Oscar Forecast 2008

Two years ago, I got 6 out of 8, last year 7 of 8. Let's hope I get them all this year.

Just in case any of you are new to this, it's not always the best film or performance that wins. Sometimes, it's the best campaign—think presidential elections—that gets the gold. And no, I have neither seen nor do I need to see any of the nominated films to make these predictions. For more information on my Oscar obsession, see "Notes on the Oscar Nominations."

Best Picture
No Country for Old Men

Best Actor
Daniel Day Lewis (There Will Be Blood)

Best Actress
Ellen Page (Juno)

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

Best Supporting Actress
Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton)

Best Director
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (No Country for Old Men)

Best Adapted Screenplay
No Country for Old Men

Best Original Screenplay
Juno

For the Record: Print Crossing Cultures

Print Crossing Cultures
A Graduate Student Colloquium at the University of Toronto

Keynote Speaker: Natalie Zemon Davis, Princeton University and the University of Toronto

Saturday, February 9, 2008
Alumni Hall, Victoria College, University of Toronto
91 Charles Street West, Toronto, ON


Schedule:


10:30-noon: Panel 1: Translating Works and Worlds

Vernon R. Totanes: Colonialism, Nationalism and the First Books Printed in the Philippines

Bronwen Masemann: "A good observation in the Jesuit": Reading and Translating Charlevoix's *Histoire et Description Générale de la Nouvelle France* in the British Atlantic, 1745-6

Margaret Carlyle: Women Printing Across Chemical Cultures: d'Arconville's Translation of Shaw's *Chemical Lectures*


2:00-3:30: Panel 2: Transnational Print

Kyle Wyatt: "Rejoicing in this unpronounceable name": Constructing Peter Jones's Authorial Identity

Nadine Fladd: Expatriate Border-Crossing: Mavis Gallant and *The New Yorker*

Ania Dymarz: Myth-making and Translating: An Anecdotal and Critical Reading of Cultural Crossings in the Myths Series


4:00-5:00: Keynote Address, Natalie Zemon Davis: Books and Printed Papers in a Multilingual Plantation Society: the Case of Colonial Suriname


5:00-6:00: Closing Reception


Event sponsored by the Toronto Centre for the Book, the University of Toronto Collaborative Program in Book History and Print Culture, and the Office of the Principal, Victoria College