2013 Oscars Predictions

[violet_crown]

The 85th Academy Awards will air this Sunday on February 24th. I thought some prognosticating was in order, and made this scorecard for your nominee selections in the major categories. Feel free to explain your picks.

Best Picture

• Amour
• Argo
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Django Unchained
• Les Misérables
• Life of Pi, Lincoln
• Silver Linings Playbook
• Zero Dark Thirty

Best Director

• Michael Haneke (Amour)
• Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
• Ang Lee (Life of Pi)
• David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)
• Steven Spielberg (Lincoln)

Best Actor

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

Best 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)

Best Actress

• Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)
• Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)
• Emmanuelle Riva (Amour)
• Quvenzhané Wallis (Beast of the Southern Wild)
• Naomi Watts (The Impossible)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Amy Adams (The Master)
• Sally Field (Lincoln)
• Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables)
• Helen Hunt (The Sessions)
• Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook)

 

[EffEmDoubleyou]

I'll just copy/paste from the Oscar pool I'm in:

Best Picture: Lincoln
Best Director: Steven Spielberg for Lincoln
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln
Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook
Best Supporting Actor: Robert De Niro for Silver Linings Playbook
Best Supporting Actress: Jacki Weaver for Silver Linings Playbook
Best Original Screenplay: Zero Dark Thirty: Mark Boal
Best Adapted Screenplay: Lincoln: Tony Kushner
Best Animated Feature Film: Wreck-It Ralph: Rich Moore
Best Foreign Language Film: Amour (Austria)
Cinematography: Skyfall: Roger Deakins
Editing: Zero Dark Thirty: William Goldenberg, Dylan Tichenor
Production Design: Les Misérables: Eve Stewart, Anna Lynch-Robinson
Costume Design: Les Misérables: Paco Delgado
Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Les Misérables: Lisa Westcott, Julie Dartnell
Original Score: Life of Pi: Mychael Danna
Original Song: Skyfall: Adele, Paul Epworth ("Skyfall")
Best Sound Mixing: Les Misérables: Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Simon Hayes
Best Sound Editing: Zero Dark Thirty: Paul N.J. Ottosson
Best Visual Effects: Life of Pi: Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik De Boer, Donald Elliott
Best Documentary Feature: Searching for Sugar Man: To Be Determined
Best Documentary Short: Redemption: Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill
Best Animated Short: Fresh Guacamole: PES
Best Live Action Short: Buzkashi Boys: Sam French, Ariel Nasr

 

[The Ü™]

The Avengers should win for Best Visual Effects, but Life of Pi will take it because it's got major nominations.

I don't think Argo will take Best Picture because it didn't get nominated for Best Director.

And why did Thomas Newman get nominated for his score in Skyfall? The score for that film was every bit as generic as anything by Hans Zimmer.

 

[Southern Kross]

Best Picture: Argo
Best Director: Steven Spielberg for Lincoln
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln
Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook
Best Supporting Actor: Tommy Lee Jones for Lincoln
Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway for Les Miserables
Best Original Screenplay: Mark Boal for Zero Dark Thirty
Best Adapted Screenplay: Tony Kushner for Lincoln
Best Animated Feature Film: Brave
Best Foreign Language Film: Amour
Cinematography: Cloudio Miranda for Life of Pi
Film Editing: Argo
Production Design: Anna Karenina
Costume Design: Anna Karenina
Best Makeup and Hairstyling: The Hobbit
Original Score: Life of Pi
Original Song: Adele, Paul Epworth - "Skyfall" for Skyfall
Best Sound Mixing: Les Misérables
Best Sound Editing: Zero Dark Thirty
Best Visual Effects: Life of Pi
Best Documentary Feature: Searching for Sugarman
Best Documentary Short: Inocente
Best Animated Short: Paperman
Best Live Action Short: Asad

 

[Orangey]

I really want Lincoln to get shat on. Fuck that film, seriously. Pretentious, boring twaddle. I'd rather see Les Mis win best picture, because then at least we'll all know the whole thing's a joke.

 

[Totenkindly]

I really want Lincoln to get shat on. Fuck that film, seriously. Pretentious, boring twaddle. I'd rather see Les Mis win best picture, because then at least we'll all know the whole thing's a joke.

I'm kind of in agreement.

Marketing and movie promotion, release time, topical matter, and the like all has more bearing on the outcome than the movie itself, it seems.

And any votes I'd make here would simply reflect what I thought would win, not necessarily which I thought was better.

 

[EffEmDoubleyou]

It's amazing how much opinion can differ among reasonable people. Lincoln wasn't my favorite film of the year, but I was riveted and I would find it an entirely deserving Best Picture winner.

 

[The Ü™]

The filmmakers of Beasts of the Southern Wild looked about as poor as the film's characters. They didn't look like they could afford an HD camera or even a tripod.

And it is very ironic that the actors in The Avengers didn't present the award for Best Visual Effects to the film they starred in.

 

[violet_crown]

Yay Christoph Waltz!!!!

 

[The Ü™]

The Geico caveman won an Oscar for Best Documentary Short.

 

[The Ü™]

And Seth MacFarlane is the funniest Oscar host ever. I laughed at least twice.

 

[The Ü™]

The Gatekeepers? Why wasn't The Keymasters nominated?

And the title How to Survive a Plague sounds like a zombie movie spoof.

 

[The Ü™]

Amour is gonna win Best Foreign Film...

 

[The Ü™]

...because it's secretly French and not Austrian.

 

[The Ü™]

Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway perform Les Miserables. Time for a bathroom break.

 

[The Ü™]

A tie?

 

[The Ü™]

Barbra Streisand looks like she belongs in the In Memoriam slideshow.

 

[Poindexter Arachnid]

Barbra Streisand looks like she belongs in the In Memoriam slideshow.

Ha.

This is one of the worst Oscar shows of all time. It is painfully boring with no rhythm.
Drop the goddamn goofy music montages and dance numbers and just announce the winners already.

And fuck Seth McFarlane.

Christ.

 

[The Ü™]

Ha.

This is one of the worst Oscar shows of all time. It is painfully boring with no rhythm.
Drop the goddamn goofy music montages and dance numbers and just announce the winners already.

And fuck Seth McFarlane.

Christ.

I loved how at the beginning he managed to legitimately offend some of the audience.

 

[The Ü™]

This Tim Burton Samsung Galaxy commercial is a highlight worth mentioning.