Last Minute Oscar Predictions
Well, it’s about two hours away from the show and I thought I’d finally post something about the Oscars.
If I were a braver man, I’d go all in for Amour and have Alan Arkin winning his second Oscar while riding the Argo wave. After all, 2012 feels a lot like 2002, when Roman Polanski’s The Pianist won more awards than anyone was expecting. But being this being the most unpredictable Oscar year in my lifetime, it’s always good to remember William Goldman’s famous quote about the industry, “Nobody knows anything.”
Category | Predicted Winner | Gut Feeling | Actual |
Best Picture | Argo | Argo | |
Best Actress | Jennifer Lawrence | Emmanuelle Riva | Jennifer Lawrence |
Best Actor | Daniel Day-Lewis | Daniel Day-Lewis | |
Best Supporting Actor | Tommy Lee Jones | Alan Arkin | Christoph Waltz |
Best Supporting Actress | Anne Hathaway | Anne Hathaway | |
Best Director | Steven Spielberg | Micheal Hanake | Ang Lee |
Best Adapted Screenplay | Argo | Argo | |
Best Original Screenplay | Django Unchained | Amour | Django |
Best Animated Feature | Brave | Brave | |
Best Foreign Language Film | Amour | Amour | |
Best Film Editing | Argo | Argo | |
Best Costume Design | Anna Karenina | Anna Karenina | |
Best Cinematography | Life of Pi | Life of Pi | |
Best Makeup | Les Miserables | Les Miserables | |
Best Production Design | Life of Pi | Lincoln | |
Best Visual Effects | Life of Pi | Life of Pi | |
Best Sound Mixing | Les Miserables | Les Miserables | |
Best Sound Editing | Skyfall | TIE: Skyfall & Zero Dark Thirty | |
Best Original Score | Life of Pi | Life of Pi | |
Best Original Song | Skyfall | Skyfall | |
Best Documentary Feature | Searching for Sugarman | Searching for Sugarman | |
Best Documentary Short | Inocente | Inocente | |
Best Live Action Short | Death of a Shadow | Curfew | |
Best Animated Short | Paperman | Paperman |