Forest Whitaker will join The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences president Sid Ganis to announce the Academy Award nominations tomorrow morning at 5:30 a.m. PST.
We’re no experts — okay, we are, but strictly in a “beat all our friends in the annual Oscar pool because we read Oscar blogs” kind of way — but the Best Picture category is going to look something like this:
Slumdog Millionaire — the frontrunner.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — the big-budget competitor.
Frost/Nixon and Milk — the two political movies with great performances.
The Dark Knight — the phenomenon that can’t be ignored.
Those are looking to be the top five, despite cries from critics everywhere that Wall-E should be seriously considered. (It won’t be, but it will win the Best Animated Feature category.) The biggest likely spoiler — possibly stealing The Dark Knight’s spot — is Doubt.
Since it’s always a bad idea to underestimate Clint Eastwood, I should also mention that Gran Torino is the dark horse/wild card.
And yes, Heath Ledger will be nominated for The Dark Knight, and is currently the frontrunner to win.
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