My picks

BEST PICTURE
Brokeback Mountain
Let's see if Hollywood has the guts to give the award to a film that apart from spawning an entire repetoire of bad jokes and even worse parodies, has extended a daring yet heartflet call for us to comprehend the sorrow that accompanies any love that dares not speak its name...

BEST DIRECTOR
Ang Lee
For the man brave enough to make that film.

BEST ACTOR
Philip Seymour Hoffman
As TIME magazine succintly put it, the only way he won't win the trophy is if a meteorite strikes Earth on Sunday night...

BEST ACTRESS
Reese Witherspoon

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Paul Giamatti
Please give it to the man who was so brutally overlooked last year.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Rachel Weisz
Can I say that any woman who is capable of bedding Ralph Finnes after just one date should deserve any award.

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Crash
Ok, it's a toss-up for me here between Crash and The Squid and the Whale, but I have a feeling the latter might be a little to Sundance for Hollywood.

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Brokeback Mountain

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Because Gromit makes me happy.

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Tsotsi

ART DIRECTION
Memoirs of a Geisha
I have to admit, even though the movie wasn't great, it was beautiful...

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Brokeback Mountain

COSTUME DESIGN
Memoirs of a Geisha

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
March of the Penguins
C'mon! They're dressed for the occasion anyway!

DOCUMENTARY SHORT
God Sleeps in Rwanda

FILM EDITING
Crash

MAKEUP
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the
Simply for making me want to look like the White Witch even though she's eeeeevviil...

ORIGINAL SCORE
John Williams (Memoirs of a Geisha)
Even though I really want Gustavo Santaolalla to win for Brokeback Mountain. Those strings made me cry on the way to school yesterday.

ORIGINAL SONG
"In the Deep"
(Crash)

ANIMATED SHORT
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation

LIVE-ACTION SHORT
Our Time Is Up

SOUND EDITING
King Kong

SOUND MIXING
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
What's the difference between this and Sound Editing???

[Ok, you *know* that no thought whatsoever went into my choices for the last four categories right?...]

VISUAL EFFECTS
War of the Worlds
Ok, so both Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning annoyed the *%#! out of me, but those alien things, yeeks!...