The 80th Academy Awards ceremony will take place Sunday night. If you can’t wait until then to find out who the winners will be here are my predictions:
Best Supporting Actress – Amy Ryan
Best Supporting Actor – Hal Holbrook
Best Actress – Julie Christie
Best Actor – Daniel Day-Lewis
Best Animated Feature – “Ratatouille”
Best Song – “That’s How You Know” (“Enchanted”)
Best Director – The Coen Brothers (“No Country For Old Men”)
Best Picture – “No Country For Old Men”
Hopefully “Ratatouille” will win a few more Oscars as well (it’s up for five). The actual awards ceremony begins at 8:30 ET, but be sure to tune in at 8:00 ET for the pre-show, which is being hosted by “my man” Regis Philbin for the first time. That could be the best part of the entire night.
Lights Camera Jackson (a.k.a. Jackson Murphy) began his career as a film critic in 2006 at the age of 7. To date, Jackson has written nearly 1,000 reviews of new releases and, in total, has seen more than 1,500 films. In 2010, Jackson became the youngest person to win a NY Emmy Award, for his on-air movie reviews on Time Warner TV station, Capital News 9. And in 2011, Jackson was inducted into the Broadcast Film Critics Association as their youngest member. The BFCA’s annual Critics Choice Awards is one of the industry’s most recognized and prestigious awards shows. Jackson is also a member of SAG-AFTRA and votes annually for the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Currently, Jackson can be heard every Friday morning on WGNA-FM and his reviews are also posted on his website, YouTube channel and Cultjer.com. He is also a contributor to AnimationScoop.com, run by animation historian Jerry Beck. And Jackson hosts the weekly internet pop culture news show “LCJ LIVE”, along with “The LCJ Q&A Podcast”, on which he interviews celebrities and filmmakers.