There Will be Oscar Nominations for Saoirse Ronan and Kelly Macdonald but No nomination for "our" Keira.

I know Saoirse will get nominated today. Why?

- She deserves it.
- I got my friend to draw this, and if she doesn't get nominated, all that hard work will have gone to nothing:



Isn't it the coolest thing you've ever seen? It's lovely!!!

My friend's name is Hannah, by the way. She's going to be a famous animator in several years.

So yes. Saoirse must get nominated. GO SAOIRSE!!!!

Here are my Oscar nomination predictions in full:

Best Picture
- Atonement
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Juno
- No Country for Old Men
- There will be Blood

Best Director
- Joe Wright for Atonement
- Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Sean Penn for Into the Wild
- Ethan Coen & Joel Coen for No Country for Old Men
- Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood

Best Actor in a Leading Role
- George Clooney in Michael Clayton
- Daniel Day-Lewis in There will be Blood
- Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd
- Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises
- Emile Hirsch in Into the Wild

Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth: The Golden Age
- Julie Christie in Away from Her
- Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose
- Angelina Jolie in A Mighty Heart
- Ellen Page in Juno

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Casey Affleck in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
- Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
- Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson’s War
- Tom Wilkinson in Michael Clayton
- Max von Sydow in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There
- Catherine Keener in Into the Wild
- Kelly Macdonald in No Country for Old Men
- Saoirse Ronan in Atonement
- Amy Ryan in Gone Baby Gone

Best Animated Feature
- Persepolis
- Ratatouille
- The Simpsons Movie

Best Original Screenplay
- Eastern Promises
- Juno
- Michael Clayton
- Ratatouille
- The Savages

Best Adapted Screenplay
- Atonement
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Into the Wild
- No Country for Old Men
- There will be Blood

Score

- 3:10 to Yuma
- Atonement
- The Kite Runner
- Lust, Caution
- Ratatouille

Cinematography
- The Assassination of Jesse James
- Atonement
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- No Country for Old Men
- There Will Be Blood

Foreign film
- 12
- The Counterfeiters
- Days of Darkness
- The Kite Runner
- The Unknown

Editing
- Atonement
- The Bourne Ultimatum
- Into the Wild
- No Country for Old Men
- There Will Be Blood

Costume
- Atonement
- Elizabeth: the Golden Age
- The Golden Compass
- Hairspray
- La vie en Rose

Sound
- American Gangster
- The Bourne Ultimatum
- No Country for Old Men
- There Will Be Blood
- Transformers



Sound Editing
- Pirates of the Caribbean III
- Ratatouille
- Transformers

Art Direction
- Atonement
- Elizabeth: The Golden Age
- The Golden Compass
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- There Will Be Blood

Song
- Falling Slowly (Once)
- Le Festin (Ratatouille)
- Lyra (The Golden Compass)
- Guaranteed (Into the Wild)
- That’s How You Know (Enchanted)

All in all, I'm going with what most people are predicting, with a few changes:
- I'm predicting Kelly Macdonald for NCFOM rather than Tilda Swinton for Michael Clayton. Her BAFTA nomination is the only main plaudit she's gotten for the role, I know, but she was just too good to ignore. Add that to the fact that she's in the frontrunner, I think she could just be a surprise.
- I'm predicting von Sydow for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly rather than Halbrook for Into the Wild.
- Out of my Best Picture predictions are only two that I'm sure about: No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood. All the other three could easily get displaced by Into the Wild or Michael Clayton, but for now, I'm going with my gut (and heart) and picking my favoured three of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Atonement and Juno.
- No James. I was realistic. :( :(





So that's that. Now all I can do is wait.