Picture - There Will Be Blood [Wouldn't be my choice, but I take no umbrage with it]

Actor - Daniel Day Lewis (There Will Be Blood) [It's unfair that he gets to compete. Can't we just give him a lifetime achievement award and assume that while he may be the best performer in any year which he releases a film, someone else gets to have an award saying "Best Actor (Other than Daniel Day Lewis)?]

Actress - Julie Christie (Away from Her) [She has Altzheimer's. I'm so tired of people with handicaps getting all the good stuff. They already get the awesome parking spaces; what more do they want?]

Director - PT Anderson (There Will Be Blood)

Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)

Supporting Actress - Cate Blanchett (I'm Not There)

Breakthrough Performer - Ellen Page (Juno)

Debut Director - Sarah Polley (Away from Her) [Tony Gilroy says NO]

Ensemble Cast - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead [Again, not my choice but it's a solid selection]

Screenplay - The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman, Roman Coppola) [It's a selection that's more interesting for how the screenplay came together rather than the screenplay itself; the screenplay for Juno flattens it]

Documentary – Sicko (The Weinstein Company) [I like Sicko too, but it's a flawed documentary and there were stronger selections out there]

Foreign Language – The Lives of Others (Sony Classics) / Persepolis (Sony Classics) [Could have sworn that The Lives of Others was released last year; I believe this because I saw it last year; weird, huh?]

Animated – Persepolis (Sony Classics) [I could be seeing this tomorrow but I have to earn money. DAMN YOU, CAPITALISM!

Cinematography - There Will Be Blood (Robert Elswit)

Film Music - There Will Be Blood (Jonny Greenwood) [I'd have to go with Nick Cave & Warren Ellis' somber score for "The Assassination of Jesse James" but I'll admit that Greenwood's score works beautifully within the film; just not outside of it]

NYFCO's Top 11 Pictures

1 Atonement (Focus Features) – NO

2 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (THINKFilm) - OK

3 The Darjeeling Limited (Fox Searchlight) - NO

4 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Miramax) - YES

5 I'm Not There (The Weinstein Company) - YES

6 Juno (Fox Searchlight) - YES

7 Michael Clayton (Warner Bros.) - OK

8 No Country for Old Men (Miramax) - YES

9 Persepolis (Sony Pictures Classics) - I WISH I KNEW

10 Sweeney Todd (DreamWorks) - YES

11 There Will Be Blood (Paramount Vantage) - YES