Oscars

The Academy Awards are on Sunday. It surprises people that I actually like the Academy Awards, but I like anything that involves winning and losing. I haven't really paid attention to award season this year, mostly because I've been busy and also because I've only seen two of the movies nominated for Best Picture (No Country For Old Men and Juno), but if you think I won't predict these things anyway, you're crazy.

Here are my picks

Best Picture: No Country For Old Men

If you've noticed in recent election years (namely, the last two), the Best Picture oscar is a good predictor of who's going to win the election. In 2004, LOTR: Return of the King won the best picture award, signaling the win for incumbent George W. Bush. In 2006, it was Crash winning the top prize, signaling the crash of the Republican party. If No Country For Old Men wins, this clearly means that John McCain will not only lose the Presidency, he will get deported as well.

Best Director: The Coen Brothers, No Country For Old Men

They should've won for Fargo 10+ years ago, this is the makeup award (not to be confused with Best Makeup, which I believe Joel Coen would win as well)

Best Actor: Daniel Day Lewis, There Will Be Blood

Only because just from watching the commercials, it looks like DDL acted the hell out of this movie.

Best Actress: Ellen Page, Juno

The easiest way to predict this category is to see which actress made themselves as ugly and nasty as possible. And it doesn't get any uglier than pregnant women, unless a pregnant woman got caught in a fire.

Ellen Page was great though, aside from Javier Bardem in NCFOM and McLovin from Superbad, she had the most memorable movie performance of the year in my book.

Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men

This is an easy one, Bardem had the most super badass villain performance since Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs and probably should win every award there is. In fact...

Best Supporting Actress: Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men.

Actually, I'll predict Cate Blanchett because she played Bob Dylan in I'm Not There. I didn't see the movie, but the thought of that still blows my mind. What a great actress. Still, if she wins this category then Bardem was robbed. He had on a 1940s German woman haircut and he was still super badass and awesome.

Best Adapted Screenplay: No Country For Old Men
Best Original Screenplay: Juno

This seems right, I think.

I don't really know the nominees of the rest of the categories and I don't feel like looking them up. I'm just gonna predict Javier Bardem for the rest of them.