2008 Nominee Predictions

Best Picture
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
Directing
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
Adapted Screenplay
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Slumdog Millionaire
Original Screenplay
Milk
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
The Visitor
Wall-E
The Wrestler
Lead Actress
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie, Changeling
Melissa Leo, Frozen River
Meryl Streep, Doubt
Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road
Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, Doubt
Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis, Doubt
Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Kate Winslet, The Reader
Lead Actor
Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino
Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn, Milk
Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Supporting Actor
Josh Brolin, Milk
Robert Downey Jr, Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire
Film Editing
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
Cinematography
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
Art Direction
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Slumdog Millionaire
Costume Design
Australia
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Duchess
Revolutionary Road
Makeup
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Synecdoche, New York
Tropic Thunder
Visual Effects
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Sound Editing
The Dark Knight
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Iron Man
Quantum of Solace
Wall-E

Sound Mixing
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Quantum of Solace
Slumdog Millionaire
Wall-E
Score
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
Wall-E
Song
“Down to Earth” Wall-E

“Gran Torino” Gran Torino
“I Though I Lost You” Bolt
“Jai Ho” Slumdog Millionaire
“The Wrestler” The Wrestler
Animated Feature
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E
Waltz with Bashir
Documentary Feature
Encounters at the End of the World
I.O.U.S.A.
Man on Wire
Standard Operating Procedure
Trouble the Water
Foreign Language Feature
The Baader Menhof Komplex
The Class

Everlasting Moments
The Necessities of Life
Waltz with Bashir