The RVANews groupthink Oscar picks

By the time you read this, unless you love love love RVANews and read it before bedtime, the Oscars will have passed. Billy Crystal will have told lots of City Slicker jokes (he still hosts the show right?) Susan and Justin will have stayed up all night filled with glee. Here are who/what the majority […]

February 24, 2008; 8:14 PM • by Ross Catrow

By the time you read this, unless you love love love RVANews and read it before bedtime, the Oscars will have passed. Billy Crystal will have told lots of City Slicker jokes (he still hosts the show right?) Susan and Justin will have stayed up all night filled with glee.

Here are who/what the majority of RVANews think the winners will be:

Picture: No Country for Old Men

Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis — There Will Be Blood

Actress: Julie Christie — Away from Her

Director: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen — No Country for Old Men

Adapted Screenplay: No Country for Old Men — Joel and Ethan Coen — No Country for Old Men, novel by Cormac McCarthy

Animated Feature: Ratatouille

Foreign Language: The Counterfeiters (Austria), German

Original Screenplay: Juno — Diablo Cody

Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem — No Country for Old Men

Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett — I’m Not There

Cinematography: Seamus McGarvey — Atonement / Robert Elswit — There Will Be Blood

Documentary Feature: No End in Sight / Sicko

Editing: Roderick Jaynes — No Country for Old Men

Score: Dario Marianelli — Atonement

Song: Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova — “Falling Slowly” from Once

Visual FX: Transformers

Art Direction: Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo — Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Costumes: Alexandra Byrne — Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Makeup: Ve Neill and Martin Samuel — Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

Sound Editing: Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg — The Bourne Ultimatum / Randy Thom and Michael Silvers — Ratatouille / Ethan van Der Ryn and Mike Hopkins — Transformers

Sound Mixing: Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell, and Peter J. Devlin — Transformers

Animated Short: I Met the Walrus / Peter and the Wolf

Documentary Short: Salim Baba

Live Short: At Night / The Mozart of Pickpockets