Russ's Oscar Picks, bitches!

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Bold titles are my picks, those followed by an asterisk are those I think should win:

Best Picture
Atonement
Juno*
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Director
Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood
Ethan & Joel Coen - No Country for Old Men*
Tony Gilroy - Michael Clayton
Jason Reitman - Juno
Julian Snabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Actor
George Clooney - Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood*
Jonny Depp - Sweeney Todd
Tommy Lee Jones - In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises

Actress
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie - Away From Her
Marion Cotillard - La Vie en Rose*
Laura Linney - The Savages
Ellen Page - Juno

Supporting Actor
Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James...
Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men*
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson’s War
Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton

Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett - I’m Not There*
Ruby Dee - American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan - Atonement
Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton

Foreign Language Film
Beaufort - Israel
The Counterfeiters - Austria*
Katyn - Poland
Mongol - Kazakhstan
12 - Russia

Cinematography
The Assassination of Jesse James…*
Atonement
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Original Screenplay
Ratatouille - Brad Bird
Juno - Diablo Cody*
Michael Clayton - Tony Gilroy
The Savages - Tamara Jenkins
Lars and the Real Girl - Nancy Oliver

Adapted Screenplay
There Will Be Blood - PT Anderson
No Country for Old Men - J&E Coen
Atonement - Christopher Hampton
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Ronald Harwood
Away From Her - Sarah Polley*

Documentary Feature
No End in Sight*
Operation Homecoming
Sicko
Taxi to the Dark Side
War/Dance

Film Editing
The Bourne Ultimatum*
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Makeup
La Vie en Rose*
Norbit
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

Art Direction
American Gangster
Atonement*
The Golden Compass
Sweeney Todd
There Will Be Blood

Sound Mixing
The Bourne Ultimatum*
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Sound Editing
The Bourne Ultimatum*
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
There Will Be Blood
Transformers

Visual Effects
The Golden Compass
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End*
Transformers

Costume Design
Across The Universe
Atonement
Elizabeth: The Golden Age*
La Vie en Rose
Sweeney Todd

Original Score
Atonement
The Kite Runner*
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma

Original Song
Once - “Falling Slowly”*
Enchanted - “Happy Working Song”
August Rush - “Raise it Up”
Enchanted - “So Close”
Enchanted - “That’s How You Know”

Animated Feature
Persepolis*
Ratatouille
Surf’s Up