...and the Oscar might go to:
Best Picture: "Atonement," "Juno," "Michael Clayton," "No Country for Old Men," "There Will Be Blood."
Best Actor:
George Clooney, "Michael Clayton"; Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be
Blood"; Johnny Depp, "Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street";
Tommy Lee Jones, "In the Valley of Elah"; Viggo Mortensen, "Eastern
Promises."
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett,
"Elizabeth: The Golden Age"; Julie Christie, "Away From Her"; Marion
Cotillard, "La Vie en Rose"; Laura Linney, "The Savages"; Ellen Page,
"Juno."
Best Supporting Actor: Casey Affleck,
"The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"; Javier
Bardem, "No Country for Old Men"; Hal Holbrook, "Into the Wild"; Philip
Seymour Hoffman, "Charlie Wilson's War"; Tom Wilkinson, "Michael
Clayton."
Best Supporting Actress: Cate
Blanchett, "I'm Not There"; Ruby Dee, "American Gangster"; Saoirse
Ronan, "Atonement"; Amy Ryan, "Gone Baby Gone"; Tilda Swinton, "Michael
Clayton."
Best Director: Julian Schnabel, "The
Diving Bell and the Butterfly"; Jason Reitman, "Juno"; Tony Gilroy,
"Michael Clayton"; Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men";
Paul Thomas Anderson, "There Will Be Blood."
Best Foreign Film: "Beaufort," Israel; "The Counterfeiters," Austria; "Katyn," Poland; "Mongol," Kazakhstan; "12," Russia.
Best Adapted Screenplay:
Christopher Hampton, "Atonement"; Sarah Polley, "Away from Her"; Ronald
Harwood, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"; Joel Coen & Ethan
Coen, "No Country for Old Men"; Paul Thomas Anderson, "There Will Be
Blood."
Best Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody,
"Juno"; Nancy Oliver, "Lars and the Real Girl"; Tony Gilroy, "Michael
Clayton"; Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava and Jim Capobianco, "Ratatouille";
Tamara
Jenkins, "The Savages."
Best Animated Feature Film: "Persepolis"; "Ratatouille"; "Surf's Up."
Best Art Direction: "American Gangster," "Atonement," "The Golden Compass," "Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street," "There Will Be Blood."
Best Cinematography: "The
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," "Atonement,"
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," "No Country for Old Men," "There
Will Be Blood."
Best Sound Mixing: "The Bourne Ultimatum," "No Country for Old Men," "Ratatouille," "3:10 to Yuma," "Transformers."
Best Sound Editing: "The Bourne Ultimatum," "No Country for Old Men," "Ratatouille," "There Will Be Blood," "Transformers."
Best Original Score:
"Atonement," Dario Marianelli; "The Kite Runner," Alberto Iglesias;
"Michael Clayton," James Newton Howard; "Ratatouille," Michael
Giacchino; "3:10 to Yuma," Marco
Beltrami.
Best Original Song:
"Falling Slowly" from "Once," Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova; "Happy
Working Song" from "Enchanted," Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz;
"Raise It Up" from "August Rush," Nominees to be determined; "So Close"
from "Enchanted," Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz; "That's How You
Know" from "Enchanted," Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz.
Best Costume:
"Across the Universe," "Atonement," "Elizabeth: The Golden Age," "La
Vie en Rose," "Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street."
Best Documentary Feature: "No End in Sight," "Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience," "Sicko," "Taxi to the Dark Side," "War/Dance."
Best Documentary (short subject): "Freeheld," "La Corona (The Crown)," "Salim Baba," "Sari's Mother."
Best Film Editing: "The Bourne Ultimatum," "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," "Into the Wild," "No Country for Old Men," "There Will Be Blood."
Best Makeup: "La Vie en Rose," "Norbit," "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End."
Best Animated Short Film: "I
Met the Walrus," "Madame Tutli-Putli," "Meme Les Pigeons Vont au
Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)," "My Love (Moya Lyubov)," "Peter
& the Wolf."
Best Live Action Short Film:
"At Night," "Il Supplente (The Substitute)," "Le Mozart des Pickpockets
(The Mozart of Pickpockets)," "Tanghi Argentini," "The Tonto Woman."
Best Visual Effects: "The Golden Compass," "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," “Transformers."
The only movies on this list that I've seen are Pirates, Ratatouille, Transformers, Bourne and There Will Be Blood. I need to get out more.
What are your predictions?
