Stargazers, drumroll please!   
As you know the 80th Annual Academy Awards begins in just about an hour and I promised I would give you my predictions for the big show.
Here's a breakdown of who I think will win and who I wish would win. Enjoy these while they last. If I get too many wrong, this post may just get lost in the ether.
|           Category  |                   Who Will Win  |                   Wish Would Win  |      
| Best Picture | No Country for Old Men | There Will Be Blood | 
| Best Director | Joel Coen           and Ethan Coen  |         Paul Thomas Anderson | 
| Best Actor | Daniel Day-Lewis | Daniel Day-Lewis | 
| Best Actress | Cate Blanchett | Laura Linney | 
| Best Supporting Actor | Casey Affleck | Tom Wilkinson | 
| Best Supporting Actress | Cate Blanchett | Cate Blanchett | 
| Best Original Screenplay | Juno | Lars and the Real Girl | 
| Best Adapted Screenplay | There Will Be Blood | There Will Be Blood | 
| Best Foreign Film | Mongol | didn't see any | 
| Best Documentary Feature | Taxi to the Dark Side | didn't see any | 
| Best Art Direction | Atonement | There Will Be Blood | 
| Best Costume Design | Elizabeth: The Golden Age | Elizabeth: The Golden Age | 
| Best Makeup | Pirates of the Caribbean:           At World's End  |         didn't see the others | 
| Best Sound Editing | Ratatouille | There Will Be Blood | 
| Best Sound Mixing | No Country for Old Men | No Country for Old Men | 
| Best Visual Effects | Transformers | Transformers | 
| Best Original Song | "Falling Slowly"          Once  |         "Falling Slowly"          Once  |      
| Best Original Score | Ratatouille | 3:10 to Yuma | 
| Best Documentary Short | Sari's Mother | didn't see any | 
| Best Live Action Short | Le Mozart des Pickpockets | didn't see any | 
| Best Animated Short | Peter & the Wolf | didn't see any | 
| Best Editing | No Country for Old Men | There Will be Blood | 
| Best Cinematography | No Country for Old Men | No Country for Old Men | 
| Best Animated Feature | Ratatouille | Persepolis          (though I haven't seen it!)  |      






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