Not quite the full remainder of this morning’s Oscar nominations, with predictions and quips:
BEST FOREIGN FILM: Beaufort, Israel; The Counterfeiters, Austria; Katyn, Poland; Mongol, Kazakhstan; and 12, Russia. The year’s finest foreign language film is 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. The people who excluded it are morons and need to be identified and divested of power. What Will Win?: Nobody cares. The whole category has been soiled by the 4 Months brouhaha.
BEST ANIMATED FILM: Persepolis, Ratatouille and Surf’s Up. What Will Win?: Ratatouille.
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Juno, Lars & the Real Girl, Michael Clayton, Ratatouille, The Savages. Who/What Will Win?: Diablo Cody for Juno or Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton.
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Atonement, Away from Her, The Diving Bell & the Butterfly, No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood. Who/What Will Win?: The Coens’ No Country screenplay.
BEST ART DIRECTION: American Gangster, Atonement, The Golden Compass, Sweeney Todd and There Will Be Blood. Who/What Will Win?: Sweeney Todd as a makeup for getting Best Picture snubbed.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Atonement, The Diving Bell & the Butterfly, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood. Who/What Will Win?: Roger Deakins for Jesse James.
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM: No End in Sight, Operation Homecoming, Sicko, Taxi to the Dark Side, War/Dance. Who/What Will Win?: No End in Sight.
BEST SOUND MIXING: The Bourne Ultimatum, No Country for Old Men, Ratatouille, 3:10 to Yuma and Transformers. Who/What Will Win?: Dunno…No Country? Which had excellent sound. (Remember how you can hear Javier Bardem unscrewing of the light bulb in the second-floor hallway of the small Texas hotel.) But please, please, please not Transformers!
BEST SOUND EDITING: The Bourne Ultimatum, No Country for Old Men, Ratatouille, There Will Be Blood
and Transformers. Who/What Will Win?: No clue at all. Anyone?
BEST FILM EDITING: The Bourne Ultimatum, The Diving Bell & the Butterfly, Into the Wild, No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood. Who/What Will Win?: I would say Bourne Ultimatum, but I haven’t a clue.
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Atonement, The Kite Runner, Michael Clayton, Ratatouille and 3:10 to Yuma.
BEST ORIGINAL SONG: “Falling Slowly,” Once; “Happy Working Song,” Enchanted; “Raise It Up,” August Rush; “So Close,” Enchanted; “That’s How You Know,” Enchanted. Who/What Will Win?: It has to be Glenn Hansard and Marketa Irglova for Once…right?
I’m too fevered and fatigued to type out the last four categories today. I’ll get to it tomorrow or whatever. I’ve got a bad-ass virus and intending to lay low today.