Roger Ebert predicts 'Twilight' and 'Up in the Air' star Anna Kendrick will receive Oscar nomination

Roger Ebert, famed long-time film historian and critic, has just issued his predictions for this year's Oscar nominations (which are due Tuesday), and guess who was on it?

Yep, that's right: Anna Kendrick.

Kendrick (who portrays "Jessica Stanley" in The Twilight Saga: New Moon and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse) has definitely been vetted by a critic or two for her work as "Natalie" in Up In The Air over the past few months, and Ebert's assessment of her potential for film's highest honor is due, he says, to the fact that she is "so young and earnest in the same film."

Anna Kendrick has been nominated for a great many awards over the past few months, including a SAG Award, a BAFTA, and a Golden Globe.

Of course, her most formidable competition at these shows has been Precious star Mo'Nique, and Ebert predicts that she, too, will receive a nod from the Academy.

With the Oscar nominations announcement coming down next week, speculation on this matter will soon become reality.

The same is true for other Twilight-related nomination opportunities (not the least of which is Lykke Li's "Possiblity" from the New Moon soundtrack, which was an early entry for "Best Original Song"), so Tuesday's nomination news will certainly be something for Twilight fans to watch for!


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