The Definitive Oscar Picks & Contest

Quick, before you read the following picks, go here and enter the First Annual Gone Mild Oscar Picks Contest. It costs nothing to enter, and the winner will get a 50/50 split of my profits on this website for the coming year. The entry is a simple click-box format, and you can get a copy of your picks emailed to you, so it's a pretty simple way to make and memorialize your 2008 Oscar picks. I'll keep your selections confidential, if you prefer.

Now, these are the ones that will actually win:

Best Picture: Michael Clayton
Best Director: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
Best Actress: Ellen Page in Juno
Best Supporting Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson's War
Best Supporting Actress: Ruby Dee in American Gangster
Best Original Screenplay: Juno
Best Adapted Screenplay: No Country for Old Men
Cinematography: There Will Be Blood
Film Editing: There Will Be Blood
Art Direction: Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Costume Design: Across the Universe
Original Score: The Kite Runner
Original Song: "Falling Slowly" -- Once
Best Makeup: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Sound Editing: Ratatouille
Sound Mixing: No Country for Old Men
Best Visual Effects: The Golden Compass
Best Animated Feature Film: Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film: The Counterfeiters -- Austria
Best Documentary Feature: Sicko
Best Documentary Short: Sari's Mother
Best Live Action Short: Tanghi Argentini
Best Animated Short: Peter & the Wolf

They are also going to have a special award for "Most Hilariously Awful Stereotypical French Movie Scene and Best Reason to Hate Foreign Films", which will be given to "La Vie En Rose" for the scene in which the little girl and the prostitute lock themselves in a room and cry while they have lipstick smiles painted on their faces.