Oscar Winners & Team Squid’s Oscar Picks

UPDATE:

So the show just ended… take a look below to see the full list of winners, in green.

The 82nd Academy Awards are taking place tomorrow night, and we here at GKS are laying down our predictions. Take a gander at our picks below, with Team Squid names beside their choices, based on who we think will win, not necessarily who we want to win, naturally. We’ll update this post with the real winners following the show.

To make things interesting, as the Editor I’ve put some incentive out to the person with the most correct picks. That contributer can keep their job here, everyone else is fired. Dance, monkeys, DANCE!

Want to sound off on your Oscar picks? Leave a comment below.

Best Picture
Avatar – Gavin
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker – Auburn, Ryan
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man – Katie
Up
Up in the Air

Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker – Auburn, Ryan
James Cameron, Avatar – Gavin
Lee Daniels, Precious
Jason Reitman, Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds – Katie

Best Actor
Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart – Auburn
George Clooney, Up in the Air
Colin Firth, A Single Man – Katie
Morgan Freeman, Invictus – Gavin
Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker – Ryan

Best Actress
Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side – Auburn
Helen Mirren, The Last Station
Carey Mulligan, An Education
Gabourey Sidibe, Precious – Katie, Gavin, Ryan
Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia

Best Supporting Actor
Matt Damon, Invictus
Woody Harrelson, The Messenger
Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds - Katie, Auburn, Gavin, Ryan

Best Supporting Actress
Penélope Cruz, Nine
Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air – Katie, Gavin
Mo’Nique, Precious – Auburn, Ryan

Best Original Screenplay
Avatar
Inglourious Basterds – Gavin, Ryan
The Hurt Locker – Auburn
A Serious Man – Katie
Up
The Messenger

Best Adapted Screenplay
Up in the Air – Ryan
Precious – Katie, Auburn
An Education
District 9 – Gavin
In the Loop

Animated Feature Film
Coraline – Gavin
Fantastic Mr. Fox – Katie, Ryan
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
Up - Auburn

Foreign Language Film
Ajami
The Secret of their Eyes – Katie
The Milk of Sorrow – Gavin
A Prophet – Ryan
The White Ribbon – Auburn

Documentary Feature
Burma VJ
The Cove – Katie, Ryan
Food Inc – Auburn, Gavin
The Most Dangerous Man in America
Which Way Home

Achievement in Music (Original Song)
The Princess and the Frog, “Almost There” – Music and Lyrics by Randy Newman
The Princess and the Frog, “Down in New Orleans” – Music and Lyrics by Randy Newman – Auburn, Gavin
Paris 36, “Loin de Paname” – Mucis by Reinhardt Wagner, Lyric by Frank Thomas
Nine, “Take It All” – Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston
Crazy Heart, “The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” – Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett – Katie, Ryan

Achievement in Music (Original Score)
Avatar, James Horner – Auburn, Gavin, Ryan
Fantastic Mr. Fox, Alexander Desplat – Katie
The Hurt Locker, Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
Sherlock Holmes, Hans Zimmer
Up, Michael Giacchino

Achievement in Film Editing
Avatar – Katie
District 9 – Gavin, Ryan
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds – Auburn
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire

Achievement in Cinematography
Avatar – Katie, Auburn, Gavin
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker – Ryan
Inglourious Basterds
The White Ribbon

Achievement in Art Direction
Avatar – Katie, Auburn, Ryan
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus – Gavin
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria

Achievement in Costume Design
Bright Star
Coco before Chanel
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus – Katie, Auburn, Gavin
Nine
The Young Victoria – Ryan

Achievement in Visual Effects
Avatar – Katie, Auburn, Ryan, Gavin
District 9
Star Trek

Achievement in Sound Editing
Avatar – Katie, Auburn, Gavin
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek – Ryan
Up

Achievement in Sound Mixing
Avatar – Katie, Auburn
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek - Gavin, Ryan
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Achievement in Makeup
Il Divo – Gavin
Star Trek – Katie, Auburn, Ryan
The Young Victoria

Documentary Short Subject
China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province – Auburn, Gavin, Ryan
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Music by Prudence
Rabbit a la Berlin – Katie

Animated Short Film
French Roast
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty – Gavin
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte) – Auburn, Ryan
Logorama
A Matter of Loaf and Death – Katie

Live Action Short Film
The Door – Ryan
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish – Katie, Auburn
The New Tenants – Gavin

Tune in to the Oscars this Sunday night 2 8 on ABC.