Well, it's that time of the year again where the Academy gets together to honor the most inoffensive underwhelming films of the year and give tangential recognition to the things that are kind of out there but not too out there Mr. Paul Thomas Anderson! As such, I sit down the day before the big ceremony to make my final predictions. Even the categories no one seems to care about. Go behind the politics, behind the machine, put all my analytic credibility on the line for a bunch of little statues. As usual, I have ranked the nominees in each category from most likely to win to least likely. So who will win? Lets find out!
Best Picture
1. Argo
2. Lincoln
3. Silver Linings Playbook
4. Life of Pi
5. Amour
6. Beasts of the Southern Wild
7. Django Unchained
8. Zero Dark Thirty
9. Les Miserables
Director
1. Lincoln
2. Life of Pi
3. Amour
4. Silver Linings Playbook
5. Beasts of the Southern Wild
Actress
1. Emmanuelle Riva - Amour
2. Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook
3. Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
4. Naomi Watts - The Impossible
5. Quvenzhane Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild
Actor
1. Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln
2. Hugh Jackman - Les Miserables
3. Joaquin Phoenix - The Master
4. Denzel Washington - Flight
5. Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook
Supporting Actress
1. Anne Hathaway - Les Miserables
2. Sally Field - Lincoln
3. Jacki Weaver - Silver Linings Playbook
4. Helen Hunt - The Sessions
5. Amy Adams - The Master
Supporting Actor
1. Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln
2. Robert De Niro - Silver Linings Playbook
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master
4. Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained
5. Alan Arkin - Argo
Original Screenplay
1. Zero Dark Thirty
2. Amour
3. Django Unchained
4. Moonrise Kingdom
5. Flight
Adapted Screenplay
1. Argo
2. Lincoln
3. Silver Linings Playbook
4. Life of Pi
5. Beasts of the Southern Wild
Animated Feature
1. Brave
2. Wreck-It Ralph
3. ParaNorman
4. Frankenweenie
5. The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Foreign Language Film
1. Amour
2. Kon-Tiki
3. No
4. A Royal Affair
5. War Witch
Cinematography
1. Life of Pi
2. Skyfall
3. Lincoln
4. Django Unchained
5. Anna Karenina
Film Editing
1. Argo
2. Zero Dark Thirty
3. Life of Pi
4. Lincoln
5. Silver Linings Playbook
Costume Design
1. Anna Karenina
2. Les Miserables
3. Lincoln
4. Mirror Mirror
5. Snow White and the Huntsman
Make Up and Hairstyling
1. Les Miserables
2. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
3. Hitchcock
Original Score
1. Life of Pi
2. Argo
3. Lincoln
4. Skyfall
5. Anna Karenina
Original Song
1. "Skyfall" - Skyfall
2. "Suddenly" - Les Miserables
3. "Before My Time" - Chasing Ice
4. "Pi's Lullaby" - Life of Pi
5. "Everybody Needs A Best Friend" - Ted
Production Design
1. Anna Karenina
2. Life of Pi
3. Les Miserables
4. Lincoln
5. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Visual Effects
1. Life of Pi
2. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
3. Snow White and the Huntsman
4. Marvel's The Avengers
5. Prometheus
Sound Editing
1. Zero Dark Thirty
5. Life of Pi
3. Argo
4. Skyfall
5. Django Unchained
Sound Mixing
1. Les Miserables
2. Life of Pi
3. Argo
4. Skyfall
5. Lincoln
Animated Short Film
1. "Paperman"
2. "Adam and Dog"
3. "Maggie Simpson in 'The Longest Daycare'"
4. "Fresh Guacamole"
5. "Head Over Heels"
Live Action Short Film
1. "Curfew"
2. "Buzkashi Boys"
3. "Asad"
4. "Henry"
5. "Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)"
Documentary Short
1. "Mondays at Racine"
2. "Inocente"
3. "Open Heart"
4. "Kings Point"
5. "Redemption"
Documentary Feature
1. Searching for Sugar Man
2. The Gatekeepers
3. The Invisible War
4. How to Survive a Plague
5. 5 Broken Cameras
There we have it! Who do you think is going to win? Who should win (the answer to this is not the films that I have winning in most categories)? Are the Golden Globes a good way to predict what will happen?
Let me know below in comments!
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