Academy Award Prediction: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay

Sometimes these three awards go to three different films, but not often. The Best Picture and Director winner are usually from the same film. Also, the Best Picture usually wins a screenplay award. Most Best Pictures are from adapted screenplays. Last year No Country For Old Men took all three, and The Departed did the same the year before. This year, Slumdog Millionaire will fall into the traditional formula. The smash hit about a Mumbain teen who is persecuted for the unusual circumstances involving his game show success has racked up sixty pre-Oscar awards and looks poised to turn at least half of its' ten nominations into wins. At this point, the Academy would just look silly giving the big prize to someone else.