Oscar Predictions (Final)

With Oscar nominations due out obscenely early Tuesday morning, it is once again time to put my Oscar predictor championship belt on the line. Last year I did way better than I ever had and better than most predictors, but this year looks to be more difficult, with few locks. With that in mine, here is my official Oscar nomination predictions.



Best Picture

Brokeback Mountain
Munich
Good Night, and Good Luck
Crash
Capote

Next In Line: Walk The Line
Wild Card: The Constant Gardener

Best Actor

Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote)
Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain)
Joaquin Phoenix (Walk The Line)
David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck)
Russell Crowe (Cinderella Man)

Next In Line: Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow)
Wild Card: Jeff Daniels (The Squid And The Whale)

Best Actress

Reese Witherspoon (Walk The Line)
Felicity Huffman (Transamerica)
Judi Dench (Mrs. Henderson Presents)
Ziyi Zhang (Memoirs of a Geisha)
Charlize Theron (North Country)

Next In Line: Joan Allen (Upside of Anger)
Wild Card: Keira Knightly (Pride & Prejudice)

Best Director

Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)
George Clooney (Good Night, and Good Luck)
Paul Haggis (Crash)
Steven Spielberg (Munich)
Fernando Meirelles (The Constant Gardener)

Next In Line: Bennett Miller (Capote)
Wild Card: Woody Allen (Match Point)

Best Supporting Actor

Paul Giamatti (Cinderella Man)
George Clooney (Syriana)
Matt Dillon (Crash)
Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain)
William Hurt (A History of Violence)

Next In Line: Bob Hoskins (Mrs. Henderson Presents)
Wild Card: Frank Langella (Good Night, and Good Luck)

Best Supporting Actress

Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain)
Amy Adams (Junebug)
Maria Bello (A History of Violence)
Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener)
Catherine Keener (Capote)

Next In Line: Scarlett Johannson (Match Point)
Wild Card: Laura Linney (The Squid And The Whale)

Best Original Screenplay

Crash
The Squid And The Whale
Good Night, and Good Luck
Match Point
Cinderella Man

Next In Line: Syriana
Wild Card: The 40 Year Old Virgin

Best Adapted Screenplay

Munich
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
The Constant Gardener
A History of Violence

Next In Line: Walk The Line
Wild Card: King Kong

Best Documentary Feature

March of the Penguins
Murderball
Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room
Mad Hot Ballroom
Favela Rising

Next In Line: Rize
Wild Card: The Boys of Baraka

Best Animated Feature

Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
Howl’s Moving Castle

Next In Line: Madagascar
Wild Card: Steamboy

Best Foreign Film

Paradise Now (Palestine)
Tsotsi (South Africa)
Joyeux Noel (France)
The Child (Belgium)
Sophie Scholl (Germany)

Next In Line: Perhaps Love (Hong Kong)
Wild Card: C.R.A.Z.Y. (Canada)

Best Cinematography

Brokeback Mountain
Good Night, and Good Luck
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Constant Gardener
The New World

Next In Line: Jarhead
Wild Card: King Kong

Best Art Direction

Brokeback Mountain
Memoirs of a Geisha
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
King Kong
Good Night, and Good Luck

Next In Line: The Chronicles of Narnia
Wild Card: Pride & Prejudice

Best Editing

Brokeback Mountain
Good Night, and Good Luck
Crash
Munich
The Constant Gardener

Next In Line: Walk The Line
Wild Card: Capote

Best Costume Design

Memoirs of a Geisha
Walk The Line
Good Night, and Good Luck
Capote
Brokeback Mountain

Next In Line: Pride & Prejudice
Wild Card: Charlie and the Chololate Factory

Best Original Score

Brokeback Mountain
Memoirs of a Geisha
King Kong
Munich
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Next In Line: The New World
Wild Card: Crash

Best Original Song

In The Deep (Crash)
Travelin’ Thru (Transamerica)
There’s Nothing Like A Show On Broadway (The Producers)
Hustle & Flow (Hustle & Flow)
Dicholo (The Constant Gardener)

Next In Line: Remains of the Day (The Corpse Bride)
Wild Card: Same In Any Language (Elizabethtown)

Best Visual Effects

King Kong
Star Wars: Episode 3
Batman Begins

Next In Line: The Chronicles of Narnia
Wild Card: War of the Worlds