With six days to go and all the major guild awards done, it's about time to make some final Oscar predictions. A lot of these won't be a shock. The AMPAS likes to go with comfortable choices, and upsets are usually rare. Having more than one in a year is pretty uncanny.

Best Picture: Preference/Prediction: The Departed
Best Director: Pref/Pred: Martin Scorsese
Lead Actor: Pref/Pred: Forest Whitaker
Best Actress: Pref/Pred: Helen Mirren
Supporting Actor: Pref: Mark Wahlberg. Pred: Eddie Murphy
Supporting Actress: Pref: Cate Blanchett. Pred: Jennifer Hudson
Original Screenplay: Pref/Pred: The Queen
Adapted Screenplay: Pref/Pred: The Departed
Animated Feature: Pref/Pred: Cars
Documentary Feature: Pred: An Inconvenient Truth
Foreign Language Film: Pref/Pred: Pan's Labyrinth
Cinematography: Pref/Pred: Children of Men
Art Direction: Pref/Pred: Pan's Labyrinth
Editing: Pref: The Departed. Pred: Babel
Visual Effects: Pref/Pred: Pirates of the Caribbean
Costume Design: Pref/Pred: Dreamgirls
Makeup: Pref/Pred: Pan's Labyrinth
Sound Mixing: Pref/Pred: Dreamgirls
Sound Editing: Pref/Pred: Pirates of the Caribbean
Original Score: Pref: Pan's Labyrinth. Pred: The Queen
Original Song: Pref/Pred: 'Listen' from Dreamgirls
Animated Short: Pred: The Little Matchgirl
Live Action Short: No idea.
Documentary Short: No idea.

I hope this year doesn't disappoint.