Final Oscar Predictions

Updated January Oscar Predictions

Best Picture
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
*No Country For Old Men
There Will Be BloodBest Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, THERE WILL BE BLOOD
*Joel & Ethan Coen, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Sean Penn, INTO THE WILD
Julian Schnabel, THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
Joe Wright, ATONEMENT
Best Actor
George Clooney, MICHAEL CLAYTON
*Daniel Day-Lewis, THERE WILL BE BLOOD
Johnny Depp, SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
Emile Hirsch, INTO THE WILD
Viggo Mortenson, EASTERN PROMISES

Best Actress
Helena Bonham Carter, SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
*Julie Christie, AWAY FROM HER
Marion Cottilard, LA VIE EN ROSE
Angelina Jolie, A MIGHTY HEART
Ellen Page, JUNO
Best Supporting Actor
Casey Affleck, THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY 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

Best Supporting Actress
*Cate Blanchett, I'M NOT THERE
Catherine Keener, INTO THE WILD
Saoirse Ronan, ATONEMENT
Amy Ryan, GONE BABY GONE
Tilda Swinton, MICHAEL CLAYTONBest Original Screenplay
Brad Bird, RATATOUILLE
*Diablo Cody, JUNO
Tony Gilroy, MICHAEL CLAYTON
Tamara Jenkins, THE SAVAGES
Nancy Olivier, LARS AND THE REAL GIRL

Best Adapted Screenplay
Paul Thomas Anderson, THERE WILL BE BLOOD
*Joel & Ethan Coen, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Christopher Hampton, ATONEMENT
Ronald Harwood, THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
Sean Penn, INTO THE WILDBest Cinematography
*Roger Deakins, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Robert Elswit, THERE WILL BE BLOOD
Janusz Kaminski, THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
Seamus McGarvey, ATONEMENT
Rodrigo Prieto, LUST, CAUTION

Best Art Direction
Dante Ferretti, SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
Jack Fisk, THERE WILL BE BLOOD
Dennis Gassner, THE GOLDEN COMPASS
*Sarah Greenwood, ATONEMENT
Patricia Norris, THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY COWARD ROBERT FORD
Best Editing
Jay Lash Cassidy, INTO THE WILD
John Gilroy, MICHAEL CLAYTON
Roderick Jaynes, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
*Tatiana Riegel & Dylan Tichenor, THERE WILL BE BLOOD
Paul Tothill, ATONEMENT

Best Costume Design
Colleen Atwood, SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
*Jacqueline Durran, ATONEMENT
Patricia Norris, THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY COWARD ROBERT FORD
Lai Pan, LUST, CAUTION
Rita Ryack, HAIRSPRAYBest Make-Up
*Nana Fischer, SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
John E. Jackson, LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA
Colin Penman, HAIRSPRAY

Best Visual Effects
Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End
*Spider-Man 3
TransformersBest Animated Feature
Beowulf
Persepolis
*Ratatouille

Best Foreign-Language Feature
*4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, dir. Christian Mingiu (Romania)
The Counterfeiters, dir. Stefan Ruzowitzki (Austria)
Gone With The Woman, dir. Peter Naess (Norway)
Persepolis, dir. Mrjane Strapi & Vincent Parronaud (France)
The Silly Age, dir. Pavel Giroud (Cuba)

Best Documentary Feature
Body of War
Lake of Fire
*No End In Sight
The Rape of Europa
Sicko

Best Original Score
Johnny Greenwood, THERE WILL BE BLOOD
Albert Iglesias, THE KITE RUNNER
*Dario Marianelli, ATONEMENT
Howard Shore, EASTERN PROMISES
Alan Silvestri, BEOWULF

Best Original Song
"That's How You Know" from ENCHANTED
"Grace Is Gone" from GRACE IS GONE
"Come So Far (Got So Far To Go)" from HAIRSPRAY
*"Guaranteed" from INTO THE WILD
"Dispedida" from LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA