Friday, January 4, 2013

Oscar Nomination Predictions



This year, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is definitely the film that the Golden Globes ignored, but the Oscars will lavish with nominations. Also, Mirror Mirror may have lost the box office battle with Snow White and the Huntsman, but will likely pick up at least one nomination. Here are my picks for this year's Oscars (a.k.a. Academy Awards) for films release in 2012.

Best Picture
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
The Master
Moonrise Kingdom
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

Wildcard - Django Unchained

Best Director
Ben Affleck (Argo)
Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty)
Tom Hooper (Les Miserables)
Steven Spielberg (Lincoln)
Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)

Wildcard -David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)
Ang Lee (Life of Pi)

Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
Hugh Jackman (Les Miserables)
Denzel Washington (Flight)
Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook)
Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)

Wildcard -John Hawkes (The Sessions)

Best Actress
Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)
Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)
Marion Cotillard (Rust and Bone)
Naomi Watts (The Impossible)
Quvenzhane Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

Wildcard -Emmanuelle Riva (Amour)

Best Supporting Actor
Tommy Lee Jones (Lincoln)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)
Alan Arkin (Argo)
Javier Bardem (Skyfall)
Matthew McConaughey (Magic Mike)

Wildcard -Leonardo DiCaprio (Django Unchained)
Samuel L Jackson-Django Unchained

Best Supporting Actress
Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables)
Sally Field (Lincoln)
Helen Hunt (The Sessions)
Amy Adams (The Master)
Judi Dench (Skyfall)

Wildcard -Ann Dowd (Compliance)

Best Original Screenplay
Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty)
Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master)
Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)
Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola (Moonrise Kingdom)
Michael Haneke (Amour)

Wildcard –John Gatins (Flight)

Best Adapted Screenplay
Tony Kushner (Lincoln)
David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)
Chris Terrio (Argo)
Lucy Alibar & Ben Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
David Magee (Life of Pi)

Wildcard - William Nicholson (Les Miserables)

Best Animated Film
Brave
Frankenweenie
Wreck-It Ralph
ParaNorman
Rise of the Guardians

Wildcard -The Painting

Best Foreign Film
Amour
The Intouchables
A Royal Affair
No
Beyond the Hills

Wildcard -Sister

Best Documentary Feature
Searching for Sugar Man
How to Survive a Plague
The Gatekeepers
The Invisible War
Bully

Best Production Design
Les Miserables
Anna Karenina
Lincoln
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Master

Wildcard -The Dark Knight Rises

Best Cinematography
Life of Pi
The Master
Les Miserables
Lincoln
Skyfall

Wildcard -Zero Dark Thirty

Best Costume Design
Anna Karenina
Les Miserables
Lincoln
Cloud Atlas
Mirror Mirror

Wildcard -The Master

Best Editing
Argo
Zero Dark Thirty
Lincoln
Les Miserables
The Master

Wildcard -The Dark Knight Rises

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Lincoln
Les Miserables

Wildcard - Men in Black 3

Best Score
Lincoln
Life of Pi
Anna Karenina
The Master
Beasts of the Southern Wild

Wildcard -The Dark Knight Rises

Best Song
Skyfall (Song) (Skyfall)
Suddenly (Les Miserables)
Learn Me Right (Brave)
Still Alive (Paul Williams: Still Alive)
Everybody Needs a Best Friend (Ted)

Wildcard -Touch the Sky (Brave)

Best Sound Editing
Zero Dark Thirty
The Dark Knight Rises
The Avengers
Skyfall
Life of Pi

Wildcard -Les Miserables

Best Sound Mixing
Les Miserables
The Avengers
Zero Dark Thirty
The Dark Knight Rises
Life of Pi

Wildcard -Lincoln

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

Wildcard -The Dark Knight Rises

Best Animated Short
Paperman
Adam and Dog
Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare
The Eagleman Stag
Dripped

Wildcard -Combustible

Best Documentary Short
Open Heart
Education of Mohammad Hussein
Mondays at Racine
Inocente
Redemption

Wildcard -Kings Point

Best Live Action Short
Curfew
Death of a Shadow
when you find me
9meter
Asad

Wildcard -Henry

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