The 79th Annual Academy Awards are this Sunday night on ABC at 7:30 p.m., and we couldn’t be more excited.
The Oscars are like the Super Bowl to us: we clear our schedules, buy snacks in advance, and spend weeks agonizing over who will be nominated and who will win.
And so, in order to help those of you who may not have put as much thought into the awards as we have, we present to you our picks for who should win an Oscar and who probably will win an Oscar.

OUR PICKS

BEST PICTURE
Babel
The Departed
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

BEST DIRECTOR
Babel – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The Departed – Martin Scorsese
Letters from Iwo Jima – Clint Eastwood
The Queen – Stephen Frears
United 93 – Paul Greengrass

BEST ACTOR
Leonardo DiCaprio – Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling – Half Nelson
Peter O’Toole – Venus
Will Smith – The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alan Arkin – Little Miss Sunshine
Jackie Earle Haley – Little Children
Djimon Hounsou – Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy – Dreamgirls
Mark Wahlberg – The Departed

BEST ACTRESS
Pen̩lope Cruz РVolver
Judi Dench – Notes on a Scandal
Helen Mirren – The Queen
Meryl Streep – The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet – Little Children

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Adriana Barraza – Babel
Cate Blanchett – Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin – Little Miss Sunshine
Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi – Babel

VISUAL EFFECTS
Pirates of the Caribbean
Poseidon
Superman Returns

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House

CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Black Dahlia
Children of Men
The Illusionist
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Prestige

FILM EDITING
Babel
Blood Diamond
Children of Men
The Departed
United 93

ART DIRECTION
Dreamgirls
The Good Shepherd
Pan’s Labyrinth
Pirates of the Caribbean
The Prestige

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
Deliver Us From Evil
An Inconvenient Truth
Iraq in Fragments
Jesus Camp
My Country, My Country

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
After the Wedding
Days of Glory
The Lives of Others
Pan’s Labyrinth
Water

MUSIC (SCORE)
Babel
The Good German
Notes on a Scandal
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Queen

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
“I Need to Wake Up” – An Inconvenient Truth
“Listen” – Dreamgirls
“Love You I Do” – Dreamgirls
“Our Town” – Cars
“Patience” – Dreamgirls

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Borat
Children of Men
The Departed
Little Children
Notes on a Scandal

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Babel
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Queen

COSTUME DESIGN
Curse of the Golden Flower
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
Marie Antoinette
The Queen

ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP
Apocalytpo
Click
Pan’s Labyrinth

Editors’ Note: We are just as appalled as you are that Adam Sandler’s “Click” even got nominated for anything.