Oscar Picks and Contest

Serious film fanatics...This year, we have an Oscar contest for you. The submission with the most correct picks in every category wins their choice (DVD or Blu-ray (when and/or if available)) of the Best Picture nominations. To enter email me your name, address, email, phone number (for confirmation) and picks to my tallwriterms@yahoo.com before the beginning of the Oscar telecast (8 p.m. EST) on Sunday, February 24, 2013. Good luck on the contest!  

Winners will be notified and listed on February 25, 2013. Be sure to check out my annual special features on filmmakers, cast, and crew during Oscar week. 

Best Picture

Argo

Amour

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Django Unchained

Les Miserables

Life of Pi

Lincoln

Silver Linings Playbook

Zero Dark Thirty

Best Director

Steven Spielberg (Lincoln)

Michael Haneke-Amour

Behn Zeitlin- Beasts of the Southern Wild

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)

Best Actress

Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)

Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)

Naomi Watts (The Impossible)

Quvenzhane Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

Emmanuelle Riva (Amour)

Best Supporting Actor – all previous winners

Tommy Lee Jones (Lincoln)

Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)

Alan Arkin (Argo)

Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)

Robert De Niro (Silver Linings Playbook)

Best Supporting Actress

Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables)

Sally Field (Lincoln) – won before

Helen Hunt (The Sessions) – won before

Amy Adams (The Master)

Jackie Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook)

Best Original Screenplay

Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty)

Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)

Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola (Moonrise Kingdom)

Michael Haneke (Amour)

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)

Best Animated Film

Brave

Frankenweenie

Wreck-It Ralph

ParaNorman

The Pirates! Band of Misfits

Best Foreign Film

Amour

A Royal Affair

No

Kon-Tiki

War Witch

Best Documentary Feature

Searching for Sugar Man

How to Survive a Plague

The Gatekeepers

The Invisible War

5 Broken Cameras

Best Production Design

Les Miserables

Anna Karenina

Lincoln

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Life of Pi

Best Cinematography

Claudio Miranda-Life of Pi

Janusz Kaminski-Lincoln

Roger Deakins-Skyfall

Seamus McGarvey-Anna Karenina

Robert Richardson- Django Unchained

Best Costume Design

Anna Karenina

Les Miserables

Lincoln

Mirror Mirror

Snow White and the Huntsman

Best Editing

Argo

Zero Dark Thirty

Lincoln

Silver Linings Playbook

Life of Pi

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Les Miserables

Hitchcock

Best Score

John Williams-Lincoln

Mychael Danna-Life of Pi

Dario Marianelli-Anna Karenina

Alexandre Desplat-Argo

Thomas Newman-Skyfall

Best Song

Skyfall (Song) (Skyfall)

Suddenly (Les Miserables)

Everybody Needs a Best Friend (Ted)

Pi’s Lullaby (Life of Pi)

Before My Time (Chasing Ice)

Best Sound Editing

Zero Dark Thirty

Skyfall

Life of Pi

Argo

Django Unchained

Best Sound Mixing

Les Miserables

Life of Pi

Argo

Skyfall

Lincoln

Best Visual Effects

Life of Pi

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

The Avengers

Prometheus

Snow White and the Huntsman

Best Animated Short

Paperman

Adam and Dog

Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare

Fresh Guacamole

Head Over Heels

Best Documentary Short

Open Heart

Mondays at Racine

Inocente

Redemption

Kings Point

Best Live Action Short

Curfew

Death of a Shadow

Asad

Buzkashi Boys

Henry