Amy Smart smiled at me at the gym today. It’s also Oscar Sunday and for the first time in a few years, Mary Milan and I have seen all the best picture nominees (thank god for screeners!). Coincidence? I think not.

Here are my annual predictions. I guarantee nothing except that I will not get all of them correct.

Best Picture

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

My pick: There Will Be Blood
My prediction: No Country for Old Men

Best Director

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

My pick: Paul Thomas Anderson
My prediction: The Coen Brothers

Best Actor

* George Clooney - Michael Clayton
* Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
* Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
* Tommy Lee Jones - In the Valley of Elah
* Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises

My pick: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will be Blood
My prediction: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will be Blood

Best Actress

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

My pick: Julie Christie, Away from Her
My prediction: Ellen Page, Juno

Best Supporting Actor

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

My pick: Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
My prediction: Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men

Best Supporting Actress

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

My Pick: Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There
My Pick: Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton

Best Original Screenplay

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

My pick: Michael Clayton by Tony Gilroy
My prediction: Juno by Diablo Cody

Best Adapted Screenplay

* Atonement - Christopher Hampton, from Atonement, novel by Ian McEwan
* Away from Her - Sarah Polley, from “The Bear Came over the Mountain”, short story by Alice Munro
* The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Ronald Harwood, from Le scaphandre et le papillon, memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby
* No Country for Old Men - Joel and Ethan Coen, from No Country for Old Men, novel by Cormac McCarthy
* There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson, from Oil!, novel by Upton Sinclair

My pick: Atonement
My prediction: No Country for Old Men

Best Animated Feature

* Persepolis
* Ratatouille
* Surf’s Up

Pick: Ratatouille
Prediction: Ratatouille

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