Last Minute Oscars

Well…here are some extremely last minute Oscar predictions and, when I say ‘last minute,’ I mean that it’s 8:08 PM and the Oscars start in twenty minutes.  I guess that’s the upside to having a blog, right?  I have no editors, no deadlines, and….I don’t get paid. So…

BEST PICTURE – ‘Argo’ (Runner Up: ‘Lincoln’)

BEST LEAD ACTOR – Daniel Day-Lewis, ‘Lincoln’

BEST LEAD ACTRESS – Jennifer Lawrence, ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ (Runner Up: Emmanuelle Riva, Jessica Chastain )

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – Tommy Lee Jones (Runner-Ups:  Christoph Waltz)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – Anne Hatheway

 BEST DIRECTOR – Steven Spielberg, ‘Lincoln’ (Runner Up: David O. Russell, ‘Silver Lining’s Playbook’, Michael Haneke, ‘Amour’

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY – ‘Amour’ (Runner Up: ‘Django Unchained’)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY – ‘Lincoln,’ (Runner Up: ‘Argo’)

BEST ANIMATED FILM  - Wreck-It-Ralph (Runner Up: Frankenweenie)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Amour

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Life of Pi

BEST EDITING – Argo

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – Les Miserables (Runner Up: Lincoln)

BEST MAKEUP/HAIR – ‘The Hobbit’

BEST COSTUME – ‘Lincoln’, (Runner Up: Les Miserables)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE – ‘Life of Pi’ (Runner Up: Lincoln’)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG – ‘Skyfall,’ Adele

BEST SOUND MIXING – ‘Life of Pi’

BEST SOUND EDITING – ‘Skyfall’ (Runner Up: ‘Django Unchained’ )

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS – ‘The Hobbit’ (Runner Up: Life of Pi, The Avengers)

BEST DOCUMENTARY – ‘Searching for Sugar Man’

OSCAR PREDICTIONS 2013

OSCAR PREDICTIONS 2013

With a breath of unkempt tension followed by a potent exhale that bordered more accurately on an exclamation, I mustered up energy earlier today to yell ‘Oh shit, the Academy Awards are announced TOMORROW?!’  And so I proceed with my last minute, yet not-too-loosely mused Academy Award Nomination…Predictions.  Due to time restraint, my predictions state the films themselves rather than the individual artists

It’s a carnival of maniacally talented people this year.

(This is the first set of nominations)

BEST PICTURE

Zero Dark Thirty

Lincoln

Argo

Django Unchained

Life of Pi

Silver Linings Playbook

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Les Miserables

The Master

Moonrise Kingdom

SHOULD BE INCLUDED: ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

BEST DIRECTOR

Ben Affleck, ‘Argo’

Kathryn Bigelow, ‘Zero Dark Thirty’

Steven Spielberg , ‘Lincoln’

Ang Lee, ‘Life of Pi’

David O. Russell, ‘Silver Linings Playbook’

SHOULD BE INCLUDED:

Paul Thomas Anderson, ‘The Master’

Christopher Nolan, ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained

BEST LEAD ACTOR

Daniel-Day Lewis, ‘Lincoln’

Denzel Washington, ‘Flight’

Joaquin Phoenix, ‘The Master’

John Hawkes, ‘The Sessions’

Hugh Jackman, ‘Les Miserables’

BEST LEAD ACTRESS

Jennifer Lawrence, ‘Silver Linings Playbook’

Jessica Chastain, ‘Zero Dark Thirty’

Quvenzhane Wallis, ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’

Naomi Watts, ‘The Impossible’

Marion Cotillard, ‘Rust and Bone’

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Tommy Lee Jones, ‘Lincoln’

Phillip Seymour Hoffman, ‘The Master’

Robert DeNiro, ‘Silver Linings Playbook’

Alan Arkin, ‘Argo’

Leonardo DiCaprio, ‘Django Unchained’

SHOULD BE INCLUDED:

Samuel  L. Jackson, ‘Django Unchained’

Christoph Waltz, ‘Django Unchained’

Tom Hardy, 'Lawless'

Javier Bardem, ‘Skyfall’

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Amy Adams, ‘The Master’

Sally Field, ‘Lincoln’

Helen Hunt, ‘The Sessions’

Anne Hathaway, ‘Les Miserables’

Maggie Smith, ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

‘The Master’

‘Django Unchained’

‘Looper’

‘Moonrise Kingdom’

‘Zero Dark Thirty’

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

‘Argo’

‘Lincoln’

‘Life of Pi’

‘Silver Linings Playbook’

‘Perks of Being a Wallflower’

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

‘Life of Pi’

 ‘The Master’

‘Skyfall’

‘Zero Dark Thirty’

‘The Dark Knight Rises’

SHOULD BE INCLUDED : Django Unchained’

BEST FILM EDITING

‘Argo’

‘Zero Dark Thirty’

‘Life of Pi’

‘Lincoln’

‘The Master’

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

‘Lincoln’

 ‘Django Unchained’

‘Anna Karenina’

‘Les Miserables’

‘Mirror Mirror’

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

‘Lincoln’

‘Django Unchained’

 ‘Les Miserables’

‘Anna Karenina’

‘Prometheus’

‘The Master’

BEST MAKEUP

‘Lincoln’

 ‘Men in Black 3’

‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey