This year’s Academy Awards nominations send the most mixed signals. Since the awards for Best Picture and Director usually go hand in hand, Stephen Spielberg’s “Lincoln” looks to have the biggest chance of winning. Ben Affleck’s “Argo” has been winning awards left and right, so the pattern would suggest it would win the Oscar, but the lack of a Best Director nomination would take it out of the running. Then again, David O. Russell’s “Silver Linings Playbook” has received the most prestigious nominations for all of the acting awards and Best Adapted Screenplay gives it a fighting chance, too. This Oscar season is one of the most jumbled in recent memory. Some wins will be deserving, while others will be way off the mark.
Best Picture
- Will Win & Should Win: “Argo”
Best Director
- Will Win & Should Win: Stephen Spielberg for “Lincoln”
Best Actor in a Leading Role:
- Will Win & Should Win: Daniel Day-Lewis for “Lincoln”
Best Actress in a Leading Role:
- Will Win: Jennifer Lawrence for “Silver Linings Playbook”
- Should Win: Emmanuelle Riva for “Amour”
Best Actor in a Supporting Role:
- Will Win & Should Win: Philip Seymour Hoffman for “The Master”
Best Actress in a Supporting Role:
- Will Win & Should Win: Anne Hathaway for “Les Miserables”
Best Writing (Original Screenplay):
- Will Win: “Zero Dark Thirty“
- Should Win: “Django Unchained”/“Moonrise Kingdom”
Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay):
- Will Win & Should Win: “Argo”
Best Cinematography:
- Will Win: Claudio Mirando for “Life of Pi”
- Should Win: Seamus McGarvey for “Anna Karenina”/ Robert Richardson for “Django Unchained”
Best Editing:
- Will Win: “Argo”
- Should Win: “Argo”/“Lincoln”
Best Animated Feature Film:
- Will Win & Should Win: “Wreck-it Ralph”
Best Production Design:
- Will Win: “Anna Karenina”
- Should Win: “The Hobbit”
Best Costume Design:
- Will Win & Should Win: “Anna Karenina”
Best Visual Effects:
- Will Win: “Life of Pi”
- Should Win: “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
Most Snubbed Movies:
- “Moonrise Kingdom”
- “The Hobbit”
- “Django Unchained”
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Christian Vega • Mar 11, 2013 at 10:19 PM
The best moment in the Oscars was seeing Russel Crow singing awesome moment. Les Miserable should have been the best movie of the year award. All of the movies where great though the hobbit was full of adventure.
Op • Feb 24, 2013 at 4:14 PM
Best Picture:
Argo
Best Actor in a Leading Role:
Daniel Day-Lewis
Best Actress in a Leading Role:
Jessica Chastain
Best Director:
Steven Spielberg
Best Actor in a Supporting Role:
Christoph Waltz
Best Actress in a Supporting Role:
Anne Hathaway
Best Original Screenplay:
Django Unchained
Best Adapted Screenplay:
Silver Linings Playbook
Best Production Design:
Anna Karenina
Best Cinematography:
Life of Pi
Best Foreign Language Film:
Amour
Best Original Score:
Lincoln (John Williams)
Best Animated Feature:
Wreck-It Ralph
Best Costume Design:
Anna Karenina
Best Visual Effects:
Life of Pi
Best Original Song:
“Skyfall”
Best Film Editing:
Argo
Best Makeup and Hairstyling:
Les Misérables
Best Sound Editing:
Zero Dark Thirty
Best Sound Mixing:
Les Misérables
Best Documentary Feature:
Searching for Sugar Man
Best Documentary Short:
Open Heart
Best Animated Short:
Paperman
Best Live Action Short Film :
Curfew
Asiya • Feb 19, 2013 at 7:45 PM
I think that “Lincoln” would win because it was an amazing movie and Danial day Lewis acted superbly as Abraham Lincoln. The casting was really good as well. Then again “Les Miserables” was also a good movie with amazing casting and acting. So, I’m stuck on those two for winning the Oscars.
Rachel • Feb 19, 2013 at 7:20 PM
I pretty much agree with these predictions. My main problem will all the predictions in magazines or online is that they have “Silver Linings Playbook” as a serious contender for Best Picture and in all of the actor/actress categories. Personally, I think that films like “The Hobbit,” “Lincoln,” and “Les Miserables” truly deserve awards, as this article states. “Silver Linings” is just a chick flick that happened to do well in film festivals; I love Jennifer Lawrence, but she was a highlight of an otherwise cookie-cutter movie that is not Oscar-worthy at all.