Having correctly forecast the winners of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor and Actress, we’re quite proud here at Box Office Psychics.

Also, the fact that the Coen Brothers‘ film “No Country for Old Men” walked away with Best Adapted Screenplay, Director, Picture and Best Supporting Actor honors for Javier Bardem was vindication of the authoritative list of Best Films of 2007 which listed “No Country for Old Men” as the best film of 2007 back in late December.

Some surprises were abound, but it was the 6 combined Oscars the Coen’s will be taking home for the three categories which they won which will be remembered most in Hollywood lore.

We have a compiled cheat sheet that list the Bloggers Picks and some leading publication picks for the top Oscar categories and the respective winners here…

 The # amount next to each is indicating of how many experts predict the selection as a winner.   As you can see the biggest sure-thing categories with over 90% of the experts predicting that they will win is Best Actor for Daniel Day Lewis and Best Director for the Coen Brothers for “No Country for Old Men”

BEST PICTURE
17 - “No Country for Old Men”
4 - “Atonement”
2 - “There Will be Blood”
2 - “Michael Clayton”
1 - “Juno”

BEST DIRECTOR
24 - Coen Brothers for “No Country for Old Men”
2 - Paul Thomas Anderson for “There will be Blood”

BEST ACTOR
22 - Daniel Day Lewis “There Will be Blood”
4 - George Clooney “Michael Clayton”

BEST ACTRESS
15 - Julie Christie “Away from Her”
5 - Marion Cotillard “La Vie En Rose”
5 - Ellen Page “Juno”
2 - Cate Blanchett “Elizabeth: Golden Age”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
19 - Javier Bardem “No Country for Old Men”
3 - Tom Wilkinson “Michael Clayton”
3 - Casey Affleck “The Assasination of Jesse James”
1 - Hal Holbrook “Into the Wild”
1 - Philip Seymour Hoffman “Charlie Wilson’s War”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
15 - Cate Blanchett “I’m Not There”
9 - Amy Ryan “Gone Baby Gone”
3 - Ruby Dee “American Gangster”

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
14 - “Juno”
4 - “Michael Clayton”
1 - “Before the Devil Knows Your Dead”
1 - “Ratatouille”

Here’s the BOPsy Oscar Predictions - last minute, but right in time to help you in selecting your picks at the Oscar viewing party you are most likely attending.

Some of the choices here are educated guesses and some are just wishes (the selections for Foreign Language, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, etc. did not have clear cut winners. For a listing of DB’s Best Films of 2007 go here ….)

We’ve put a compilation of who the experts (bloggers, publications picks) here

Here’s the BOPsy choices below with the Selections in BOLD:

Performance by an actor in a leading role
George Clooney in “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)
Daniel Day-Lewis in “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
Johnny Depp in “Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”
(DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)
Tommy Lee Jones in “In the Valley of Elah” (Warner Independent)
Viggo Mortensen in “Eastern Promises” (Focus Features)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Casey Affleck in “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” (Warner Bros.)
Javier Bardem in “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Charlie Wilson’s War” (Universal)
Hal Holbrook in “Into the Wild” (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment)
Tom Wilkinson in “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)

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Now that the Writer’s strike is over, Oscar telecast head honchos Gil Cates and Sid Ganis were quick to announce yesterday the lineup for next Sunday’s Academy Awards. All four of last year’s winners in the acting categories - Alan Arkin, Jennifer Hudson, Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker will be presenters.

Other presenters will include Amy Adams, Jessica Alba, Cate Blanchett, Josh Brolin, Steve Carell, George Clooney, Penelope Cruz, Miley Cyrus, Patrick Dempsey, Cameron Diaz, Colin Farrell, Harrison Ford, Jennifer Garner, Tom Hanks, Anne Hathaway, Katherine Heigl, Jonah Hill, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Nicole Kidman, James McAvoy, Queen Latifah, Seth Rogen, Martin Scorsese, Hilary Swank, John Travolta, Denzel Washington and Renee Zellweger.

The performers of the nominated songs will include the three nomineesfrom “Enchanted” with Amy Adams singing “Happy Working Song,” “That’s How You Know,” sung by Kristin Chenoweth and Marlon Saunders, and “So Close,” to be performed by Jon McLaughlin.

Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova will perform their nominated song, “Falling Slowly,” from the motion picture “Once,” and Jamia Simone Nash will perform “Raise It Up,” from “August Rush.”