The Almost Oscar Nominations Predictions

Best Picture (Up to ten nominees; I see seven nominees, ranked in order of likelihood of being nominated)

1.       Zero Dark Thirty

2.       Lincoln

3.       Argo

4.       Les Miserables

5.       Silver Linings Playbook

6.       Life of Pi

7.       The Master

8.       Moonrise Kingdom

9.       Amour

10.   Django Unchained

Best Director

·         Ben Affleck, Argo

·         Ang Lee, Life of Pi

·         Steven Spielberg, Lincoln

·         David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook

·         Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty

·         Alternate: Tom Hooper, Les Miserables

Best Actor

·         Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook

·         Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln

·         Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables

·         Joaquin Phoenix, The Master

·         Denzel Washington, Flight

·         Alternate: John Hawkes, The Sessions

Best Actress

·         Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty

·         Marion Cotillard, Rust & Bone

·         Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook

·         Emannuelle Riva, Amour

·         Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild

·         Alternate: Naomi Watts, The Impossible

Best Supporting Actor

·         Alan Arkin, Argo

·         Javier Bardem, Skyfall

·         Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook

·         Dwight Henry, Beasts of the Southern Wild

·         Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln

·         Alternate: Phillip Seymour Hoffman, The Master

Best Supporting Actress

·         Amy Adams, The Master

·         Sally Field, Lincoln

·         Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables

·         Helen Hunt, The Sessions

·         Nicole Kidman, The Paperboy

·         Alternate: Ann Dowd, Compliance

Best Original Screenplay

·         Michael Haneke, Amour

·         Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained

·         John Gatins, Flight

·         Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola, Moonrise Kingdom

·         Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty

·         Alternate: Rian Johnson, Looper

Best Adapted Screenplay

·         Chris Terrio, Argo

·         Benh Zeitlin & Lucy Alibar, Beasts of the Southern Wild

·         Tony Kushner, Lincoln

·         Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

·         David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook

·         Alternate: David Magee, Life of Pi

Best Editing

·         Argo

·         Django Unchained

·         Life of Pi

·         Lincoln

·         Zero Dark Thirty

Best Cinematography

·         Les Miserables

·         Life of Pi

·         Lincoln

·         The Master

·         Skyfall

Best Art Direction

·         Anna Karenina

·         Cloud Atlas

·         Les Miserables

·         Life of Pi

·         Lincoln

Best Sound Mixing

·         Django Unchained

·         The Hobbit

·         Les Miserables

·         Skyfall

·         Zero Dark Thirty

Best Sound Editing

·         Argo

·         Django Unchained

·         Les Miserables

·         Skyfall

·         Zero Dark Thirty

Best Costume Design

·         Anna Karenina

·         Cloud Atlas

·         Django Unchained

·         Les Miserables

·         Lincoln

Best Original Score

·         Argo

·         Beasts of the Southern Wild

·         Cloud Atlas

·         Life of Pi

·         Lincoln

Foreign Language Film

·         After Lucia

·         Amour

·         The Intouchables

·         No

·         A Royal Affair

Documentary Feature

·         Bully

·         The Gatekeepers

·         How to Survive a Plague

·         The Invisible War

·         Searching for Sugarman

Best Animated Feature (* - nominees if only three)

·         Brave*

·         Frankenweenie*

·         Hotel Transylvania

·         Paranorman*

·         Wreck It Ralph

Best Visual Effects

·         The Avengers

·         Cloud Atlas

·         The Dark Knight Rises

·         The Hobbit

·         Life of Pi

Best Makeup

·         The Hobbit

·         Les Miserables

·         Lincoln

Best Original Song

·         “Skyfall”, Skyfall by Adele

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