2007 Oscar Nominations Announced!

The Academy Award nominations have been announced and the snubs are many and hurtful. Although Dreamgirls leads the field with the most nominations (eight), three of those nominations are for songs in the movie and so are competing against each other in the Best Song category. Although this may appear to be a race-tinged snub, the list actually has the most African American actors ever nominated in one year: five. Will Smith, Forrest Whitaker, Jennifer Hudson, Djimon Honsou and Eddie Muurphy were all nominated his year.

Mad Professah predicted the nomination list last week, below is a comparison between predicted nominations and actual nominations. In the four acting categories, I got 16 out of 20 actors correct, a shocking 80% accuracy rate, thanks to my 100% accuracy in predicting the Best Actress "race" (Helen Mirren is almost certain to be crowned Best Actress on February 25th at the Academy Awards Ceremony hosted by Ellen Degeneres at Hollywood & Highland).

Overall nomination prediction accuracy rate: 29 out of 40, or 72.5%.

Best Picture











Babel
The Departed
Dreamgirls Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen
MadProfessah: 4 out of 5

Best Director

• Bill Condon, Dreamgirls Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima
• Alfonso Cuaron, Children of Men
• Stephen Frears, The Queen
• Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Babel
• Martin Scorsese, The Departed
• Paul Greengrass, United 93
  
  MadProfessah: 3 out of 5

Best Actress

• Penelope Cruz, Volver
• Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
• Helen Mirren, The Queen
• Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada
• Kate Winslet, Little Children
  
  Mad Professah: 5 out of 5

Best Actor

• Leonardo Dicaprio, The Departed Blood Diamond
• Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
• Peter O'Toole, Venus
• Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness
• Ken Watanabe, Letters from Iwo Jima
• Forrest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
  
  MadProfessah 4 out of 5

Best Supporting Actress

• Adriana Barraza, Babel
• Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
• Emily Blunt, The Devil Wears Prada Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
• Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
• Rinko Kicuchi, Babel



MadProfessah 4 out of 5

Best Supporting Actor

• Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
• Jackie Early Haley, Little Children
• Djimon Honsou, Blood Diamond
• Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
• Jack Nicholson, The Departed
• Michael Sheen, The Queen
• Mark Wahlberg, The Departed
  
  Mad Professah 3 out of 5

Best Original Screenplay

• Guilllermo Arriaga, Babel
• Pedro Almodovar, Volver
• Iris Yamashita and Paul Haggis, Letters From Iwo Jima
• Peter Morgan, The Queen
• Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine
• Zach Helm, Stranger Than Fiction
• Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth
  
  Mad Professah 3 out of 5

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Bill Condon, Dreamgirls Sacha Baron Cohen and Anthony Hines and Peter Baynham and Dan Mazer and Todd Phillips, Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
• Todd Field and Tom Perrota, Little Children
• Patrick Marber, Notes on a Scandal
• Aline Brosh McKenna, The Devil Wears Prada Alfonso Cuaron and Timothy J. Sexton and David Arata and Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, Children of Men
• William Monahan, The Departed
  
  Mad Professah 3 out of 5

Total Nominations

1. Dreamgirls, 10 8 nominations


2. The Departed, 8 5 nominations


3. Babel, 8 7 nominations


4. The Queen, 6 nominations


5. Pan's Labyrinth, 6 nominations


6. Little Miss Sunshine, 5 4 nominations