Thursday 13 December 2012

OSCAR PREDICTIONS 7 - 4 WEEKS TO GO



It's a big old clusterfuck at the moment, with clarity lacking in most of the major categories, and most of the others. So, for now, these are shots in the (near)dark. Four weeks for things to clear up get even muddier.

Best Picture
·          Argo
·          Beasts of the Southern Wild
·          Django Unchained
·          Life of Pi
·          Lincoln
·          Les Misérables
·          Moonrise Kingdom
·          Silver Linings Playbook
·          Zero Dark Thirty

Best Directing
·          Ben Affleck (Argo)
·          Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty)
·          Tom Hooper (Les Misérables)
·          Ang Lee (Life of Pi)
·          Steven Spielberg (Lincoln)

Best Actor in a Leading Role
·          Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
·          Anthony Hopkins (Hitchcock)
·          Hugh Jackman (Les Misérables)
·          Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)
·          Denzel Washington (Flight)

Best Actress in a Leading Role
·          Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)
·          Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)
·          Helen Mirren (Hitchcock)
·          Naomi Watts (The Impossible)
·          Rachel Weisz (The Deep Blue Sea)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
·          Alan Arkin (Argo)
·          Robert De Niro (Silver Linings Playbook)
·          Leonardo DiCaprio (Django Unchained)
·          Tommy Lee Jones (Lincoln)
·          Matthew McConaughey (Magic Mike)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
·          Amy Adams (The Master)
·          Sally Field (Lincoln)
·          Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables)
·          Helen Hunt (The Sessions)
·          Maggie Smith (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel)

Best Writing (Original Screenplay)
·          Amour
·          Django Unchained
·          The Master
·          Moonrise Kingdom
·          Zero Dark Thirty

Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
·          Argo
·          Beasts of the Southern Wild
·          Life of Pi
·          Lincoln
·          Silver Linings Playbook

Best Cinematography
·          Django Unchained
·          Life of Pi
·          Lincoln
·          Les Misérables
·          Skyfall

Best Film Editing
·          Argo
·          Life of Pi
·          Lincoln
·          Les Misérables
·          Zero Dark Thirty

Best Production Design
·          Anna Karenina
·          Django Unchained
·          The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
·          Lincoln
·          Les Misérables

Best Costume Design
·          Anna Karenina
·          Cloud Atlas
·          Les Misérables
·          Moonrise Kingdom
·          A Royal Affair

Best Sound Mixing
·          The Avengers
·          The Dark Knight Rises
·          Django Unchained
·          Les Misérables
·          Zero Dark Thirty

Best Sound Editing
·          The Avengers
·          Django Unchained
·          The Impossible
·          Wreck-It Ralph
·          Zero Dark Thirty

Best Visual Effects
·          The Avengers
·          Cloud Atlas
·          The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
·          Life of Pi
·          Prometheus

Best Makeup
·          Cloud Atlas
·          The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
·          Les Misérables

Best Music (Original Score)
·          Beasts of the Southern Wild
·          Cloud Atlas
·          Life of Pi
·          Lincoln
·          Zero Dark Thirty

Best Music (Original Song)
·          ‘Learn Me Right’ (Brave)
·          ‘Skyfall’ (Skyfall)
·          ‘Still Alive’ (Paul Williams Still Alive)
·          ‘Suddenly’ (Les Misérables)
·          ‘Touch the Sky’ (Brave)

Best Animated Feature Film
·          Brave
·          Frankenweenie
·          ParaNorman
·          The Rabbi’s Cat
·          Wreck-It Ralph

Best Documentary Feature
·          Bully
·          The Gatekeepers
·          How to Survive a Plague
·          Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
·          This Is Not a Film

Best Foreign Language Film
·          Amour
·          Barbara
·          The Intouchables
·          A Royal Affair
·          War Witch

P.S. Silly oversight time again! I left Zero Dark Thirty out of Best Original Screenplay when I posted it, and Skyfall out of Best Original Song. I had Looper in instead of 0D30 and Show White and the Huntsman in instead of Skyfall. I didn't mean to do that. That's not going to happen.

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