Oscar Predictions

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Posted by Joseph Demmeon 07. 02. 2008in Film News

As the first of many posts here, I thought it fitting to start it off with my current predictions for the 2008 Academy Awards. Some of these picks are ones that I want to win, but probably won’t, but I didn’t feel like thinking like the Academy this year. As I see more films from 2007 I would like to put up a personal favorites list at some point.

Best Motion Picture

No Country for Old Men

Actor in a Leading Role

Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)

Actor in a Supporting Role

Casey Affleck (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)

Actress in a Leading Role

Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose)

Actress in a Supporting Role

Cate Blanchett (I’m Not There)

Animated Feature Film

Ratatouille

Art Direction

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Cinematography

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Costume Design

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Directing

Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood)

Film Editing

The Bourne Ultimatum

Makeup

La Vie En Rose

Original Score

Atonement

Original Song

“Falling Slowly” (Once)

Sound Editing

No Country for Old Men

Sound Mixing

Transformers

Visual Effects

Transformers

Adapted Screenplay

No Country for Old Men

Original Screenplay

Juno

Out of all the nominees this year I still need to see Michael Clayton, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, In the Valley of Elah, The Savages, Persepolis, Surf’s Up, The Diving Bell and Butterfly, and Across the Universe.

Thankfully, several of those films are, or will be, available on DVD soon.