Our Oscar Forecasts- Part Two

The first of this two-part entry is at our other blog "The Daily Vampire."

Here are our projections for the other Oscars that will be given out on Sunday night:


Animated Feature Film:

Who Should Win: "The Fantastic Mr. Fox"
Who Will Win/Our Pick: "Up"


Art Direction:

Who Should Win: anyone but "Avatar"
Who Will Win: "Avatar"

Cinematography:

Who Should Win: "The Hurt Locker"
Who Will Win: "The Hurt Locker"

Costume Design:

Who Should Win: Honestly, we don't know!
Who Will Win: "Young Victoria" (pictured-Oscar seems to always choose Victorian films in this category so........)

Documentary (feature):

The Nominees: "Burma VJ," "The Cove," "Food, Inc.," "The Most Dangerous Man in America......," and "Which Way Home"
Who Should Win: "Burma VJ," "The Cove" or "Food, Inc." (the only film I've seen in this category)
Who Will Win: "The Cove"---it seems to be the most popular film.

Documentary (short):
Who Will Win: "Rabbit a la Berlin" (has the highest rating on the IMDB)

Film Editing:
Who Should Win: "Inglorious Basterds" (for all the film's faults, this was well-done)
Who Will Win" "The Hurt Locker" or "Avatar"
Our Pick: "Avatar" (though I hope we're wrong!).

Foreign-Language Film:

We were actually going to a whole entry on this topic. Oh well!

The Nominees: "Ajami" (Israel), "The White Ribbon" (Germany), "A Prophet" (France), "The Milk of Sorrow" (Peru) and "The Secret in Their Eyes." (Argentina)
Who Should Win: Critics Amy Taubin ("Film Comment") and Peter Travers ("Roling Stone") love "A Prophet." Michael Haneke's "The White Ribbon" is also highly-regarded. "Ajami," which involved real-life Palestinians has a great human interest story. This disqualifies each one of them as well as the movie from Peru, just because it's from Peru.
Who Will Win/Our Pick: "The Secret in Their Eyes," which is hopefully much better than previous year's winners in this category.

Makeup:

Our Pick: "The Young Victoria"

Musical Score:

Our Pick: "Avatar"

Short Film Animated:

Who Should Win: The anti-corporate "Logorama" about a police chase through downtown LA looks the most interesting (haven't seen any of the films myself).
Who Will Win: "A Matter of Loaf and Death," simply because it's a Wallace and Grommit film.

Short Film Live Action:

Our Pick: "The New Tenants."

Sound Editing:

Our Pick: "The Hurt Locker."

Sound Mixing:

Our Pick: "The Hurt Locker"

Visual Effects:

Our Pick: "Avatar"

Screenplay (Adapted)

The Nominees: "District 9," "An Education," "Up in the Air," "Precious" and "In the Loop."

Who Should Win: "Up in the Air," "An Education" or "In the Loop" (long-shot).
Who Will Win/Our Pick: "Up in the Air"

Screenplay (original):

The Nominees: "The Hurt Locker, "Inglorious Basterds," "Up," "A Serious Man," and "The Messenger."

Who Should Win: "A Serious Man" (it has next to no chance in hell of winning)
Who Will Win: "The Hurt Locker"


That's it, hopefully I will do as well as Channel 7 (Roanoke, Va.) weather-person Robin Reed or my film critic friend Bilge Ebiri. If not, we'll try again next year.....