Oscar Predictions

MOTION PICTURE:
1. Slumdog Millionaire (90%)
2. Milk (5%)
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (4%)
4. Frost/Nixon (1%)
5. The Reader (0%)

DIRECTING:
1. Slumdog Millioanire (85%)
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (12%)
3. Milk (3%)
4. Frost/Nixon (0%)
5. The Reader (0%)

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
1. Slumdog Millionaire (54%)
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (21%)
3. Frost/Nixon (19%)
4. The Reader (4%)
5. Doubt (2%)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
1. WALL-E (45%)
2. Milk (43%)
3. Frozen River (10%)
4. Happy-Go-Lucky (1%)
5. In Bruges (1%)

LEAD ACTOR:
1. Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon (31%)
2. Sean Penn, Milk (30%)
3. Micky Rourke, The Wrestler (29%)
4. Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (9%)
5. Richard Jenkins, The Visitor (1%)

LEAD ACTRESS:
1. Kate Winset, The Reader (43%)
2. Meryl Streep, Doubt (42%)
3. Melissa Leo, Frozen River (12%)
4. Anne Hataway (2%)
5. Angalina Jolie (1%)

SUPPORTING ACTOR:
1. Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight (81%)
2. Josh Brolin, Milk (11%)
3. Robery Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder (5%)
4. Phillip Seymore Hoffman, Doubt (2%)
5. Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road (1%)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
1. Viola Davis, Doubt (31%)
2. Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Bercellona (29%)
3. Amy Adams, Doubt (20%)
4. Marissa Tomei, The Wrestler (15%)
5. Tajari P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (5%)

ART DIRECTION:
1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Donald Graham Burt & Victor J. Zolfo (36%)
2. The Dark Knight, Nathan Crowley & Peter Lando (24%)
3. Changeling, James J. Murakami & Gary Fettis (11%)
4. The Duchess, Michael Carlin & Rebecca Alleway (10%)
5. Revolutionary Road, Kristi Zea & Debra Schutt (9%)

CINEMATOGRAPHY:
1. Slumdog Millionaire, Anthony Dod Mantle (30%)
2. The Dark Knight, Wally Pfister (27%)
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Claudio Miranda (26%)
4. The Reader, Chris Menges & Roger Deakins (10%)
5. Changeling, Tom Stern (7%)

COSTUME DESIGN:
1. The Duchess, Michael O’Connor (31%)
2. Australia, Catherine Martin (30%)
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Jacqueline West (29%)
4. Revolutionary Road, Albert Wolsky (6%)
5. Milk, Danny Glicker (4%)

FILM EDITING:
1. Slumdog Millionaire, Chris Dickens (40%)
2. The Dark Knight, Lee Smith (30%)
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Kirk Baxter & Angus Wall (15%)
4. Frost/Nixon, Mike Hill & Dan Hanley (10%)
5. Milk, Elliot Graham (5%)

MAKEUP:
1. The Dark Knight, John Caglione, Jr. & Conor O’Sullivan (38%)
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Greg Cannom (37%)
3. Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Mike Elizalde & Thom Floutz (25%)

ORIGINAL SCORE:
1. Slumdog Millionaire, A.R. Rahman (35%)
. WALL-E, Thomas Newman (30%)
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Alexandre Desplat (22%)
4. Milk, Danny Elfman (10%)
5. Defiance, James Newton Howard (3%)

ORIGINAL SONG:
1. "Down to Earth" from WALL-E, Peter Gabriel & Thomas Newman (50%)
2. "Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire, A.R. Rahman & Gulzar (45%)
3. "O Saya" from Slumdog Millionaire, A.R. Rahman & Maya Arulpragasam (5%)

SOUND EDITING:
1. WALL-E, Ben Burtt & Matthew Wood (32%)
2. The Dark Knight, Richard King (31%)
3. Slumdog Millionaire, Glenn Freemantle & Tom (30%)
4. Iron Man, Frank Eulner & Christopher Boyes Sayers (5%)
5. Wanted, Wylie Stateman (2%)

SOUND MIXING:
1. Slumdog Millionaire, Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke & Resul Pookutty (30%)
2. The Dark Knight, Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo & Ed Novick (29%)
3. WALL-E, Tom Myers, Michael Semanick & Ben Burtt (28%)
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce & Mark Weingarten (10%)
5. Wanted, Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño & Petr Forejt (3%)

VISUAL EFFECTS:
1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton & Craig Barron (45%)
2. The Dark Knight, Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber & Paul Franklin (35%)
3. Iron Man, John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick & Shane Mahan (20%)

ANIMATED FEATURE:
1. WALL-E, Andrew Stanton (90%)
2. Kung Fu Panda, John Stevenson & Mark Osborne (9%)
3.Bolt, Chris Williams & Byron Howard (1%)

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:Man on Wire, James Marsh & Simon Chinn
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Departures, Japan
ANIMATED SHORT:“Presto”, Doug Sweetland
DOCUMENTARY SHORT:“The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306”, Adam Pertofsky & Margaret Hyde
LIVE ACTION SHORT:“The Pig”, Tivi Magnusson & Dorte Høgh

Projected Totals:
Slumdog Millionaire: 7
WALL-E: 4
The Dark Knight: 2
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: 2
Frost/Nixon, The Reader, Doubt, The Duchess: 1 each