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