My Oscar Predictions for Sunday...

The Oscars will be unveiled this Sunday night. This year seems to be even more unpredictable than last year's awards. For what it's worth, here are my predictions for Sunday night, alongside possible spoilers (for those categories for which I have some nagging doubts):

BEST PICTURE
No Country For Old Men

BEST DIRECTOR
Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country For Old Men

BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood

BEST ACTRESS
Julie Christie, Away from Her
possible spoiler: Marion Cotillard, La Vie En Rose (because why would the Academy honour an older actress when they can honour a younger one?)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS (the toughest race to predict, in my opinion)
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
possible spoilers: Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone or Ruby Dee, American Gangster

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
No Country for Old Men
possible spoiler: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Juno

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
There Will Be Blood
possible spoilers: No Country for Old Men or The Diving Bell And The Butterfly

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Ratatouille

BEST FILM EDITING
No Country for Old Men

BEST ART DIRECTION
Sweeney Todd

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Sweeney Todd
possible spoiler: La Vie en Rose

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Austria's "The Counterfeiters"

BEST MAKEUP
La Vie en Rose

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Transformers

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Atonement

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Once, "Falling Slowly"

BEST SOUND EDITING
Transformers

BEST SOUND MIXING
Transformers

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
No End In Sight

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Freeheld (about a dying New Jersey detective fighting to leave her pension benefits to her lesbian partner. I hope to see it at this year's Toronto Inside Out festival...)

BEST SHORT FILM - LIVE ACTION
Tanghi Argentini

BEST SHORT FILM - ANIMATED
I Met A Walrus
possible spoiler: Canada's Madame Tutli-Putli