Best Picture
Will Win: Milk
Deserves To Win: The Reader
Actor In A Leading Role
Will Win: Sean Penn - Milk
Deserves To Win: Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler
Actress In A Leading Role
Will Win: Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Deserves To Win: Meryl Streep - Doubt
Actor In A Supporting Role
Will Win: Josh Brolin - Milk
Deserves To Win: Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Actress In A Supporting Role
Will Win: Amy Adams - Doubt
Deserves To Win: Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler
Directing
Will Win: Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
Deserves To Win: Gus Van Sant - Milk
Writing (Original Screenplay)
Will Win: Milk
Deserves To Win: Frozen River
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Will Win: Frost/Nixon
Deserves To Win: The Reader
Art Direction
Will Win: The Dark Knight
Deserves To Win: The Duchess
Cinematography
Will Win: The Dark Knight
Deserves To Win: Slumdog Millionaire
Costume Design
Will Win: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Deserves To Win: The Duchess
Documentary Feature
Will Win: The Garden
Deserves To Win: Man on Wire
Documentary Short Subject
Will Win: The Final Inch
Deserves To Win: The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306
Film Editing
Will Win: Frost/Nixon
Deserves To Win: Milk
Foreign Language Film
Will Win: The Class
Deserves To Win: The Baader Meinhof Complex
Makeup
Will Win: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Deserves To Win: The Dark Knight
Music (Original Song)
Will Win: “Jai Ho” - Slumdog Millionaire
Deserves To Win: “O Saya” - Slumdog Millionaire
Music (Original Score)
Will Win: Slumdog Millionaire
Deserves To Win: WALL-E
Short Film (Animated)
Will Win: This Way Up
Deserves To Win: Presto
Short Film (Live Action)
Will Win: Manon on the Asphalt
Deserves To Win: New Boy
Sound Editing
Will Win: The Dark Knight
Deserves To Win: WALL-E
Sound Mixing
Will Win: WALL-E
Deserves To Win: Wanted
Visual Effects
Will Win: The Dark Knight
Deserves To Win: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Animated Feature Film
Will Win: WALL-E
Deserves To Win: Bolt
Snubbed for Best Picture
Snubbed for Best Actor
Snubbed for Best Actress
Snubbed for Best Director
