<p>So far Mrs. wharfrat2 and I have seen three of the five Best picture nominees and have plans to see the other two. Early predictions so far:</p>
<p>Best Picture: There Will Be Blood
Best Actor: Daniel Day Lewis
Best Actress: Ellen Page
Best Score/Soundtrack: Juno</p>
<p>Admittedly this is very unscientific and just my opinion based on incomplete information. I may well wind up revising these predictions after seeing No Country and Michael Clayton.</p>
<p>Best Picture: There Will Be Blood
Best Actor: Daniel Day Lewis
Best Actress: Julie Christie
Best Supporting Actress: I think Ruby Dee will get it as a Lifetime achievement thing
Best Supporting Actor: I am rooting for Phillip, but Javier Bardem will probably win</p>
<p>Best Director and/or Best Screenplay: No Country For Old Men</p>
<p>Best Picture: No Country or Juno
Best Actor: Daniel Day Lewis
Best Actress: Marion Cotillard or Julie Christie
Best Supporting Actor: Hal Holbrook (sentimental vote, and besides Into The
Wild should have gotten more nominations)
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan</p>
<p>^^Wow, SuNa, evidently you have a good eye! </p>
<p>Today, the Screen Actors Guild gave their most prized peer awards to: </p>
<p>Best Ensemble Cast (their highest honor): No Country For Old Men
Best Male Actor: Daniel Day Lewis
Best Female Actor: Julie Christie (and Marion was nominated) </p>
<p>Supporting: nominations to Hal Holbrooke and I believe Amy Ryan, although others won, namely Javier (the sociopath in No Country) and Ruby Dee (the druglord’s mom in American Gangster)</p>
<p>BTW, Daniel Day Lewis’ acceptance speech was a real treasure.</p>
<p>Timed out, meant to say: Rachacha also called the same awards as SuNa!</p>
<p>Wharfrat’s, like you, I need to go see a few movies now, too… I’m missing: There Will Be Blood and Michael Clayton. </p>
<p>SuNa, since you liked “Into the Wild” you’ll agree perhaps with SAG nominations for both the young actor (Emile Hirsh?) and Holbrooke, plus Catherine Keener for Supporting. No wins but many nominations. </p>
<p>And I hadn’t even heard of the movie Julie Christie won for (portraying an Alzheimer’s victim). </p>
<p>Bring out the hankies…and popcorn for Oscars night. I’ll be wearing my Vera Wang bedroom slippers.</p>
<p>I was puzzled by all the nominations for Michael Clayton, which I thought was a competent, if preposterous, legal thriller, but no big deal. Tom Wilkinson’s supporting performance was pure Smithfield ham (and entertaining, of course). The person I would have nominated for best supporting actor in that movie was Sidney Lumet. who got the law firm chairman dead on. Tilda Swinton did an excellent job sweating, but had a more minor role than usually gets recognized for these awards.</p>