The film critic appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show on Tuesday spoke with a laptop in his hand, through electronic voice, which sounded quite like his own.

He made predictions about the Oscars and said, that he can't remember a year when it seemed easier to predict the Oscars.

On criticism about his looks, Ebert said, he would not go for any further surgeries to correct his look."That's right. No more surgery for me," Ebert said. "This is the way I look and my life is happy and productive. So why have any more surgery?"

"In first grade, they said I talk too much. And now I still can," Ebert said.

A laptop computer in front of him and wife Chaz at his side, Ebert expressed himself exuberantly without speaking, crossing his fingers when Winfrey said he is cancer free.

Ebert appeared with his wife Chaz on the show that was taped Friday. Ebert was there in a familiar role — predicting this year’s Oscar winners, but viewers also got a look at Ebert’s everyday home life and how he deals with no longer being able to talk and eat solid food.

During a tour of the Ebert home, Chaz said she doesn’t like to eat in front of her husband.

“It seems kind of cruel,” Chaz said. Ebert eats, using a gravity drip bag suspended from an IV pole.

Back on the Winfrey set, the talk show queen asked Ebert, his fingers poised above a laptop computer, if he recalled the last words he spoke.

“No, I don’t because I didn’t realize they were going to be my last words,” Ebert said, adding he hoped they were “I love you,” to his wife.


Acording to his prediction, following may be the Oscar winners:

Best Picture: "The Hurt Locker."

Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow for "The Hurt Locker."

Best Supporting Actress: Mo'Nique for "Precious."

Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz for "Inglourious Basterds."

Best Actress: Sandra Bullock for "The Blind Side."

Best Actor: Jeff Bridges for "Crazy Heart."