The Oscars: Who Will Win.

I made all of these predictions before the nominees were announced. I'm gonna stick with them until the day. I want to change my best Picture guess from Avatar to The Hurt Locker. It will between these two films. But, I'm just gonna stick with my original gut. The last two times a film crossed 1 billion dollars at the global box office, it won best picture. Titanic? Return of the King? So here they are. This is the worst I could do.

Picture: Avatar

Director: Katherine Bigelow, The Hurt Locker

Best Animated Feature: Up

Best Documentary Feature: The Cove

Best Foreign-Language Film: The White Ribbon (Germany)

Adapted Screenplay: Inglourious Basterds

Original Screenplay: The Hurt Locker

Best Actor: Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart

Best Actress: Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side

Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

Supporting Actress: Monique, Precious

Editing: Avatar

Cinematography: The Hurt Locker

Art Direction: Avatar

Sound Mixing: Avatar

Sound Editing: Avatar

Costume Design: The Young Victoria
Make up: Star Trek

Original Score: Up

Original Song: "The Weary Kind" --Crazy Heart (this is my pick)

or that song from AVATAR

The Type of Movies that I Like

I think that the type of movies, or films that stay with me are the big ones. If I look at my favorite films of all time, I can see a pattern. These are the movies with the emphasis on huge things at stake where the characters that I love are fighting for something much greater than themselves. They are fighting for their loved ones and for the truth or for some kind of freedom. They are usually films of grandeur that display an imagination on a large scale. As if someone's imagination exploded and ended up on celluloid in an organized fashion. But not anybody's imagination. People that can think big, and imagine incredible worlds and tell incredible stories in those worlds, make the movies I like. It is not that I am not moved by movies that are created on a smaller budget and a smaller scale. I am not someone who is reserved to only Hollywood movies. It is rare when a gem with a Hollywood budget comes around. That is why most people enjoy indies: It is because the filmmakers have no choice but to make something compelling and moving with their small budget. A high budget does not make the picture worth watching by any means. Transformers had one of the highest budgets of the year and it sucked. Avatar, on the other hand has one of the largest budgets of all time and it rocks. Just a small and not very well made comparison that I just made.