1. Original Screenplay

Memorable “Quotes” from the nominees, and by memorable, I mean I found them on IMDB:

Juno -  

Su-Chin: I’m having a little trouble concentrating.
Juno MacGuff: Oh well I could sell you some of my Adderall if you want.
Su-Chin: No thanks I’m off pills.
Juno MacGuff: That’s a wise choice because I knew this girl who like had this crazy freak out because she took too many behavioral meds at once and she like ripped off her clothes, and dove into the fountain at Ridgedale Mall and was like, “Blah I am a Kracken from the sea!”
Su-Chin: I heard that was you.

More quotes and Adapted Screenplay prediction after the cut

The Savages - 
 
Jon: Would you want a breathing machine to keep you alive?
Lenny: What kind of question is that?
Jon: It’s a question that we should know the answer to — in case.
Lenny: In case what?
Jon: In case something happens.
Wendy(to Lenny): But nothing’s happening right now. Nothing new.
Jon: It’s just procedure. Something they want for their records.
Lenny: Who?
Wendy: The people that run the place. The Valley View.
Lenny: What the hell kind of hotel is it?

Lars and The Real Girl -

Lars Lindstrom: You don’t care.
Karin: We don’t care? We do care!
Lars Lindstrom: No you don’t.
Karin: That is just not true! God! Every person in this town bends over backward to make Bianca feel at home. Why do you think she has so many places to go and so much to do? Huh? Huh? Because of you! Because – all these people – love you! We push her wheelchair. We drive her to work. We drive her home. We wash her. We dress her. We get her up, and put her to bed. We carry her. And she is not petite, Lars. Bianca is a big, big girl! None of this is easy – for any of us – but we do it… Oh! We do it for you! So don’t you dare tell me how we don’t care.
[walks into house and slams door]

Michael Clayton -

Michael Clayton: You are the senior litigating partner of one of the largest, most respected law firms in the world. You are a legend.
Arthur Edens: I’m an accomplice!
Michael Clayton: You’re a manic-depressive!
Arthur Edens: I am Shiva, the god of death.

Ratatouille -

Django: [showing the exterminator shop to Remy with the dead rats in the window] The world we live in belongs to the enemy, we must live carefully. We look out for our own kind, Remy. When all is said and done, we’re all we’ve got.
[Django starts to walk away]
Remy: [defiantly] No. Dad, I don’t believe it. You’re telling me that the future is – can only be – more of this?
Django: This is the way things are; you can’t change nature.
Remy: Change is nature, Dad. The part that we can influence. And it starts when we decide.
Django: [Remy turns to leave] Where are you going?
Remy: With luck, forward.

 My prediction is…..

Best Original Screenplay: Juno – Diablo Cody
Special Acknowledgement: The Savages – Tamara Jenkins

2. Adapted Screenplay

I have not seen all of the nominees for adapted screenplay, I have only seen Atonement and Away From Her, whereas I have seen all the nominees for original screenplay. What I have done is read them all. I managed to read the novels Oil! and No Country For Old Men as well, so I may not know how well they all turned out on screen, but screenplay wise, I think I know enough to make a fair prediction. I would say that Oil! would have been the hardest to adapt, and Paul T. Anderson’s screenplay is flawless, but The Coens’ is tighter and surprisingly has the same amount of “Coenesc” originality as any one of their original screenplays in the past. So if I were pressed, which I kind of am right now, I would say it is between the Coens and Anderson’s masterpieces for the win. I do think that all the nominees deserve a round of applause, they really are fantastic this year, and I am really glad Sarah Polley got nominated – it was a daring effort and her majestic screenplay is a wonder to read.

Best Adapted Screenplay: No Country For Old Men – Joel and Ethan Coen
Special Acknowledgement: Away From Her – Sarah Polley