NOMINEE PREDICTIONS (January 21, 2009)

FINAL PREDICTIONS:

1. SWEDEN, Everlasting Moments
2. JAPAN, Departures
3. ISRAEL, Waltz with Bashir
4. CANADA, The Necessities of Life
5. FRANCE, The Class

6. AUSTRIA, Revanche
7. MEXICO, Arrancame la Vida
8. GERMANY, Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
9. TURKEY, Three Monkeys

Really....With the exception of Turkey, I think any of the eight have a good chance, but I'm still pretty confident that Canada, Israel, Japan and Sweden will make the cut....The fifth slot is harder to predict, but I'm going to go with France, which I think is more widely liked than the others. The Wild Card is Germany, which keeps getting award nominations even though nobody I know seems to like it at all, so I'm amazed it has even got this far.