82ND ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS PREDICTIONS

Well, dear readers, one of my favorite times of the year, the awards season, is coming to a close tonight and it all caps off with the show that makes you hate your life and drunk with envy. No, I'm not talking about Undercover Boss, but that can also apply here. I'm talkin' about OSCARS, BABY. The show where everyone's a winner but only one person can take home gold.

So now that the show starts in a couple hours, and a whopping FOUR of you voted in the poll, I'll share with ye my predictions, starting with...

BEST PICTURE: The new rule of putting 10 movies instead of the old 5 is really kinda weird, and I'm really indifferent about it. If the Academy was bitchin' and moanin' about allowing favorites to enter the race, then they shouldn't have picked more movies but the RIGHT movies to be nominated. It's that simple, and ten times less controversial.
WILL WIN: The Hurt Locker. A string of recent potholes concerning the film are only natural in every Best Picture frontrunner every year, and it hasn't lost momentum.
SHOULD WIN: Ehhh... there's too many to pick. I guess if it was Up, A Serious Man, An Education, Inglourious Basterds, or District 9 I'd be happy. Oh, and Star Trek. Oh wait...

BEST ACTOR: Before I start, let me just say that the acting categories are SOOOO BORING. There are clearly locks in 3 outta the 4 here. LAME.
WILL WIN: Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart. It's his time to win, after years of work, and everyone realizes this.
SHOULD WIN: Jeff Bridges/Colin Firth, A Single Man. While I don't mind Bridges winning it for sheer sentimental reasons, Colin Firth did deliver a shattering performance and was better than the other four nominees.

BEST ACTRESS: This one is a squeaker.
WILL WIN: Meryl Streep, Julia & Julia. It's all down between Streep and Sandra Bullock. And I feel Bullock has lost a lot of momentum, and Streep wins it. But, really, who knows. Plus, Bullock shouldn't have even been nominated. She was overrated, and Abbie Cornish in Bright Star did such a better job.
SHOULD WIN: Carey Mulligan, An Education. Plain and simple, she was just excellent. She wasn't being showy, she just did what she had to do and ended up creating an incredible performance.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: This one's a lock.
WILL WIN: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds. He's been winning awards for this character since way back at Cannes in May, and he hasn't lost any steam.
SHOULD WIN: Christoph Waltz. He deserves it. It was the best character created this year. He was funny, terrifying, entertaining, and sadistic, and he does it in four languages. Woody Harrelson was also incredible.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Also a lock.
WILL WIN: Mo'Nique, Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire. She's been reaping the awards left and right.
SHOULD WIN: I really couldn't care less about this race. It's really boring. No real standouts since they're all on the same plane. Melanie Laurent from Inglourious Basterds should have been nominated and should've won, but, whaddya gonna do?

BEST DIRECTOR: Get ready for history.
WILL WIN: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker. She'll become the first woman to ever win a Best Director Oscar.
SHOULD WIN: Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds. He made a really good movie, and did it better than the other four nominees.

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: This one is shamefully evident.
WILL WIN: The Hurt Locker. Mark Boal's script has also been taking every award. But yet... it brought nothing new to the table.
SHOULD WIN: Inglourious Basterds/Up. The Basterds script was the definition of original, even going so far as changing history to do so. And I've been wanting a Pixar victory in this race for years.

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: This one seems like a lock as well.
WILL WIN: Up In The Air. Jason Reitman seems liable to win this after making a well-written movie.
SHOULD WIN: Up In The Air/District 9. While I don't mind Up In The Air winning, District 9 proved to have a tighter story and has that underdog status.

So there ya's have it, ladies and germs. Tune in tonight to see if I'm right or just full of myself.