But elsewhere, we're forced to go out on a limb: tipping Master and Commander for a consolation gaggle of technical awards, plucking The Barbarian Invasions out from an unknown and unseen set of best foreign film contenders, and picking Sean Penn for best actor when a sizeable part of us still screams that it's going to be Bill Murray.
The video – which featured a special guest verse from Lamar and a handful of Swift's famous girlfriends – is also up for collaboration and a slew of technical awards including direction, visual effects and cinematography.
I suspect that Academy voters will prefer to stick to technical awards for The Two Towers, and wait until next year, when the entire trilogy has come out, before deciding on a best film prize.
"Star Wars" honcho J.J. Abrams and Alfonso Cuarón, who won Best Director last year for "Gravity," announced the technical awards at 8 30 a.m.
As the first awards were given out, Hugo shot into an early lead as it picked up most of the technical awards, winning for best art direction, best sound editing and best visual effects among others.
Look for Captain Phillips to mop up a number of the technical awards, with a prize for the brilliantly sinuous editing looking the most likely bet.
However, Life of Pi - nominated for 11 Oscars - only won two technical awards.
For all the talk of cutting back on technical awards to show snippets of all 10 nominated films, there was a highlight reel from the governors' awards banquet and even a quick glimpse of the scientific and technical awards ceremony.
It also won the 2007 International Indian Film Academy awards for Best Movie, Best Supporting Actress (Soha Ali Khan), Best Screenplay (Rensil D'Silva and Rakeysh Mehra) and Best Music Director among other technical awards.
(No documentaries. No shorts. No technical awards).
