2007 Oscar Picks

No filters, no explanations.  Just picks.

Best Picture: The Departed
Best Director: Martin Scorsese
Best Actor: Forest Whittaker
Best Actress: Helen Mirren
Best Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin
Best Supporting Acress: Jennifer Hudson
Best Animated Feature: Cars
Best Animated Short: Maestro
Best Live Action Short: Eramos Pocos
Best Foreign Film: Pan’s Labyrinth
Best Documentary Short: The Blood of Yangzhou District
Best Documentary Feature: An Inconvenient Truth
Best Original Screenplay: Little Miss Sunshine
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Departed
Best Cinematography: Children of Men
Best Art Direction:  Dreamgirls
Best Costume Design: Marie Antoinette
Best Makeup: Pan’s Labyrinth
Best Sound Mixing: Dreamgirls
Best Sound Editing: Pirates of the Carribbean
Best Film Editing: United 93
Best Visual Effects: Pirates of the Carribbean
Best Original Score: The Queen
Best Original Song: “Listen,” Dreamgirls

The Gyroball Revealed!

Link nabbed from Dan Shanoff… thanks Dan!

The Japanese Gyroball Mystery – New York Times

From ESPN.com’s Jim Caple…

“A great day for America, not such a great day for NASCAR. A bunch of drivers have been fined for putting jet fuel in their cars. That’s the equivalent of steroids in NASCAR. It’s very easy to tell which cars are on these steroids. They’re the ones with the shrunken ball bearings.”

– Colin Ferguson