Tyler’s Films.

Best Picture:

No Country for Old Men

Best Director:

Joel and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men

Best Actor:

Daniel Day Lewis for There Will Be Blood

Best Actress:

Ellen Page for Juno

Best Supporting Actor:

Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men

Best Supporting Actress:

Cate Blanchett for I’m Not There

Best Original Screenplay:

Diablo Cody for Juno

Best Adapted Screenplay:

Joel and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men

Best Foreign-Language Film:

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Most Promising Filmmaker:

Ben Affleck for Gone Baby Gone

Most Promising Performer:

Michael Cera for Superbad & Juno

Best Original Score:

Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova for Once

Best Cinematography:

Roger Deakins for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Best Animated Feature:

Ratatouille

Best Documentary:

Sicko

My thoughts on the choices:

Best Picture - Well, it seems as if by now No Country for Old Men has this in the bag. Other than a possible surprise outbreak by Atonement or There Will Be Blood (which looks very unlikely), No Country for Old Men has it in a nice package. Yay.

Best Director - The same thing about can be said for the directors of the film, Joel and Ethan Coen. Though I find the film to be better than their direction (that makes little to no sense, I know), I’m glad for them. Two of the best filmmakers look to be on pace for their first win of their careers, in the direction category. Coolio.

Best Actor in a Leading Role - It’s basically back and forth between Daniel and George now. Today Daniel will win, tomorrow George. Until there is an actual streak of winning, we will not know who’s the frontrunner. Based on premonition - and the fact Day-Lewis is very loved - I have a feeling Daniel will win. I like to see such head to head competition.

Best Actress in a Leading Role - Ellen Page’s first win in this category. She’s won many ‘breakthrough female’ awards and other things to that extent. Until now, she has not beaten out Cotillard or Christie. Almost everyone had Page pegged as a nominee. So it seems, it’ll stay that way. Congrats to Ms. Page here. Glad to see someone else win.

Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Can this man be stopped? It seems as if he is this years ‘definite’ win. If I had to make any type of bet, my money’d be on this man. Straight up.

Best Actress in a Supporting Role - I’m ever so glad that Blanchett is picking up some more steam. After many losses to Ryan, she seems to be back on track. The thing is, are those losses going to heavily affect her chances come March? I certainly hope not.

Best Original Screenplay - I can’t get enough of Cody’s wins. I loved the screenplay. The thing that makes me feel all tickled inside is that it appears to be the frontrunner. I love it! Congrats Cody. You may be the first ‘rookie’ woman to win an award for writing.

Best Adapted Screenplay - It appears as if anything in No Country for Old Men is unstoppable. The front runner for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor and now Best Adapted Screenplay? In such a predictable year, it takes the fun out of a lot of things. I’m just hoping there are a few surprises. One of them being in this category.

Best Foreign Feature - Finally! Some in sight into the actual category. With last years winner and a film that’s ineligible this year winning everything, no one had any ‘factual’ idea of what looked most likely in this category. I’m very glad 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is gaining some buzz. It’s my win for the year, and certainly deserves a nomination.

Most Promising Filmmaker - Well, Affleck’s direction is in fact the best of the year. I have no qualms with him winning all of these awards. The only minor issue I have is that I’d love to know who else would’ve won it, if Affleck hadn’t been involved this year.

Most Promising Performer - I’ve always thought Cera was promising - even before this year. With his great performance in Arrested Development, I thought it was common knowledge he’d be a great comic actor. I guess not. I’m glad to see him winning a few of these awards. He deserves them. Quite a year this young man has had. Two great performances, both hilarious. Huzzah.

Best Original Score - Out of all of the scores of the year, the one that gets the win is Once? Damn. It doesn’t make my top twenty. While the film was good, the score was just a plain score. Nothing too complex. I’d of much rather seen The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford win one of these.

Best Cinematography - I love this win. If not for Atonement’s marvelous cinematography, Deakins’ work in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford would be my winner, easily. The shots range from menacing to astonishing. Deakins’ work on the film is some of the best I’ve seen. I’m very happy with this choice.

Best Animated Feature - It’s almost known that Ratatouille will win Best Animated Feature. If not for the small chance of Persepolis winning, it’d be a lock, easily. I still say Ratatouille will dominate this category; even with Persepolis in the running.

Best Documentary - Sicko. It’s really don’t to the wire between No End in Sight and this. I really wish a few other films would win this. I’d like to have a more decisive list in this category. Oh well. I’m hoping that Moore wins. I’m definitely looking forward to what his speech will be, if he does win.