2013 Oscar nominees and predicted winners: Music and writing categories (Video)

Best Adapted Screenplay
Argo: Written by Chris Terrio (Pred. win by IndieWire)
Beasts of the Southern Wild: Screenplay by Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin
Life of Pi: Written by David Magee
Lincoln: Written by Tony Kushner (Pred. win by Grantland)
Silver Linings Playbook: Written by David O. Russell (Pred. win by ZAP2it)

Best Original Screenplay
Amour: Written by Michael Haneke (Pred. win by Grantland & ZAP2it)
Django Unchained: Written by Quentin Tarantino (Pred. win by IndieWire)
Flight: Written by John Gatins
Moonrise Kingdom: Written by Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
Zero Dark Thirty: Written by Mark Boal

Music - Original Score
Anna Karenina: Dario Marianelli
Argo: ALexandre Desplat
Life of Pi: Mychael Danna (Pred. win by Grantland, IndieWire & ZAP2it)
Lincoln: John Williams
Skyfall: Thomas Newman

Music - 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 (Pred. win by Grantland, Indiewire and ZAP2it)
"Suddenly" from Les Misérables: Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil (Pred. win by MTV)

Sound Editing
Argo: Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn
Django Unchained: Wylie Stateman
Life of Pi: Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton (Pred. win by IndieWire)
Skyfall: Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers (Pred. win by Grantland and ZAP2it)
Zero Dark Thirty: Paul N.J. Ottosson

Sound Mixing
Argo: John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia
Les Misérables: Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes (Pred. win by Grantland, IndieWire and ZAP2it)
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

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