Oscar picks and predictions...

Actor in a Leading Role
Should win, Will win: Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart

Actor in a Supporting Role
Should win, Will win: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

Actress in a Leading Role
Should win: Carey Mulligan, An Education
Will win: Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side

Actress in a Supporting Role
Should win, Will win: Mo'Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire

Animated Feature Film
Should win, Will win: Up

Art Direction
Should win, Will win: Avatar

Cinematography
Should win, Will win: Avatar

Costume Design
Should win, Will win: eh, i don't really care all that much, to be honest.

Directing
Should win, Will win: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker

Film Editing
Should win, Will win: Avatar

Makeup
Should win, Will win(?): Star Trek

Music (Original Score)
Should win: Michael Giacchino, Up
Will win: James Horner, Avatar

Music (Original Song)
Should win, Will win: "The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)"
Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett

Sound Editing
Should win, Will win: Avatar

Sound Mixing
Should win, Will win: Avatar

Visual Effects
Should win, Will win: Harold and Kumar go back to White Castle
(or, maybe Avatar)

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Should win: An Education, Screenplay by Nick Hornby
Will win: Up in the Air, Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
(either one a great choice, i think)

Writing (Original Screenplay)
Should win, Will win: Inglourious Basterds, Written by Quentin Taratino

Best Picture
Should win, Will win: The Hurt Locker
(although my favorite is still Up)

the five things i fell in love with today...

1) Steve Martin.
2) Alec Baldwin.
3) Jack Palance, and the one armed pushups.
4) the hope that ABC and Cablevision will come to their senses in another hour or so.
5) either way, the guy from the other cable company is coming over tomorrow to give me more reliable service, a cheaper price, and, just because i'm handsome, the NFL network as well!

song of the night...
"lose yourself" by eminem

movie of the night...
THE BEST PICTURE MOVIE MARATHON CONCLUDES... 'the departed' 'no country for old men' and 'slumdog millionaire.'