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Burke's choices are in bold. Best Picture: "Babel" (Paramount) "The Departed" (Warner Bros.) "Letters from Iwo Jima" (Warner Bros.) "Little Miss Sunshine" (Fox Searchlight) "The Queen" (Miramax) Best Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, "Blood Diamond" Ryan Gosling, "Half Nelson" Peter O'Toole, "Venus" Will Smith, "The Pursuit of Happyness" Forest Whitaker, "The Last King of Scotland" Best Actress: Penelope Cruz, "Volver" Judi Dench, "Notes on a Scandal" Helen Mirren, "The Queen" Meryl Streep, "The Devil Wears Prada" Kate Winslet, "Little Children" Best Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin, "Little Miss Sunshine" Jackie Earle Haley, "Little Children" Djimon Hounsou, "Blood Diamond" Eddie Murphy, "Dreamgirls" Mark Wahlberg, "The Departed" Best Supporting Actress: Adriana Barraza, "Babel" Cate Blanchett, "Notes on a Scandal" Abigail Breslin, "Little Miss Sunshine" Jennifer Hudson, "Dreamgirls" Rinko Kikuchi, "Babel" Original Screenplay: "Babel" "Letters from Iwo Jima" "Little Miss Sunshine" "Pan's Labyrinth" "The Queen" Documentary Feature: "Deliver Us from Evil" (Lionsgate) "An Inconvenient Truth" (Paramount Classics and Participant Productions) "Iraq in Fragments" (Typecasts Releasing) "Jesus Camp" (Magnolia Pictures) "My Country, My Country" (Zeitgeist Films) Director: Clint Eastwood, "Letters from Iwo Jima" Stephen Frears, "The Queen" Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, "Babel" Martin Scorsese, "The Departed" Paul Greengrass, "United 93" Makeup: "Apocalypto" (Buena Vista) "Click" (Sony Pictures Releasing) "Pan's Labyrinth" (Picturehouse) Animated Feature: "Cars" (Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studio) "Happy Feet" (Kingdom Pictures, LLC; Warner Bros.

Audiences looking for surprises will like The Messengers, and even those used to silent pauses before the scare will jump occasionally. Overall, the idea of the movie is half original. A family moves into a house with a sunflower farm in North Dakota that's been abandoned for years and begins to experience paranormal phenomena.

The entire Mills Concert Hall holds its breath when Viktoria Mullova turns a page. No one coughs or clears a throat. It's a travesty when someone sneezes. (That was me. I'm sorry. I have allergies.) The first thing you notice about Mullova are her arms. They're bare and well-toned, the arms of a swimmer or a dancer.

Chocolate and the music of Belle Bulwinkle and Angela Koregelos greeted about 140 visitors to the Mills College Art Museum on Valentine's Day. "I'm really excited for students to come and hear music, mingle and see some incredible art. We have some of the best artists on display," Assistant Museum Director Stacie Daniels said.

Across the street from the old City Hall building in Civic Center Park, just beyond the two homeless men sleeping on benches, there are hundreds of brightly painted tiles depicting images of peace. A few blocks away, poetry is etched into the sidewalks and the wind whistles a song on an oversized red tuning fork.

"Take 2," the current exhibit at the Mills Art Museum, reflects and builds on works from artists and movements past, such as Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and early American simplicity.