Monday, February 11, 2008

80th Academy Awards predictions

Here are my predictions for the 80th Academy Awards

Best Picture:
Atonement
Michael Clayton
There Will Be Blood

Best Director:
Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton

Best Actor:
George Clooney for Michael Clayton
Johnny Depp for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tommy Lee Jones for In the Valley of Elah

Best Actress:
Julie Christie for Away from Her
Ellen Page for Juno

Best Supporting Actor:
Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men
Hal Holbrook for for Into the Wild

Best Supporting Actress:
Ruby Dee for American Gangster
Tilda Swinton for Michael Clayton

Best Original Screenplay:
Lars and the Real Girl - Nancy Oliver
The Savages - Tamara Jenkins

Best Adapted Screenplay:
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Ronald Harwood - Le scaphandre et le papillon, memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby

Best Animated Feature:
Surf's Up

Best Cinematography:
Seamus McGarvey - Atonement

Best Art Direction:
Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer - Atonement
Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Jack Fisk and Jim Erickson - There Will Be Blood

Best Costume Design:
Albert Wolsky - Across the Universe

Best Documentary Feature:
No End in Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Taxi to the Dark Side

Best Documentary Short:
Sari's Mother

Best Film Editing:
Jay Cassidy - Into the Wild

Best Makeup:
Ve Neill and Martin Samuel - Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Best Original Score:
Alberto Iglesias - The Kite Runner
James Newton Howard - Michael Clayton
Michael Giacchino - Ratatouille
Marco Beltrami - 3:10 to Yuma

Best Original Song:
Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz - "That's How You Know" from Enchanted

Best Animated Short:
My Love

Best Live Action Short:
At Night

Best Sound Mixing:
Scott Millan, David Parker, and Kirk Francis - The Bourne Ultimatum
Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff, and Peter Kurland - No Country for Old Men
Paul Massey, David Giammarco, and Jim Steube - 3:10 to Yuma
Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, and Peter J. Devlin - Transformers

Best Sound Editing:
Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg - The Bourne Ultimatum
Skip Lievsay - No Country for Old Men
Matthew Wood - There Will Be Blood
Ethan van Der Ryn and Mike Hopkins - Transformers

Best Visual Effects:
The Golden Compass
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Transformers

Best Foreign Language Film:
Beaufort (Israel), in Hebrew

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