Tomorrow marks the last day for the 6,000 or so members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to hand in their nomination ballots. For this Oscar prognosticator, it brings forth the annual daydream of having his own ballot. After a year-end blitz of screenings and screeners that suggests a consensus of what deserves to get nominated, it's always disappointing to see that this rarely ends up being the actual case (see these current predictions compared to the rest of this article).