Oscar Predictions

[davenav]

It's a week until the Oscars, and I'm interested to see everyone's predictions for it. Don't feel you have to have one for every category, but list as many as you can. If you feel the need to polemicize about the event, please do so elsewhere. This thread is simply about predictions.

I'm still working on mine, so I may not check back until I'm done.

Thanks!

[Michael]

all the ones I don't want to win!:biglaugh:

[jojopuppyfish]

The girl from Juno will most likely win.
Phillip Seymore Hoffman -Charlie's war He's due for an Oscar
No Country for Old Men -Give the award to Joel and Ethan Coen

[Squealy]

Phillip Seymore Hoffman -Charlie's war He's due for an Oscar
He just won the Best Actor Oscar two years ago.

[Squealy]

Best Picture -- No Country for Old Men
Best Director -- Coen Bros
Best Actor -- Daniel Day Lewis (shoe in)
Best Actress -- Julie Christie? Not sure about this one.
Best Supporting Actor -- Javier Bardem
Best Supporting Actress -- Amy Ryan or Cate Blanchett
Best Original Screenplay -- Juno
Best Adapted Screenplay -- No Country for Old Men

[sadie]

Picture- No Country For Old Men
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen-No Country For Old Men
Sup. Actor-Javier Bardem-No Country For Old Men
Sup. Actress-Cate Blanchett-I'm Not There
Actor-Daniel Day-Lewis-There Will Be Blood
Actress-Marion Cotillard-La Vie En Rose


Sadie

[Dillydipper]

I predict there will be a montage. Stewart will superimpose himself into some movie clip. All the jokes written by Bruce Vilanche will bomb because they don't sound like they should come from the mouths of their presenters.

And just like every year, no matter how much the broadcast runs overtime, the skits fall flat, and bold statements just go over the audience's head...the show will still get nominated for an Emmy...

...which is unfair, because the Emmy broadcasts never get nominated for an Oscar...!

[davenav]

I predict there will be a montage. Stewart will superimpose himself into some movie clip. All the jokes written by Bruce Vilanche will bomb because they don't sound like they should come from the mouths of their presenters.

And just like every year, no matter how much the broadcast runs overtime, the skits fall flat, and bold statements just go over the audience's head...the show will still get nominated for an Emmy...

...which is unfair, because the Emmy broadcasts never get nominated for an Oscar...!

I specifically asked for this kind of reaction to go in other threads. This is just for award predictions.

[Squealy]

From the first post:
If you feel the need to polemicize about the event, please do so elsewhere. This thread is simply about predictions.

[davenav]

Okay, fair point. Let me rephrase it --

Please post your Award Predictions. Anyone wishing to polemicize, like Dillydipper did above, please start your own thread and do so there. Thanks.

Frankly, I don't care if you hate it. It's a glitz-fest, some will hate the jokes, it will run too long. We already know that.

[Squealy]

I was responding to Dillydipper...

[davenav]

Sorry...

Carry on!

[Larry Mc]

I was responding to Dillydipper...

That's what I thought.

Best Actor -- Daniel Day Lewis
Best Supporting Actor -- Javier Bardem
Best Picture -- Atonement
Best Director -- Coen Bros
Best Actress --Laura Linney
Best Supporting Actress --Tilda Swinton

[Jimbo]

Picture- No Country For Old Men
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen-No Country For Old Men
Sup. Actor-Javier Bardem-No Country For Old Men
Sup. Actress-Cate Blanchett-I'm Not There
Actor-Daniel Day-Lewis-There Will Be Blood
Actress-Marion Cotillard-La Vie En Rose


Sadie

Trade out Ellen Page for Cotillard and these are my picks too.

[Dillydipper]

All right, if we want to be prickly here, perhaps you should know that this thread was already welcoming predictions. I'd already posted a pick or two there myself.

http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=138016

[davenav]

All right, if we want to be prickly here, perhaps you should know that this thread was already welcoming predictions. I'd already posted a pick or two there myself.

http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=138016

That thread is really more along the lines of talk about the announcements, I just want to focus on our predictions, and not get bogged down in commenting on the show itself. I'm sure there will be a new thread afterward for that.

I'm not trying to be prickly, but I did ask for polemicizing to taken elsewhere.

[wayneklein]

Best Picture -- No Country for Old Men
Best Director -- Coen Bros
Best Actor -- Daniel Day Lewis (shoe in)
Best Actress -- Julie Christie? Not sure about this one.
Best Supporting Actor -- Javier Bardem
Best Supporting Actress -- Amy Ryan or Cate Blanchett
Best Original Screenplay -- Juno
Best Adapted Screenplay -- No Country for Old Men

Agree with your picks except I think Ruby Dee will be the sentimental fav for Best Supporting Actress.

I'm also picking Michael Clayton for Best Original Screenplay and think Christie will win as well.


my predictions for what they are worth:
http://www.dvdivas.net/movies/reviews/o/oscars-80th-picks-WAYNE.html

[vinyl anachronist]

Best Picture--No Country for Old Men
Best Director--Coen Brothers
Best Actor--Daniel Day-Lewis
Best Actress--Julie Christie
Best Supporting Actor--Javier Bardem
Best Supporting Actress--Cate Blanchett
Best Original Screenplay--Juno
Best Adapted Screenplay--The Diving Bell & The Butterfly

[wayneklein]

Best Picture--No Country for Old Men
Best Director--Coen Brothers
Best Actor--Daniel Day-Lewis
Best Actress--Julie Christie
Best Supporting Actor--Javier Bardem
Best Supporting Actress--Cate Blanchett
Best Original Screenplay--Juno
Best Adapted Screenplay--The Diving Bell & The Butterfly

What's interesting is that the screenplay (particularly if you read the book) for "The Diving Bell & The Butterfly" is a brilliant example of taking something so well captured in one medium and translating it to another.

[Matt Levy]

He just won the Best Actor Oscar two years ago.

Someone has not been paying attention.

[Matt Levy]

No Country For Old Men should win best pic and Bardem easily for best supporting actor.

[vinyl anachronist]

What's interesting is that the screenplay (particularly if you read the book) for "The Diving Bell & The Butterfly" is a brilliant example of taking something so well captured in one medium and translating it to another.

I think that's my one pick for the obligatory upset.

[davenav]

As promised, here is my list of predictions -- not totally based on my own preferences, but rather my take on how Hollywood votes.

Cinematography -- No Country For Old Men (NCFOM) Roger Deakins

Costumes -- Atonement

Editing -- NCFOM

Music (Score) -- Atonement

Music (Song) -- Falling Slowly from Once

Visual Effects -- Golden Compass

Adapted Screenplay -- NCFOM

Original Screenplay -- Juno

Supporting Actress -- Cate Blanchett

Supporting Actor -- Hal Holbrook (an upset ala Alan Arkin)

Best Actress -- Julie Christie (another 'body of work' award)

Best Actor -- Daniel Day Lewis (anything else would be one of the biggest upsets of all time!)

Best Director -- Joel & Ethan Coen

Best Picture -- No Country For Old Men

[johnny 99]

Daniel Day Lewis deserves best actor.

I think it's a terrible oversight that Sean Penn and Into The Wild were ignored as I thought it was 2007's Best Film

I know I'm in the minority but I though "No Country For Old Men" was one of the most overrated films I've ever gone to see after reading many good reviews.

[Logan5]

“Transformers” (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro)
Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin

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Regrettably this won’t have online coverage like it did with backstage only, I think it was the 2005 Oscars, looks like Sky scummy Sky UK is covering it, oh, well there is always the webpage at A.M.P.A.S.® to check up on the shows proceedings.