Best Motion Picture of the Year
Nominees:
Slumdog Millionaire: Christian Colson
Prediction: Slumdog Millionaire; Actual Result: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Nominees:
Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler
Prediction: Sean Penn (pretty close to 50/50 on Penn vs. Rourke); Actual Result: Sean Penn
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Nominees:
Meryl Streep for Doubt
Prediction: Kate Winslet (Kate’s great, but I’d give it to Streep); Actual Result: Kate Winslet
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Nominees:
Josh Brolin for Milk
Michael Shannon for Revolutionary Road
Prediction: Heath Ledger; Actual Result: Heath Ledger
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Nominees:
Viola Davis for Doubt
Prediction: Viola Davis (Cruz would be the obvious choice, but there always seem to be surprises in this category, and everyone who saw Doubt raved about Davis’s performance, short though it was); Actual Result: Penélope Cruz
Best Achievement in Directing
Nominees:
Gus Van Sant for Milk
Prediction: Danny Boyle; Actual Result: Danny Boyle
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Nominees:
WALL·E: Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Jim Reardon
Prediction: Milk [but I’d love for it to be Happy-Go-Lucky]; Actual Result: Milk
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
Nominees:
Slumdog Millionaire: Simon Beaufoy
Prediction: Slumdog Millionaire [I doubt Doubt, but that’s my vote]; Actual Result: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Achievement in Cinematography
Nominees:
Slumdog Millionaire: Anthony Dod Mantle
Prediction: Slumdog Millionaire; Actual Result: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Achievement in Editing
Nominees:
Slumdog Millionaire: Chris Dickens
Prediction: The Dark Knight; Actual Result: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Achievement in Art Direction
Best Achievement in Costume Design
Best Achievement in Makeup
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Nominees:
Prediction: Slumdog Millionaire [the Best Picture tends to be the favorite, regardless of the musical quality]; Actual Result: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
Nominees:
Slumdog Millionaire: A.R. Rahman, Sampooran Singh Gulzar (“Jai Ho”)
Slumdog Millionaire: A.R. Rahman, Maya Arulpragasam (“O Saya”)
WALL·E: Peter Gabriel, Thomas Newman (“Down to Earth”)
Prediction: Slumdog Millionaire, “Jai Ho” [why only three nominees? There were other songs out there.]; Actual Result: “Jai Ho”
Best Achievement in Sound
Nominees:
Wanted: Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño, Petr Forejt
Prediction: Wall•E; Actual Result: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Nominees:
Prediction: The Dark Knight; Actual Result: The Dark Knight
Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Nominees:
Iron Man: John Nelson, Ben Snow, Daniel Sudick, Shane Mahan
Prediction: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Actual Result: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Nominees:
Prediction: Wall•E [surest thing besides Heath Ledger]; Actual Result: Wall•E
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Nominees:
The Class [Entre les murs] (France)
Revanche (Austria)
Departures [Okuribito] (Japan)
Waltz with Bashir [Vals Im Bashir] (Israel)
Prediction: Waltz with Bashir [I preferred The Class; handicapped by not having seen the other three when I made this prediction]; Actual Result: Departures
Best Documentary, Features
Nominees:
Trouble the Water: Tia Lessin, Carl Deal
Prediction: Man on Wire [could be Trouble the Water, which I missed in its theatrical run; saw only Man on Wire and Encounters… as of this writing] Actual Result: Man on Wire
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
Nominees:
The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306: Adam Pertofsky, Margaret Hyde
Prediction: um…The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306 [seems to be about US civil rights; not as surefire as if it were about the Holocaust, but…]; Actual Result: Smile Pinki
Best Short Film, Animated
Nominees:
This Way Up: Alan Smith, Adam Foulkes
Prediction: Presto [I preferred La Maison en petits cubes, but I have to go with the Pixar one, the only one many people have seen (as shown theatrically before Wall•E), which would be my second choice]; Actual Result: La maison en petit cubes
Best Short Film, Live Action
Nominees:
Toyland [Spielzeugland]: Jochen Alexander Freydank
Prediction: Toyland [I thought this was the weakest of the five, but never bet against the Holocaust film]; Actual Result: Toyland
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