ACADEMY AWARDS- PICKS AND PREDICTIONS
Seeing as Oscar season is among us again, I thought that I would share my picks and my predictions via The Farnsworth Parabox.

* is my pick
** is my prediction

Best Motion Picture
**Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Crash
Good Night And Good Luck
*Munich

Best Animated Film
**Howl's Moving Castle
Corpse Bride
*Wallace & Gromit: Curse Of The Were-Rabbit

Best Actor
** *Phillip Seymour Hoffman- Capote
Terrence Howard- Hustle & Flow
Heath Ledger- Brokeback Mountain
Joaquin phoenix- Walk The Line
David Strathairn- Good Night And Good Luck

Best Actress
Judi Dench- Mrs. Henderson Presents
Felicity Huffman- Transamerica
Keira Knightley- Pride & Prejudice
Charlize Theron- North Country
** *Reese Witherspoon- Walk The Line

Best Director
**Ang Lee- Brokeback Mountain
Bennet Miller- Capote
Paul Haggis- Crash
George Clooney- Good Night And Good Luck
*Steven Spielberg- Munich

Best Supporting Actor
*George Clooney- Syriana
Matt Dillon- Crash
**Paul Giamatti- Cinderella Man
Jake Gyllenhaal- Brokeback Mountain
William Hurt- A History Of Violence

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams- Junebug
*Katherine Keener- Capote
Frances McDormand- North Country
Rachel Weisz- The Constant Gardener
**Michelle Williams- Brokeback Mountain

Best Art Direction
Good Night And Good Luck
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire
* **King Kong
Memoirs Of A Geisha
Pride & Prejudice

Best Cinematography
*Batman Begins
**Brokeback Mountain
Good Night And Good Luck
Memoirs Of A Geisha
The New World

Best Costume Design
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
Memoirs Of A Geisha
Mrs. Henderson Presents
*Pride & Prejudice
**Walk The Line

Best Visual Effects
**The Chronicles Of Narnia
*King Kong
War Of The Worlds

Best Screenplay Based On Previous Material
**Brokeback Mountain
Capote
The Constant Gardener
A History Of Violence
*Munich

Best Soundmixing
**The Chronicles Of Narnia
King Kong
Memoirs Of A Geisha
*Walk The Line
War Of The Worlds

Best Film Editing
Cinderella Man
The Constant Gardener
Crash
*Munich
**Walk The Line

Best Screenplay
Crash
**Good Night And Good Luck
Match Point
The Squid And The Whale
*Syriana

Best Sound Editing
** *King Kong
Memoirs Of A Geisha
War Of The Worlds

Best Documentary
Darwin's Nightmare
Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room
** * March Of The Penguins
Murderball
Street Fight

Best Original Score
**Brokeback Mountain
The Constant Gardener
Memoirs Of A Geisha
*Munich
Pride & Prejudice

Best Make-Up
The Chronicles Of Narnia
Cinderella Man
** *Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith

Best Foreign Film
Don't Tell
Joyeux Noel(Merry Christmas)
Paradise Now
Sofia Scholl- The Final Days
Tsoti

Best Original Song
** *"In The Deep"- Crash
"It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp"- Hustle & Flow
"Travellin' Thru"- Transamerica

So there are my picks and predictions for the 78th Academy Awards. I didn't choose a film for the best foreign film because I hadn't seen any of the films. I realize that my picks and predictions could be off by a little because I haven't seen every film in each category, although I can imagine that they wouldn't be too different if I had.

-Alex