Oscar Predictions

It's an hour until the show. I just wanted to get my predictions on the record.

MOTION PICTURE:
Slumdog Millionaire, Christian Colson

DIRECTING:
Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
Slumdog Millionaire, Simon Beaufoy

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
WALL-E, Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon & Pete Docter

LEAD ACTOR:
Sean Penn in Milk

LEAD ACTRESS:
Kate Winslet in The Reader

SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight

SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Penélope Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona

ANIMATED FEATURE:
WALL-E, Andrew Stanton

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:
Man on Wire, James Marsh & Simon Chinn

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
The Class, France

ART DIRECTION:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Donald Graham Burt & Victor J. Zolfo

CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Slumdog Millionaire, Anthony Dod Mantle

COSTUME DESIGN:
The Duchess, Michael O’Connor

FILM EDITING:
Slumdog Millionaire, Chris Dickens

MAKEUP:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Greg Cannom

ORIGINAL SCORE:
WALL-E, Thomas Newman

ORIGINAL SONG
"Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire, A.R. Rahman & Gulzar

SOUND EDITING:
Slumdog Millionaire, Glenn Freemantle & Tom Sayers

SOUND MIXING:
WALL-E, Tom Myers, Michael Semanick & Ben Burtt

VISUAL EFFECTS:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton & Craig Barron

ANIMATED SHORT:
“Presto”, Doug Sweetland

DOCUMENTARY SHORT:
“The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306”, Adam Pertofsky & Margaret Hyde

LIVE ACTION SHORT:
“Manon on the Asphalt”, Elizabeth Marre & Olivier Pont

First Post of 2009

We're into the second month of 2009 and I'm finally posting my first entry for the year. And what finally prompted me to post?

KCRW--or rather the winners of the daily giveaways. For the most part I enjoy hearing the phone call between Matt Holzman and the winner, but lately I've found it aggravating. It seems like all the winners I've heard during this pledge drive are first time subscribers. They're giving for the first time and winning a laptop right off the bat! I've been giving for five years now and haven't won. What am I doing wrong? Now I know what Kate Winslet must feel like.

My membership won't expire until August, so I'm holding off until then to give. I better win something, Matt Holzman, or I'll stop renewing.