Oscar Predictions

This will be proven irrelevant in about 7 1\2 hours, but what the hell, here are my go-for-broke, 11th hour predictions for the Academy Awards.

BEST PICTURE

• Avatar
• An Education
• District 9
  
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglourious Basterds
• Invictus
  
• Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
• A Serious Man
  
• Up
  
• Up in the Air

Avatar, Hurt Locker, Precious, Basterds and Up in the Air are totally for-sure things in-- the rest are somewhat shakier. An Education fits right in with the Academy safe zone (period movie, British casts, respectable, and slightly boring), as does Invictus, again boring. District 9 and A Serious Man are both passion pieces in that people that love them, really looooove them. And Up, because Pixar rocks, and WALL-E was robbed last year, and they know it.

Longshots: Crazy Heart; Nine; The Messenger; Julie & Julia; Star Trek
Crazy Longshots and BS: The Hangover; The Blind Side



BEST DIRECTOR

• Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
  
• James Cameron, Avatar
• Lee Daniels, Precious
  
• Jason Reitman, Up in the Air
• Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds

Longshots: Michael Hanake, The White Ribbon; Neill Blompkamp, District 9
Please God No: Clint Eastwood, Invictus


BEST ACTOR

• Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
• George Clooney, Up in the Air
• Colin Firth, A Single Man
• Morgan Freeman, Invictus
• Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker

BEST ACTRESS

• Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
• Helen Mirren, The Last Station
• Carey Mulligan, An Education
• Gabourey Sidibe, Precious
• Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Woody Harrelson, The Messenger
  
• Alfred Molina, An Education
• Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
  
• Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
• Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

Other Possibilities: Christian McKay, Me & Orson Welles; Alec Baldwin, It's Complicated; Matt Damon, Invictus; Anthony Mackie, The Hurt Locker


BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
• Melanie Laurant, Inglourious Basterds
  
• Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
• Mo'Nique, Precious
• Julianne Moore, A Single Man

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• (500) Days of Summer
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglourious Basterds
• A Serious Man
• Up

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• Crazy Heart
• District 9
  
• An Education
• Precious
• Up in the Air

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
• Coraline
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
  
• The Princess & the Frog
• Up
  

BEST ART DIRECTION

• Avatar
• Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince
  
• Inglourious Basterds
• Nine
• Sherlock Holmes
  

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Avatar
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglourious Basterds
• Nine
  
• The White Ribbon

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

• Bright Star
• Coco Before Chanel
• Nine
  
• Inglourious Basterds
• The Young Victoria

BEST FILM EDITING

• Avatar
• District 9
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglourious Basterds
• Up in the Air

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

• Avatar
• The Informant!
• Sherlock Holmes
• A Single Man
  
• Up

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

• Avatar- "I See You"
• Crazy Heart- "The Weary Kind"
• Nine- "Cinema Italiano"

BEST SOUND MIXING

• Avatar
• District 9
• The Hurt Locker
• Star Trek
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

BEST SOUND EDITING

• Avatar
• District 9
• The Hurt Locker
  
• Star Trek
• Up

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

• 2012
• Avatar
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

BEST MAKE-UP

• District 9
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
• Star Trek

I didn't include predictions for Foreign Film or Documentary due to my own ignorance, but we shall see what develops...and how right\wrong I am:

Any thoughts?