Oscar Winner Predictions: Best Sound

The competition: Avatar, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Star Trek, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Previous winners: Slumdog Millionaire, The Bourne Ultimatum, Dreamgirls, King Kong, Ray
My winner: Watchmen
Who should win: Avatar
Who will win: The sound categories are where I have to guess most since I’m hardly an expert in the art of sound design or editing. To begin with, throw out “Inglourious Basterds” and “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” and probably “Star Trek,” leaving this just another of the technical fields between this year’s too unstoppable juggernauts. I think this one goes to the 160-minute technological breakthrough, Avatar.