BEST DIRECTOR
Director - Film	Comment
Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby (GG win)	If the movie keeps building, he wins... if any other film wins Best Picture, he loses
Martin Scorsese - The Aviator (BFCA win)	Ready to take the prize from Eastwood if there is any M$B slippage
Alexander Payne - Sideways	Unlikely... but he'll be back again
Taylor Hackford - Ray	He's deserved the nomination more for other films, but this may shut up people who claim he is not well liked
Mike Leigh - Vera Drake	The surprise... but since so much of his form is the director's chair, well deserved
Didn't Make It
Marc Forster - Finding Neverland
Alejandro Amenabar - The Sea Inside
Michael Mann - Collateral
Michel Gondry - Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Mike Nichols - Closer
Bill Condon - Kinsey
Terry George - Hotel Rwanda

20 Weeks To Oscar Charts
Picture|.|||.Director|x| |Screenplay/Adapted Screenplay
xActor/Supporting Actor ||.|Actress/Supporting Actress

Earlier Charts
January 13, 2005 | December 30, 2004 | December 23, 2004
December 16 , 2004 | December 9, 2004 | December 2, 2004
November 25, 2004 | November 18, 2004 | November 11, 2004
November 4 , 2004 | October 28, 2004 | October 21, 2004
October 14, 2004 | September 22, 2004 | August 4, 2004

January 20, 2005
- by David Poland