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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 1335582" data-attributes="member: 5">Okie doke, my guesses...Mystic River is a fine actor's showcase, but it really could be deserving of an Oscar for best picture and best director, too.  It may be that we'll see LotR: RotK get the best picture and best director, then the academy has an excuse to squeeze off a lifetime achievement award to Clint.  I think they thiought he would curl up and die soon after Unforgiven (not that it wasn't a deserving winner).  I'll guess Theron for best actress (not a tough call).  And in keeping with typical hollywood politicing, let's go with Zellweger for supporting (semi-snubbed when the gave Kidman best and Zeta-Jones supporting last year).  Also, by going with RotK for best pic it opens them up to spreading the acting awards around, so look for them to snub Penn in favor of Murray, and I think they might have to go with Robbins if only to make sure Mystic River gets something and legitimizes their voting process.  Oh, and figure RotK for about five or six other technical awards. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>