IN’s film reviewers offer their opinions on the top six 2007 Academy Awards.

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Last year’s Oscar ceremony was populated with gay cow pokes, fey crime writers and traveling transexuals. This year only a needy repressed lesbian schoolteacher (Dame Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal) scored an invitation. Still, with Ellen DeGeneres hosting, we’ll all tune in to the 2007 Academy Awards for what comedian Stephen Colbert has called the “garish gold-plated reach-around.” If you need help filling out your ballot (see page 42), our film reviewers are here to lend a hand. They’ve examined the nominees of this year’s big six and offered their predictions for who will win and who should win.