The Awards Circuit: Academy Award Predictions-Best Picture

Hereafter

Inception

Blue Valentine

The Fighter

Get Low

FOR IT:
Oscar Winner Clint
Eastwood. Oscar
Nominated Peter Morgan.
Oscar Nominee Matt
Damon. Up and comer
Bryce Dallas Howard.

FOR IT:
Christopher Nolan. Mystery
plot (to some). Leonardo
DiCaprio. All-star cast.
Leftover good-will from The
Dark Knight.

FOR IT:
Relationship drama. Two
young, hot, Oscar
nominated actors Ryan
Gosling and Michelle
Williams.

FOR IT:
David O. Russell, an
acquired taste by some but
has his fans. Big stars,
Mark Wahlberg, Christian
Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa
Leo.

FOR IT:
Get rave reviews out of
Toronto last year. Big
performances by Robert
Duvall & Bill Murray.

AGAINST IT:
Eastwood overkill. He may
have lost his touch.

AGAINST IT:
Nolan hasn't been
mainstreamed by the
Academy yet. Will this be
it?

AGAINST IT:
Relationship dramas are hit
and miss with the Academy.

AGAINST IT:
Some people hated I Heart
Huckabees. Is this too
ambitious for him?

AGAINST IT:
Did being pushed back to
2010 mean anything?

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PREDICTIONS BY: CLAYTON DAVIS

And the Predicted Ten Are...(IN ORDER)

The American

The Company Men

Howl

Black Swan

The Tree of Life

FOR IT:
Director Anton Corbijn who
brought the raved film,
Control. George Clooney
starring.

FOR IT:
Big cast. Director John
Wells who has brought
acclaimed television shows
such as "ER" and "The
West Wing." Can he
translate the success?

FOR IT:
Early word for the film and
James Franco is great. Is it
this year's Milk?

FOR IT:
It's about time for the
Academy to fully embrace a
Darren Aronofsky film.
Could this be it?

FOR IT:
There were many
anticipating this last year.
Terrence Malick has his
followers who are rallying
for him to get a statue
already.

AGAINST IT:
Could the Academy be
getting tired of Clooney
films for a while? Maybe
just an action flick.

AGAINST IT:
With Ben Affleck starring,
who knows where this can
go?

AGAINST IT:
Maybe just about the
performances.

AGAINST IT:
He's an acquired taste. He
gets lots of notices for his
actors but never for himself.

AGAINST IT:
Being pushed back may
have meant something.

Shutter Island

Robin Hood

Toy Story 3

All Good Things

Mother and Child

Morning Glory

The Kids Are All Right

Greenberg

Chloe

The Rum Diary

The Social Network

Letters to Juliet

Cyrus

Eat, Pray, Love

The Town

Let Me In

Secretariat

Due Date

Harry Potter & the Deathly
Hallows Part I

Tangled

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TRACKER

SUMMING IT UP:

Anything can happen. We're a year out. What am I anticipating? Inception, Blue Valentine, Howl, Black Swan, and The Fighter.

I'm fully ready to have all these predictions bomb.

March 11, 2010 (YEAR-IN-ADVANCE PREDICTIONS)

The American