some Oscar predictions - don't mind me

BEST PICTURE

Milk
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Slumdog Millionaire
The Wrestler
The Dark Knight

BEST DIRECTOR

Gus Van Sant, Milk
David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Darren Aronofsky, The Wrestler
Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Kelly Reichardt, Wendy and Lucy

BEST ACTOR

Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Sean Penn, Milk
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Josh Brolin, W.

BEST ACTRESS (one of the first two will win)

Michelle Williams, Wendy and Lucy
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Cate Blanchett, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road
Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky

BEST SCREENPLAY

Burn After Reading, Joel and Ethan Coen
Synecdoche, New York, Charlie Kaufman
Milk, Dustin Lance Black
The Wrestler, Robert Siegel
Vicky Christina Barcelona, Woody Allen

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

The Dark Knight, Christopher and Jonathan Nolan
Slumdog Millionaire, Simon Beaufoy
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Eric Roth
Doubt, John Patrick Shanley
Frost/Nixon, Peter Morgan

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Josh Brolin, Milk
Brad Pitt, Burn After Reading
Emile Hirsch, Milk
Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

I don't know. Pick whoever you like.

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Man on Wire
I.O.U.S.A.
Encounters at the End of the World
Surfwise
Bigger Stronger Faster

BEST ANIMATED

WALL-E will win, who cares

Everything else: who cares.