Oscar Predictions 2008

Posted by on February 23, 2008 in Film | 0 comments

This might be the first time that I have ever really enjoyed every single nominee for Best Picture, and I believe that we will look back at 2007 as one of the strongest years in film from this decade.

I absolutely loved Juno, I really liked both Atonement and Michael Clayton, and I thought that No Country For Old Men was good but overrated. So my choice to take the gold statue is There Will Be Blood because it is a phenomenal movie, an instant classic and an epic masterpiece.

I always struggle with predicting who WILL win vs. who I want to win, so I decided to denote both below for the major categories.

BEST ACTOR
George Clooney (Michael Clayton)
Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood) * WILL WIN/SHOULD WIN
Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd)
Tommy Lee Jones (In the Valley of Elah)
Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Casey Affleck (The Assassination of Jesse James…)
Javier Bardem (No Country For Old Men) * WILL WIN/SHOULD WIN
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Charlie Wilson’s War)
Hal Holbrook (Into The Wild)
Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton)

BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth: The Golden Age)
Julie Christie (Away From Her) * WILL WIN
Marion Cotillard (La Ve En Rose) * SHOULD WIN
Laura Linney (The Savages)
Ellen Page (Juno)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett (I’m Not There)
Ruby Dee (American Gangster)
Saoirse Ronan (Atonement)
Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone) * WILL WIN
Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton) * SHOULD WIN

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Persepolis * SHOULD WIN
Ratatouille * WILL WIN
Surf’s Up

CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Atonement *WILL WIN
The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood *SHOULD WIN

BEST DIRECTOR
Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and The Butterfly)
Jason Reitman (Juno)
Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton)
Joel & Ethan Coen (No Country For Old Men) * WILL WIN
Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood) * SHOULD WIN

ORIGINAL SCORE
Atonement * WILL WIN/SHOULD WIN
The Kite Runner
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma

ORIGINAL SONG
“Falling Slowly” (Once) * WILL WIN/SHOULD WIN
“Happy Working Song” (Enchanted)
“Raise It Up” (August Rush)
“So Close” (Enchanted)
“That’s How You Know” (Enchanted)

BEST PICTURE
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country For Old Men *WILL WIN
There Will Be Blood * SHOULD WIN

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Atonement (Christopher Hampton) *SHOULD WIN
Away From Her (Sarah Polley)
The Diving Bell and The Butterfly (Ronald Harwood)
No Country For Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen) * WILL WIN
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Juno (Diablo Cody) * WILL WIN/SHOULD WIN
Lars and the Real Girl (Nancy Oliver)
Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
The Savages (Tamara Jenkins)

So what do you think?

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