OSCAR NOMINATIONS!!!! COMPLETE LIST AND REACTION

Well, its been fun trying to predict the nominees. I nailed Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. (The category, not the actual nominees, mind you!)
As it goes, the easier it is to predict the nominations, the harder it is to predict who will win. Vice versa, but that doesn't apply here.

Nothing big as far as surprises! Here were the "surprises" (in the loosest sense of the word):

1. Alan Alda - Best Supporting Actor
2. Clint Eastwood - Best Actor
3. Mike Leigh - Best Director
4. Before Sunset - Best Adapted Screenplay
5. Shark Tale - Best Animated Feature (W! T! F!)

Biggest Snubs In Major Categories:

1. Paul Giamatti - Best Actor
2. Marc Forster - Best Director
3. The Kill Bill series - not a single nomination between the two films. BOOO!
4. No Mick Jagger at the Oscars. BOOO!

I just saw the technical nods. They suck beyond belief. NO FX NOD FOR SKY CAPTAIN??????? TROY FOR COSTUME DESIGN????? NO COLLATERAL FOR CINEMATOGRAPHY???? This is where all the surprises and omissions happened. Holy shit.

Congratulations to my four favorite performances so far this year, all of whom were nominated.

My favorite nominees are in bold.

Here's the complete nominations:

Best Picture:
The Aviator - Finding Neverland - Million Dollar Baby - Ray - Sideways

Best Actor:
Don Cheadle - Hotel Rwanda
Johnny Depp - Finding Neverland
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Aviator
Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby
Jamie Foxx - Ray

Best Actress:
Annette Bening - Being Julia
Catalina Sandino Moreno - Maria Full of Grace
Imelda Staunton - Vera Drake
Hilary Swank - Million Dollar Baby
Kate Winslet - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Best Supporting Actor:
Alan Alda - The Aviator
Thomas Haden Church - Sideways
Jamie Foxx - Collateral
Morgan Freeman - Million Dollar Baby
Clive Owen - Closer

Best Supporting Actress:
Cate Blanchett - The Aviator
Laura Linney - Kinsey
Virginia Madsen - Sideways
Sophie Okenedo - Hotel Rwanda
Natalie Portman - Closer

Best Director:
Martin Scorsese - The Aviator
Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby
Taylor Hackford - Ray
Alexander Payne - Sideways
Mike Leigh - Vera Drake

Best Screenplay (Adapted)
Before Sunset
Finding Neverland
Million Dollar Baby
The Motorcycle Diaries
Sideways

Best Screenplay (Original)
The Aviator
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Hotel Rwanda
The Incredibles
Vera Drake

Best Animated Film:
The Incredibles
Shark Tale
Shrek 2

Best Art Direction:
The Aviator
Finding Neverland
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Phantom of the Opera
A Very Long Engagement

Best Cinematography:
The Aviator
House of Flying Daggers
The Passion of the Christ
The Phantom of the Opera
A Very Long Engagement

Best Costume Design:
The Aviator
Finding Neverland
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Ray
Troy

Best Documentary Feature:
Born Into Brothels
Story of the Weeping Camel
Super Size Me
Tupac: Resurrection
Twist of Faith

Best Editing:
The Aviator
Collateral
Finding Neverland
Million Dollar Baby
Ray

Best Foreign Film:
As It Is In Heaven
The Chorus
Downfall
The Sea Inside
Yesterday

Best Makeup:
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Passion of the Christ
The Sea Inside

Best Score:
Finding Neverland
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Passion of the Christ
The Village

Best Song:
Accidentally In Love - Shrek 2
Al Otro Lado Del Rio - The Motorcycle Diaries
Believe - The Polar Express
Learn to Be Lonely - The Phantom of the Opera
Look to Your Path - The Chorus

Sound Editing:
The Incredibles
The Polar Express
Spider-Man 2

Sound Mixing:
The Aviator
The Incredibles
The Polar Express
Ray
Spider-Man 2

Visual F/X:
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
I, Robot
Spider-Man 2

Current Predicted Winners:
Picture - The Aviator
Director - Scorsese
Actor - Foxx
Actress - Swank (though I have a feeling Mr. Beatty is going to pull some strings for his wife)
Supp. Actor - Owen
Supp. Actress - eek! no clue. I'll go with Blanchett
Screenplay (Original) - Eternal Sunshine
Screenplay (Adapted) - Sideways
Animated Film - The Incredibles
Art Direction - The Aviator
Cinematography - The Aviator
Costume Design - The Aviator
Editing: Collateral or The Aviator
Makeup: Lemony Snicket
Score: Finding Neverland
Song: Shrek 2
Sound Editing: Spider-Man 2
Sound: The Aviator
Visual F/X: Spider-Man 2