No Guts, No Glory

It is now that time, less than nine hours to go before the nominations are announced. I am off to bed and will return tomorrow with nominees and reactions before 9:30am tomorrow morning. Only one major last-minute pieces of news: the scores from "There Will Be Blood" and "Into the Wild" have been deemed ineligible. My refreshed predictions are here. I am really excited by the possibilties tomorrow, and hope that the lineups in the major categories, especially Best Picture, will be fresh and interesting. This should be a year of major surprises. Just what will those be? My three no guts, no glory predictions:

1) Best Picture and Best Director only match up 2/5 (how exciting!)
2) Brad Pitt for Best Actor for "The Assassination of Jesse James"
3) Todd Haynes for Best Director for "I'm Not There"

Nominees are announced tomorrow morning at 8:38am ET on a variety of channels. I always go with NBC, where Entertainment Weekly's Dave Karger should be on hand to offer predictions before and analysis afterwards. Check back tomorrow morning for all the latest on the nominees!