BEST PICTURE
	Picture	Studio	Director	Awards - Poss Stars	Comment
THE TOP 20 POSSIBILITIES AS OF TODAY
The Rare Lighter Fare
July 20	Hairspray	NL	Shankman	Travolta Blonsky
Sept 29	The Darjeeling Limited	FoxS	W Anderson	Wilson Brody
Dec 26	The Savages	FoxS	Jenkins	Hoffman Linney Bosco
The Political Dramas
Sept 14	In The Valley Of Elah	WIP	Haggis	Jones Theron
Oct 19	Rendition	NL	Hood
Nov 2	The Kite Runner	ParVan	Forster
Nov 9	Lions For Lambs	UA	Redford	Cruise Streep Redford
The Departed Slot Hopefuls
Sept 14	The Brave One	WB	Jordan	Foster Howard
Sept 14	Eastern Promises	Focus	Cronenberg	Mortenson Watts
Nov 2	American Gangster	U	R. Scott	Denzel Crowe
Nov 16	Beowulf	Par	Zemeckis
Serious Studio Muscle
Oct 5	Michael Clayton	WB	Gilroy	Clooney Wilkinson
Oct 12	Elizabeth: The Golden Age	U	Kapur	Blanchett Rush Owen Morton
Dec 21	Sweeney Todd	DW	Burton	Depp Bonham- Carter
Dec 21	Charlie Wilson's War	U	Nichols	Hanks Roberts Hoffman
The Arty Battlers
Sept 21	Into The Wild	ParVan	Penn	Holbrook Hirsch
Nov 9	No Country For Old Men	Mir/ ParVan	Coens	Bardem Jones
Nov 9	Reservation Road	Focus	George	Phoenix Ruffalo Connell
Nov 21	I'm Not There	TWC	Haynes	Blanchett
Dec 7	Atonement	Focus	Wright	Knightley Redgrave
Dec 17	Le Scaphandre et le papillon	Mir	Schnabel
Dec 26	There Will Be Blood	ParVan	Anderson	Day-Lewis
OTHER CONTENDERS... With High Potential Noms In Other Categories
May 4	Away From Her	Lions	Polley	Christie	Actress/Screenplay
June 8	La Vie En Rose	PictH	Dahan	Cotillard	Actress
July 24	Ressurecting The Champ	Yari	Lurie	Jackson	Supp Actor
Oct 26	Things We Lost In The Fire	DW	Bier	Del Toro	Actor
AND THE REST...
June 22	A Mighty Heart	ParVan	Winterbottom	Jolie
June 29	Evening	Focus	Koltai	Streep Close Redgrave
July 13	Rescue Dawn	MGM	Herzog	Bale Zahn
Aug 14	Feast Of Love	MGM	Benton	Freeman
Sept 28	Lust, Caution	Focus	Lee	Leung Wei
Oct 12	Grace Is Gone	TWC	Strouse	Cusack
Oct 12	We Own The Night	Sony	Gray	Phoenix
Oct 19	Margot At The Wedding	ParVan	Baumbach	Kidman
Nov 2	In Bloom	2929	Perelman	Thurman Wood
Nov 16	Love In the Time Of Cholera	NL	Newell	Bardem
Nov 30	Cassandra's Dream	TWC	Allen	McGregor Wilkinson
Dec 7	His Dark Materials	NL	Weitz
Dec 14	Youth Without Youth	SPC	Coppola	Roth
OUT of 2007
	The Other Boleyn Girl	Sony	Chadwick
	La Misma Luna	FoxS	Riggen	Fererra
x	Guerilla	Focus	Soderbergh
x	Margaret	FoxS	Lonergan
x	Synecdoche, New York	SK	Kaufman

September 6 , 2007 - Corrected Sept 13, 2007
- by David Poland