Alright you guys, I’m sorry I haven’t updated in awhile, life’s gotten a bit stressful. That being said THE OSCARS are tomorrow. This has been one of the most stressful awards seasons since I started following the Oscars all those years ago. These are my final predictions and, as always, I’ll be live-blogging the show on my tumblr. So here goes nothing.

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Avatar 
• The Blind Side 
• District 9
• An Education 
• The Hurt Locker 
• Inglourious Basterds 
• Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire 
• A Serious Man
• Up 
• Up in the Air 

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart 
• George Clooney for Up in the Air
• Colin Firth for A Single Man
• Morgan Freeman for Invictus 
• Jeremy Renner for The Hurt Locker

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side 
• Helen Mirren for The Last Station 
• Carey Mulligan for An Education
• Gabourey Sidibe for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
• Meryl Streep for Julie & Julia

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Matt Damon for Invictus
• Woody Harrelson for The Messenger 
• Christopher Plummer for The Last Station
• Stanley Tucci for The Lovely Bones
• Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Penélope Cruz for Nine
• Vera Farmiga for Up in the Air 
• Maggie Gyllenhaal for Crazy Heart
• Anna Kendrick for Up in the Air
• Mo’Nique for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire 

Best Achievement in Directing

• Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker 
• James Cameron for Avatar 
• Lee Daniels for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
• Jason Reitman for Up in the Air 
• Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds 

Best Original Screenplay

• The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal 
• Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino 
• The Messenger – Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman 
• A Serious Man – Joel Coen, Ethan Coen 
• Up – Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Thomas McCarthy 

Best Adapted Screenplay

• District 9 – Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell 
• An Education – Nick Hornby 
• In the Loop – Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche 
• Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire – Geoffrey Fletcher 
• Up in the Air – Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner 

Best Cinematography

• Avatar – Mauro Fiore 
• The White Ribbon – Christian Berger 
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – Bruno Delbonnel 
• The Hurt Locker – Barry Ackroyd 
• Inglourious Basterds – Robert Richardson 

Best Editing

• Avatar 
• District 9 
• The Hurt Locker 
• Inglourious Basterds 
• Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire 

Best Art Direction

• Avatar 
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus 
• Nine 
• Sherlock Holmes
• The Young Victoria 

Best Costume Design

• Bright Star 
• Coco avant Chanel 
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
• Nine 
• The Young Victoria

Best Makeup

• Il divo
• Star Trek 
• The Young Victoria 

Best Original Score

• Avatar – James Horner 
• Fantastic Mr. Fox – Alexandre Desplat 
• The Hurt Locker – Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders 
• Sherlock Holmes – Hans Zimmer 
• Up – Michael Giacchino 

Best Original Song

• Crazy Heart – “The Weary Kind” – T-Bone Burnett, Ryan Bingham
• Faubourg 36 – “Loin de Paname” – Reinhardt Wagner, Frank Thomas
• Nine – “Take It All” – Maury Yeston
• The Princess and the Frog – “Almost There” – Randy Newman
• The Princess and the Frog – “Down in New Orleans” – Randy Newman

Best Sound Mixing

• Avatar 
• The Hurt Locker 
• Inglourious Basterds
• Star Trek 
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 

Best Sound Editing

• Avatar 
• The Hurt Locker 
• Inglourious Basterds
• Star Trek 
• Up 

Best Visual Effects

• Avatar
• District 9
• Star Trek

Best Animated Feature

• Coraline 
• Fantastic Mr. Fox 
• The Princess and the Frog 
• The Secret of Kells 
• Up 

Best Foreign Language Film  

• Ajami – Israel
• The White Ribbon – Germany
• El secreto de sus ojos – Argentina
• Un prophète – France
• La teta asustada – Peru

Best Documentary Feature

• Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land 
• The Cove
• Food, Inc. 
• The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers 
• Which Way Home 

Best Documentary Short Subject

• China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province 
• The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner 
• The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant 
• Królik po berlinsku
• Music by Prudence

Best Animated Short

• French Roast
• Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty 
• La dama y la muerte
• Logorama
• Wallace and Gromit in A Matter of Loaf and Death

Best Live Action Short Film

• The Door 
• Istället för abrakadabra
• Kavi
• Miracle Fish
• The New Tenants

 Winner Count:

The Hurt Locker: 7

Avatar, Crazy Heart, Up: 2

Inglourious Basterds, Precious, Up In The Air: 1