..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	Comment
Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness (GG)	Action and comedy star making people cry is hard to beat
Forrest Whitaker - Last King Of Scotland (GG)	A classic supporting role that may not get as much support as hoped for in this category
Ken Watanabe - Letters From Iwo Jima	Elegant... could win if Smith falls
Peter O'Toole - Venus (GG)	The joy of engaging him is becoming sorrow over his illness
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Departed (GG)	Could miss completely in Blood Diamond split
Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat (GG/Comedy)	Deserves it... is getting critics support... but Fox has a lot of work to do
Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson	Saturday's child
Jamie Foxx - Dreamgirls	Long shot... very low key performance
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Departed (GG)
Johnny Depp - Pirates Of The Caribbean 2 (GG)
Aaron Eckhart - Thank You for Smoking (GG)
Will Ferrell - Stranger Than Fiction (GG)
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Kinky Boots (GG)

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Actor - Film	Comment
Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls (GG)	Eddie got soul
Jack Nicholson - The Departed (GG)	Jack got scenery in his teeth
Michael Sheen - The Queen	Michael got a nom and happy to get it
Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine	Alan got love for decades
Kazunari Ninomiya - Letters From Iwo Jima	Kaz got dark horse syndrome... a powerful performance
Brad Pitt - Babel (GG)	Too much Us Magazine, not enough acting
Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children	Still has an outside shot... needs more face time
Mark Walberg - The Departed (GG)
Ben Affleck - Hollywoodland (GG)

Charts from December 7 Picturex Director xx...Actor/Supporting Actor XActress/Supporting Actress xScreenplay/Adapted Screenplay

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December 14, 2006
- by David Poland