Oscar Predictions 2008

My annual Oscar predictions. Last year I got one right. It was my best year ever.

BEST PICTURE
"Atonement"
"Juno"
"Michael Clayton"
"No Country for Old Men"
"There Will Be Blood"

WINNER: ATONEMENT

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
George Clooney in "Michael Clayton"
Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood"
Johnny Depp in "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"
Tommy Lee Jones in "In the Valley of Elah"
Viggo Mortensen in "Eastern Promises" (Focus Features)

WINNER: Daniel Day-Lewis

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Casey Affleck in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"
Javier Bardem in "No Country for Old Men"
Hal Holbrook in "Into the Wild"
Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Charlie Wilson’s War"
Tom Wilkinson in "Michael Clayton"

WINNER: Javier Bardem

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Cate Blanchett in "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"
Julie Christie in "Away from Her"
Marion Cotillard in "La Vie en Rose"
Laura Linney in "The Savages"
Ellen Page in "Juno"

WINNER: Ellen Page

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Cate Blanchett in "I’m Not There"
Ruby Dee in "American Gangster"
Saoirse Ronan in "Atonement"
Amy Ryan in "Gone Baby Gone"
Tilda Swinton in "Michael Clayton"

WINNER: Cate Blanchett

DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson - "There Will Be Blood"
Ethan Coen & Joel Coen - "No Country For Old Men"
Tony Gilroy - "Michael Clayton"
Jason Reitman - "Juno"
Julian Schnabel - "The Diving Bell And The Butterfly"

WINNER: Jason Reitman

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Brad Bird - "Ratatouille"
Diablo Cody - "Juno"
Tony Gilroy - "Michael Clayton"
Tamara Jenkins - "The Savages"
Nancy Oliver - "Lars and the Real Girl"

WINNER: Diablo Cody

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Paul Thomas Anderson - "There Will Be Blood"
Ethan & Joel Coen - "No Country for Old Men"
Christopher Hampton - "Atonement"
Ronald Harwood - "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
Sarah Polley - "Away from Her"

WINNER: Ethan & Joel Coen

ANIMATED FEATURE
"Persepolis" - (Sony Pictures Classics)
"Ratatouille" - (Pixar; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Distribution)
"Surf’s Up" - (Sony Pictures Releasing)

WINNER: Ratatouille

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
"Beaufort" - Israel
"The Counterfeiters" - Austria
"Katyn," - Poland
"Mongol" - Kazakhstan
"12" - Russia

WINNER: Beaufort

ART DIRECTION
"American Gangster" (Universal)
"Atonement" (Focus Features)
"The Golden Compass" (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners) :
"Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)

WINNER: American Gangster

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"

WINNER: No Country For Old Men

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
"No End in Sight" (Magnolia Pictures)
"Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience" (The Documentary Group)
"Sicko" (Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company)
"Taxi to the Dark Side" (THINKFilm)
"War/Dance" (THINKFilm)

WINNER: Sicko

ANIMATED SHORT FILM
"I Met the Walrus"
"Madame Tutli-Putli"
"Même Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)"
"My Love (Moya Lyubov)"
"Peter & the Wolf"

WINNER: I Met the Walrus

LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM
"At Night"
"Il Supplente (The Substitute)"
"Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)"
"Tanghi Argentini"
"The Tonto Woman"

WINNER: At Night

VISUAL EFFECTS
"The Golden Compass"
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End"
"Transformers"

WINNER: Transformers

COSTUME DESIGN
"Across the Universe" (Sony Pictures Releasing)
"Atonement" (Focus Features)
"Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (Universal)
"La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse)
"Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"

WINNER: Sweeney Todd

DOCUMENTARY SHORT
"Freeheld"
"La Corona (The Crown)"
"Salim Baba"
"Sari’s Mother"

WINNER: Freeheld

FILM EDITING
"The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal)
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn)
"Into the Wild" (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment)
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)

WINNER: Into the Wild

SOUND MIXING
"The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal)
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
"Ratatouille" (Walt Disney)
"3:10 to Yuma" (Lionsgate)
"Transformers" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro)

WINNER: 3:10 to Yuma

SOUND EDITING
"The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal)
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
"Ratatouille" (Walt Disney)
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
"Transformers" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro)

WINNER: Ratatouille

ORIGINAL SCORE
"Atonement" (Focus Features)
"The Kite Runner"
"Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.)
"Ratatouille" (Walt Disney)
"3:10 to Yuma" (Lionsgate)

WINNER: 3:10 to Yuma

ORIGINAL SONG
"Falling Slowly" from "Once" (Fox Searchlight)
"Happy Working Song" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney)
"Raise It Up" from "August Rush" (Warner Bros.)
"So Close" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney)
"That’s How You Know" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney)

WINNER: That’s how you know

MAKEUP
"La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse)
"Norbit" (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount)
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End" (Walt Disney)

WINNER: Pirates of the Caribbean