My Final Oscar Predictions

They're silly but I love watching them. Here are my final Oscar predictions:

BEST PICTURE
The Diving Bell and The Butterfly (Miramax/Canal+) Kathleen Kennedy and Jon Kilik, producers.
Into the Wild (Paramount Vantage) Art Linson, Sean Penn and William Pohlad, producers.
Michael Clayton (Castle Rock Entertainment) Jennifer Fox, Sydney Pollack, Kerry Orent and Steve Samuels, producers.
No Country for Old Men (Paramount Vantage) Joel Coen, Ethan Coen and Scott Rudin, producers.
There Will Be Blood (Miramax/Paramount) Paul Thomas Anderson, JoAnne Sellar and Daniel Lupi, producers.

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING
Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
Sean Penn, Into the Wild
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Tim Burton, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
George Clooney, Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Ryan Gosling, Lars and the Real Girl
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Nikki Blonsky, Hairspray
Julie Christie, Away from Her
Marion Cotillard, La Vie En Rose
Angelina Jolie, A Mighty Heart
Ellen Page, Juno

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
Tommy Lee Jones, No Country for Old Men
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There
Kelly MacDonald, No Country for Old Men
Saoirse Ronan, Atonement
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton

BEST SCREENPLAY WRITTEN DIRECTLY FOR THE SCREEN
American Gangster by Steven Zaillian
Juno by Diablo Cody
Lars and the Real Girl by Nancy Oliver
Michael Clayton by Tony Gilroy
Ratatouille by Brad Bird, Jim Capobianco and Jan Pinkava

BEST SCREENPLAY BASED ON MATERIAL PREVIOUSLY PRODUCED OR PUBLISHED
Atonement by Christopher Hampton
Based on the novel by Ian McEwan
The Diving Bell and The Butterfly by Ronald Harwood
Based on the book by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Into the Wild by Sean Penn
Based on the book by Jon Krakauer
No Country for Old Men by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy
There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson
Based on the novel Oil by Upton Sinclair

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Persepolis (Sony Pictures Classics) Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Parronaud.
Ratatouille (Disney/PIXAR) Brad Bird
The Simpsons Movie (20th Century Fox) Matt Groening and David Silverman.

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
The Counterfeiters (Austria) Stefan Ruzowitzky, director.
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Romania) Cristian Mingiu, director.
I Served the King of England (Czech Republic) Jiri Menzel, director.
The Orphanage (Spain) Juan Antonio Bayona, director.
Persepolis (France) Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Parronaud, directors.

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
Roger Deakins, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Janusz Kaminski, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
Rodrigo Prieto, Lust, Caution
Roger Deakins, No Country for Old Men
Robert Elswitt, There Will Be Blood

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION
Sarah Greenwood (art direction) & Katie Spencer (set decoration), Atonement
Guy Dyas (art direction) & Richard Roberts (set decoration), Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Dennis Gassner (art direction) & Anna Pinnock (set decoration), The Golden Compass
Stuart Craig (art direction) & Stephenie McMillan (set decoration), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Dante Ferreti (art direction) & Francesca LoSchiavo (set decoration), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITING
Pietro Scalia, American Gangster
Christopher Rouse, The Bourne Ultimatum
John Gilroy, Michael Clayton
Roderick Jaynes, No Country for Old Men
Dylan Tichenor, There Will Be Blood

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN
Jacqueline Durran, Atonement
Alexandra Byrne, Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Rita Ryack, Hairspray
Marit Allen, Love in the Time of Cholera
Colleen Atwood, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING
Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer and Greg Steele, American Gangster
Randy Thom, Tom Johnson and William B. Kaplan, Beowulf
Gary Summers, Scott Millan, Bob Beemer and David Parker, The Bourne Ultimatum
Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Jim Stuebe, 3:10 to Yuma
Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin, Transformers

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING
Randy Thom and Dennis Leonard, Beowulf
Perr Hallberg and Karen M. Baker, The Bourne Ultimatum
Randy Thom and Michael Silvers, Ratatouille
Paul N.J. Ottoson, Spider-Man 3
Ethan Van Der Ryn and Mike Hopkins, Transformers

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC - ORIGINAL SCORE
Dario Marianelli, Atonement
Alan Silvestri, Beowulf
Alberto Iglesias, The Kite Runner
Alexandre Desplat, Lust, Caution
Michael Giacchino, Ratatouille

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC - ORIGINAL SONG
"Come So Far (Got So Far To Go)" from Hairspray
Marc Shaiman (music) & Scott Whitman (lyrics)
"Do You Feel Me?" from American Gangster
Diane Warren (music & lyrics)
"Falling Slowly" from Once
Glenn Hansard and Marketa Irglova (music & lyrics)
"Guaranteed" from Into the Wild
Eddie Vedder (music & lyrics)
"That's How You Know" from Enchanted
Alan Menken (music) & Stephen Schwartz (lyrics)

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS
Bryan Grill, Frank Petzold, Robert Stromberg and Trevor Wood, The Golden Compass
John Knoll, Charles Gibson, Hal Hickel and Allen Hall, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Richard Kidd, Scott Farrar, David Prescott and John Frazier, Transformers

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP
Benoit Lestang and Myriam Hottois, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
Ivana Primorac and Duncan Jarman, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Shaun Smith, 300

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Autism: The Musical (In Effect Films) Tricia Regan
Lake of Fire (Anonymous Content) Tony Kaye
No End in Sight (Red Envelope Entertainment) Charles Ferguson
Sicko (Dog Eat Dog Films) Michael Moore and Meghan O'Hara
War/Dance (Rogue Harbor Studios) Sean Fine and Andrea Nix.