This Year's Oscar Contenders

Quite sad but Romulus My Father will go unnoticed, and Eric Banner gave one if not the best performance of the year and it was a bloody good film!

My best guesses...


* Predicted winners in BOLD

Best Picture
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Juno
Into The Wild
Atonement

Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp for Sweeney Todd
George Clooney for Michal Clayton
Ryan Gosling for Lars and the Real Girl
Emile Hirsch for Into the Wild

Best Actress
Julie Christie for Away From Her
Ellen Page for Juno
Amy Adams for Enchanted
Marion Cotillard for La Vie en Rose
Keira Knightley for Atonement

Best Supporting Actor
Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men
Tom Wilkinson for Michael Clayton
Philip Seymour Hoffman for Charlie Wilson's War
Robert Downey Jr. for Zodiac
Casey Affleck for The Assassination of Jesse James

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Ryan for Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton for Michael Clayton
Jennifer Garner for Juno
Jennifer Jason Leigh for Margot at the Wedding
Cate Blanchett for I'm Not There

Best Director
The Coens for No Country for Old Men
Sean Penn for Into the Wild
Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood
Ridley Scott for American Gangster
Tim Burton for Sweeney Todd

Best Original Screenplay
Diablo Cody for Juno
Brad Bird for Ratatouille
Tamara Jenkins for The Savages
Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton
Judd Apatow for Knocked Up

Best Adapted Screenplay
James Vanderbilt for Zodiac
The Coens for No Country for Old Men
Christopher Hampton for Atonement
Ronald Harwood for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Aaron Sorkin for Charlie Wilson's War

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I used to be addicted to crystal meth, now I'm just addicted to Breaking Bad.

If there is an Oscars ceremony that is.......

yeah WGA are really screwing us over BIG TIME

If the Oscars are affected like the Globes were, what do we think that will mean for the strike? Hopefully the writers will get what they want so we can return to our regularly scheduled programming.

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And lo the whispering wanderer weeps
what whit to whom did my life keep?

OK, the Oscar nominations will be announced this coming Tuesday morning, so I'm gonna finalize my guesses now...


BEST PICTURE
Charlie Wilson's War
Hairspray
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men

BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Tim Burton, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Joel & Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Mike Nichols, Charlie Wilson's War
Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

BEST ACTOR
George Clooney, Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Ryan Gosling, Lars and the Real Girl
Tom Hanks, Charlie Wilson's War

BEST ACTRESS
Julie Christie, Away from Her
Angelina Jolie, A Mighty Heart
Keira Knightley, Atonement
Laura Linney, The Savages
Ellen Page, Juno

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Armin Mueller-Stahl, Eastern Promises
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson's War
John Travolta, Hairspray
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Margot at the Wedding
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
Marisa Tomei, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Atonement, Christopher Hampton
Charlie Wilson's War, Aaron Sorkin
A Mighty Heart, John Orloff
No Country for Old Men, Joel & Ethan Coen
There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
In the Valley of Elah, Paul Haggis & Mark Boal
Juno, Diablo Cody
Margot at the Wedding, Noah Baumbach
Michael Clayton, Tony Gilroy
The Savages, Tamara Jenkins

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