Final Oscar Predictions

Oscar nominations will be announced tomorrow morning and no one seems to know what to expect other than to expect to be surprised. It's a testament to what a great year 2007 was for movies that even now, the race is hard to pin down - but it's a real pain in the ass for those of us trying to finalize our picks for the Oscar pool at work. Anyway, my final predictions:

Best Picture
Atonement
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Michael Clayton
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood)
Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country For Old Men)
Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton)
Sean Penn (Into The Wild)
Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)

Best Actor
George Clooney (Michael Clayton)
Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd)
Emile Hirsh (Into The Wild)
Denzel Washington (American Gangster)

Best Actress
Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth: The Golden Age)
Julie Christie (Away From Her)
Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose)
Angelina Jolie (A Mighty Heart)
Ellen Page (Juno)

Best Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett (I'm Not There)
Catherine Keener (Into The Wild)
Saorise Ronan (Atonement)
Amy Ryan (Gone, Baby, Gone)
Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton)

Best Supporting Actor
Casey Affleck (The Assassination of Jesse James...)
Javier Bardem (No Country For Old Men)
Hal Holbrook (Into The Wild)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Charlie Wilson's War)
Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton)

Best Original Screenplay
Brad Bird (Ratatouille)
Diablo Cody (Juno)
Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton)
Tamara Jenkins (The Savages)
Nancy Oliver (Lars and the Real Girl)

Best Adapted Screenplay
Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood)
Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country For Old Men)
Christopher Hampton (Atonement)
Ronald Harwood (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
Sean Penn (Into The Wild)

Best Editing
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into The Wild
Michael Clayton
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Best Cinematography
The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
Atonement
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Best Art Direction
The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
Atonement
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
There Will Be Blood

Best Costume Design
The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
Atonement
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
La Vie En Rose
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Make Up
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Hairspray
La Vie En Rose

Best Original Score
The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
Atonement
Grace Is Gone
The Kite Runner
Lust, Caution

Best Original Song
Enchanted ("That's How You Know")
Grace Is Gone ("Grace Is Gone")
Hairspray ("Come So Far")
Into The Wild ("Guaranteed")
Once ("Falling Slowly)

Best Sound Mixing
3:10 To Yuma
American Gangster
Hairspray
No Country For Old Men
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Sound Editing
300
The Bourne Ultimatum
Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End
Ratatouille
Transformers

Best Visual Effects
300
Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End
Transformers

Best Documentary Feature
Body of War
Crazy Love
Lake Of Fire
No End In Sight
Sicko

Best Foreign Language Film
The Counterfeiters (Austria)
Days of Darkness (Canada)
The Unknown (Italy)
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (Brazil)
You, The Living (Sweden)

Best Animated Feature
Persepolis
Ratatouille
The Simpsons Movie

... and, in honor of the annual contest by Oscar Watch...er, I mean Awards Daily, my three No Guts, No Glory picks:

Before The Devil Knows You're Dead - Best Picture
Ben Affleck - Best Director
Emmanuelle Seigner - Best Supporting Actress