Oscar Predictions... and Results

BOLD = my picks
Italics = when I think my hope for pick is wrong, who I think will actually take it.
winners are in red


BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR
Amour

Argo

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

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook

Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln

Hugh Jackman - Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix - The Master
Denzel Washington - Flight

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty

Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook

Emmanuelle Riva - Amour
Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts - The Impossible

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN 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 PERFORMANCE BY AN 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

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING
Michael Haneke - Amour

Ang Lee - Life of Pi

David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook
Steven Spielberg - Lincoln
Benh Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild

BEST WRITING, SCREENPLAY WRITTEN DIRECTLY FOR THE SCREEN
Amour

Django Unchained

Flight
Moonrise Kingdom
Zero Dark Thirty

BEST WRITING, SCREENPLAY BASED ON MATERIAL PREVIOUSLY PRODUCED OR PUBLISHED

Argo

Beasts of the Southern Wild
Life of Pi Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM OF THE YEAR

Brave

Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph
*I loved all of these, Brave is my 2nd pick

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR

Amour

War Witch
No
A Royal Affair
Kon-Tiki
*no opinion - obviously Canadian film biased.

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
Anna Karenina
Django Unchained
Life of Pi Lincoln
Skyfall

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING

Argo

Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION DESIGN
Anna Karenina
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN

Anna Karenina

Les Misérables
Lincoln
Mirror Mirror
Snow White and the Huntsman

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Hitchcock
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Les Misérables

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURES, ORIGINAL SCORE
Anna Karenina
Argo
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall
*no opinion

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURES, ORIGINAL SONG
“Before My Time” - Chasing Ice
“Suddenly” - Les Misérables
“Pi’s Lullaby” - Life of Pi
“Skyfall” - Skyfall
“Everybody Needs a Best Friend” - Ted

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING
Argo
Les Misérables
Life of Pi Lincoln
Skyfall

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING
Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi

Skyfall

Zero Dark Thirty
*tie

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS
The Avengers
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Life of Pi
Prometheus
Snow White and the Huntsman

BEST DOCUMENTARY, FEATURES
5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a Plague
The Invisible War

Searching for Sugar Man

*no opinion

BEST DOCUMENTARY, SHORT SUBJECTS

Inocente

Kings Point
Mondays at Racine
Open Heart
Redemption
*no opinion

BEST SHORT FILM, ANIMATED
Adam and Dog
Fresh Guacamole
Head Over Heels

Paperman

The Simpsons: The Longest Daycare

BEST SHORT FILM, LIVE ACTION
Asad
Buzkashi Boys

Curfew

Death of a Shadow
Henry
*no opinion