PERFECT OSCAR PREDICTIONS

Posted to MOVE Movies by Alex Denison at 6:01 p.m., March 4, 2010

We’ll keep this short and sweet, without the frills and chills of an Oscar celebration, and luckily for you, considerably less of Steve Martin’s reanimated corpse. Please keep in mind, these are PREDICTIONS, not preferences, for which the latter would be a series of Lifetime Achievement Awards for Daniel Day-Lewis, our undisputed Lord and Savior.

BEST DIRECTING Kathryn Bigelow for “The Hurt Locker”

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Mark Boal for “The Hurt Locker”

ALL TECHNICAL AWARDS “Avatar”

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM “Up”

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Vera Farmiga for “Up In the Air”

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Christoph Waltz for “Inglourious Basterds”

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE Sandra Bullock for “The Blind Side”

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE Jeff Bridges for “Crazy Heart”

BEST PICTURE Kathryn Bigelow for “The Hurt Locker”