Best Picture "Slumdog Millionaire" & the Hour of Truth Oscar 2009 Predictions (@ the 11th hour) Part 2

Best Picture "Slumdog Millionaire" & the Hour of Truth
Report card of my Oscar 2009 Predictions the 11th Hour- Part 2
Slumdog Millionaire nabbed all but one Oscar (won by ” The Dark Knight” - the late Heath Ledger for best sound editing)
“It is nominated for 9 Academy Awards and, were it to win seven, would equal the record set by Shakespeare in Love, the last British film to sweep the Oscars 10 years ago.” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/oscars/4783664/Oscars-2009-Slumdog-Millionaire-stars-struggle-to-contain-excitement.html
Guess what? They won 8 Oscars including BEST PICTURE. It surpasses the record set by “Shakespeare in Love”, a British made movie to sweep the Oscars.
My predictions did not include some obscure nominations (foreign movie or documentary) that I was not familiar with.

Predicted 21 out of 24, missed 7 but accurately predicted 14 Oscar Winners. Had I place my money where my mouth is, I would have won myself some money at Intrade (http://www.intrade.net/market/listing/showEventGroup.faces?eg=162).

Oscar Winners (in bold type versus my italicized predictions) of The Academy Awards Feb. 22, 2009 in the order of appearance are :

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 1
Amy Adams, Doubt; Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Viola Davis, Doubt; Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 2
Frozen River, Courtney Hunt; Happy-Go-Lucky, Mike Leigh; In Bruges, Martin McDonagh; Milk, Dustin Lance Black (Gay Mormon from TX); WALL-E, Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Pete Docter

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY 3
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Eric Roth; Doubt, John Patrick Shanley; Frost/Nixon, Peter Morgan; The Reader, David Hare; Slumdog Millionaire, Simon Beaufoy

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE 4
Bolt; Kung Fu Panda; WALL-E

BEST ANIMATED SHORT 5 (no prediction)
La Maison en Petits Cubes; Lavatory — Lovestory; Oktapodi; Presto; This Way Up

BEST ART DIRECTION 6
Changeling; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; The Dark Knight; The Duchess; Revolutionary Road

BEST COSTUME DESIGN 7
Australia; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; The Duchess (Michael O’Connor); Milk; Revolutionary Road

BEST MAKEUP 8
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; The Dark Knight; Hellboy II: The Golden Army

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY 9
Changeling; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; The Dark Knight; The Reader; Slumdog Millionaire

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT (no prediction) 10
Auf der Strecke (On the Line) ; Manon on the Asphalt; New Boy; The Pig; Spielzeugland (Toyland)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR 11
Josh Brolin, Milk; Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight; Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder; Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt; Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 12 (no prediction)
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon); Encounters at the End of the World; The Garden; Man on Wire; Trouble the Water

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT 13
The Conscience of Nhem En; The Final Inch; Smile Pinki; The Witness — From the Balcony of Room 306

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS 14
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; The Dark Knight; Iron Man; How did I do?

BEST SOUND EDITING 15
The Dark Knight; Iron Man; Slumdog Millionaire; WALL-E; Wanted

BEST SOUND MIXING 16
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; The Dark Knight; Slumdog Millionaire; WALL-E; Wanted

BEST EDITING 17
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; The Dark Knight; Frost/Nixon; Milk; Slumdog Millionaire

Humanitarian Award given to Jerry Lewis

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE 18
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Alexandre Desplat; Defiance, James Newton Howard; Milk, Danny Elfman; Slumdog Millionaire, A.R. Rahman; WALL-E, Thomas Newman

BEST ORIGINAL SONG 19
''Down to Earth,'' WALL-E; ''Jai Ho,'' Slumdog Millionaire; ''O Saya,'' Slumdog Millionaire

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM 20
The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany); The Class (France) ; Departures (Japan) ; Revanche (Austria) ; Waltz with Bashir (Israel)

BEST DIRECTOR 21
Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire; David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon; Stephen Daldry, The Reader; Gus Van Sant, Milk

BEST ACTRESS 22
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married; Angelina Jolie, Changeling; Melissa Leo, Frozen River; Meryl Streep, Doubt; Kate Winslet, The Reader

BEST ACTOR 23
Richard Jenkins, The Visitor; Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon; Sean Penn, Milk; Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

BEST PICTURE 24
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Frost/Nixon; Milk; The Reader; Slumdog Millionaire

Notice how many women wear a one shoulder dress – what a tribute to the First Lady.
Kate Winslet, Marisa Tomei (what an incredible dress) Queen Latifah