Oscar Predictions

Best Picture: Winner: The Hurt Locker, Alternate: Avatar

Best Director: Winner: Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker, Alternate: James Cameron - Avatar

Best Actor in a Leading Role: Winner: Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart, Alternate: Colin Firth - A Single Man

Best Actress in a Leading Role: Winner: Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia, Alternate: Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side

Best Supporting Actor: Winner: Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds, Alternate: Christopher Plummer - The Last Station (Just because this is the first time they've nominated him and he's 80!)

Best Supporting Actress: Winner: Mo'Nique - Precious: Based on the novel "Push" by Sapphire, Alternate: Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air (Just because she won the most Critics awards next to Mo'Nique)

Best Foreign Film: Winner: The White Ribbon (Germany), Alternate: A Prophet (France)

Best Adpated Screenplay: Winner: Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner - Up in the Air, Alternate: Geoffrey Fletcher - Precious: Based on the novel "Push" by Sapphire

Best Original Screenplay: Winner: Mark Boal - The Hurt Locker, Alternate: Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds

Best Costume Design: Winner: Sandy Powell - The Young Victoria, Alternate: Janet Patterson - Bright Star

Best Animated Film: Winner: Up, Alternate: Fantastic Mr. Fox

Best Documentary Feature: Winner: The Cove, Alternate: Food, Inc.

Best Cinematography: Winner: Inglourious Basterds, Alternate: The White Ribbon

Best Art Direction: Winner: Avatar, Alternate: Sherlock Holmes

Best Film Editing: Winner: Avatar, Alternate: The Hurt Locker

Best Visual Effects: Winner: Avatar, Alternate: District 9

Best Makeup: Winner: Star Trek, Alternate: The Young Victoria

Best Original Score: Winner: Up, Alternate: Avatar

Best Original Song: Winner: "Take It All" - Nine, Alternate: "The Weary Kind" - Crazy Heart

Best Sound Mixing: Winner: Avatar, Alternate: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Best Sound Editing: Winner: Avatar, Alternate: The Hurt Locker

Best Short Film, Animated: Winner: Wallace & Gromit in A Matter of Loaf and Death, Alternate: French Roast

Best Short Film, Live Action: Winner: The New Tenants, Alternate: Instead of Abracadabra

Best Documentary Short: Winner: Music by Prudence, Alternate: China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province

I'm expecting Avatar to reap many awards and Streep to win Actress over Bullock! It has to happen. The Academy can no longer let her go on without another statue!