As longtime readers of No True Bill know, I love making my annual Oscar predictions. A few weeks ago, I posted prognostications of who would be nominated in several of the big categories. I did pretty well, getting all 5 right in the Best Supporting Actor category, 4 right each in the Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress categories, and only 3 right in the Best Actress category. In total, I got 20 out of 25 picks correct.
Well, the big show is Sunday night, which means it's time to pick winners in every single category. As everyone seems to agree, it should be a big night for No Country for Old Men, and the Coen brothers could make history if they win in all 4 categories in which they're nominated -- Best Picture (as the film's producers), Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing (under their pseudonym Roderick Jaynes). That's because no one has ever won 4 Oscars for the same movie. In addition, if they win Best Director, they will be only the second directing team to pick up the trophy, following Robert Wise and Jerome Robbin's win for 1961's West Side Story.
Without further ado, here are my picks:
Picture: No Country for Old Men
Actress: Julie Christie - Away From Her
Actor: Daniel Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood
Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone
Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men
Director: Joel Coen & Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
Adapted Screenplay: No Country for Old Men
Original Screenplay: Juno
Cinematography: There Will Be Blood
Editing: No Country for Old Men
Art Direction: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Costume Design: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Original Score: Atonement
Original Song: "Falling Slowly" - Once
Makeup: La Vie En Rose
Sound Mixing: Transformers
Sound Editing: Transformers
Visual Effects: Transformers
Animated Feature: Ratatouille
Foreign Language Film: The Counterfeiters
Documentary Feature: No End in Sight
Documentary Short: Freeheld
Animated Short Film: I Met the Walrus
Live Action Short Film: The Tonto Woman
Yes, that's right. I'm predicting that Transformers will win 3 Academy Awards and Michael Clayton will win none. No one is sadder about this than me.
These are my picks for who I think will win. Who would I actually like to see win? For Best Picture, my personal favorite is There Will Be Blood. I loved Juno would love to see Ellen Page take home the best actress prize. In the Best Supporting Actor category, I thought Tom Wilkinson was brilliant in Michael Clayton. The two nominees I'd like to see win most are actually two I've picked to win: Best Supporting Actress Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone) and Best Song "Falling Slowly" (Once - Watch the performance here).
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