Sunday 24 February 2008

Ruuds Oscar Predictions

here is my predictions for tonight, not becasue anyone cares, merely for the fact that if i get any right i can gloat and this is my proof i said it before they happened. Because i am that sad.


Best Motion Picture of the Year:
No Country For Old Men (2007)

because i have seen it but, There Will Be Blood might beat it.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role:
Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood (2007)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role:
Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

Royalty always has a chance.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role:
Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men (2007)

Wins because has a great haircut in it.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Nominees:
Cate Blanchett for I'm Not There. (2007)

Hedging my bets here, she must win one of them!

Best Achievement in Directing:
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen for No Country for Old Men (2007)

Can't go thinking it will win best film and not get the directors prize too, why are these seperate?

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen:
Juno (2007): Diablo Cody

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published:
No Country For Old Men (2007): Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Important American author alert, a shoe in.

Best Achievement in Cinematography:
There Will Be Blood (2007): Robert Elswit

Best Achievement in Editing:
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007): Christopher Rouse

Best Achievement in Art Direction:
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007): Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo

Best Achievement in Costume Design:
Atonement (2007): Jacqueline Durran

Best Achievement in Makeup:
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007): Ve Neill, Martin Samuel

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score:
Ratatouille(2007): Michael Giacchino

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
Enchanted (2007): Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz("That's How You Know")

Great film, shit songs, Oscar winners in waiting by that logic.

Best Achievement in Sound
Transformers (2007): Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Peter J. Devlin

The Transforming noice is my message tone because i am a geek, it would be nice to have an oscar winning message tone.

Best Achievement in Sound Editing
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007): Karen M. Baker, Per Hallberg

Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Transformers (2007): Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl, John Frazier

transforming robots for Christs sake.

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Ratatouille (2007): Brad Bird

Easy.

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Nominees:
Mongol (2007)(Kazakhstan)

I like the name.

Best Documentary, Features:
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience (2007): Richard Robbins

Best Documentary, Short Subjects:
Freeheld (2007): Cynthia Wade, Vanessa Roth

Best Short Film, Animated:
I Met the Walrus (2007): Josh Raskin

Best Short Film, Live Action:
The Tonto Woman (2007): Daniel Barber, Matthew Brown

Good Luck to all and good luck to me!

Ruud Kerouac

1 comment:

Big Red said...

Appears the Oscars were a bit predictable! Good calls on many and a few that should have won!