Spiltsville

As you can see from this prediction chart over at Awards Daily the majority of Oscar watchers are predicting a split between the picture and director Oscars with The King's Speech taking the big prize but with Social Network's David Fincher still managing to grab the trophy for directing.

While such a scenario would please me infinitely more than a Speech Sweep there's one nagging question that makes me wonder about the chances, namely: Has a Picture/Director split ever been predicted in advance? Or are they exist exclusively under the heading Wild Card Surprises?

I delve into the subject at The Film Experience looking over the modern history of picture/director splits as well as predicted splits that never happened.