Predict! - Come on, it s not too early. :P

[Zahveed]

In the animation field, I predict:

9

You mean there is another Nine besides the one with Bardem and Cotillard?

Yea, it's based on a Academy Award winning (I believe, correct me if I'm wrong - I'm not double checking my info at the moment) animated short. It was essentially a silent film but this time they have a voice cast. Tim Burton liked it and decided to produce it as a feature length animated film. The original director returns.

[jack]

A nomination for Richard Jenkins would be awesome. He's been very watchable in recent years, and an amazing tallent. If there were more focus on his character in North Country I think he could have landed a Supporting Actor nomination.

I'll keep my fingers crossed.

[cam]

I can predict what WON'T be Mamma Mia!

[cam]

In the animation field, I predict:

9

You mean there is another Nine besides the one with Bardem and Cotillard?

[dreaMaker]

I think The Reader is not going to be released this year, so we re going to see it at next year s Oscars

[Zahveed]

In the animation field, I predict:

9
The Tale of Despereaux
Wall-E

[Hustler]

Annette Bening in (“The Women”)

What about Candice Bergen for the same movie?

[Zahveed]

Looking at the rough draft of contenders, one would think it would be a pretty decent year. Now watch them all fail to meet our expectations.

[OscarGuy]

Actually, I read an article the other day where he denied joining scientology and saying that he is a studier of religions, but asserting that being friends with someone does not make you a practitioner of their religion.

But Hancock has blockbuster written all over it. Smith isn't getting nominated for a blockbuster.

[jack]

I doubt very much that Will Smith will even be a possibility for Hancock. And isn't he a laughing-stock now that he's converted to Scientology?

[OscarGuy]

I really think everyone should be careful of predicting stage-to-screen transfers as contenders. Look at Dreamgirls, Hairspray, The History Boys and a number of others that had early buzz then suddenly collapsed when they were actually released.

[Reza]

Here is a possible list of contenders for 2008:


BEST PICTURE

(“Doubt”)
(“Revolutionary Road”)
("Australia")
(“Blindness”)
(“Changeling”)
(“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”)
(“Frost/Nixon”)
(“Guerrilla”)
("Milk")
(“The Reader”)
(“The Soloist”)
“The Argentine”)
(“Body of Lies”)
(“The Brothers Bloom”)
(“The Countess”)
(“Defiance”)
(“The Duchess”)
(“The Edge of Love”)
(“Valkyrie”)
(“The Young Victoria”)

BEST DIRECTOR
David Fincher for (“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”)
Sam Mendes for (“Revolutionary Road”)
Stephen Daldry for ("The Reader")
Clint Eastwood for (“Changeling”)
Ron Howard for (“Frost/Nixon”)
Rian Johnson for (“The Brothers Bloom”)
Baz Luhrmann for (“Australia”)
Fernando Meirelles for (“Blindness”)
Ridley Scott for (“Body of Lies”)
John Patrick Shanley for (“Doubt”)
Steven Soderbergh for (“Guerrilla”)
Gus Van Sant fpr ("Milk")
Joe Wright for (“The Soloist”)
Charlie Kaufman for (“Synecdoche, New York”)
Bryan Singer for (“Valkyrie”)
Steven Soderbergh for (“The Argentine”)
Bertrand Tavernier for (“In the Electric Mist”)
Jean-Marc Vallee for (“The Young Victoria”)
Edward Zwick for (“Defiance”)

BEST ACTOR

Leonardo DiCaprio in ("Revolutionary Road")
Frank Langella in ("Frost/Nixon")
Daniel Craig in ("Defiance")
Russell Crowe in ("Body of Lies")
Benicio Del Toro in ("The Argentine")
Benicio Del Toro in ("Guerrilla")
Leonardo DiCaprio in ("Body of Lies")
Ralph Fiennes in ("The Reader")
Jamie Foxx in ("The Soloist")
Philip Seymour Hoffman in ("Doubt")
Hugh Jackman in ("Australia")
Sean Penn in ("Milk")
Brad Pitt in ("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button")
Michael Sheen in ("Frost/Nixon")
Tom Cruise in ("Valkyrie")
Harrison Ford in ("Crossing Over")
Ed Harris in ("Appaloosa")
Philip Seymour Hoffman in ("Synecdoche, New York")
Richard Jenkins in ("The Visitor")
Ben Kingsley in ("Elegy")
Tommy Lee Jones in ("In the Electric Mist")
Derek Luke in ("Miracle at St. Anna")
Viggo Mortensen in ("Appaloosa")
Joaquin Phoenix in ("Two Lovers")
Alan Rickman in ("Bottle Shock")
Alan Rickman in ("We're Here to Help")
Matthew Rhys in ("The Edge of Love")
Tim Robbins in ("The Lucky Ones")
Will Smith in ("Han****")
Will Smith in ("Seven Pounds")

BEST ACTRESS

Meryl Streep in (“Doubt”)
Kate Winslet in (“Revolutionary Road”)
Cate Blanchett in (“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”)
Emily Blunt in (“The Young Victoria”)
Vera Farmiga in ("Nothing But the Truth")
Angelina Jolie in (“Changeling”)
Nicole Kidman in (“Australia”)
Keira Knightley in (“The Duchess”)
Jessica Lange in ("Grey Gardens")
Julianne Moore in (“Blindness”)
Natalie Portman in ("Brothers")
Kate Winslet in (“The Reader”)
Patricia Clarkson in (“Blind Date”)
Penelope Cruz in ("Elegy")
Julie Delpy in (“The Countess”)
Anne Hathaway in ("Dancing with Shiva")
Sally Hawkins in (“Happy-Go-Lucky”)
Ashley Judd in ("Crossing Over")
Keira Knightley in (“The Edge of Love”)
Diane Lane in (“Nights in Rodanthe”)
Rachel McAdams in ("The Lucky Ones")
Frances McDormand in (“Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day”)
Sophie Okonedo in ("Skin")
Gwyneth Paltrow in ("Two Lovers")
Anna Paquin in ("Margaret")
Gabourey Sidibe in ("Push")

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Josh Brolin in (“Milk”)
Robert Downey, Jr. in (“The Soloist”)
James Gandolfini in (“Miracle at St. Anna”)
Bruno Ganz in (“The Reader”)
Emile Hirsch in (“Milk”)
Heath Ledger in (“The Dark Knight”)
John Malkovich in (“Changeling”)
Bill Nighy in (“Valkyrie”)
Michael Pena in ("The Lucky Ones")
Maximilian Schell in (“The Brothers Bloom”)
Liev Schreiber in (“Defiance”)
Michael Shannon in (“Revolutionary Road”)
David Wenham in (“Australia”)
Alan Alda in ("Nothing But the Truth")
Kevin Bacon in (“Frost/Nixon”)
Kenneth Branagh in (“Valkyrie”)
John Goodman in (“In the Electric Mist”)
Jackie Earle Haley in (“Winged Creatures”)
Aidan McArdle in (“The Duchess”)
Sam Neill in ("Skin")
Sean Penn in ("Crossing Over")
Oliver Platt in (“Frost/Nixon”)
Dennis Quaid in ("The Express")
Peter Sarsgaard in (“In the Electric Mist”)
John Turturro in (“Miracle at St. Anna”)
Forest Whitaker in (“Winged Creatures”)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Viola Davis in (“Doubt”)
Miranda Richardson in (“The Young Victoria”)
Amy Adams in (“Doubt”)
Drew Barrymore in ("Grey Gardens")
Kathy Bates in (“Revolutionary Road”)
Taraji P. Henson in (“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”)
Catherine Keener in (“The Soloist”)
Rinko Kikuchi in (“The Brothers Bloom”)
Patty McCormack in (“Frost/Nixon”)
Sienna Miller in (“The Edge of Love”)
Amy Ryan in (“Changeling”)
Tilda Swinton in (“Burn After Reading”)
Emma Thompson in ("Brideshead Revisited")
Amy Adams in (“Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day”)
Kate Beckinsale in (“Winged Creatures”)
Annette Bening in (“The Women”)
Alice Braga in (“Blindness”)
Lynn Cohen in (“Synecdoche, New York”)
Hope Davis in (“Synecdoche, New York”)
Dakota Fanning in (“Winged Creatures”)
Jennifer Jason Leigh in (“Synecdoche, New York”)
Catherine Keener in (“Synecdoche, New York”)
Frances McDormand in (“Burn After Reading”)
Samantha Morton in (“Synecdoche, New York”)
Sandra Oh in (“Blindness”)
Camilla Rutherford in (“The Edge of Love”)
Winona Ryder in (“The Informers”)
Vinessa Shaw in ("Two Lovers")
Tilda Swinton in (“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”)
Jeanne Tripplehorn in ("Grey Gardens")
Carice van Houten in (“Body of Lies”)
Carice van Houten in (“Valkyrie”)
Emily Watson in (“Synecdoche, New York””)
Robin Weigert in (“Synecdoche, New York”)
Dianne Wiest in (“Synecdoche, New York”)
Michelle Williams in (“Synecdoche, New York[/b]”)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

(“Doubt”)
(“Revolutionary Road”)
(“Blindness”)
(“Body of Lies”)
(“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”)
(“Frost/Nixon”)
(“Miracle at St. Anna”)
(“The Reader”)
(“The Soloist”)
(“The Dark Knight”)
(“Defiance”)
(“The Duchess”)
(“In the Electric Mist”)
(“The Informers”)
(“Winged Creatures”)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

(“Milk”)
(“Synecdoche, New York”)
(“Australia”)
(“The Brothers Bloom”)
("Burn After Reading")
(“Changeling”)
(“The Edge of Love”)
(“Guerrilla”)
(“Happy-Go-Lucky”)
("Wall-E")
(“The Young Victoria”)
(“The Argentine”)
(“Baby Mama”)
(“Blind Date”)
(“Burn After Reading”)
(“The Countess”)
(“Vicky Cristina Barcelona”)

[OscarGuy]

W could be the new Nixon.

[VanHelsing]

Eastwood has two films coming out this year.

I hope Beckinsale gets some love for Nothing But The Truth.

[jack]

The Lovely Bones isn't coming out this year. It's scheduled to be released on March 13, 2009.

Okay, I didn't know that.

In that case Body of Lies. The new film from Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio.