Film is very important to me, and I’ve always enjoyed the Acadamy Awards. I’ve made a special effort this year to watch as many Oscar nominated films as I can, and I think I’ve done a pretty good job of it. So, it is with great pride that I present to you my predictions for tomorrow night’s ceremony. But first, I’d like to make it clear which movies I’ve seen, so readers can understand exactly which nominess on which I’m speaking with first-hand knowledge.

Nominated movies I saw as of 2/21/2009:

• Changeling
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Doubt
• Frost/Nixon
• Hellboy II: The Golden Army
• In Bruges
• Iron Man
• Kung Fu Panda
• Milk
• Presto
• Rachel Getting Married
• The Reader
• Slumdog Millionaire
• Tropic Thunder
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• The Visitor
• Wall-E
• Wanted
• The Wrestler

Edit: before the ceremony on Sunday, I was able to catch the following:

• Toyland
• Lavatory – Love Story
• Octapodi
• This Way Up
• Manon on the Asphalt
• On the Line

Because of this, I’ve changed my prediction on the animated short catagory.

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Last night I had strange dreams.  The first one was similar to the movie “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”.  For some reason my parents had a child, I have no explanation of what the circumstances are that would bring about this now, but it happened.  Unlike the movie, the baby was born as a normal sized, normal aged child.  Unfortunately, like the movie, a sort of reversal happened where the child became younger and younger as time went on, which meant that it shrunk and became more fetus-like.  Very quickly it shrunk to almost nothing and died, and it was sad.

As if this was not enough my bad dreams did not end.  The next one was on a plane.  The plane crashed in the water, and I fought my way through the water to get to the shore.  After everyone was safe, it was required that we go on another plane to get from the island that we had made it to, to home on the mainland.  Unfortunately, as rediclous as it sounds, as we approached the mainland the pilot flew very close to the water, so close in fact that the smaller waves touched the bottom of the plane.  To our horror, a much larger wave approached, and we had to watch as impending doom made its way towards the plane.  The wave impacted, and pulled the plane under the water, crashing it.  I don’t know if we were able to escape the ocean diving fuselage, for I woke up at least partially at this point.