Here are some last minute predictions before the 2013 Oscar nominees are announced. Film Blerg will even do a point system based on how accurate we are. A few years ago, we managed to pick 88% correctly. Not all categories have been mentioned, and frankly, with all of the precursor awards happening, it isn’t too difficult to make predictions these days. Let’s hope the Academy throws a few curve balls in there (all long as it’s not Trouble with the Curve balls!)
Best Film (number of films nominated can be anywhere from 5-10)
- Argo
- Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Django Unchained
- Les Miserables
- Life of Pi
- Lincoln
- The Master
- Silver Linings Playbook
- Skyfall
- Zero Dark Thirty
Best Director
- Ben Affleck, Argo
- Tom Hooper, Les Miserables
- Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
- Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master
- Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
- (Alt: Ang Lee, Life of Pi)
Best Actor
- Denzel Washington, Flight
- Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables
- Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
- John Hawkes, The Sessions
- Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
- (Alt: Joaquin Phoenix, The Master)
Best Actress
- Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
- Helen Mirren, Hitchcock
- Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
- Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
- Naomi Watts, The Impossible
- (alt: Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone)
Best Supporting Actor
- Alan Arkin, Argo
- Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
- Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
- Javier Bardem, Skyfall
- (Alt: Leonardo DiCaprio, Django Unchained)
Supporting Actress
- Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
- Sally Field, Lincoln
- Amy Adams, The Master
- Nicole Kidman, The Paperboy
- Helen Hunt, The Sessions
- (alt: Ann Dowd, Compliance)
Original Screenplay
- Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
- Rian Johnson, Looper
- Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master
- Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Moonrise Kingdom
- Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty
- (Alt: Michael Haneke, Amour)
Adapted Screenplay
- Chris Terrio, Argo
- Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
- David Magee, Life of Pi
- Tony Kusner, Lincoln
- David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
- (Alt: Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
Best Foreign
- Amour
- The Hunt
- The Intouchables
- Kon-Tiki
- A Royal Affair
- (Alt: Rust and Bone)
Best Animated (unsure of how many films can be nominated here)
- Brave
- Frankenweenie
- ParaNorman
- Rise of the Guardians
- Wreck-It-Ralph
Best Documentary
- Central Park Five
- How to Survive a Plague
- The Invisible War
- Searching for Sugar-Man
- West of Memphis
- (Alt: The Imposter)
