Oscar PREDICTIONS! Everything but the big 8

I do wonder if The Fall will be able to pick up any nominations despite seeming to be forgotten at the Guilds. Same goes for Synecdoche, New York. Australia was also MIA, but the Academy loves movies like it.


And here we go...


Animated Feature:
Kung-Fu Panda
Wall-E
Waltz With Bashir
1st Alt - Bolt
2nd Alt - Horton Hears a Who

Documentary Feature:
Encounters at the End of the World
Man on Wire
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Standard Operating Procedure
Trouble the Water
1st Alt - I.O.U.S.A.
2nd Alt - At the Death House Door

Foreign Language Film:
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Departures
The Class
Everlasting Moment
Waltz With Bashir
1st Alt - The Necessities of Life
2nd Alt - Revanche

Art Direction:
Australia
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
1st Alt - The Duchess
2nd Alt - Slumdog Millionaire

Cinematography:
Australia
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
1st Alt - The Reader
2nd Alt - Milk

Costume Design:
Australia
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Duchess
Sex and the City
1st Alt - The Other Boleyn Girl
2nd Alt - Brideshead Revisited

Film Editing:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
1st Alt - The Wrestler
2nd Alt - Wall-E

Makeup:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
The Reader
1st Alt - Synecdoche, New York
2nd Alt - The Dark Knight

Original Score:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Defiance
Frost/Nixon
Slumdog Millionaire
Wall-E
1st Alt - Milk
2nd Alt - The Dark Knight
(I'm sure one or two of these will be announced as DQ'd by tomorrow)

Original Song:
"Gran Torino" - Gran Torino
"Jai Ho" - Slumdog Millionaire
"O Saya" - Slumdog Millionaire
"Down to Earth" - Wall-E
"The Wrestler" - The Wrestler
1st Alt - "I Thought I Lost You" - Bolt
2nd Alt - "Once in a Lifetime" - Cadillac Records
(Oscar-nominee Miley Cyrus. UGH!)

Sound Mixing:
The Dark Knight
Defiance
Iron Man
Slumdog Millionaire
Wall-E
1st Alt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2nd Alt - Quantum of Solace

Sound Effects Editing:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Indiana Jones and the Kindomg of the Crystal Skull
Iron Man
Wall-E
1st Alt - Cloverfield
2nd Alt - Quantum of Solace

Visual Effects:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
1st Alt - Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
2nd Alt - The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor


I'm sure I'll re-edit some of these by tomorrow night.