Some people just can't get too much of a good thing. With one of the most enriching movie years in history behind us, and one of the most highly anticipated Academy Awards in decades less than a week old, Scott Feinberg's 'And The Winner Is' blog is finally looking ahead to...

...the 2009 Oscars.

That's right, folks: just because none of these movies have been seen yet — just because most of them, indeed, have not even been made yet — doesn't mean the LA Times' irrepressible scamp isn't going to go ahead and handicap them for their chances of taking home Oscar Gold a little over a year from now.

Although Feinberg approaches this ridiculous effort with tongue at least partially in cheek, that doesn't mean he's not somewhat dismayingly comprehensive in his look at whose names might be prominent come Oscar eve '09. Among his choices as early, early, unbelievably early favorites: Benecio del Toro for Best Actor as Che Guevara in Steven Soderbergh's The Argentine; Julianne Moore for Best Actress in Blindness; John Patrick Shanley for the screenplay of Doubt, an adaptation of his own play; Gus Van Sant for directing Sean Penn in Milk, the life story of the assassinated gay rights activist and San Francisco city supervisor; and any number of high-profile performances from Kate Winslet.

Okay, Scott, okay... but can't we elect a President first?