Best Picture:

1. Dreamgirls - The only one who is all ready getting buzz

2. Flags of Our Fathers - The Academy is loving Clint Eastwood and Paul Haggis

3. The Good Shepherd - The Academy is also loving actors-turned-directors, and they love Robert DeNiro

4. Breaking and Entering - Anthony Minghella returns with a great cast, there are so many Oscar-nominees and winners in this group

5. All the King's Men - Hype has been building for a while, based on an Oscar-winning movie and has a great cast

 

On the edge: Marie Antoinette, The Good German, Guerilla, The Departed, Goya's Ghosts, A Prairie Home Companion, and Babel.