My Predictions for The 81st Academy Awards

These are my final predictions for the 81st Academy Awards.

Oscar Predictions for the 81st Academy Awards

Best Picture
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-The Dark Knight
-Frost/Nixon
-Milk
-Slumdog Millionaire

Best Director
-Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire
-David Fincher for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-Ron Howard for Frost/Nixon
-Christopher Nolan for The Dark Knight
-Gus Van Sant for Milk

Best Actor in a Leading Role
-Clint Eastwood for Gran Torino
-Richard Jenkins for The Visitor
-Frank Langella for Frost/Nixon
-Sean Penn for Milk
-Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler

Best Actress in a Leading Role
-Anne Hathaway for Rachel Getting Married
-Sally Hawkins for Happy-Go-Lucky
-Angelina Jolie for Changeling
-Meryl Streep for Doubt
-Kate Winslett for Revolutionary Road

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
-Josh Brolin for Milk
-Robert Downey Jr. for Tropic Thunder
-Phillip Seymour Hoffman for Doubt
-Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight
-Dev Patel for Slumdog Millionaire

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
-Penelope Cruz for Vicky Christina Barcelona
-Viola Davis for Doubt
-Rosemarie Dewitt for Rachel Getting Married
-Marissa Tomei for The Wrestler
-Kate Winslett for The Reader

Best Original Screenplay
-Happy-Go-Lucky by Mike Leigh
-Milk by Dustin Lance Black*
-Rachel Getting Married by Jenny Lumet
-WALL-E by Andrew Stanton
-The Wrestler by Robert D. Siegel

Best Adapted Screenplay
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by Eric Roth
-The Dark Knight by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan
-Frost/Nixon by Peter Morgan
-Paranoid Park by Charles Gilbert and Neil Kopp
-Slumdog Millionaire by Simon Beaufoy*

Best Animated Feature
-Bolt
-Horton Hears a Hoo
-Kung Fu Panda
-WALL-E*
-Waltz With Bashir

Best Documentary Feature
-American Teen
-I.O.U.S.A.
-Man On Wire*
-Standard Operating System
-Trouble With Water

Best Foreign Language Film
-The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)
-The Class (France)
-Everlasting Moments (Sweden)
-Necessities of Life (Canada)*
-Waltz With Bashir (Israel)*

Best Film Editing
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-The Dark Knight
-Frost/Nixon
-Slumdog Millionaire*
-The Wrestler

Best Cinematography
-Australia
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-The Dark Knight*
-Revolutionary Road
-Slumdog Millionaire

Best Art Direction
-Australia
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button*
-The Dark Knight
-Doubt
-Revolutionary Road

Best Costume Design
-Australia
-Changeling
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button*
-The Duchess
-Revolutionary Road

Best Original Score
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by Alexandre Desplat
-The Dark Knight by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard *
-Frost/Nixon by Hans Zimmer
-Slumdog Millionaire by A. R. Rahman
-WALL-E by Thomas Newman

Best Original Song
-“Gran Torino” Gran Torino Written and Performed by Clint Eastwood
-”I Thought I Lost You” Bolt Written by Miley Cyrus and Jeffery Steele Performed by Miley Cyrus and John Travolta
-“Jai Ho” Slumdog Millionaire Written by A. R. Rahman and Gulzar*
-“The Wrestler” The Wrestler Written and Performed by Bruce Springstein
-“Down to Earth” WALL-E by Peter Gabriel & Thomas Newman Performed by Peter Gabriel

Best Sound Mixing
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-The Dark Knight*
-Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
-Iron Man
-WALL-E

Best Sound Editing
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-The Dark Knight*
-Defiance
-Iron Man
-WALL-E

Best Visual Effects
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-The Dark Knight
-Iron Man*

Best Make Up
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button*
-The Dark Knight
-Tropic Thunder