Rich Bradley: The Blog

Whether the Oscars happen or not, nominations will be announced in five days. That means it’s time to end the guessing and place my final bets. Here we go (expected winners in bold):

Picture
Atonement
Into the Wild
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Director
P.T. Anderson (There Will Be Blood)
Tim Burton (Sweeney Todd)
Ethan & Joel Coen (No Country for Old Men)
Sean Penn (Into the Wild)
Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell & the Butterfly)

Actor
George Clooney (Michael Clayton)
Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd)
Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild)
Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises)

Actress
Julie Christie (Away From Her)
Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose)
Angelina Jolie (A Mighty Heart)
Laura Linney (The Savages)
Ellen Page (Juno)

Supporting Actor
Casey Affleck (The Assassination of Jesse James…)
Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Charlie Wilson’s War)
Hal Holbrook (Into the Wild)
Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton)

Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett (I’m Not There)
Ruby Dee (American Gangster)
Catherine Keener (Into the Wild)
Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone)
Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton)

Original Screenplay
Diablo Cody (Juno)
Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton)
Tamara Jenkins (The Savages)
Kelly Masterson (Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead)
Nancy Oliver (Lars and the Real Girl)

Adapted Screenplay
P.T. Anderson (There Will Be Blood)
Ethan & Joel Coen (No Country for Old Men)
Christopher Hampton (Atonement)
Ronald Harwood (The Diving Bell & the Butterfly)
Sean Penn (Into the Wild)

I probably have no business making guesses in the other various categories, but I’m going to anyway (except for the short film ones, because I don’t even know what the candidates would be):

Foreign Film
Beaufort (Israel)
The Counterfeiters (Austria)
Katyn (Poland)
The Unknown (Italy)
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (Brazil)

Documentary Feature
Autism: The Musical
For the Bible Tells Me So
Lake of Fire
Sicko
White Light/Black Rain

Animated Film
Persepolis
Ratatouille
The Simpsons Movie

Original Score
Clint Eastwood (Grace is Gone)
Jonny Greenwood (There Will Be Blood)
Alberto Iglesias (The Kite Runner)
Dario Marianelli (Atonement)
Howard Shore (Eastern Promises)

Original Song
Enchanted – “That’s How You Know”
Grace is Gone – “Grace is Gone”
Into the Wild – “Guaranteed”
Love in the Time of Cholera – “Despedida”
Once – “Falling Slowly”

Editing
The Bourne Ultimatum
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men
Sweeney Todd
There Will Be Blood

Art Direction
Across the Universe
Atonement
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Hairspray
Sweeney Todd

Cinematography
The Assassination of Jesse James…
Atonement
The Diving Bell & the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Costume Design
Atonement
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Enchanted
La Vie en Rose
Sweeney Todd

Makeup
300
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Sweeney Todd

Sound Editing
The Bourne Ultimatum
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Spider-Man 3
Sweeney Todd
Transformers

Sound Mixing
300
The Bourne Ultimatum
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men
Transformers

Visual Effects
300
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Transformers

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