switched up... looking stronger
Little Miss Sunshine	Unless Flags of Our Fathers comes back, looking like the feel good selection of the season
World Trade Center	No joke.. Paramount is on a mission
The Departed	There is a lot of love out there, especially from men
Little Children	Needs the critics... needs some marketing muscle
Babel	Dark and opinions are getting more mixed, as they did on 21 Grams... but far from dead
Flags of Our Fathers	Check back with me next week
The Good Shepherd	Impossible to know until its seen
The History Boys	I really won't know until I see it, but looking like a regional film in a year with plenty of strong message movies with more stylish filmmaking
The Painted Veil	Maybe
The Illusionist	Still in the Top Ten... no joke.
Bobby	No one can convince Ms. Weinstein otherwise
Notes of a Scandal	Word was that it wasn't a Best Picture film and The Departed and The Good German could be in its way... but watch for a masterful trailer that will confirm Dench and reassert Blanchett soon
Catch A Fire	Still about apartheid
The Pursuit of Happyness	Will Smith will work the Oscar perp walk, following a route not unlike Clooney's last year... but is this feel good drama muscular enough?
Stranger Than Fiction	About to drop
Home of the Brave	Starting to screen it more widely, but carefully
The Last King of Scotland	A surprisingly strong reaction in many quarters... not impossible, but not likely.
Out Of The Season
Rescue Dawn	pushed to 2007
Noted Earlier - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Goya's Ghosts, Margaret, Red Sun, Black Sand, Youth Without Youth, Zodiac
Other Possibles - By Studio
Columbia/Tri-Star
All The King's Men
The Da Vinci Code
Marie Antoinette
Running With Scissors
Disney
Apocalypto
The Prestige
Focus
Hollywoodland
Scoop
Fox
Borat
A Good Year
Fox Searchlight
Fast Food Nation
Notes On A Scandal
Miramax
The Hoax
Venus
New Line
The Nativity Story
Picturehouse
Fur
Pan's Labyrinth
Sony Pictures Classics
Volver
Universal
The Black Dahlia
Children of Men
United 93
Warner Bros
The Fountain
Warner Indie
For Your Consideration
The Weinstein Company
Breaking & Entering

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