With The Academy Awards airing on ABC this Sunday, it's time that I post my picks for who I think will win their respective categories. At the end of each category, I will make my pick. Some will just include my pick while others will feature a bit of my thought process for why I chose a particular film/actor/actress.
Here we go...
BEST PICTURE
Amour
*Argo
Beasts of the Southern
Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of
Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark
Thirty
*I was going to pick
Lincoln to win, but with
Argo snagging the Golden Globe for best picture and the SAG award for the best performance by a cast in a motion picutre, I'm going to pick it to win the Oscar for Best Picture.
BEST ACTOR
Bradley Cooper,
Silver
Linings Playbook
*Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Hugh Jackman,
Les
Miserables
Joaquin Phoenix,
The Master
Denzel Washington,
Flight
*
Daniel Day-Lewis all the way. If anyone can upset him on Sunday, it'll be Hugh Jackman, but the chances of that happening are slim.
BEST ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain,
Zero
Dark Thirty
*Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings
Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva,
Amour
Naomi Watts,
The
Impossible
Quvenzhané Wallis,
Beasts of the Southern
Wild
*As much as I loved Wallis' performance as Hushpuppy, I see the award going to
Jennifer Lawrence for
Silver Linings Playbook.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alan Arkin,
Argo
Robert DeNiro,
Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour
Hoffman,
The Master
*Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Christoph
Waltz,
Django Unchained
*This was a tough one because I can see either Christoph Waltz or Tommy Lee Jones winning. Waltz won the Golden Globe while Jones took home the SAG award (Waltz wasn't nominated). *coin toss* I'm going to predict that
Tommy Lee Jones will win the Oscar this Sunday, but if Waltz wins, I won't be surprised.
BEST SUPPORTING
ACTRESS
Amy Adams,
The Master
Sally Field,
Lincoln
*Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Helen Hunt,
The
Sessions
Jacki Weaver,
Silver Linings
Playbook
*
Anne Hathaway will hear her name called as the winner. After her speech at the Golden Globes, I'm definitely not looking forward to her Oscar speech, though. Might have to hit the mute button.
BEST DIRECTOR
Michael Haneke,
Amour
Ang Lee,
Life of Pi
David O. Russell,
Silver
Linings Playbook
*Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Benh Zeitlin,
Beasts of the Southern Wild
*
Lincoln won't win Best Picture, but I see
Steven Spielberg taking home the Oscar for Best Director.
BEST ORIGINAL
SCREENPLAY
Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola,
Moonrise
Kingdom
Mark Boal,
Zero Dark Thirty
John Gatins,
Flight
Michael Haneke,
Amour
Quentin Tarantino,
Django
Unchained
*I would like to see Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola win for
Moonrise Kingdom, but it'll be
Quentin Tarantino taking home the Oscar for
Django Unchained.
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Lucy Alibar and
Benh Zeitlin,
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Tony Kushner,
Lincoln
David Magee,
Life of Pi
David O. Russell,
Silver Linings Playbook
*Chris Terrio, Argo
*
Argo wins another Oscar.
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
FILM
*Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
The
Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph
*While I think
Brave will win, I have a feeling that two other animated films on the list have a chance,
ParaNorman and
Wreck-It Ralph.
BEST
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Anna Karenina, Seamus McGarvey
Django
Unchained, Robert Richardson
*Life of Pi, Claudio Miranda
Lincoln, Janusz Kaminski
Skyfall, Roger
Deakins
*
Life of Pi takes it.
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
*Anna Karenina, Jacqueline
Durran
Les Misérables, Paco Delgado
Lincoln, Joanna
Johnston
Mirror Mirror, Eiko Ishioka
Snow White and the
Huntsman, Colleen Atwood
*
Anna Karenina gets the Oscar.
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a
Plague
The Invisible War
*Searching for Sugar
Man
*All of the documentaries nominated this year were fantastic (haven't had the chance to see
The Gatekeepers yet) and as much as I would like to see
5 Broken Cameras win, I predict that the Oscar will go to
Searching for Sugar Man.
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
*Inocente, Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine
Kings Point,
Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider
Mondays at Racine, Cynthia Wade and Robin
Honan
Open Heart, Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern
Redemption, Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill
*Have yet to see any of these, but from what I've read, people are picking
Inocente to win, so I'm going to do the same.
BEST FILM
EDITING
*Argo, William Goldenberg
Life of Pi, Tim
Squyres
Lincoln, Michael Kahn
Silver Linings Playbook, Jay
Cassidy and Crispin Struthers
Zero Dark Thirty, Dylan Tichenor and
William Goldenberg
*Having a tough time choosing between
Argo and
Zero Dark Thirty. Um....I'm going with.....
Argo.
BEST FOREIGN FILM
*Amour,
Austria
Kon-Tiki, Norway
No, Chile
A Royal
Affair, Denmark
War Witch, Canada
*
Amour takes it, easily.
BEST MAKEUP AND
HAIRSTYLING
Hitchcock, Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin
Samuel
*The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Peter Swords King, Rick
Findlater and Tami Lane
Les Misérables, Lisa Westcott and Julie
Dartnell
*I say the Oscar goes to
The Hobbit.
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Anna Karenina, Dario
Marianelli
Argo, Alexandre Desplat
*Life of Pi, Mychael
Danna
Lincoln, John Williams
Skyfall, Thomas
Newman
*
Life of Pi won the Golden Globe, so I'm going to pick it to win the Oscar.
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Before My Time from
Chasing
Ice, Music and Lyric by J. Ralph
Everybody Needs A Best Friend
from
Ted, Music by Walter Murphy; Lyric by Seth MacFarlane
Pi's
Lullaby from
Life of Pi, Music by Mychael Danna; Lyric by Bombay
Jayashri
*Skyfall from Skyfall, Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins
and Paul Epworth
Suddenly from
Les Misérables, Music by
Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil
*With Adele winning the Golden Globe for Best Song, she's my favorite to win the Oscar for her song
Skyfall from the latest James Bond film
Skyfall.
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
*Anna Karenina, Production
Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
The Hobbit: An
Unexpected Journey, Production Design: Dan Hennah; Set Decoration: Ra
Vincent and Simon Bright
Les Misérables, Production Design: Eve
Stewart; Set Decoration: Anna Lynch-Robinson
Life of Pi, Production
Design: David Gropman; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
Lincoln,
Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson
*
Anna Karenina will win.
BEST
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Adam and Dog, Minkyu Lee
Fresh
Guacamole, PES
Head over Heels, Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin
O'Reilly
Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare, David Silverman
*Paperman, John Kahrs
*I'm glad I saw
Wreck-It Ralph in the theater because
Paperman was shown before and because of how much I loved it, I say it'll win the Oscar on Sunday.
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT
FILM
Asad, Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura
Buzkashi
Boys, Sam French and Ariel Nasr
*Curfew, Shawn Christensen
Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw), Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen
De Waele
Henry, Yan England
*
Curfew gets an Oscar.
BEST SOUND
EDITING
Argo, Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn
Django
Unchained, Wylie Stateman
Life of Pi, Eugene Gearty and Philip
Stockton
Skyfall, Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers
*Zero
Dark Thirty, Paul N.J. Ottosson
*On this one, I'm going with
Zero Dark Thirty.
BEST SOUND
MIXING
Argo, John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia
Les Misérables, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes
*Life of Pi, Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin
Lincoln, Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins
Skyfall, Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart
Wilson
*Another Oscar for
Life of Pi.
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Hobbit: An Unexpected
Journey, Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher
White
*Life of Pi, Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De
Boer and Donald R. Elliott
Marvel's The Avengers, Janek Sirrs, Jeff
White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick
Prometheus, Richard Stammers,
Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill
Snow White and the
Huntsman, Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael
Dawson
*Giving this one to
Life of Pi.
