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81st Academy Awards : Take Your Picks – Early Predictions?

Question by KevKev: 81st Academy Awards : Take Your Picks – Early Predictions?
Best Picture

– The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
– Frost/Nixon
– Milk
– The Reader
– Slumdog Millionaire

Best Actor

– Richard Jenkins “The Visitor”
– Frank Langella “Frost/Nixon”
– Sean Penn “Milk”
– Brad Pitt “The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button”
– Mickey Rourke “The Wrestler”

Best Actress

– Anne Hathaway “Rachel Getting Married”
– Angelina Jolie “Changeling
– Melissa Leo “Frozen River”
– Meryl Streep “Doubt”
– Kate Winslet “The Reader”

Best Supporting Actor

– Josh Brolin “Milk”
– Robert Downey Jr. “Tropic Thunder”
– Phillip Seymour Hoffman “Doubt”
– Heath Ledger “The Dark Knight”
– Micheal Shannon “Revolutionary Road”

Best Supporting Actress

– Amy Adams “Doubt”
– Penelope Cruz “Vicky Christina Barcelona”
– Viola Davis “Doubt”
– Taraji P. Henson “The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button”
– Marisa Tomei “The Wrestler”

Best Director

– David Fincher “The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button”
– Ron Howard “Frost/Nixon”
– Gus Van Sant “Milk”
– Stephen Daldry “The Reader”
– Danny Boyle “Slumdog Millionaire

Best Adapted Screenplay

– Eric Roth “The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button”
– John Patrick Shanley “Doubt”
– Peter Morgan “Frost/Nixon”
– David Hare “The Reader”
– Simon Beaufoy “Slumdog Millionaire”

Best Original Screenplay

– Courtney Hunt “Frozen River”
– Mike Leigh “Happy-Go-Lucky”
– Martin McDonagh “In Bruges”
– Dustin Lance Black “Milk”
– Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon and Pete Docter “WALL-E”

Best Animated Feature

– Wall-E
– Kung Fu Panda
– Bolt

Best Visual Effects

– The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
– Iron Man
– The Dark Knight

Best Art Direction

– Changeling
– The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
– The Dark Knight
– The Duchess
– Revolutionary Road

Best Cinematography

– Changeling
– The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
– The Dark Knight
– The Reader
– Slumdog Millionaire

Best Sound Mixing

– WALL-E
– The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
– The Dark Knight
– Slumdog Millionaire
– Wanted

Best Sound Editing

– The Dark Knight
– Iron Man
– Slumdog Millionaire
– Wanted
– WALL-E

Best Original Score

– The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
– Defiance
– Milk
– Slumdog Millionaire
– WALL-E

Best Original Song

– Down To Earth “WALL-E
– Jai Ho “Slumdog Millionaire
– O Sayo “Slumdog Millionaire

Best Foreign Feature

– The Baader Meinhof Complex
– The Class
– Departures
– Revanche
– Waltz With Bashir

Best Costumes

– Australia
– The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
– The Duchess
– Milk
– Revolutionary Road

Best Film Editing

– The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
– The Dark Knight
– Frost/Nixon
– Milk
– Slumdog Millionaire

Best Make-Up

– The Dark Knight
– The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
– Hellboy II: The Golden Army

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