Oscar the Grouch

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So the Academy Award nominations come out tomorrow, well, later today technically, and so here are my picks, you heard it here folks.

Best Picture:
The Aviator
Million Dollar Baby
Sideways
Hotel Rwanda
Ray

Pete's honorable mention:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Finding Neverland

Best Actor:
Jamie Foxx, Ray
Leonardo Dicaprio, The Aviator
Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda
Paul Giamatti, Sideways
Javier Barnem, The Sea Inside

Pete's honorable mention:
Jim Carrey, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Liam Neeson, Kinsey

Best Actress:
Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Hilary Swank, Millin Dollary Baby
Annette Benning, Being Julia
Imelda Stauntan, Vera Drake
Emmy Rossum, The Phantom of the Opera

Pete's honorable mention:
Nicole Kidman, Dogville, Birth
Uma Thurman, Kill Bill Vol. 2

Best Supporting Actor:
Clive Owen, Closer
Thomas Hayden Church, Sideways
Morgan Freedman, Million Dollar Baby
Jamie Foxx, Collateral
Peter Saarsgard, Kinsey

Pete's honorable mention:
Mark Wahlberg, I Heart Huckabees
Freddie Highmore, Finding Neverland

Best Supporting Actress:
Cate Blanchett, The Aviator
Virgina Madsen, Sideways
Natalie Portman, Closer
Kate Winslet, Finding Neverland
Laura Linney, Kinsey

Pete's honorable mention
Meryl Streep, The Manchurian Candidate
Cloris Leachman, Spanglish

Best Director:
Martin Scorsese, The Aviator
Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
Alexander Payne, Sideways
Taylor Hackford, Ray
Terry George, Hotel Rwanda

Pete's honorable mention:
Marc Forester, Finding Neverland
Michael Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Those are my selections and prognostications, I'm sure I'll have some wrong, but I'm equally sure that I'll have some right. We shall find out in the morning.