Yet Another Oscar Picks List

Here are my picks for tonight's Academy Awards:

Picture: Babel
Actress Leading: Helen Mirren
Actor Leading: Forest Whitaker
Actress Supporting: Jennifer Hudson
Actor Supporting: Eddie Murphy
Director: Martin Scorsese
Adapted Screenplay: The Departed
Original Screenplay: Babel
Animated Feature: Happy Feet
Art Direction: Dreamgirls
Cinematography: Children of Men
Costume Design: The Devil Wears Prada
Film Editing: Babel
Foreign Language: Pan's Labyrinth
Makeup: Pan's Labyrinth
Original Score: Alexandre Desplat (The Queen)
Original Song: Listen (Dreamgirls)
Sound Mixing: Dreamgirls
Sound Editing: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Visual Effects: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Animated Short: The Little Match Girl
Live Action Short: Eramos Pocos (One Too Many)
Documentary Feature: An Inconvenient Truth
Documentary Short Subject: Two Hands


(Note: This is a 'will win' list, not a 'should win' list.)

Tune in tonight to see if your favorites win!

Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover.

Dr. Nagan gets his comeuppance on Larry Lieber & Vince Colletta's 1974 cover to Weird Wonder Tales #7.

(Standard disclaimer about pissed-off gorillas not really being monkeys applies.)

Image courtesy of the GCD. Click on the image for a larger version.