Final Oscar Predictions…5 Days to Go

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I’ve officially lost count of just how many awards No Country for Old Men has won this Oscar season. It’s taken home the DGA, PGA, SAG and WGA awards, something only one other film has done since the SAGs started giving out the Motion Picture Cast prize. That film was American Beauty. We know how that Oscar season ended.

More shocking is No Country for Old Men‘s near swept of the less publicized guild awards like the Cinema Audio Society award and the Art Directors Guild award. Even American Beauty can’t make that claim. It’s time to stop talking about if No Country for Old Men is going to win at the Oscars. We may want to start asking if it’s going to lose anything.

With that in mind, I’m giving No Country for Old Men a solid sweep at the Oscars. Here are the finals predictions for next Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony.

Motion Picture – No Country for Old Men, Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, and Joel Coen
Actor in a Leading Role – Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood
Actor in a Supporting Role – Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
Actress in a Leading Role – Marion Cotillard in La Vie En Rose
Actress in a Supporting Role – Ruby Dee in American Gangster
Adapted Screenplay – No Country for Old Men, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
Original Screenplay – Michael Clayton, Tony Gilroy (Sorry, Juno fans.)
Animated Feature Film – Ratatouille, Brad Bird
Art Direction – There Will Be Blood, Jack Fisk (art director) and Jim Erickson (set decorator)
Cinematography – No Country for Old Men, Roger Deakins
Costume Design – Sweeney Todd, Colleen Atwood
Directing – No Country for Old Men, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Documentary Feature – No End in Sight, Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
Film Editing – No Country for Old Men, Roderick Jaynes
Foreign Language Film – The Counterfeiters
Makeup – La Vie En Rose, Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald
Music, Score – Atonement, Dario Marianelli
Music, Song – Once, “Falling Slowly”, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
Sound Editing – No Country for Old Men, Skip Lievsay
Sound Mixing – No Country for Old Men, Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland
Visual Effects – Transformers, Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl, and John Frazier
Short Film Animated – I Met the Walrus, Josh Raskin
Short Film Live Action – The Tonto Woman, Daniel Barber and Matthew Brown
Documentary Short – Sari’s Mother, James Longley

The 80th Annual Academy Awards air Sunday at 8:30 p.m. on ABC.