Predictions isn’t really the right word. This is how we would vote, if we got a vote, based on everything we’ve watched leading up to tonight. This isn’t about who we think will win, but rather who we think should win. After all, we all know that the statue rarely goes to the right person, right?
This year we managed to see just about everything. The only category where we’re flying mostly blind is Documentary Short. We blame HBO. Make the damn things available on iTunes guys! We’ll gladly buy them and watch them.
Anything marked with an [A] is my pick, anything marked with [J] is my wife’s pick. To see how we did last year click here. For our 2011 picks, click here. I honestly forget who won each year (which probably means she did), but you could tally up the votes if you really wanted to and laugh in our faces, well at least our digital ones.
Comment below and let us know who you’re pulling for tonight!
BEST PICTURE
Amour
Argo [A], [J]
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook [J]
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln [A]
Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Denzel Washington, Flight
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour [A], [J]
Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts, The Impossible
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Alan Arkin, Argo
Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln [A]
Christop Waltz, Django Unchained [J]
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Amy Adams, The Master
Sally Field, Lincoln
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables [A]
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook [J]
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Brave [A], [J]
Frankenweenie
ParanNorman
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Anna Karenina
Django Unchained
Life of Pi [A], [J]
Lincoln
Skyfall
COSTUME DESIGN
Anna Karenina [A]
Les Miserables [J]
Lincoln
Mirror Mirror
Snow White and the Huntsman
DIRECTING
Michael Haneke, Amour [A]
Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook [J]
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a Plague [A]
The Invisible War [J]
Searching for Sugar Man
DOCUMENTARY (SHORT)
Inocente [J]
Kings Point
Mondays at Racine
Open Heart [A]
Redemption
FILM EDITING
Argo [A], [J]
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Amour, Austria [A], [J]
Kon-Tiki, Norway
No, Chile
A Royal Affair, Denmark
War Witch, Canada
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Hitchcock
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey [A], [J]
Les Miserables
MUSIC-ORIGINAL SCORE
Anna Karenina
Argo
Life of Pi [A], [J]
Lincoln
Skyfall
MUSIC-ORIGINAL SONG
Before My Time from Chasing Ice
Everybody Needs A Best Friend from Ted
Pi’s Lullaby from Life of Pi [J]
Skyfall from Skyfall [A]
Suddenly from Les Miserables
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Anna Karenina
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables [A], [J]
Life of Pi
Lincoln
SHORT FILM-ANIMATED
Adam and Dog
Fresh Guacamole
Head Over Heels
Maggie Simpson in “The Longest Daycare”
Paperman [A], [J]
SHORT FILM-LIVE ACTION
Asad
Buzkashi Boys
Curfew [A], [J]
Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)
Henry
SOUND EDITING
Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi [J]
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty [A]
SOUND MIXING
Argo [J]
Les Miserables [A]
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall
VISUAL EFFECTS
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey [J]
Life of Pi [A]
Marvel’s The Avengers
Prometheus
Snow White and the Huntsman
WRITING-ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Argo [J]
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Life of Pi
Lincoln [A]
Silver Linings Playbook
WRITING-ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Amour
Django Unchained [A]
Flight
Moonrise Kingdom [J]
Zero Dark Thirty
Do you agree with our choices? Who do you expect to win big tonight? Who are you routing for to pull out the upset?
