Phil's Picks for the Oscars

By Phil Boatwright, Editor of Preview

The 80th Annual Academy Awards will air February 24th beginning at 5:00 PM (PT) on ABC.  Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart hosts.  For the fun of it, let’s see how I do with prognostications.

The ones I feel will win are in this color.
The ones I wish would win are in this color.  (No betting, now.)

BEST PICTURE Nominees
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood

BEST ACTOR
George Clooney, Michael Clayton
Daniel Day Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd
Tommy Lee Jones, The Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises

BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett, Elisabeth, the Golden Age
Julie Christie, Away From Her
Marion Cotillard, La Vie En Rose
Laura Linney, The Savages
Ellen Page, Juno

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Bob Ford
Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson’s War
Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There
Ruby Dee, American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan, Atonement
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swenton, Michael Clayton

BEST DIRECTOR
Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jason Reitman, Juno
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
Keith and Ethan Coen, No Country For Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood