Best Picture
Amour
Argo
Beasts of the Southern
Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings
Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
Winner: It’s been a fantastic year for film all around, but
it looks like Argo is well ahead to
take the big prize. Not my personal favorite (SLP all the way!), but a very worthy winner nevertheless. And Ben
Affleck really does give the best speeches.
Actor in a Leading
Role
Bradley Cooper, Silver
Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Hugh Jackman, Les
Miserables
Joaquin Phoenix, The
Master
Denzel Washington, Flight
Winner: His Majesty the King of Acting, Daniel Day-Lewis.
It’s just too bad that the other four guys have been nominated against him all
season, because they all probably could have had a decent shot in another year.
Actress in a Leading
Role
Jessica Chastain, Zero
Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver
Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts
of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts, The
Impossible
Winner: Mmm, tricky. Jessica Chastain and Jennifer Lawrence
were always regarded as the frontrunners here, but Emmanuelle Riva winning the
BAFTA really adds another dimension to this category. I’m still supporting my
girl J-Law all the way, and she did win the SAG award, but I wouldn’t be
shocked if Riva or Chastain pulled off an “upset”.
Actor in a Supporting
Role
Alan Arkin, Argo
Robert De Niro, Silver
Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The
Master
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Christoph Waltz, Django
Unchained
Winner: Man, this is such a crapshoot; I feel like everyone
except Alan Arkin has a decent chance here. (Sorry, but Arkin had very little
to do in Argo, and it’s crazy that he
got nominated over Leonardo DiCaprio in Django,
Eddie Redmayne in Les Mis, Dwight
Henry in Beasts of the Southern Wild,
Ewan McGregor and Tom Holland in The
Impossible, Ezra Miller in The Perks
of Being a Wallflower, and dozens of other fantastic male supporting roles
this year.) Hoffman gave the most substantial performance, Jones steals all of
his scenes in Lincoln, and Waltz
somehow won both the Globe and the BAFTA (despite winning for a very similar
role in Inglorious Basterds only 3
years ago). If I had to choose just one, though, I would pick Robert De Niro,
because he’s terrific in SLP and
hasn’t won an Oscar since 1981.
Actress in a
Supporting Role
Amy Adams, The Master
Sally Field, Lincoln
Anne Hathaway, Les
Miserables
Helen Hunt, The
Sessions
Jackie Weaver, Silver
Linings Playbook
Winner: Anne Hathaway has been writing this acceptance speech
since December. But this is Amy Adams’ 4th Oscar nomination, and
when her 5th comes, she’ll officially be overdue to win.
Directing
Michael Haneke, Amour
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
David O. Russell, Silver
Linings Playbook
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Benh Zeitlin, Beasts
of the Southern Wild
Winner: If Ben Affleck were nominated for Argo, he’d be a lock to win. Without
him, though, it looks like it’s down to Ang Lee, Steven Spielberg, and
maaaaaaybe David O. Russell. It’s really hard to pick between Lee and
Spielberg, but I’m going to go with Lee because his movie is more technically
impressive, and he just seems like the sweetest man ever.
Writing - Original
Screenplay
Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola, Moonrise Kingdom
Mark Boal, Zero Dark
Thirty
John Gatins, Flight
Michael Haneke, Amour
Quentin Tarantino, Django
Unchained
Winner: I really really want Moonrise Kingdom to pull off an upset here, but that’s unlikely at
best. This is down to ZDT and Django, and with all the torture
controversy over ZDT, I’m going to go
with Django. “The ‘D’ is silent.”
Writing - Adapted
Screenplay
Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Tony Kushner, Lincoln
David Magee, Life of
Pi
David O. Russell, Silver
Linings Playbook
Chris Terrio, Argo
Winner: This one’s down to Argo, Lincoln, and SLP; between those three, I’ll say Argo because it’s likely to win Best
Picture. (Lincoln and SLP both had far superior dialogue, but
sadly, that’s kind of irrelevant.)
From here on out, I’m just guessing blindly, so I have no
real analysis.
Animated Feature Film
Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
The Pirates! Band of
Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph
Winner: I’ll say Brave,
but it could just as easily be Wreck-It
Ralph.
Cinematography
Anna Karenina
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall
Winner: But seriously, how stunning does Life of Pi look?
Costume Design
Anna Karenina
Les Miserables
Lincoln
Mirror Mirror
Snow White and the
Huntsman
Winner: According to fashion peeps, Anna Karenina is costume porn.
Documentary - Feature
5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a
Plague
The Invisible War
Searching for Sugar
Man
Winner: Searching for
Sugar Man was won pretty much everything this year.
Documentary - Short
"Inocente"
"Kings Point"
"Mondays at Racine"
"Open Heart"
"Redemption"
Winner: No idea. “Open Heart” sounds deep though.
Film Editing
Argo
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings
Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
Winner: Argo
Foreign Language Film
Amour (Austria)
Kon-Tiki (Norway)
No (Chile)
A Royal Affair
(Denmark)
War Witch (Canada)
Winner: Amour
Makeup And
Hairstyling
Hitchcock
The Hobbit: An
Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables
Winner: Les Miserables
Music - Original
Score
Mychael Danna, Life of
Pi
Alexandre Desplat, Argo
Dario Marianelli, Anna
Karenina
Thomas Newman, Skyfall
John Williams, Lincoln
Winner: Life of Pi
Music - Original Song
"Before My Time" from Chasing Ice, music and lyrics by J. Ralph
"Everybody Needs a Best Friend" from Ted, music by Walter Murphy, lyrics by
Seth MacFarlane
"Pi's Lullaby" from Life of Pi, music by Mychael Danna, lyrics by Bombay Jayashri
"Skyfall" from Skyfall,
music and lyrics by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
"Suddenly" from Les Miserables, music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert
Kretzmer and Alain Boublil
Winner: Skyfall
Production Design
Anna Karenina
The Hobbit: An
Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Winner: Life of Pi
Short Film - Animated
"Adam and Dog"
"Fresh Guacamole"
"Head over Heels"
"Maggie Simpson in 'The Longest Daycare'"
"Paperman"
Winner: “Paperman” is cute :]
Short Film - Live
Action
"Asad"
"Buzkashi Boys"
"Curfew"
"Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)"
"Henry"
Winner: No idea. But the Internet says “Curfew”.
Sound Editing
Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty
Winner: Argo
Sound Mixing
Argo
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall
Winner: Les Miserables
Visual Effects
The Hobbit: An
Unexpected Journey
Life of Pi
Marvel's The Avengers
Prometheus
Snow White and the
Huntsman
Winner: Life of Pi
Whooo, 20/24! Not bad at all, if I do say so myself :]
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