Joseph Natividad

My Oscar Predictions

The 80th Annual Academy Awards begin in less than a couple hours. Here are my predictions for winners in each respective category:

Actor in a Leading Role: Daniel Day Lewis (There Will Be Blood)

Actor in a Supporting Role: Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)

Actress in a Leading Role: Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose)

Actress in a Supporting Role: Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton)

Animated Feature Film: Ratatouille

Art Direction: Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Cinematography: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Costume Design: Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Directing: No Country for Old Men

Documentary Feature: War/Dance

Documentary Short: Salim Baba

Film Editing: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Foreign Language Film: Katyn (should be The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which probably wasn’t nominated because it was directed by American Julian Schnabel. Oh well.)

Makeup: La Vie en Rose

Music (Score): Atonement

Music (Song): August Rush

Best Picture: No Country for Old Men

Short Film (Animated): Even Pigeons Go to Heaven

Short Film (Live Action): The Mozart of Pickpockets

Sound Editing: Transformers

Sound Mixing: Transformers

Visual Effects: Transformers (They HAVE to win)

Writing (Adapted Screenplay): The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Writing (Original Screenplay): Juno

Who knows how wrong I’ll be with all my predictions once the Oscars are over tonight. I won’t know for awhile since I’ve got work at the dining halls through all of it. However, I hope that The Diving Bell and the Butterfly garners a few awards. I saw it last night with a friend and wasn’t disappointed.

You can check out all the nominees to tonight’s event here.

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