Oscar Predictions

Best Picture

Atonement
Juno
The Kite Runner
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Best Director

P.T. Anderson - There Will Be Blood
Tim Burton - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Joel & Ethan Cohen - No Country for Old Men
Marc Forster - The Kite Runner
Joe Wright - Atonement

Best Actor in a Leading Role

John Cusack - Grace is Gone
Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tommy Lee Jones - In the Valley of Elah
Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
James McAvoy - Atonement

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Julie Christie - Away From Her
Marion Cotillard - La Vie en Rose
Keira Knightley - Atonement
Laura Linney - The Savages
Ellen Page - Juno

Best Supporting Actor

Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men
Philip Bosco - The Savages
Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton

Best Supporting Actress

Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There
Kelly Macdonald - No Country for Old Men
Saoirse Ronan - Atonement
Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton

Best Original Screenplay

Todd Haynes & Oren Moverman - I'm Not There
Diablo Cody - Juno
Judd Apatow - Knocked Up
Brad Bird, Jim Capobianco & Jan Pinkava - Ratatouille
Tamara Jenkins - The Savages

Best Adapted Screenplay

Christopher Hampton - Atonement
Sarah Polley - Away From Her
David Benioff - The Kite Runner
Joel & Ethan Cohen - No Country for Old Men
P.T. Anderson - There Will Be Blood

Best Cinematography

Atonement
The Kite Runner
Lust, Caution
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Best Art Direction

Atonement
The Golden Compass
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Costume Design

Atonement
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Hairspray
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Film Editing

American Gangster
Atonement
I'm Not There
The Kite Runner
No Country for Old Men

Best Original Score

Atonement
The Golden Compass
The Kite Runner
Ratatouille
There Will Be Blood

Best Foreign Film

4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days (Romania)
Days of Darkness (Canada)
Exiled (Hong Kong)
The Orphanage (Spain)
Persepolis (France)

Best Sound Mixing

Beowulf
No Country for Old Men
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Transformers

Best Original Song

Enchanted
Hairspray
Into the Wild
Once
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Visual Effects

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

Best Make-up

Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Hairspray
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Sound Editing

Beowulf
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Ratatouille
Spider-Man 3
Transformers

Best Animated Film

Persepolis
Ratatouille
The Simpsons Movie