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Here are my picks (and my guesses) for the 2008 Academy Awards. I usually try to see all five best picture nominees before the awards, but this year I only saw 3. Check it out!

Bold = I think it WILL win
* = I think it SHOULD win

Best Picture

• Atonement
• Juno
• Michael Clayton
• No Country for Old Men
• There Will Be Blood*

Best Actor (Leading)

• George Clooney (Michael Clayton)
• Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)*
• Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd)
• Tommy Lee Jones (In the Valley of Elah)
• Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises)

Best Actress (Leading)

• Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth: The Golden Age)
• Julie Christie (Away from Her)*
• Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose)
• Laura Linney (The Savages)
• Ellen Page (Juno)

Best Actor (Supporting)

• Casey Affleck (The Assassination of Jesse James)*
• Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)
• Philip Seymour Hoffman (Charlie Wilson’s War)
• Hal Holbrook (Into the Wild)
• Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton)

Best Actress (Supporting)

• Cate Blanchett (I’m Not There)*
• Ruby Dee (American Gangster)
• Saoirse Ronan (Atonement)
• Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone)
• Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton)

Best Director

• Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood)*
• Joel & Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men)
• Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton)
• Jason Reitman (Juno)
• Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)

Best Original Screenplay

• Juno
• Lars and the Real Girl*
• Michael Clayton
• Ratatouille
• The Savages

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Atonement
• Away from Her
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• No Country for Old Men
• There Will Be Blood*

Best Cinematography

• The Assassination of Jesse James
• Atonement
• No Country for Old Men
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• There Will Be Blood*

Best Editing

• The Bourne Ultimatum
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Into the Wild
• No Country for Old Men
• There Will Be Blood*

Best Art Direction

• American Gangster
• Atonement
• The Goldan Compass
• Sweeney Todd*
• There Will Be Blood

Best Costume Design

• Across the Universe
• Atonement
• Elizabeth: The Golden Age
• La Vie en Rose
• Sweeney Todd*

Best Makeup

• La Vie en Rose
• Norbit
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End*

Best Original Score

• Atonement*
• The Kite Runner
• Michael Clayton
• Ratatouille
• 3:10 to Yuma

Best Original Song

• “Raise it Up” (August Rush)
• “Happy Working Song” (Enchanted
• “So Close” (Enchanted)
• “That’s How You Know” (Enchanted)
• “Falling Slowly” (Once)*

Best Sound Mixing

• The Bourne Ultimatum
• No Country for Old Men
• Ratatouille*
• 3:10 to Yuma
• Transformers

Best Sound Editing

• The Bourne Ultimatum
• No Country for Old Men
• Ratatouille
• There Will Be Blood*
• Transformers

Best Visual Effects

• The Golden Compass
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End*
• Transformers

Best Animated Feature

• Persepolis*
• Ratatouille
• Surf’s Up

Best Foreign Language Film

• The Counterfeiters (Austria)
• Beaufort (Israel)
• Mongol (Kazakhstan)*
• Katyn (Poland)
• 12 (Russia)

Best Documentary

• No End in Sight*
• Operation Homecoming
• Sicko
• Taxi to the Dark Side
• War Dance

Films

1. There Will Be Blood
2. No Country for Old Men
3. The Assassination of Jesse James
4. The Lives of Others
5. Into the Wild
6. Rescue Dawn
7. In the Shadow of the Moon
8. The Wind that Shakes the Barley
9. The King of Kong
10. Zodiac

Albums

1. Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
2. M.I.A. – Kala
3. The White Stripes – Icky Thump
4. Of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
5. LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
6. Okkervil River – The Stage Names
7. Amy Winehouse – Back to Black
8. Feist – The Reminder
9. Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
10. Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

TV Shows

1. Planet Earth
2. Battlestar Galactica
3. Lost
4. 30 Rock
5. The Office