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Academy Award Predictions

Jan 25th
Movie Reviews

Actor in a Leading Role
Colin Firth in “The King’s Speech”

Actor in a Supporting Role
Mark Ruffalo in “The Kids Are All Right”

Actress in a Leading Role
Nicole Kidman in “Rabbit Hole”

Actress in a Supporting Role
Jacki Weaver in “Animal Kingdom”

Animated Feature Film
“Toy Story 3” Lee Unkrich

Art Direction
“Alice in Wonderland” Production Design: Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara

Cinematography
“The King’s Speech” Danny Cohen

Costume Design
“I Am Love” Antonella Cannarozzi

Directing
“Black Swan” Darren Aronofsky

Documentary (Feature)
“Exit through the Gift Shop” Banksy and Jaimie D’Cruz

Documentary (Short Subject)
“Killing in the Name” Nominees to be determined

Film Editing
“The Fighter” Pamela Martin

Foreign Language Film
“In a Better World” Denmark

Makeup
“The Wolfman” Rick Baker and Dave Elsey

Music (Original Score)
“127 Hours” A.R. Rahman

Music (Original Song)
“I See the Light” from “Tangled” Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Glenn Slater

Best Picture
“The King’s Speech” Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers

Short Film (Animated)
“Day & Night” Teddy Newton

Short Film (Live Action)
“God of Love” Luke Matheny

Sound Editing
“Tron: Legacy” Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague

Sound Mixing
“The Social Network” Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten

Visual Effects
“Hereafter” Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojansky and Joe Farrell

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
“Winter’s Bone” Adapted for the screen by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini

Writing (Original Screenplay)
“The Kids Are All Right” Written by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg

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2009 Oscar Predictions Revised

Feb 21st
Movie Reviews, Reviews

At the point of the original post I had not seen some of the nominees. I have since seen The Reader and Slumdog Millionaire.

Here is my new list.

Performance by an actor in a leading role

  • Frank Langella in “Frost/Nixon” (Universal) (WRONG)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

  • Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Doubt” (Miramax) (WRONG)

Performance by an actress in a leading role

  • Kate Winslet in “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company) (CORRECT)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

  • Amy Adams in “Doubt” (Miramax) (WRONG)

Best animated feature film of the year

  • “Bolt” (Walt Disney) Chris Williams and Byron Howard (WRONG)

Achievement in art direction

  • “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.) Art Direction: Nathan Crowley Set Decoration: Peter Lando (WRONG)

Achievement in cinematography

  • “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company) Chris Menges and Roger Deakins (WRONG)

Achievement in costume design

  • “Australia” (20th Century Fox) Catherine Martin (WRONG)

Achievement in directing

  • “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight) Danny Boyle (CORRECT)

Achievement in film editing

  • “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight) Chris Dickens (CORRECT)

Achievement in makeup

  • “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.) John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O’Sullivan (WRONG)

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

  • “WALL-E” (Walt Disney) Thomas Newman (WRONG)

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

  • “Down to Earth” from “WALL-E” (Walt Disney) Music by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman
    Lyric by Peter Gabriel (WRONG)

Best motion picture of the year

  • “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight) A Celador Films Production Christian Colson, Producer (CORRECT)

Achievement in sound editing

  • “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight) Tom Sayers (WRONG)

Achievement in sound mixing

  • “Wanted” (Universal) Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño and Petr Forejt (WRONG)

Achievement in visual effects

  • “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron (CORRECT)

Adapted screenplay

  • “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company) Screenplay by David Hare (WRONG)

Original screenplay

  • “WALL-E” (Walt Disney) Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter (WRONG)

Updated: 6 – 14 I suck at predictions.

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2009 Oscar Predictions

Jan 24th
Movie Reviews

ACTOR, LEADING
Disagree with all the Nominations

My Choices would have been:
Will Smith in “Seven Pounds”
Clint Eastwood in “Gran Torino”
Hugh Jackman in “Australia”

BEST PICTURE
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”

My Choices would have been:
“Australia”
“Twilight”
“The Dark Knight”
“Seven Pounds”

ACTOR, SUPPORTING
Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight”

But would not be disappointed by:
Robert Downey Jr. in “Tropic Thunder”

SHORT FILM, ANIMATED
Skipping as did not see any.

ACTRESS, LEADING
Anne Hathaway in “Rachel Getting Married”

But would not be disappointed by:
Meryl Streep in “Doubt”
Angelina Jolie in “Changeling”

SHORT FILM, LIVE ACTION
Skipping as did not see any.

ACTRESS, SUPPORTING
Viola Davis in “Doubt”

SOUND EDITING
“The Dark Knight”

Would not be disappointed by:
“WALL-E”
“Wanted”

ANIMATED FEATURE
“Bolt”

Would not be disappointed by:
“Kung-Fu Panda”
“WALL-E”

SOUND MIXING
“The Dark Knight”

Would not be disappointed by:
“WALL-E”
“Wanted”

ART DIRECTION
 “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”

VISUAL EFFECTS
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”

CINEMATOGRAPHY
 “The Reader”

SCREENPLAY, ADAPTED
 “Doubt”

Wish was nominated:
“Twilight”
“Seven Pounds”

COSTUME DESIGN
 “Australia”

Would not be disappointed with:
 “The Duchess”

SCREENPLAY, ORIGINAL
 “WALL-E”

DIRECTING
 “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Skipping as did not see any.

Wish was nominated:
“Outsourced”

DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Skipping as did not see any.

FILM EDITING
“The Dark Knight”

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
“Waltz with Bashir”

MAKEUP
“The Dark Knight”

ORIGINAL SCORE
 “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”

Would not be disappointed with:
 “WALL-E”

ORIGINAL SONG
 “O Saya” from “Slumdog Millionaire”

Would not be disappointed with:
“Down to Earth” from “WALL-E”

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