My FINAL Oscar Nominee Predix

This is one of my favorite days of the year: Nomination Eve. All the guesswork we've been doing since March is about to be either proven or not. Very exciting stuff.
I told all of you that I was only going to allow myself to change one nominee in my Top 5 Final Predix. However, I'm pretty confident in my predix...or so I thought I was considering taking out Michael Clayton, but I ended up keeping it in. It seems like Diving Bell and the Butterfly should be in there somewhere, but where? I decided to just leave Best Picture as it is. But, for Best Director, I am pretty sure that I will be taking out Gilroy in place of Joe Wright for Atonement. Making such a prediction might make it seem like I don't know what I'm talking about, but I simply cannot see Gliroy's name being announced tomorrow. Don't ask why...

All I hope for is that my top 3 make the cut (speaking of which...my ballot and top 10 will be published on February 3. I know that's really late for an Oscar site, but there are some contenders that won't even open in my town until February). I would say that there is a pretty good chance of that happening, but...ya never know.

Okay, here we go (because this isn't focused on winners, this will be one of the few times where nominees are listed in alphabetical order, rather than their likeliness of winning):

BEST PICTURE
Into the Wild
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson – There Will Be Blood
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – No Country for Old Men
Sean Penn – Into the Wild
Julian Schnabel – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Joe Wright – Atonement

BEST ACTOR
George Clooney – Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood
Emile Hirsch – Into the Wild
Ryan Gosling – Lars and the Real Girl
Viggo Mortensen – Eastern Promises

BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett – Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie – Away From Her
Marion Cotillard – La Vie En Rose
Angelina Jolie – A Mighty Heart
Ellen Page – Juno

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Casey Affleck – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem – No Country for Old Men
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Charlie Wilson’s War
Tommy Lee Jones – No Country for Old Men
Tom Wilkinson – Michael Clayton

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett – I’m Not There
Catherine Keener – Into the Wild
Vanessa Redgrave – Atonement
Amy Ryan – Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton – Michael Clayton

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
American Gangster
Juno
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
The Savages

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Zodiac

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
12
Beaufort
The Counterfeiters
The Unknown
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Persepolis
Ratatouille
The Simpsons Movie

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Autism: The Musical
No End in Sight
The Rape of Europa
Sicko
War/Dance

BEST FILM EDITING
American Gangster
The Diving Bell & the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
Michael Clayton
There Will Be Blood

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Atonement
Into the Wild
The Kite Runner
Ratatouille
There Will Be Blood

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“That’s How You Know” – Enchanted
“Grace is Gone” – Grace is Gone
“Come So Far (Got So Far to Go)” – Hairspray
“Guaranteed” – Into the Wild
“Falling Slowly” – Once

BEST ART DIRECTION
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Hairspray
Sweeney Todd
There Will Be Blood

BEST 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

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Atonement
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Enchanted
La Vie En Rose
Sweeney Todd

BEST MAKEUP
300
La Vie En Rose
Sweeney Todd

BEST SOUND EDITING
3:10 to Yuma
Hairspray
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
Transformers

BEST SOUND MIXING
300
3:10 to Yuma
Hairspray
The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
300
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Transformers

I hope I'm able to get the nominees up tomorrow morning, but I might run into time issues...we'll see. But be sure to watch the Oscar Nominee Announcement tomorrow at 5:30 Pacific Time on...I don't know what station. It's probably on E!, so look there. If you don't have cable, then I would guess ABC because they're hosting the telecast.

Yay!