Monday, February 1, 2010

Final Oscar Predix!

I covered the main races in the podcast, so I'll recap them here and post my other predictions as well. These are ranked by most likely to get in (not by most likely to win).

Best Picture:
1. The Hurt Locker
2. Up in the Air
3. Avatar
4. Inglourious Basterds
5. Precious
6. An Education
7. Up
8. A Serious Man
9. Invictus
10. Crazy Heart
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11. District 9
12. The Blind Side
13. Star Trek
14. The Hangover
15. (500) Days of Summer


Best Director:
1. Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
2. James Cameron, Avatar
3. Jason Reitman, Up in the Air
4. Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
5. Lee Daniels, Precious
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6. Neill Blomkamp, District 9
7. Clint Eastwood, Invictus
8. Lone Scherfig, An Education
9. Joel and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man
10. Michael Haneke, The White Ribbon


Best Lead Actor:
1. Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
2. George Clooney, Up in the Air
3. Colin Firth, A Single Man
4. Morgan Freeman, Invictus
5. Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker
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6. Matt Damon, The Informant
7. Viggo Mortenson, The Road
8. Robert Downey Jr., Sherlock Holmes
9. Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man
10. Tobey Maguire, Brothers


Best Lead Actress:
1. Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
2. Carey Mulligan, An Education
3. Gabourey Sidibe, Precious
4. Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
5. Helen Mirren, The Last Station
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6. Emily Blunt, The Young Victoria
7. Saoirse Ronan, The Lovely Bones
8. Marion Cotillard, Nine
9. Abbie Cornish, Bright Star
10. Tilda Swinton, Julia


Best Supporting Actor:
1. Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
2. Woody Harrelson, The Messenger
3. Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
4. Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
5. Anthony Mackie, The Hurt Locker
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6. Alfred Molina, An Education
7. Matt Damon, Invictus
8. Christian McKay, Me and Orson Welles
9. Alec Baldwin, It's Complicated
10. Peter Capaldi, In the Loop


Best Supporting Actress:
1. Mo'Nique, Precious
2. Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
3. Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
4. Julianne Moore, A Single Man
5. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Crazy Heart
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6. Melanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds
7. Diane Kruger, Inglourious Basterds
8. Penélope Cruz, Nine
9. Samantha Morton, The Messenger
10. Marion Cotillard, Nine


Best Original Screenplay:
1. Inglourious Basterds
2. A Serious Man
3. The Hurt Locker
4. Up
5. (500) Days of Summer
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6. The Hangover
7. Avatar
8. It's Complicated
9. The White Ribbon
10. The Messenger


Best Adapted Screenplay:
1. Up in the Air
2. Precious
3. An Education
4. District 9
5. Crazy Heart
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6. Julie & Julia
7. In The Loop
8. Fantastic Mr. Fox
9. A Single Man
10. Star Trek


Best Animated Feature:
1. Up
2. Fantastic Mr. Fox
3. Coraline
4. Princess and the Frog
5. Ponyo
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6. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
7. Disney's A Christmas Carol
8. Monsters Vs. Aliens
9. 9
10. Mary and Max


Best Documentary Feature:
1. The Cove
2. The Beaches of Agnes
3. Soundtrack for a Revolution
4. Under Our Skin
5. Every Little Step
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6. Food, Inc.
7. Valentino The Last Emperor
8. Burma VJ
9. The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
10. Which Way Home


Best Foreign Language Film:
1. The White Ribbon (Germany)
2. Un Prophète (France)
3. Winter in Wartime (The Netherlands)
4. Samson & Delilah (Australia)
5. Ajami (Israel)
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6. The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)
7. El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Argentina)
8. Kelin (Kazakhstan)
9. The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks around the Corner (Bulgaria)


Best Animated Short:
1. A Matter of Loaf and Death
2. Partly Cloudy
3. Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
4. The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
5. Variete
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6. French Roast
7. The Cat Piano
8. The Kinematograph
9. Runaway
10. Logorama


Best Documentary Short:
1. Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak
2. The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
3. Woman Rebel
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4. China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
5. Lt. Watada
6. Music by Prudence
7. Rabbit a la Berlin
8. The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner


Best Live Action Short:
1. Sidney Turtlebaum
2. Miracle Fish
3. The Door
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4. Short Term 12
5. The New Tenants
6. Hotel
7. The Ground Beneath
8. The Response
9. Kavi
10. Instead of Abracadabra


Best Art Direction:
1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Sherlock Holmes
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
4. Avatar
5. Public Enemies
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6. A Serious Man
7. A Single Man
8. Nine
9. District 9
10. The Young Victoria


Best Cinematography:
1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Avatar
3. The Hurt Locker
4. The White Ribbon
5. Nine
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6. A Single Man
7. Bright Star
8. Where the Wild Things Are
9. The Road
10. Sherlock Holmes


Best Costume Design:
1. The Young Victoria
2. Sherlock Holmes
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. Nine
5. Bright Star
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6. Julie & Julia
7. Public Enemies
8. Coco Avant Chanel
9. Cheri
10. A Single Man


Best Film Editing:
1. Avatar
2. Inglourious Basterds
3. The Hurt Locker
4. Up in the Air
5. (500) Days of Summer
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6. District 9
7. Star Trek
8. Precious
9. The Hangover
10. Invictus


Best Makeup:
1. District 9
2. Star Trek
3. The Young Victoria
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4. The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
5. The Road
6. Il Divo
7. Night at the Museum 2


Best Original Score:
1. Up
2. Avatar
3. The Informant!
4. Public Enemies
5. Fantastic Mr. Fox
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6. Sherlock Holmes
7. Star Trek
8. A Single Man
9. Cheri
10. Coco Avant Chanel


Best Original Song:
1. "The Weary Kind," Crazy Heart
2. "Take It All," Nine
3. "Almost There," The Princess and the Frog
4. "Down in New Orleans." The Princess and the Frog
5. "You've Got Me Wrapped Around Your Little Finger," An Education
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6. "Cinema Italiano," Nine
7. "I See in You," Avatar
8. "All is Love," Where the Wild Things Are
9. "Trust Me." The Informant!
10. "Somebody Else," Crazy Heart


Best Sound Mixing:
1. Avatar
2. The Hurt Locker
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. Star Trek
5. District 9
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6. Nine
7. Transfomers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
8. Up
9. 2012
10. Sherlock Holmes


Best Sound Editing:
1. Avatar
2. The Hurt Locker
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. Star Trek
5. District 9
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6. Up
7. Transfomers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
8. 2012
9. Sherlock Holmes
10. Nine


Best Visual Effects:
1. Avatar
2. Star Trek
3. District 9
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4. Transfomers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
5. 2012
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
7. Terminator Salvation