One Year In Advance Oscar 2007 Predictions

Best Picture
American Gangster
My Blueberry Nights
No Country for Old Men
Rails & Ties
Reservation Road

Best Director
Tim Burton, Sweeney Todd
The Coen Borthers, No Country for Old Men
David Conenberg, Eastern Promises
Ridley Scott, American Gangster
Kar Wai Wong, My Blueberry Nights

Best Actor
Don Cheadle, Toussaint
John Cusack, Grace Is Gone
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Synedoche New York
Daniel Day Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Joaquin Pheonix, Reservation Road

Best Actress
Cate Blanchett, The Golden Age
Jodie Foster, The Brave One
Norah Jones, My Blueberry Nights
Nicole Kidman, Margot and the wedding
Julianne Moore, Savage Grace

Best Supporting Actor
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Ed Harris, My Blueberry Nights
Mark Ruffalo, Reservation Road
Peter Saarsgaard, Rendition
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, Charlie Wilson’s War
Samantha Morton, A Golden Age
Natalie Portman, My Blueberry Nights
Venessa Redgrave, Evening
Twilda Swinton, Michael Clayton


Best Original Screenplay
Eastern Promises
Golden Age
Margot and the Wedding
No Country for Old Men
Synecdoche New York


Best Adapted Screenplay
American Gangster
Charlie Wilson’s War
Evening
Reservation Road
There Will Be Blood

Art Direction
My Blueberry Nights
The Golden Age
The Golden Compass
The Other Boleyn Girl
Sweeny Todd

Cinematography
American Gangster
A Golden Age
Lust Caution
My Blueberry Nights
No Country for Old Men

costume design
Beowulf
A Golden Age
Love In The Time of Cholera
The Other Boleyn Sister
Sweeney Todd

film editing
Beowulf
Lions for Lambs
No Country for Old Men
Rendition
Vantage Point

Original Score
Beowulf
Charlie Wilson’s War
Golden Age
Michael Clayton
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Original song
Evening
Hairspray
My Blueberry Nights
Ratatouille
Stardoust

sound mixing
American Gangster
Beowulf
Pirates of the Carribean 3: Worlds End
Spider – Man 3
3:10 to Yuma

Note: I’ve just recently been told that 3:10 to Yuma has been delayed to 2008, I’ve replaced it with Transformers

visual effects
The Golden Compass
Pirates of the Carribean 3: Worlds End
Spider – Man 3

animated feature
Ratatouille
Shrek 3
Underdog

Foreign Film (by Country)
Brazil
Canada
Italy
Japan
Mexico

Makeup
Beowulf
The Golden Age
The Golden Compass

sound editing
American Gangster
The Assasination of Jesse James, by the Coward Robert Ford
Beowulf
Lions for Lambs
Transformers

I'll prodice to Indept analogy in March following the end of the 2006-2007 Oscar Season