..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) (BFCA)	The real push starts after nominations
Forrest Whitaker - Last King Of Scotland (GG) (BFCA)	So many awards wins... so why does he seem so vulnerable?
Peter O'Toole - Venus (GG) (BFCA)	Legendary charm or sad old man?
Ken Watanabe - Letters From Iwo Jima	Stoic and solid
Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat (GG/Comedy)	The wild card so many want
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Departed (GG) (BFCA)	Apparently SAG might Supp him, but I suspect that The Academy will stick with lead
Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson (BFCA)
Jamie Foxx - Dreamgirls
The Globistes
Leonardo DiCaprio - Blood Diamond (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) (BFCA)	Looking like the one thing straight men are sure to vote for in this musical
Jack Nicholson - The Departed (GG) (BFCA)	Fun, but we've see this before
Michael Sheen - The Queen	Solid
Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine (BFCA)	Needs to start feeling like a career achievement event to happen
Mark Wahlberg - The Departed (GG)	Sneaky... could easily not happen
Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children
Brad Pitt - Babel (GG)
Kazunari Ninomiya - Letters From Iwo Jima
Djimon Hounsou - Blood Diamond (BFCA)
Ben Affleck - Hollywoodland (GG) (BFCA)
Adam Beach - Flags Of Our Fathers (BFCA)

Charts from December 21 Picturex Director xx...Actor/Supporting Actor XActress/Supporting Actress xScreenplay/Adapted Screenplay

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January 4, 2007
- by David Poland