My predictions!


Best Motion Picture of the Year
The Hurt Locker

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart (2009)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Meryl Streep for Julie & Julia (2009) - this could potentially also go to Bullock or Sidibe. I hope Streep wins.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Mo'Nique for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009)

Best Achievement in Directing
James Cameron for Avatar (2009) - Damn him, but he's probably going to win this one.

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Inglourious Basterds (2009): Quentin Tarantino

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
Up in the Air (2009/I): Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner

Best Achievement in Cinematography
The Hurt Locker (2008): Barry Ackroyd

Best Achievement in Editing
Inglourious Basterds (2009): Sally Menke - COME ON SALLY!

Best Achievement in Art Direction
Avatar (2009): Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair

Best Achievement in Costume Design
The Young Victoria (2009): Sandy Powell

Best Achievement in Makeup
Star Trek (2009): Barney Burman, Mindy Hall, Joel Harlow

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Sherlock Holmes (2009): Hans Zimmer

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
Crazy Heart (2009): T-Bone Burnett, Ryan Bingham("The Weary Kind")

Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009): Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Geoffrey Patterson

Best Achievement in Sound Editing
The Hurt Locker (2008): Paul N.J. Ottosson

Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Avatar (2009): Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andy Jones - the one award it actually deserves to win.

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Up (2009): Pete Docter

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (2009)(Germany)

Best Documentary, Features
Food, Inc. (2008): Robert Kenner, Elise Pearlstein - I hope Burma VJ wins, though

Best Documentary, Short Subjects
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province (2009) (TV): Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill

Best Short Film, Animated
Wallace and Gromit in 'A Matter of Loaf and Death' (2008) (TV): Nick Park

Best Short Film, Live Action
The Door (2008): Juanita Wilson, James Flynn