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A few days from now the best movies of the year will be judged and awarded athe Oscars…..and the line up this year is very competitive.

82nd Annual Academy Award Winners for Best Picture

Oscar Predictions are always a crap shoot but we will pin down who we think will win the Best Picture and Best Director and in this year’s entries there is am ex-husband and ex-wife competition. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow on a thriller involving the Army Explosive Ordinance Disposal team who disarm road side bombs.

Here are the Political News Oscar Predictions:

• Best Picture: The movie Hurt Locker is a wartime personal story of a journalist Mark Boal who’s experience with a bomb squad set in the conflict of Iraq. While this is a spectacular movie we still have to weight the odds are on Avatar. Avatar: The Oscar goes to Avatar for Best Picture

• Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow for Hurt Locker
• Best Actor goes to Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart.
• Best Actress goes to Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side
• Best Supporting Actor and the winner is Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds
• Best Supporting Actress and the winner is Mo’Nique in Precious.
• Best Original Screen Play goes to Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds
• Best Adapted Screen Play goes to Up in the Air
• Best Art Direction has to be Avatar
• Best Visual Effects again has to be Avatar.
• Best Sound Editing and the winner is Avatar.
• Best Sound Mixing ditto on Avatar.
• Best Makeup will go to Star Trek.
• Best Costume Design will go to Young Victoria.
• Best Cinematography a tie between Avatar and Hurt Locker but we will give
• in to the 3-D effects and Avatar will walk away with the Oscar.
• Best Film Editing goes to Hurt Locker.
• Best Original Song goes to Crazy Heart.
• Best Original Score goes to Up or Avatar it is a toss up.
• Best Documentary Feature goes to The Cove.
• Best Foreign Film and the winner is Un Prophete.
• Best Animated Feature and the Oscar goes to Up.

Hollywood-With the Academy Awards just days away, fans online are increasingly discussing the nominees for best picture, a category that has expanded to include 10 films this year, along with the actors and actresses nominated in a lead role, according to analysis undertaken by The Nielsen Company using Nielsen Online BuzzMetrics.

Mirroring its global box office success, Avatar dominates online discussion of films in the movie category, grabbing more than a quarter of all buzz globally surrounding the 10 Oscar-nominated films.

In India too Avatar is the most discussed movie online and has a majority share of buzz, followed by Up in the Air which is the second most discussed movie in India.

"It is not surprising to see discussions revolve around the movie Avatar so much, as it was one of the most awaited movies of the year 2009 and the fact that it came from the James Cameron stable, who had previously wowed everyone with Titanic, the wait was only justified. On the other hand following AR Rahman's double Oscars for his music in the film Slumdog Millionaire last year, the buzz online in India is quite palpable," said Karthik Nagarajan, Associate Director - Nielsen Online, The Nielsen Company.

In the main acting categories, Golden Globe winners Jeff Bridges (for Crazy Heart) and Sandra Bullock (for The Blind Side) take the global buzz lead against their competition, with each capturing more than a quarter of buzz globally.