(Mostly) Blind Predictions

I'm always awful at picking the Oscars, because I give way too much credit to the voters and never learn, but here goes:

Best Picture: The Departed
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actor: Forest Whitaker
Actress: Helen Mirren
Supporting Actor: Eddie Murphy
Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson
Adapted Screenplay: Children of Men
Original Screenplay: Babel
Cinematography: Children of Men
Editing: United 93
Art Direction: Pan's Labyrinth
Costume Design: Marie Antoinette
Score: Babel
Song: "Our Town" - Cars
Makeup: Pan's Labyrinth
Sound: Flags of Our Fathers
Sound Editing: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Visual Effects: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Animated: Happy Feet
Foreign Language: Pan's Labyrinth
Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth

And the flat-out guesses that always decide the office pool (it's fun to try to pick based on names):

Documentary Short: "The Blood of Yingzhou District"
Animated Short: "Maestro"
Live Action Short: "The Saviour"

 

Well, let's see how I do. Probably awful, as usual.