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

Picturex Director
xx...Actor/Supporting Actor XActress/Supporting Actress
xScreenplay/Adapted Screenplay

BEST ACTOR
Actor - Film	Golden Globes	Comment
Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness	D	Will be hard to beat (or is it Will will be hard to beat?)
Peter O'Toole - Venus	C/M	How ill is he?
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Departed	D	The other performance was never a real candidate
Forrest Whitaker - The Last King Of Scotland	D	Presumed, but perhaps too much so... doesn't help to be in the wrong category
Ken Watanabe - Letters From Iwo Jima	D	One of the real possibilities for this film
Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson		The indie choice... but will he get enough support from critics groups to make it real?
Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat	C/M	The controversy around the film has turned into a serious impediment... but a corner still could be turned... needs to speed it up
Jamie Foxx - Dreamgirls	C/M
Nicolas Cage - World Trade Center
Edward Norton - The Painted Veil
George Clooney - The Good German	D
Aaron Eckhart - Thank You for Smoking	C/M
Greg Kinnear - Little Miss Sunshine	C/M

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Actor - Film	Golden Globes	Comment
Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls	SA	Ja.
Jack Nicholson - The Departed	SA	Ya.
Michael Sheen - The Queen	SA	Taa.
Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine	SA	Ha.
Brad Pitt - Babel	SA	Ahhhhhh
Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children
Michael Pena - World Trade Center
Steve Carrell - Little Miss Sunshine

Charts from November 16 PictureX Director xx...Actor/Supporting Actor XActress/Supporting Actress xScreenplay/Adapted Screenplay

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November 30, 2006
- by David Poland