These are numbered in my personal choices, with an asterisk denoting who I predict to win. The - means I didn't get the chance to see that movie yet.

BEST PICTURE
1. There Will Be Blood
2. No Country for Old Men*
3. Juno
4. Michael Clayton
5. Atonement

This is one of the strongest years in recent memory. I think all 5 are fantastic, honestly.

BEST DIRECTOR
1. P.T. Anderson (There Will Be Blood)
2. Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men)*
3. Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and The Butterfly)
4. Jason Reitman (Juno)
5. Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton)

BEST ACTOR
1. Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)*
2. Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises)
3. George Clooney (Michael Clayton)
4. Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd)
-Tommy Lee Jones (In The Name of Elah)

BEST ACTRESS
1. Ellen Page (Juno)
2. Julie Christie (Away from Her)*
3. Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose)
-Laura Linney (The Savages)
-Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth: The Golden Age)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1. Casey Affleck (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)
2. Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)*
3. Hal Holbrook (Into the Wild)
4. Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton)
-Philip Seymor Hoffman (Charlie Wilson's War)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1. Cate Blanchett (I'm Not There)*
2. Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton)
3. Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone)
4. Saoirse Ronan (Atonement)
5. Ruby Dee (American Gangster)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
1. Juno*
2. Lars and the Real Girl
3. Ratatouille
4. Michael Clayton
-The Savages

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
1. There Will Be Blood
2. No Country for Old Men*
3. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4. Atonement
5. Away from Her

BEST ANIMATED FILM
1. Ratatouille*
-Persepolis
-Surf's Up

BEST ART DIRECTION
1. There Will Be Blood*
2. Sweeney Todd
3. Atonement
4. American Gangster
5. The Golden Compass

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2. There Will Be Blood
3. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly*
4. No Country for Old Men
5. Atonement

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
1. Sweeney Todd
2. Atonement
3. La Vie En Rose
4. Across the Universe
-Elizabeth: The Golden Age*

BEST EDITING
1. No Country for Old Men
2. The Bourne Ultimatum*
3. There Will Be Blood
4. Into the Wild
5. The Diving Bell and The Butterfly

BEST MAKEUP
1. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
2. La Vie En Rose*
-Norbit

BEST SCORE
1. Atonement*
2. Ratatouille
3. 3:10 to Yuma
4. Michael Clayton
-The Kite Runner

BEST SONG
1. "Falling Slowly"*
2. "That's How You Know"
3. "Happy Working Song"
4. "So Close"
-"Raise it Up"

BEST SOUND EDITING
1. Transformers*
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Ratatouille
4. No Country for Old Men
5. The Bourne Ultimatum

BEST SOUND MIXING
1. Transformers*
2. No Country for Old Men
3. There Will Be Blood
4. The Bourne Ultimatum
5. 3:10 To Yuma

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
1. Transformers*
2. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
3. The Golden Compass