Oscar Picks

Well, we’ve made it out of February and into March and with any luck we can make a pleasant run through Spring and coast on into Summer. It’s Oscar night tonight and here are my picks: (The ones in Parentheses are the ones I think should win but know won’t)

Make up- Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith
Visual Effects- King Kong
Original Song- “Hustle and Flow”
Live Action Short- Our Time is Up
Original Score- Memoirs of a Geisha
Costumes- Pride and Prejudice
Animated Short Film- 9
Art Direction-Memoirs of a Geisha
Sound Mixing – War of the Worlds
Documentary Short Subject-God Sleeps in Rwanda
Sound Editing – King Kong
Film Editing- Crash
Cinematography- Brokeback Mountain (Batman Begins)
Animated Feature Film- The Corpse Bride (Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit)
Documentary Feature- Enron: The Smart Guys
(Darwin’s Nightmare)
Foreign Film – Paradise Now (Tsotsi)
Original Screenplay-Crash (Syriana)
Adapted Screenplay- Brokeback Mountain (Capote)
Best Director – Ang Lee (Paul Haggis)
Actress (supporting)- Michelle Williams (Katherine Keener)
Actor (supporting)- Jake Gyllenhaa (Paul Giamatti)
Actress- Felicity Huffman (Reese Witherspoon)
Actor –Heath Ledger (Phillip Seymour Hoffman)
Picture – Brokeback Mountain (Crash)