So once again I missed the cutoff time to enter the Oscar contest through our newspaper. Ugg.

Well I did enter on two websites so we'll see if I'm lucky on those. Probably not, because they are both very popular.

Here's my picks:

Best Picture--Little Miss Sunshine

Actor--Forest Whitaker

Actress--Helen Mirren

Supporting Actor--Eddie Murphy

Supporting Actress--Jennifer Hudson

Director--Martin Scorsese

Animated Film--Happy Feet

Original Screenplay--Babel

Adapted Screenplay--Borat: Cultural Learnings of American for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Foreign Language--Pan's Labyrinth

Documentary--An Inconvenient Truth

Original Song--"Our Town" from Cars

Cinematography--The Illusionist

Art Direction--Pan's Labyrinth

Visual Effects--Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Costume--Marie Antoinette

Short Documentary--Recycled Life

Film Editing--Blood Diamond

Makeup--Pan's Labyrinth

Original Score--The Queen

Sound Mixing--Dreamgirls

Animated Short--Little Matchgirl

Sound Editing--Blood Diamond

Live Action Short--West Bank Story

Of course, some of these are just out and out guesses. Like Short Doc, Live Action Short, Foreign Language but we'll see.

There was talk that Alan Arkin was getting some hype for Supporting Actor and that Eddie Murphy might not get as many votes because of some movie that was released of him dressed as a big fat woman but I only heard that during the weekend of that release. I still think he'll win.

Also for Director, I've heard Eastwood SHOULD win but since Scorsese has been nominated five times with no wins they'll give it to him.

Then I heard that instead of starting out with Best Actress and Supporting they are pushing that to the end. Ugg I hate when they tinker with stuff.