The Academy will announce the nominations for the 85th annual Academy Awards tomorrow morning, January 10th, 2013. Since practically anyone can predict the major categories (Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress), I’m going to go all in and make my gutless predictions in every Oscar category save for the Shorts. While some categories were an easy guess, most category picks are the result of my ridiculous and borderline unhealthy obsession with award season. Anyway, without further ado... my predictions for the 85th annual Academy Awards. May the odds ever be in my favor!
BEST PICTURE
Amour
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
BEST DIRECTOR
Michael Haneke - Amour
Ben Affleck - Argo
Ang Lee - Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg - Lincoln
Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty
BEST ACTOR
Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln
Hugh Jackman - Les Miserables
Joaquin Phoenix - The Master
Denzel Washington - Flight
BEST ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
Marion Cotillard - Rust and Bone
Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva - Amour
Naomi Watts - The Impossible
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alan Arkin - Argo
Javier Bardem - Skyfall
Robert De Niro - Silver Lining Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master
Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams - The Master
Sally Field - Lincoln
Anne Hathaway - Les Miserables
Helen Hunt - The Sessions
Maggie Smith - The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Amour
Django Unchained
The Master
Moonrise Kingdom
Zero Dark Thirty
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
The Painting
Wreck-it-Ralph
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a Plague
The Imposter
The Invisible War
Searching for Sugar Man
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Amour - Austria
The Intouchables - France
Kon-Tiki - Norway
No - Chile
A Royal Affair - Denmark
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Anna Karenina
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Anna Karenina
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Lincoln
Mirror Mirror
BEST EDITING
Argo
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty
BEST MAKEUP
The Hobbit
Lincoln
Men in Black 3
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Anna Karenina
Argo
Cloud Atlas
Life of Pi
Lincoln
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Skyfall
Brave
Les Miserables
Django Unchained
Some random-ass song
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Anna Karenina
Cloud Atlas
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Lincoln
BEST SOUND EDITING
The Avengers
The Dark Knight Rises
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Skyfall
BEST SOUND MIXING
The Dark Knight Rises
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Avengers
The Dark Knight Rises
The Hobbit
Life of Pi
Prometheus
PREDICTED TALLY
Lincoln - 12
Life of Pi - 9
Les Miserables - 8
Django Unchained - 7
Argo - 6
Zero Dark Thirty - 6
Silver Linings Playbook - 5
Amour - 5
Skyfall - 5
The Master - 4
Anna Karenina - 4
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