Oscar Predictions: End of December

Best Picture
Atonement
Into the Wild
Juno
No Country for Old Men*
There Will be Blood

Best Director
Atonement - Joe Wright
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead - Sydney Lumet
Into the Wild - Sean Penn
No Country for Old Men - Joel and Ethan Coen*
There Will be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson

Best Actor in a Leading Role
George Clooney - Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will be Blood*
Ryan Gosling - Lars and the Real Girl
Emile Hirsch - Into the Wild
Viggo Mortenson - Eastern Promises

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie - Away From Her
Marion Cotillard - La Vie En Rose
Angelina Jolie - A Mighty Heart
Ellen Page - Juno*

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Cassey Affleck - Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men*
Philip Seymor Hoffman - Charlie Wilson's War
Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There*
Ruby Dee - American Gangster
Catherine Keener - Into the Wild
Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton

Best Original Screenplay
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Juno*
Lars and the Real Girl
Michael Clayton
The Savages

Best Adapted Screenplay
Atonement
Gone Baby Gone
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men*
There Will be Blood

Best Animated Feature
Persepolis
Ratatouille*
The Simpsons Movie

Best Foreign Feature
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
Days of Darkness
Katyn
The Orphanage
Persepolis*

Best Cinematography
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford*
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men
There Will be Blood
Zodiac

Best Editing
American Gangster
Atonement
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men*
Sweeny Todd

Best Special Effects
The Golden Compass
Pirates of the Caribbean: At the World's End
Transformers*

Achievment in Makeup
300
Elizebeth: The Golden Age
Hairspray
Pirates of the Caribbean: At the World's End
Sweeny Todd*

Best Original Song
Enchanted
Hairspray
Into the Wild
Once*
Walk Hard