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Slumdog Millionaire is the top dog at the 81st Annual Academy Awards on Sunday night as it swept away 8 wins out of 10 nominations including the Best Picture and Best Director.

The others awards Slumdog Millionaire has taken include Best Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing, Sound Mixing, Original Score and Original Song.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, as expected, managed to pick up three technical awards including Art Direction, Makeup and Visual Effect while The Dark Knight won two awards including Sound Editing and Best Supporting Actor for the late Heath Ledger.

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Oscar is less than a day away and below are Yowazzup’s Oscar Predictions for the 81st Annual Academy Awards: -

Actor in a Leading Role: Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)

Actress in a Leading Role: Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married)

Actor in a Supporting Role: Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)

Actress in a Supporting Role: Taraji P.Henson (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)

Cinematography: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Directing: Slumdog Millionaire

Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire

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The late Heath Ledger, who plays the obnoxious Joker is nominated for the Best Supporting Actor, together with Josh Brolin ("Milk"), Robert Downey Jr. ("Tropic Thunder") and Philip Seymour Hoffman ("Doubt") for the 81st Annual Academy Awards.

However, "The Dark Knight" is excluded from the Best Picture and Best Director categories.

Why so serious? After all, we all love "The Dark Knight" largely due to Heath Ledger’s wonderful performance. May he wins the Oscar.

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No Country for Old Men dominated the 80th Annual Academy Awards by winning four Oscars.

Winners in bold:

Best Actor

George Clooney
Michael Clayton

Daniel Day-Lewis
There Will Be Blood

Johnny Depp
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Tommy Lee Jones
In the Valley of Elah

Viggo Mortensen
Eastern Promises

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett
Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Julie Christie
Away From Her

Marion Cotillard
La Vie en Rose

Laura Linney
The Savages

Ellen Page
Juno

Best Supporting Actor

Casey Affleck
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Javier Bardem
No Country for Old Men

Philip Seymour Hoffman
Charlie Wilson’s War

Hal Holbrook
Into the Wild

Tom Wilkinson
Michael Clayton

Best Supporting Actress

Cate Blanchett
I’m Not There

Ruby Dee
American Gangster

Saoirse Ronan
Atonement

Amy Ryan
Gone Baby Gone

Tilda Swinton
Michael Clayton

Animated Feature Film

Persepolis

Ratatouille

Surf’s Up

Best Art Direction

American Gangster

Atonement

The Golden Compass

Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

There Will Be Blood

Best Picture

Atonement

Juno

Michael Clayton

No Country for Old Men

There Will Be Blood

The rest of Oscar winners

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Oscar is just 2 days away, now, let’s look at this year’s nominees:

Best Actor

George Clooney
Michael Clayton

Daniel Day-Lewis
There Will Be Blood

Johnny Depp
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Tommy Lee Jones
In the Valley of Elah

Viggo Mortensen
Eastern Promises

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett
Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Julie Christie
Away From Her

Marion Cotillard
La Vie en Rose

Laura Linney
The Savages

Ellen Page
Juno

Best Supporting Actor

Casey Affleck
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Javier Bardem
No Country for Old Men

Philip Seymour Hoffman
Charlie Wilson’s War

Hal Holbrook
Into the Wild

Tom Wilkinson
Michael Clayton

Best Supporting Actress

Cate Blanchett
I’m Not There

Ruby Dee
American Gangster

Saoirse Ronan
Atonement

Amy Ryan
Gone Baby Gone

Tilda Swinton
Michael Clayton

Animated Feature Film

Persepolis

Ratatouille

Surf’s Up

Best Art Direction

American Gangster

Atonement

The Golden Compass

Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

There Will Be Blood

Best Picture

Atonement

Juno

Michael Clayton

No Country for Old Men

There Will Be Blood

Like many previous years, Oscar is always bleak and top box office movies like Transformers and Spider-man 3 and The Simpsons have not been included.

Anyways, from the list of nominees, it’s tough to predict the winners except for Ratatouille for the Animated Feature Film category. However, I have a very strong instinct that Saoirse Ronan will win the Best Supporting Actress category for her role in Atonement. What’s your prediction?

We’ll give away two movie tickets (or $10 Paypal, if you live outside Malaysia) if you can manage to predict the winners for every category above. So, guess right away!

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