2009 Academy Awards Poll

We interrupt the Best Pittsburgh Sports Blog Tournament (first round voting ends today at 8:00pm Eastern; the Sweet 16 voting will begin on Monday) for the Oscars. I was unable to find a website that had its own Oscars poll, so I created my own. Listed below are twelve categories for Sunday night's 81st Academy Awards. Make your predictions in the comments section below. The person with the most correct will win the honor of having the most correct in my 2009 Academy Awards Poll. Yes, you can put that on your resume or Facebook page.

Here are your categories:

1. BEST PICTURE
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire

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

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

4. BEST ACTRESS
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Melissa Leo - Frozen River
Meryl Streep - Doubt
Kate Winslet - The Reader

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

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

7. ORIGINAL SCREEPLAY
Frozen River - Written by Courtney Hunt
Happy-Go-Lucky - Written by Mike Leigh
In Bruges - Written by Martin McDonagh
Milk - Written by Dustin Lance Black
WALL-E - Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon

8. ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Screenplay by Eric Roth
Doubt - Written by John Patrick Shanley
Frost/Nixon - Screenplay by Peter Morgan
The Reader - Screenplay by David Hare
Slumdog Millionaire - Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy

9. ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
WALL-E

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

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

12. ORIGINAL SONG
"Down to Earth" (WALL-E) - Music by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman; Lyrics by Peter Gabriel
"Jai Ho" (Slumdog Millionaire) - Music by A.R. Rahman Lyrics by Gulzar
"O Saya" (Slumdog Millionaire) - Music and Lyrics by A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam

13. Tie-breaker: What time will the Oscars end?

(By the way, how are there no nominations for Gran Torino? What an amazing movie!)

If this had been an actual emergency, you would have been instructed to tune to one of the broadcast stations in your area. We now return to the Best Pittsburgh Sports Blog Tournament already in progress.