While there are several highly competitive categories at this year’s Academy Awards, Joel and Ethan Coen will win the Oscar for Best Director. If you look at the competitive, there is just no question.

Paul Thomas Anderson would be my pick if I were to select the winner, as There Will Be Blood was the boldest, most unique film of the group. Unfortunately, this is not his award to win, and I won’t be disappointed. The Coen Brothers did a spectacular job with No Country for Old Men, despite forgetting to add an ending to the film.

And that’s my Oscar analysis for Best Director, as I’m sick of writing these things…