Oscar time is upon us again.

[hippie_chick]

Time for my picks and predictions! This year, I'll go with this meme :

With the Academy Awards coming up this Sunday, what are your predictions and hopes for the five major categories?

1. Who do you predict will win Best Supporting Actor? Who do you think should win?

Nominees:
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

Prediction: Javier Bardem
Pick: Javier Bardem



2. Who do you predict will win Best Supporting Actress? Who do you think should win?

Nominees:
Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There
Ruby Dee - American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan - Atonement
Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton

Prediction: Ruby Dee (saw bits of her performance and she was great)
Pick: Cate Blanchett (so much love for Cate and she was amazing in this film!)

3. Who do you predict will win Best Actor? Who do you think should win?

Nominees:
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

Prediction: Daniel Day-Lewis (he'll trump the competition... just watch)
Pick: Johnny Depp (well yeah, I can hope, right?!)

4. Who do you predict will win Best Actress? Who do you think should win?

Nominees:
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie - Away from Her
Marion Cotillard - La Vie en Rose
Laura Linney - The Savages
Ellen Page - Juno

Prediction: Marion Cotillard
Pick: Marion Cotillard

5. What do you predict will win Best Picture? What do you think should win?

Nominees:
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Prediction: Atonement
Pick: No Country For Old Men

And a bonus question for the enthusiastic Oscar followers:

6. Here is a list of all of the films nominated for an Academy Award this year. Bold the ones you've already seen.

Across the Universe
American Gangster
The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford
At Night
Atonement (it was alright, i wasn't overly crazy about it)
August Rush
Away From Her
Beaufort
The Borne Ultimatum
Charlie Wilson's War
The Counterfeiters
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Eastern Promises
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Enchanted (i really, really wanted to see this and didn't get a chance... i'll be renting it)
Freeheld
The Golden Compass
Gone Baby Gone
I Met the Walrus
Il Supplente (The Substitute)
I'm Not There (it's amazing, really)
In the Valley of Elah
Into the Wild
Juno (i now want to see this because it's all everyone talks about)
Katyn
The Kite Runner
La Corona (The Crown)
La Vie En Rose (only saw bits of this, want to see the whole thing... Marion is wonderful!!!)
Lars and the Real Girl
Le Mozart Des Pickpockets
Madame Tutli-Putli
Meme Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis
Michael Clayton
Mongol
My Love
No Country for Old Men (haven't had a chance to see it and want to really badly)
No End in Sight
Norbit
Once
Operation Homecoming
Persepolis
Peter and the Wolf
Pirate of the Caribbean: At World End (pirate love!!)
Ratatouille
Salim Baba
Sari's Mother
The Savages
Sicko
Surfs Up
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (*sigh*... johnny...)
Tanghi Argentini
Taxi to the Dark Side
There Will Be Blood
3:10 to Yuma
The Tonto Woman
Transformers
12
War/Dance

Don't get out to movies as much as I'd like to these days. And I feel like every year at Oscar time I want to catch up and see all these movies. I will be making the post Oscars trip to Blockbuster no doubt.

I made notation of this on Donny's community, but just in case I'll do it here too. Donny fans on my list, he's going to be there. He'll be correspondent for Insider. He'll have Debbie with him as well, so I'm hoping for some good pictures of the two of them on the red carpet come Monday morning.

Comments

[mrwhipee.livejournal.com]

Every year it seems, there's the one category where all conventional wisdom goes out the window, and someone wins that you wouldn't expect. As much as I love Daniel Day Lewis and his performance in There Will Be Blood, and hope he wins after losing in 2002, I could see Depp getting the upset.