Updated: The Playlist’s Slightly Less Half-Hearted 2008 Predictions

Do you really need Oscar predictions from The Playlist or anyone for that matter? Yes and no, and yes. The Oscar season has been rather boring because most of the winners seemed pre-ordained. In our sporting-obsessed culture, the Academy Awards are generally more exciting when you don’t know what’s going to happen and there’s a thrill and anticipation going on.”Slumdog Millionaire” does look poised to sweep, but as they say (ugh), anything can happen!

Best Pic – “Slumdog Millionaire”
Director – Danny Boyle
*Actor- Mickey Rourke (Obviously Penn is running closely behind it could be either or in the end)
Actress – Kate Winslet – (The Upsetter: Melissa Leo)
Sup Actor – Heath Ledger
Sup Actress – Penelope Cruz – (The Upsetter: Viola Davis)
Original Screenplay – “Milk”
Adapted Screenplay – “Slumdog Millionaire” – (The Upsetter: “Wall-E”)
Editing – “Slumdog Millionaire”
Cinematography – “Slumdog Millionaire” – (The Upsetter: “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”)
Art Direction – ‘Benjamin Button’
Costume – “The Duchess”
Make-up – ‘Benjamin Button’
Vis FX – ‘Benjamin Button’
Score – “Slumdog Millionaire” – (The Upsetter: Alexandre Desplat’s ‘Benjamin Button’ score.)
Song – “Slumdog Millionaire”- “Jai ho” – (The Upsetter: Peter Gabriel’s “Wall-E” song, “Down To the Earth”)
Sound Edit – “The Dark Knight” – (The Upsetter: “Slumdog Millionaire”)
Sound Mix – “The Dark Knight” – (The Upsetter: “Slumdog Millionaire”)
Animation – “Wall E”
Foreign Film – “Waltz with Bashir” (The Upsetter: Some people are calling Japan’s “Departures”)
Documentary – “Man on Wire” (The Upsetter: “Trouble The Water”)

Categories we didn’t bother with previously.
Best Animated Short: “Presto” (“The Upsetter: “Les Maison En Petits Cubes”)
Best Documentary Short: “The Conscious of Nhem En” (The Upstetter: “The Witness”)
Best Live-Action Short: “Toyland” (The Upsetter: “The Pig”)

PS, just because this is what we’re listing here, doesn’t mean that’s what we’re going to go with for our pool tonight. We traditionally go to our upsetters section to call an audible or two. Especially for the last three categories that no one really knows anything about anyhow except for the experts (And anything that involves Pixar).

The places we’re second guessing ourselves the most: We really think Peter Gabriel is going to win the Best Song category and Claudio Miranda has an excellent, excellent shot at the Cinematography award for ‘Benjamin Button’ Update: We called a couple upsetters here, too bad we didn’t have the balls to go with them. Then again, not all of them were right either.