My picks have the x next to them. I think I saw only two movies in the theater last year (Transformers and Blades of Glory). I’m going with Transformers sweeping its categories for a total of three. And Blades of Glory, uh well, err, um, yea.
Best Picture
‘Atonement’
‘Michael Clayton’
‘No Country for Old Men’
x ‘There Will Be Blood’
‘Juno’
Best Director
x 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 Actor
George Clooney ‘Michael Clayton’
x 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’
x Ellen Page ‘Juno’
Laura Linney ‘The Savages’
Best Supporting Actor
Casey Affleck ‘The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford’
x Javier Bardem ‘No Country for Old Men’
Philip Seymour Hoffman ‘Charlie Wilson’s War’
Hal Holbrook ‘Into the Wild’
Tom Wilkinson ‘Michael Clayton’
Best Supporting Actress
x Cate Blanchett ‘I’m Not There’
Ruby Dee ‘American Gangster’
Saoirse Ronan ‘Atonement’
Amy Ryan ‘Gone Baby Gone’
Tilda Swinton ‘Michael Clayton’
Best Animated Feature Film
‘Persepolis’
x ‘Ratatouille’
‘Surf’s up’
Best Foreign Film
‘Counterfeiters’ (Austria)
x ‘Beaufort’ (Israel)
‘Katyn’ (Poland)
‘Mongol’ (Kazakhstan)
’12’ (Russia)
Best Original Screenplay
‘Juno’ Diablo Cody
‘Lars and the Real Girl’ Nancy Oliver
‘Michael Clayton’ Tony Gilroy
‘Ratatouille’ Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird
x ‘The Savages’ Tamara Jenkins
Best Adapted Screenplay
x ‘Atonement’ Christopher Hampton
‘Away from Her’ Sarah Polley
‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’ Ronald Harwood
‘No Country for Old Men’ Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
‘There Will Be Blood’ Paul Thomas Anderson
Best Documentary Feature
x ‘No End in Sight’
‘Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience’
‘Sicko’
‘Taxi to the Dark Side’
‘War/Dance’
Best Original Score
x ‘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’
‘Once’
‘Happy Working Song’
‘Enchanted’
x ‘Raise It Up’
‘August Rush’
‘So Close’
‘Enchanted’
‘That’s How You Know’
‘Enchanted’
Best Film Editing
‘The Bourne Ultimatum’ Christopher Rouse
‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’ Juliette Welfling
‘Into the Wild’ Jay Cassidy
‘No Country for Old Men’ Roderick Jaynes
x ‘There Will Be Blood’ Dylan Tichenor
Best Documentary – Short Subject
‘Freeheld’ Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth
x ‘La Corona (The Crown)’ Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega
‘Salim Baba’ Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello
‘Sari’s Mother’ James Longley
Best Cinematography
‘The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford’ Roger Deakins
‘Atonement’ Seamus McGarvey
x ‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’ Janusz Kaminski
‘No Country for Old Men’ Roger Deakins
‘There Will Be Blood’ Robert Elswit
Best Costume Design
‘Across the Universe’ Albert Wolsky
‘Atonement’ Jacqueline Durran
x ‘Elizabeth: The Golden Age’ Alexandra Byrne
‘La Vie en Rose’ Marit Allen
‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’ Colleen Atwood
Best Sound Mixing
‘The Bourne Ultimatum’ Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis
‘No Country for Old Men’ Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland
‘Ratatouille’ Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane
‘3:10 to Yuma’ Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Jim Stuebe
x ‘Transformers’ Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin
Best Sound Editing
‘The Bourne Ultimatum’ Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg
‘No Country for Old Men’ Skip Lievsay
‘Ratatouille’ Randy Thom and Michael Silvers
‘There Will Be Blood’ Matthew Wood
x ‘Transformers’ Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins
Best Live Action Short Film
‘At Night’
‘Il Supplente (The Substitute)’
x ‘Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)’
‘Tanghi Argentini’
‘The Tonto Woman’
Best Animated Short Film
‘I Met the Walrus’
‘Madame Tutli-Putli’
‘M
me les Pigeons vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go To Heaven)’
‘My Love (Moya Lyubov)’
‘Peter & the Wolf’
Best Makeup
x ‘La Vie en Rose’ Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald
‘Norbit’ Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji
‘Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End’ Ve Neill and Martin Samuel
Best Art Direction
‘American Gangster’ Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Beth A. Rubino
‘Atonement’ Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
‘The Golden Compass’ Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’ Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
x ‘There Will Be Blood’ Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson
Best Visual Effects
‘The Golden Compass’ Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood
‘Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End’ John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier
x ‘Transformers’ Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier
oop. now that’s two in a row i got wrong. i missed on art direction
oh yea, Javier Bardem got me back on track. That clip of him in that small country shop was quite intriguing.
i just ate a chocolate covered vanilla ice cream pop with crunchies. It was so freakin’ good.
i totally guessed on the best original song award. I went with “raise it up” cuz it sounded uplifting. It’s being performed now. Sounds pretty good. rather soulful. 10,000 times better than that last trashy performance by that broadway goofball lady.
chalk another one up. i got “Le Mozart des Pickpockets” correct. always go with the movie with a french name.
That’s 5 out of 7 correct so far. not bad.
i don’t think i picked best animated short film. oh well. I wouldn’t have picked peter and the wolf.
5 out of 8
that’s cool. the dude brought up his peter puppet from peter and the wolf.
i didn’t realize that “I’m not there” was the john dylan movie. i shouldn’t have picked cate blanchett. I figured since she’s nominated for both actress awards that she’d win supporting actress.
5 out of 9. i’m sliding.
atonement getting the sham
5 out of 10. hey, i was 3 out of 3.
bourne ultimatum won sound editing. i honestly knew bourne ulitmatum would win, but i had to go with transformers cuz it’s clearly the better sound editing movie. oh well.
5 out of 11.
same story for sound mixing.
5 out of 12. though i could argue it should be 7 out of 12. i knew bourne would win, but i couldn’t pass up on transformers. c’mon.
snap. i got best actress wrong. Juno was the only movie i knew anything about in this category.
When they were showing clips of the nominees, i told my wife that marion cotillard would win. she was the most mysterious. people like that.
officially 5 out of 13
unofficially 8 out of 13
film editing wrong
officially 5 out of 14
unofficially 8 out of 14
foreign film wrong. I went with the one that was hardest to pronounce.
officially 5 out of 15
unofficially 8 out of 15
song award time. i gonna win. i know it. raise it up!
snap. i was wrong. those two seem like a nice couple.
5 out of 16
unofficially 8 out of 15
what happened to me? i started out 3 for 3, then i go on a 2-11 crash and burn.
this ain’t worth it any more.
cinematintoatirohpy wrong
5 out of 17
MY LOSING STREAK HAS ENDED! Atonement wins for best musical score. i got ten wrong in a row there. sheesh.
6 out of 18
documentary short subj wrong
6 out of 19
doc feature wrong
6 out of 20
original screenplay wrong
6 out of 21. shudda picked juno.
best actor correct. he needs to lose those stupid earrings.
7 out of 22
schnabel didn’t win for director
7 out of 23
best picture time. who will win? i picked there will be blood
dang. 7 out of 24. 29%
We had an Oscar pool at work. I got 19 out of 24 and haven’t seen a movie in 8 years. Not too bad.
19? That’s unbelievable!
7 out of 24. Tom so schooled you! I wish i laid down some guesses.
Hey, your blog now has 3,856 comments. Congratulations.
I timed that last comment completely wrong. I should have lead off with the 3856 comments comment first, because that would have been more funny.
predicting all the awards beforehand makes watching the awards much, much more interesting. Though, I have to admit that I felt obligated to see who won each award, so i wound up glued to the tv which got became a drag.
Did you know I have an Oscar statue? I do. It’s from Sales Solutions. They gave it to me when I left the company. It’s an MVP statue. And they did a little inscription on the base of the statue. I was not able to predict that they would give me an Oscar. I think it’s illegal to reproduce the Oscar statue, so I shouldn’t even be commenting on it here, but it’s public knowledge. I hope the Oscar Company will come beating on my door to get my Oscar, and I will say, “No! Go away!”