For the record

These are my Oscar picks. Just the major categories. I don't have time for all the nitty gritty categories (as important as they are, I'm under pressure to get this up before the Oscars start!).

I doubt I'll get any of them right, but I'm putting it out there anyway and we'll check back tomorrow and see how I did. And I'm using a code:

Bold = Will win
Italics = Probably won't win but I'd prefer that they did win
Strikethrough = Snowball's chance in hell of winning

Anyone else want to put their picks out there?

Best Actor:
Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Capote"
Terrence Howard in "Hustle & Flow"
Heath Ledger in "Brokeback Mountain"
Joaquin Phoenix in "Walk the Line"
David Strathairn in "Good Night, and Good Luck."

Best Supporting Actor:
George Clooney in "Syriana"
Matt Dillon in "Crash"
Paul Giamatti in "Cinderella Man"
Jake Gyllenhaal in "Brokeback Mountain"
William Hurt in "A History of Violence"

Best Actress:
Judi Dench in "Mrs. Henderson Presents"
Felicity Huffman in "Transamerica"
Keira Knightley in "Pride & Prejudice" (what were they thinking even nominating her?)
Charlize Theron in "North Country"
Reese Witherspoon in "Walk the Line"

Best Supporting Actress:
Amy Adams in "Junebug"
Catherine Keener in "Capote"
Frances McDormand in "North Country"
Rachel Weisz in "The Constant Gardener"
Michelle Williams in "Brokeback Mountain"

Best Animated Feature Film:
"Howl's Moving Castle"
"Tim Burton's Corpse Bride"
"Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit" (they'll get the sympathy vote for that fire)

Best Cinematography:
"Batman Begins" - Wally Pfister
"Brokeback Mountain" - Rodrigo Prieto
"Good Night, and Good Luck" - Robert Elswit (best use of B&W I've seen in a long time)
"Memoirs of a Geisha" - Dion Beebe
"The New World" - Emmanuel Lubezki

Best Director
"Brokeback Mountain" - Ang Lee
"Capote" - Bennett Miller
"Crash" - Paul Haggis
"Good Night, and Good Luck" - George Clooney
"Munich" - Steven Spielberg

Best Foreign Language Film
"Don't Tell" - Italy
"Joyeux Noël" - France
"Paradise Now" - Palestine
"Sophie Scholl - The Final Days" - Germany
"Tsotsi" South Africa

Best Film
"Brokeback Mountain"
"Capote"
"Crash"
"Good Night, and Good Luck"
"Munich"

Adapted Screenplay
"Brokeback Mountain" - Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana
"Capote" - Dan Futterman (just because I love Dan Futterman)
"The Constant Gardener" - Jeffrey Caine
"A History of Violence" - Josh Olson
"Munich" - Tony Kushner and Eric Roth

Original Screenplay
"Crash" - Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco
"Good Night, and Good Luck" - George Clooney & Grant Heslov (cos he's got to get something)
"Match Point" - Woody Allen (notice he's not won an Oscar since Soon-Yi?)
"The Squid and the Whale" - Noah Baumbach
"Syriana" - Stephen Gaghan