so james wasn’t having any of my “no opinion” - selections - he made me give a guess prior to the award (hence the changes reflected below).

all in all, i did pretty good.  the green means i got it right, the red means wrong.  13/24 - better than half, not bad eh?  really really proud of my hometown boys (the coen brothers) and girl (diablo cody); way to represent minnesota!

• best picture; no country for old men
• best actor; daniel day-lewis / there will be blood
• best actress; ellen page / juno (yup, that’s right - i went there…julie christie’s got nothing on her… lol).  marion cotillard won for la vie en rose
  
• best supporting actor; javier bardem / no country for old men
• best supporting actress; cate blanchett / i’m not there tilda swinton for micheal clayton
  
• director; ethan coen & joel coen / no country for old men
• documentary; sicko take me to the dark side
• documentary short; the crown freeheld
  
• animated feature; persepolis (haven’t seen it, but it looks amazing… & ratatouille is not even remotely pixars best work) ratatouille
  
• foreign language film; 12 the counterfitters
  
• cinematography; tough call, but i’m going to go with there will be blood
• original screenplay; diablo cody / juno
• adapted screenplay; ethan coen & joel coen / no country for old men
• visual effects; transformers the golden compass
  
• animated short; even pigeons go to heaven peter wolf
• live action short; the mozart of the pickpockets
• art direction; atonement sweeney todd; the demon barber of fleet street
  
• costume design; atonement elizabeth; the golden age
  
• film editing; no country for old men the bourne ultimatum
• sound mixing; the bourne ultimatum
• sound editing; the bourne ultimatum
• original score; atonement
• original song; falling slow / once
• makeup; la vie en rose