Latest Oscar Predix

Gold Derby’s  Academy Awards  prognosticator, Tom O’Neil, has posted his and other well-known pundits  predictions for the upcoming Oscar race. Obviously from O’Neil’s chart below, all the Oscar gurus have put ‘Benjamin Button’ at the head  in the Best Picture field. ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ takes the ‘Little Miss Sunshine/Juno’ spot. With ‘The Road’, ‘The Soloist’, and ‘Defiance ‘ being pushed to 2009, ‘Gran Torino’ and  ‘The Reader’ now seriously enter the BP race.

Keep in mind that no one has seen anything yet from Eastwood’s ‘Gran Torino’, so hence the reference by one pundit  “Something Directed by Clint Eastwood.”  Exactly what  Clint did back in 2004 with his pulling the rabbit outta his hat trick  with Oscar winner, ‘Million Dollar Baby’. For Best Actor and Actress charts, click  here.  The  81st Academy Awards  air on ABC on February 21, 2009.