There will be no Oscar for Deepa Mehta, Paul Haggis or fellow Canuck Ryan Gosling when the 79th annual Academy Awards are handed out this Sunday in Los Angeles, according to a new poll of film critics conducted by CTV.

The net’s first-ever nationwide Film Media Oscar Poll suggests that The Danish Poet — the National Film Board production by Montreal animator Torill Kove, nom’d for best animated short – has the greatest chance of bringing home an Oscar for Canada. It is Kove’s second Oscar nomination, following that for her 1999 short My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts.

Only 7% of respondents singled out Mehta’s Water as an Oscar winner for best foreign film, favoring instead the fantasy drama Pan’s Labyrinth from Mexico.

Canada’s film critics were united in their choice for best actor, with 93% selecting Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland over Ryan Gosling for Half Nelson.

Paul Haggis — who last year scored best picture and original screenplay for Crash — will also go home empty-handed this year, they say, as his script for Letters from Iwo Jima received only 13% of the vote. Most critics singled out the ensemble drama Babel and the quirky comedy Little Miss Sunshine as possible winners in the category.

While voters are split over the best picture winner — with Babel getting 47% support and The Departed 40% — pundits overwhelmingly predict that Martin Scorsese will finally win his first Oscar for directing the latter.

Predictably, The Queen‘s Helen Mirren is the frontrunner for best actress, while voters singled out Jennifer Hudson and Eddie Murphy in supporting categories.

The poll, conducted Feb. 12-19, will award $1,000 to the Canadian journalist who selected the most Oscar wins — to donate to a charity of their choice.