Predictions of the Winners for the 81st Academy Awards Thread Part III

[DIRECTOR]

bump, vote and discuss why you chose these selections

Don't forget to watch the oscars tomorrow

 

[Matt]

Slumdog is too hot to lose. It has best picture wrapped up.

Milk will get best original screenplay...though how a movie about someone's life, which is being adapted into film can be original is beyond me. Still...they need to throw Van Sant and Penn a bone. I've never seen a movie cool off quicker than Milk. But they'll have to give it something. Still...WALL*E deserves it.

As for best adapted....with Slumdog most likely taking best director and best picture...I suspect the Academy will show their boy Ron Howard some love, and give it to Frost/Nixon.

 

[CFE]

Best Picture: "Slumdog Millionaire"

Best Make-Up: Mike Elizalde and Thom Floutz - "Hellboy II: The Golden Army"

Best Original Score: James Newton Howard - "Defiance"

Best Original Song: Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman - "Down to Earth" from "Wall-E"

Best Visual Effects: John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick and Shane Mahan - "Iron Man”

Best Adapted Screenplay: David Hare - "The Reader"

Best Original Screenplay: Martin McDonagh - "In Bruges"

 

[Matt]

Slumdog is too hot to lose. It has best picture wrapped up.

Milk will get best original screenplay...though how a movie about someone's life, which is being adapted into film can be original is beyond me. Still...they need to throw Van Sant and Penn a bone. I've never seen a movie cool off quicker than Milk. But they'll have to give it something. Still...WALL*E deserves it.

As for best adapted....with Slumdog most likely taking best director and best picture...I suspect the Academy will show their boy Ron Howard some love, and give it to Frost/Nixon.

 

[DACrowe]

WHO WILL WIN:

Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Director: Danny Boyle
Best Actor: Sean Penn
Best Actress: Kate Winslet
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger
Best Supporting Actress: Viola Davis The one upset
Best Adapted Screenplay: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Original Screenplay: Milk
Best Original Score: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button One undeserving Oscar I did not think Slumdog would get
Best Original Song: Slumdog Millionaire (Jai Ho)
Best Animated Film: Wall-E
Best Make-Up: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Visual Effects: The Dark Knight
Best Editing: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Cinematography: Slumdog Millionaire

Wow. Just dug up this old post. Showing the predictability of Oscar Politics I was 13/15 on the awards.