Oscar Predictions...

Here's who I think should win... [bold=I want them to win]

Best Picture

'Atonement'
'Michael Clayton'
'No Country for Old Men'
'There Will Be Blood'
'Juno'

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 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'
Ellen Page
'Juno'
Laura Linney
'The Savages'

Best Supporting Actor

Casey Affleck
'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford'
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

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'
'Ratatouille'
'Surf's up'

Best Foreign Film
'Counterfeiters' (Austria)
'Beaufort' (Israel)
'Katyn' (Poland)
'Mongol' (Kazakhstan)
'12' (Russia)
[[i don't know since I haven't seen any]]

Best Original Screenplay

'Juno'
Diablo Cody
'Lars and the Real Girl'
Nancy Oliver
'Michael Clayton'
Tony Gilroy
'Ratatouille'
Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird
'The Savages'
Tamara Jenkins
[not sure]

Best Adapted Screenplay

'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

[not sure either haha]

Best Documentary Feature

'No End in Sight'
'Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience'
'Sicko'
'Taxi to the Dark Side'
'War/Dance'


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
[goodness...i don't know]


Best Original Song

'Falling Slowly'
'Once'
'Happy Working Song'
'Enchanted'
'Raise It Up'
'August Rush'
'So Close'
'Enchanted'
'That's How You Know'
'Enchanted'


Best Makeup

'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
'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
'Transformers'
Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier