Oscar Predictions 2009 from Falcon and Dove

Hello, Brothers and Sisters,
Thank you for all those emails about your office pools, online ballots, and contests that you are entering concerning the Oscars this weekend, February 22. Falcon and Dove have been working hard to try to see as many of the nominees as we could before this week's deadlines...and now we have our picks.

We don't agree in every category...so where there is a difference, the choice marked in bold also has Falcon or Dove listed next to the prediction.

We hope you enjoy the Oscars, and to everyone nominated: great job! You are all fantastic! This was a golden year, and you should all be proud.

OSCAR PREDICTIONS-FALCON AND DOVE 2009

Best Picture

The Curious case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire-Falcon and Dove’s Choice

Best Actor

Richard Jenkins for “The Visitor”
Frank Langella for “Frost/Nixon”
Sean Penn for “Milk”-Falcon and Dove pick
Brad Pitt for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke for “The Wrestler”

Best Actress

Anne Hathaway for “Rachel Getting Married”
Angelina Jolie for “The Chanegling”
Melissa Leo for “Frozen River”
Meryl Streep for “Doubt”
Kate Winslet for “The Reader”

Best Supporting Actor

Josh Brolin for Milk
Robert Downey, Jr. for Tropic Thunder
Phillip Seymour Hoffman
Michael Shannon for Revolutionary Road
Health Ledger The Dark Knight

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Adams for Doubt
Penelope Cruz for Vicky Christina Barcelona
Viola Davis for Doubt
Taraji P. Henson for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei for The Wrestler

Best Director

David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant, Milk
Stephen Daldry, The Reader”
Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire

Best Foreign Film
The Baader Meinhof Complex-Germany-almost Falcon’s choice
The Class-France-Dove
Departunes-Japan
Revanche-Austria
Waltz with Bashir-Israel-Falcon


Adapted Screenplay

Eric Roth and Robin Swicord-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
John Patrick Shanley-Doubt
Peter Morgan-Frost/Nixon
David Hare-The Reader
Simon Beaufoy-Slumdog Millionaire

Original Screenplay

Courtney Hunt-Frozen River
Mike Leigh-Hapy-Go-Lucky
Martin McDonagh-In Bruges
Dustin Lance Black-Milk
Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon and Pete Docter-WALL-E

Animated Feature

Bolt-(Falcon)
Kung Fu Panda
WALL-E (Dove)

Art Direction

Changeling
The Curious case of Benjamin Button (Dove)
The Dark Knight (Falcon)
The Dutchess
Revolutionary Road

Cinematograhy

Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire

(extremely tough category)

Sound Mixing

The Curious case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight (Dove)
Slumdog Millionaire (Falcon)
WALL-E
Wanted

Sound Editing

The Dark Knight
Iron Man (Falcon)
Slumdog Millionaire (Dove)
WALL-E
Wanted

Original Score

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Alexandre Desplat
Defiance, James Newton Howard
Milk, Danny Elfman
Slumdog Millionaire A.R. Rahman
WALL-E, Thomas Newman


Original Song

Down to Earth-WALL-E, Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman
Jai Ho-Slumdog Millionaire, A.R. Rahman and Gulzar
O Saya-Slumdog Millionaire A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam

Costuming
Australia
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Dove)
The Dutchess (Falcon)
Milk
Revolutionary Road

Documentary Feature

The Betrayal (Nerakhoom)
Encounters at the End of the World
The Garden
Man on Wire
Trouble the Water
Documentary Short
The Conscience of Nhem En (Dove)
The Final Inch (Falcon)
Smile Pink!
The Witness-From the Balcony of Room 306

Film Editing

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Falcon)
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire (Dove)

Makeup

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Dove)
The Dark Knight
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Falcon)

(extremely hard category)

Animated Short

La Maison en Petits Cubes
Lavatory-Love story
Okatapodi
Presto
This Way Up

Live Action Short

Auf der Strecke (On the Line) DOVE
Manon on the Asphalt (FALCON)
New Boy
The Pig
Spielzeugland (Toyland)

Visual Effects

The Curious case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight (DOVE)
Iron Man (FALCON)