It’s that time again! Oscar night! This year marks the 79th Academy Awards. Some of this years musical guests will include Beyonce, James Taylor, and Melissa Etheridge. Part of the stage design will include a one ton curtain with 50,000 Swarovski crystals. This year’s host will be Ellen Degeneres.

Beyonce, who stared in DreamGirls, is fairly confident the film will win for Best Director. Other buzz includes speculation that Helen Mirren will win for Supporting Actress in The Queen, as she already took home the Voipi Cup for it at the Venice Film Festival. If Mark Wahlberg wins, he might bust out some Good Vibrations in his acceptance speech. Jack Nicholson is bringing his new girlfriend, and Best Supporting Actress nominee for Little Miss Sunshine, Abigail Breslin. There is also word that there will ba an ad teaser for the iPhone during the show. And Ellen DeGeneres plans to announce she is following in the footsteps of Bradgelina and will be adopting a child from Vietnam.

And now for our picks. We’re fairly confident about them, but our sources rarely steers us wrong.

Actor in a leading role:
Leonardo di Caprio

Actor in a supporting role
Mark Wahlberg

Actress in a leading role:
Meryl Streep

Actress in a supporting role:
Jennifer Hudson

Animated Feature Film:
Cars

Art Direction:
The Black Dahlia

Costume Design:
Marie Antoinette

Directing:
Letters from Iwo Jima

Documentary feature:
An Inconvenient Truth

Documentary short:
Two Hands

Film Editing:
Children of Men

Foreign language Film:
Pan’s Labyrinth

Makeup:
Apocalypto

Music (Score):
Pan’s Labyrinth

Music (Song):
Dreamgirls

Best picture:
The Departed

Short film (animated):
No Time for Nuts

Short film (live action):
West Bank Story

Sound Editing:
Flags of our Fathers

Sound Mixing:
Apocalypto

Visual effects:
Superman Returns

Writing (adapted screenplay):
Borat

Writing (original screenplay):
Babel

A source has revealed that Britney Spears wants ex-boyfriend, Justin Timberlake back in her life. “Britney would love to have Justin back.” “They still talk a lot and she’s been telling friends for months about how good Justin was for her.” Apparently, she would do anything to get him back.

Courtney Love has been invited to be a judge on American Idol.

The former Hole singer has revealed the hit TV show’s executive producer Nigel Lythgoe called her last week to ask if she’d be interested in joining Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson on the judging panel.

It is not known if Courtney will be joining the existing three judges to choose America’s next singing sensation, or if Lythgoe is considering replacing Paula.

Paula - known for her bitter ongoing feud with Simon - has fuelled rumours that she is battling substance abuse by appearing in a series of interviews this January where she was seen swaying and slurring her words.

A representative for American Idol was not available for comment.