Welcome to Japablum's guide to what will happen tonight during Hollywoods glitziest, glamourousest, most studded night since the LA premier of Wild Hogs.
Best Picture
Letters from Iwo Jima
Letters from Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood's harrowing and heart-wrenching meditation on the lives of soldiers fighting a war they know they will lose; a film that, though it is almost completely in Japanese and has under its sympathetic gaze men whose mission is to kill American soldiers, captured many hearts in the great U.S. of A.; a film that featured spectacular performances from Ken Watanabe as conflicted General Tadamichi Kuribayashi and Kazunari Ninomiya as out-of-his-depth young baker Saigo--this film will not win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Best Supporting Actress
Rinko Kikuchi, Babel
Ms. Kikuchi gave one of the most jaw-dropping performances of the year as a young deaf Tokyo high school girl who is reeling from the death of her mother and the onslaught of her blossoming sexuality. Kikuchi's performance—which you can't take your eyes off of and deserves all kinds of awards—will absolutely not be recognized with the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She may get buck naked in the movie, which the Academy always loves, but she's up against Jennifer Hudson. Sad.
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