80th Annual Academy Awards (2008)
Presentation to air on TV on Sunday, February 24, 2008 for films released in 2007.

... and yes, we skip some categories... just because I don't care about best editing, for example.

I've come to the notion that it's not necessarily the *best* in each category, but a combination of the quality of the nominees and politics. It's all politics and who you know, man. So I have both my picks that deserve to win, and those I figure are the "popular" picks to win (and those aren't always the same, obviously).

The is whom I think ought to win, the is my guess of who will win, and the title in bold is the actual winner.

Category	Nominees
Best Picture	Atonement     Juno     Michael Clayton   No Country for Old Men   There Will Be Blood
Best Director	Jason Reitman - Juno Joel & Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men     Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly     Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood     Tony Gilroy - Michael Clayton
Actor in a Leading Role	Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood     George Clooney - Michael Clayton     Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street     Tommy Lee Jones - In the Valley of Elah     Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises
Actress in a Leading Role	Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth: The Golden Age     Ellen Page - Juno     Julie Christie - Away From Her   Laura Linney - The Savages   Marion Cotillard - La Vie En Rose
Actor in a Supporting Role	Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford     Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men     Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson's War     Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton
Actress in a Supporting Role	Amy Ryan - Gone, Baby, Gone     Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There       Ruby Dee - American Gangster       Saorise Ronan - Atonement     Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton
Animated Feature Film	Persepolis   Ratatouille     Surf's Up
Cinematography	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford     Atonement   The Diving Bell and the Butterfly     No Country for Old Men   There Will Be Blood
Costume Design	Across the Universe   Atonement     Elizabeth: The Golden Age     La Vie En Rose     Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Documentary Feature	No End in Sight     Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience     Sicko     Taxi to the Dark Side   War/Dance
Foreign Language Film	12 (Russia)     Beaufort (Israel) The Counterfeiters (Austria)     Katyn (Poland)     Mongol (Kazakhstan)
Music (Score)	3:10 to Yuma   Atonement   The Kite Runner     Michael Clayton     Ratatouille
Music (Song)	Falling Slowly - Once     Happy Working Song - Enchanted   Raise It Up - August Rush     So Close - Enchanted     That's How You Know - Enchanted
Visual Effects	The Golden Compass     Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Transformers
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)	Atonement     Away From Her     The Diving Bell and the Butterfly   No Country for Old Men   There Will Be Blood
Writing (Original Screenplay)	Juno     Lars and the Real Girl     Michael Clayton     Ratatouille     The Savages