The Oscars 2009: Red v Ruud

Well the time has come my friends to talk of many things, and the first thing is mars bars and how they will be won through the medium of correct Oscar winning predictions!

Oscars 2009: The nominees

Here is the complete shortlist for the 81st Academy Awards, which are being held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on 22 February.

Best picture:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire (Ruud) (Red)

Best director:
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire (Ruud) (Red)
Stephen Daldry - The Reader
David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant - Milk

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 (Ruud) (Red)

Best actress:
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie - Changeling (Ruud)
Melissa Leo - Frozen River
Meryl Streep - Doubt (Red, gambling on Blubber Winslet being snubbed for the first time at an awards this year is probably a fool's game but there you go)
Kate Winslet - The Reader

Best supporting actress:
Amy Adams - Doubt
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Ruud)
Viola Davis - Doubt (Red, even though she's in one scene and Amy Adams is the best thing in the film)
Taraji P Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler

Best supporting actor:
Josh Brolin - Milk
Robert Downey Jr - Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight (Ruud, but i really want Michael Shannon) (Red)
Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road

Best foreign language film:
Revanche - Austria
The Class - France (Red)
The Baader Meinhof Complex - Germany (Ruud)
Departures - Japan
Waltz With Bashir - Israel

Best animated feature film:
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E (Ruud) (Red, it should be nominated for Best Picture but animation scares those auld bastards at the Academy)

Best adapted screenplay:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Doubt (Red)
Frost/Nixon
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire (Ruud)

Best original screenplay:
Happy-Go-Lucky
Milk
Wall-E
In Bruges (Ruud- ma nap) (Red, it deserves it but the swearing and midget abuse may count against it)
Frozen River

Best original score:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Defiance
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire (Ruud) (Red)
Wall-E

Best original song:
Down To Earth - Wall-E (Red, I don't know why The Boss' The Wrestler didn't get a nomination but this was a cracker too)
Jai Ho - Slumdog Millionaire (Ruud)
O Saya - Slumdog Millionaire

Art direction:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Ruud) (Red)
Changeling
The Dark Knight
The Duchess
Revolutionary Road

Cinematography:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Ruud)
Changeling
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire (Red)
The Reader

Costume design:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Australia (Ruud)
Milk
The Duchess (Red)
Revolutionary Road

Best documentary feature:
The Betrayal
Encounters at the End of the World
The Garden
Man on Wire (Ruud) (Red)
Trouble The Water

Best documentary short subject:
The Conscience of Nhem En
The Final Inch (Red, wild guess)
Smile Pinki
The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306 (Ruud)

Film editing:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon (Ruud)
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire (Red)

Make-up:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Red, although it should go to Hellboy)
The Dark Knight
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Ruud)

Best live action short film:
Auf der Strecke (On The Line) (Red, another wild guess)
Manon on the Asphalt
New Boy
The Pig Spielzeugland (Toyland) (Ruud)

Best animated short film:
La Maison en Petits Cubes
Lavatory - Lovestory
Oktapodi
Presto (Ruud) (Red)
This Way Up

Sound editing:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Iron Man
Wanted (Ruud)
Slumdog Millionaire
Wall-E (Red)

Sound mixing:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Wanted
Slumdog Millionaire
Wall-E (Ruud) (Red)

Visual effects:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Red)
The Dark Knight (Ruud)
Iron Man



Let Battle Commence!