Oscar Contest: Win the Best Picture on DVD

Here's your chance to test your skill, knowledge, and luck with the nominated films for the 81st Academy Awards. It works like this: We'll make our selections in each of the categories right now and you have until the start of the show Sunday night to send in your choices. If you get more correct than we do, you win. But what do you win? Glad you asked: We'll give you a copy of the Best Picture winner on DVD (as soon as it's available), plus a great movie-inspired T-shirt from Muze Clothing and two $20 gift cards from Dale & Thomas Popcorn. That's a $100 value, give or take. In the event of a tie, we will ask all the winners some bonus Oscar trivia, and the first correct answer from that group will win the loot. I must warn you, I'm much better with the Oscars than with the Golden Globes. I went 20 of 24 last year and 21 of 24 two years ago, so there's very little margin for error. Download a printable ballot for your use on Sunday night, and just copy and paste the nominees in your e-mail, clearly designating your choices. You could just list categories and winners if it's easier. Then send us your ballot. Right off the top, I should tell you that I'm predicting the Slumdog sweep, meaning that in the nine categories for which the film is nominated, it'll win. It has ten nominations, two of which are for Best Song. So see, we're almost halfway done! Best Picture:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire Best Actor:
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn - Milk
Brad Pitt - Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler Best Actress:
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Melissa Leo - Frozen River
Meryl Streep - Doubt
Kate Winslet - The Reader Best Supporting Actor:
Josh Brolin - Milk
Robert Downey, Jr. - Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road Best Supporting Actress:
Amy Adams - Doubt
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis - Doubt
Taraji P. Henson - Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler Best Director:
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
Stephen Daldry - The Reader
David Fincher - Benjamin Button
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant - Milk Best Original Screenplay:
Frozen River
Happy-Go-Lucky
In Bruges
Milk
Wall-E Best Adapted Screenplay:
Benjamin Button
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire Best Animated Feature:
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E Best Documentary Feature:
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Encounters at the End of the World
The Garden
Man on Wire
Trouble the Water Best Foreign Language Film:
The Baader Meinhof Complex
The Class
Departures
Revanche
Waltz with Bashir Best Cinematography:
Changeling
Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire Best Editing:
Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire Best Art Direction:
Changeling
Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Duchess
Revolutionary Road Best Costume Design:
Australia
Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Duchess
Revolutionary Road Best Makeup:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Hellboy II:
The Golden Army Best Visual Effects:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Iron Man Best Sound Mixing:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
Wanted Best Sound Editing:
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
Wanted Best Original Song:
“Down to Earth” from WALL-E
“Jai Ho” from Slumdog Millionaire
“O Saya” from Slumdog Millionaire Best Original Score:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Defiance
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
Wall-E Best Animated Short Film:
La Maison en Petits Cubes
Lavatory - Lovestory
Oktapodi
Presto
This Way Up Best Live Action Short Film:
Auf der Strecke (On the Line)
Manon on the Asphalt
New Boy
The Pig
Spielzeugland (Toyland) Best Documentary Short Film:
The Conscience of Nhem En
The Final Inch
Smile Pinki
The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306

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can't wait to see this year's academy awards :D