Academy Awards: Winner Predictions!

Best Motion Picture of the Year: Slumdog Millionaire
Alternate: Milk

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role: Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler
Alternate: Sean Penn - Milk

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role: Kate Winslet - The Reader
Alternate: Meryl Streep - Doubt

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Alternate (yeah right): Josh Brolin - Milk

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role: Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Alternate: Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler

Best Achievement in Directing: Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
Alternate: Gus Van Sant - Milk

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen: Pete Docter, Jim Reardon & Andrew Stanton - Wall-E
Alternate: Dustin Lance Black - Milk

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published: Simon Beaufoy - Slumdog Millionaire
Alternate: Peter Morgan - Frost/Nixon

Best Achievement in Cinematography: Anthony Dod Mantle - Slumdog Millionaire
Alternate: Wally Pfister - The Dark Knight

Best Achievement in Editing: Chris Dickens - Slumdog Millionaire
Alternate: Lee Smith - The Dark Knight

Best Achievement in Art Direction: Donald Graham Burt & Victor J. Zolfo - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Alternate: Nathan Crowley & Peter Lando - The Dark Knight

Best Achievement in Costume Design: Michael O'Connor - The Duchess
Alternate: Albert Wolsky - Revolutionary Road

Best Achievement in Makeup: Greg Cannom - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Alternate: John Caglione, Jr. & Conor O'Sullivan - The Dark Knight

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score: A.R. Rahman - Slumdog Millionaire
Alternate: Alexandre Desplat - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song: "Down to Earth": Peter Gabriel & Thomas Newman - Wall-E
Alternate: "Jai Ho": Sampooran Singh Gulzar & A.R. Rahman - Slumdog Millionaire

Best Achievement in Sound: Lora Hirschberg, Ed Novick & Gary Rizzo - The Dark Knight
Alternate: Resul Pookutty, Richard Pryke & Ian Tapp - Slumdog Millionaire

Best Achievement in Sound Editing: Richard King - The Dark Knight
Alternate: Tom Sayers - Slumdog Millionaire

Best Achievement in Visual Effects: Eric Barba, Craig Barron, Burt Dalton & Steve Preeg - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Alternate: Chris Corbould, Nick Davis, Paul J. Franklin & Timothy Webber - The Dark Knight

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year: Wall-E
Alternate: Kung Fu Panda

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year: Waltz with Bashir (Israel)
Alternate: The Class (France)

Best Documentary, Features: Man on Wire
Alternate: Trouble the Water

Best Documentary, Short Subjects: The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306
Alternate: The Conscience of Nhem En

Best Short Film, Animated: Presto
Alternate: This Way Up

Best Short Film, Live Action: New Boy
Alternate: Manon on the Asphalt