Oscar Predictions, or How you shouldn't take my word for it...

So after a fun Oscar campaign (seriously I don't ever claim to know what people feel when they watch sports... but it must be something like this) here are my personal Oscar predix. I'm sure the results will be less exciting than my own predictions - which is why I did my own voting, A Blog Next Door's Oscars if you will (ABND):
[Eventual Winners are **-ed - I scored a measly 12/18]

Motion Picture

Atonement (review)
Juno (review)
Michael Clayton (forthcoming)
** No Country for Old Men (review)
There Will Be Blood (ABND) (review)

Directing

Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jason Reitman - Juno
Tony Gilroy - Michael Clayton
**Ethan Coen, Joel Coen - No Country for Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood (ABND)

Actor in a Leading Role

George Clooney - Michael Clayton
**Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood (ABND)
Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tommy Lee Jones - In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises

Actress in a Leading Role

Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie - Away from Her (ABND)
**Marion Cotillard - La Vie en Rose
Laura Linney- The Savages
Ellen Page - Juno

Actor in a Supporting Role

Casey Affleck -The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
**Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men (ABND)
Phillip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson's War
Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton

Actress in a Supporting Role

Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There
Ruby Dee - American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan -Atonement (ABND)
Amy Ryan -Gone Baby Gone
**Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton

Writing, Adapted Screenplay

Atonement
Away from Her
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
**No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood (ABND)

Writing, Original Screenplay

**Juno
Lars and the Real Girl
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille (ABND)
The Savages

Art Direction

American Gangster
Atonement
The Golden Compass
**Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
There Will Be Blood (ABND)

Cinematography

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Atonement
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
**There Will Be Blood (ABND)

Costume Design

Across the Universe
Atonement (ABND)
**Elizabeth: The Golden Age
La Vie en Rose
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Film Editing

**The Bourne Ultimatum (ABND)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Makeup

**La Vie en Rose (ABND)
Norbit
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

Music, Original Score

3:10 to Yuma
**Atonement
The Kite Runner
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille (ABND)

Music, Original Song

Raise it Up - August Rush
So Close - Enchanted
Happy Working Song -Enchanted
That's How You Know -Enchanted
**Falling Slowly - Once (ABND)

Sound Editing

**The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men (ABND)
Ratatouille
There Will Be Blood
Transformers

Sound Mixing

3:10 to Yuma
**The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille (ABND)
Transformers

Visual Effects

**The Golden Compass
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Transformers (ABND)

Animated Feature Film

Persepolis
**Ratatouille (ABND)
Surf's Up