My Oscar Nominee Predictions

Update: I've marked the ones I got wrong, and put the correct nominees I missed in parentheses

Best Picture

No Country For Old Men
Atonement
There Will Be Blood
Michael Clayton
X - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Juno)

Best Director

Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
X - Tim Burton, Sweeney Todd (Jason Reitman, Juno)
Coen Brothers, No Country For Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
X - Sean Penn, Into the Wild (Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton)

Best Actor

Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises
George Clooney, Michael Clayton
X - Ryan Gosling, Lars and the Real Girl (Tommy Lee Jones, In the Valley of Elah)

Best Actress

Ellen Page, Juno
Julie Christie, Away From Her
X - Keira Knightley, Atonement (Laura Linney, The Savages)
Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
X - Angelina Jolie, A Mighty Heart (Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age)

Best Supporting Actor

Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Casey Affleck, Assassination of Jesse James…
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson’s War
Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild

Best Supporting Actress

Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There
Amy Ryan, Gone, Baby, Gone
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
X - Catherine Keener, Into the Wild (Ruby Dee, American Gangster)
Saoirse Ronan, Atonement

Best Original Screenplay

Juno
Lars and the Real Girl
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
The Savages

Best Adapted Screenplay

Atonement
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
X - Charlie Wilson’s War (Away From Her)

Best Animated Feature

Ratatouille
Persepolis
X - The Simpsons Movie (Surf's Up)

My closest call was leaving Juno off the best picture list instead of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Little Miss Sunshine made me think twice, but I thought the dramas were too strong this year, and Oscar has a bias against comedy.

Comments

[Raimundo]

One wonders how the wetrir's strike will affect this year's Oscars. I won't watch it either way, but a trainwreck can still tickle one's fancy.P.S. Use the goddamn categories before publishing, I'll edit it this time.