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...Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, each hoping to win an Academy Award or two. Just as fervently, they'll be rooting for one another, for they are compadres from Mexico City. It simplifies matters that they are not in direct competition. Alejandro González Iñárritu, who made Babel, is up for Best Picture and Best Director. Guillermo del Toro, writer-director of Pan's Labyrinth, has been nominated in the Foreign Film and Original Screenplay categories. Alfonso Cuarón, the director of Children of Men, could be onstage for Adapted Screenplay and Editing--and for Pan's Labyrinth...
...there was one surprise at last night's Saggies (or whatever they're called - actually, the Actor, and blechh to that uninspired nickname). It was that the indie comedy Little Miss Sunshine won the Best Ensemble award, beating Babel, Bobby, The Departed and Dreamgirls. Because Crash burst out off the pack last year with a SAG win in the same category, and upset Brokeback Mountain to take the Oscar for Best Picture, Sunshine's victory has to spur it at least the realm of Serious Speculation...
...thing, it's a hit: made for just $8 million, the film has earned nearly $60 million at the domestic box office and another $31.6 million abroad. For another, Sunshine boasts a strong mix of American actors (not the motley of U.S., Mexican, Moroccan and Japanese thesps in Babel). Two of the Sunshiners - Alan Arkin, 72, and Abigail Breslin, 10 - were nominated for Supporting Oscars. And now all the actors win the SAG award. Suddenly, they and their film are the little Menschen that could...
...another of those historical moments, with grim death gargling at you around every corner and people being slaughtered like sheep. Of course, Academy voters could heed the incendiary Zeitgeist and vote for Babel, a film about international chaos, or Letters from Iwo Jima, depicting the last days of a losing war. The Queen shows a head of state stubbornly resisting the popular will, and The Departed is a chic bloodbath...
...NOMINEES WHO WILL WIN WHO SHOULD WIN WHO WAS ROBBED BEST PICTURE BABEL THE DEPARTED LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE THE QUEEN BABEL No sure shots here, but we're guessing this panoramic epic will touch the same chords that Crash did last year. THE DEPARTED A gnarly plot, a pack of stars feasting on meaty roles, the Boston air stenchy with betrayal ... that's enough for us. UNITED 93 One of the few films to deal with the war on terrorism at its first flash point, this fine 9/11 docudrama merited a slot. BEST DIRECTOR CLINT EASTWOOD...