Best Picture The Producers Guild of America has agreed with the Academy about 70 per cent over the past 10 years, when predicting Best Picture. This year, the PG winners were Little Miss Sunshine and Cars. The Golden Globes' Best Picture winner has gone on to win the Oscar seven times in the past 10 years. If you follow this theory, Golden Globe winner Babel could snag the Oscar. In the 72 years that the Academy has given an Oscar for film editing, only nine movies have won the top prize without that nod. This year, Babel and The Departed are the only Oscar Best Picture contenders in the film editing category. Best Director The Directors Guild of America awards, voted by film and TV directors, predicted 51 of the past 57 Best Director Oscar winners. Last year Ang Lee won for Brokeback Mountain and also took home the Oscar (check dga.org for this year's winner). Only five times in 78 years has a film won Best Picture without also receiving the award for Best Director. Best Actor, Actress, Lead and Supporting The Screen Actors Guild Awards is the award show where actors determine the winners. This year, Helen Mirren, Forest Whitaker, Jennifer Hudson and Eddie Murphy won their respective categories, while Little Miss Sunshine won the award for Best Cast in a Motion Picture (the SAG's equivalent to Best Picture). Since the Academy's biggest bloc of voters are actors, this show is often an accurate bellwether. The Academy loves to honor real-life performances (Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash in Walk the Line and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote in Capote). This year, Mirren's portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II and Whitaker as Idi Amin, fit the bill. *see our Oscar Scoresheet for the full list of nominees