Best Picture

This feels too easy. Babel is the multi-plotted semi-epic, The Departed is the critics’ baby with the Best Director favorite, Dreamgirls is the irresistible musical, The Queen is the respectable biopic, and Little Miss Sunshine is the scrappy indie that could. It can’t be that easy, can it? Watch for upsets from United 93 or Letters From Iwo Jima, or if the Academy is feeling especially adventurous, Little Children, Pan’s Labyrinth, or Children of Men. Go nuts, Academy; just don’t pick Borat.