Ever wonder why your choices are almost always wrong for some of the major Oscars? You know what, so do I. I have been in the film business for a long time and every year I miss some of the big awards, like Best Actress or Best Actor.

It"s not because I haven't seen all of the nearly 300 films this past year—I don"t think the voters have either. (I missed all of the Foreign Film entries, shorts and only saw one Documentary.) I guess they vote for their best friends.

This year I have a foolproof way of getting them all right though. First, you take all the obvious winners and set those aside. That should give you only about 20 left that are iffy.

Out of the 20, we can eliminate:

• Sound Mixing
• Sound Editing (Most theatres blow the woofers off the walls anyway so sound should not be a consideration)
• Makeup (Unless Mrs. Doubtfire is on the list, you don’t need this one)
  
• Foreign Language Film (We speak English in America...I think)
  
• Costume Design (If you watch the Red Carpet you will see all the costumes you want to ever see)
• Art Direction (Are we talking blue screen, now that’s a category worth looking into)
  
• Film Editing (Just give us the director’s cut in the first place)
  
• Screenplay Adapted, Screenplay Original (It’s a movie, even if it’s based on a true story someone’s going to have to adapt it so why do we have two awards?)
  
• Short Film Live Action, Short Film Animated (We never get to see all these short films so why vote on them?)
  
• Original Score (Music in the background is good, how do you honestly vote on what’s best from the over 300 films that come out per year?)
  
• Documentary Feature, and Documentary Short (When is the last time you have seen a documentary? In a High School Classroom? Most theatres don’t play Documentaries…)
  

That leaves six of the iffy ones.

Now, take those iffy ones and make up around 180 ballots with your five obvious winners on each of them; and then put your six iffy ones on each of the ballots until no matter which ones get the nod, you have it.

Of course the article is all tongue-in-cheek, but somehow I know how the audience feels when they go to see a movie. Bring on the romance, the action, the drama and the comedy, moviegoers want it all and they don't want to have to think about how it got there.

My predictions for the Oscars this year are:

• Best Actor: Daniel Day Lewis- There Will Be Blood
  
• Best Actress: Julie Christie- Away From Her
  
• Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem- No Country for Old Men
  
• Best Supporting Actress: Saoirse Ronan- Atonement
  
• Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson- There Will Be Blood
  
• Best Picture: There Will Be Blood
  
• Best Animated Picture: Ratatouille
  
• Best Original Song: Raise It Up- August Rush
  
• Cinematography: There Will Be Blood
  
• Best Visual Effects: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

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kjones   |2008-02-22 18:48:26 Oscar party at my house this Sunday! I'm stealing your predictions. [smiley=evil] Reply 0   0

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