BEST PICTURE
Picture - Studio	Comment
Babel (GG)	22%
Letters From Iwo Jima (Foreign- GG, BFCA)	21.5%
Little Miss Sunshine (PGA) (SAG Ensemble)	20%
The Departed (BFCA)	19%
The Queen	17.5%

BEST DIRECTOR
Director - Film	Comment
Martin Scorsese - The Departed (GG) (BFCA) (DGA)	Would be a stunner if he lost
Clint Eastwood - Letters From Iwo Jima
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - Babel ((DGA)
Stephen Frears - The Queen (DGA)
Paul Greengrass - United 93

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Writer(s) - Film	Comment
Little Miss Sunshine (BFCA) (WGA) Michael Arndt	Likely winner
The Queen (GG) (WGA) Peter Morgan
Babel (WGA) Guillermo Arriaga
Letters From Iwo Jima Iris Yamashita and Paul Haggis
Pan's Labyrinth Guillermo del Toro

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Writer(s) - Film	Comment
The Departed (WGA) William Monahan	The likely winner, though Monahan is the most undervalued contributor to this great film.
Borat (WGA) Sacha Baron Cohen; Anthony Hines; Peter Baynham, Dan Mazer, Todd Phillips	Does it tickle the Academy funny bone to vote for it? It's hard out here for a Kazakh
Little Children (WGA) Todd Field; Tom Perrotta
Notes On A Scandal Patrick Marber
Children Of Men Alfonso Cuarón; Timothy J. Sexton; David Arata; Mark Fergus; Hawk Ostby

Charts from January 11 Picturex Director xx...Actor/Supporting Actor XActress/Supporting Actress xScreenplay/Adapted Screenplay

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January 23, 2007
- by David Poland