* = Prediction

BEST DRAMA PICTURE
(Front-runners)
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" *
"Frost/Nixon" *
"Milk" *
"The Reader" *
"Slumdog Millionaire" *

(Possible)
"The Dark Knight"
"Doubt"
"Gran Torino"
"Revolutionary Road"

BEST DRAMA ACTOR
(Front-runners)
Leo DiCaprio, "Revolutionary Road" *
Frank Langella, "Frost/Nixon" *
Sean Penn, "Milk" *
Brad Pitt, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" *
Mickey Rourke, "The Wrestler" *

(Possible)
Clint Eastwood, "Gran Torino"
Richard Jenkins, "The Visitor"

BEST DRAMA ACTRESS
(Front-runners)
Cate Blanchett, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" *
Angelina Jolie, "Changeling" *
Anne Hathaway, "Rachel Getting Married" *
Meryl Streep, "Doubt" *
Kate Winslet, "Revolutionary Road" *

(Possible)
Melissa Leo, "Frozen River"
Kristin Scott Thomas, "I've Loved You So Long"

BEST COMEDY/MUSICAL PICTURE
(Front-runners)
"Mamma Mia!" *
"Vicky Cristina Barcelona" *

(Possible)
"Burn After Reading"
"Happy-Go-Lucky" *
"In Bruges" *
"Last Chance Harvey"

"RocknRolla"
"Sex and the City" *
"Tropic Thunder"

BEST COMEDY/MUSICAL ACTOR
(Front-runners)

Dustin Hoffman, "Last Chance Harvey" *
Javier Bardem, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" *
Ben Stiller, "Tropic Thunder" *
Colin Farrell, "In Bruges" *

(Possible)
Robert De Niro, "What Just Happened"
Zac Efron, "High School Musical 3: Senior Year" *

BEST COMEDY/MUSICAL ACTRESS
(Front-runners)
Sally Hawkins, "Happy-Go-Lucky" *
Meryl Streep, "Mamma Mia!" *
Sarah Jessica Parker, "Sex and the City" *
Emma Thompson, "Last Chance Harvey" *
Rachel Weisz, "The Brothers Bloom" *

(Possible)
Jennifer Aniston, "Marley & Me"
Frances McDormand, "Burn After Reading"