FINAL OSCAR 2012 PREDICTIONS

There were definitely some good calls that Oscar made this year (at least with the nominations...) but as usual, overall, I'm left disappointed by what was NOT nominated.  Anyways, for the sake of guessing, here's what I think will happen tonight, with potential spoiler in paranthesis:

Best Picture
Argo (Lincoln)

Best Director
Steven Spielberg (Ang Lee)

Best Actor
Daniel Day Lewis (Denzel Washington)

Best Actress
Jennifer Lawrence (Emmanuelle Riva)

Best Supporting Actor
Robert De Niro (Tommy Lee Jones)

Best Supporting Actress
Anne Hathaway (Sally Field)

Best Original Screenplay
Zero Dark Thirty (Django Unchained)

Best Adapted Screenplay
Argo (Lincoln)

Best Editing
Argo (Zero Dark Thirty)

Best Cinematography
Skyfall (Anna Karenina)

Best Documentary
The Gatekeepers (Searching for Sugarman)

Best Documentary Short
Mondays at Racine

Best Live Action Short
Curfew

Best Animated
Frankenweenie (Wreck-it- Ralph)

Best Make-Up/Hairstyling
Les Miserables (The Hobbit)

Best Original Score
Life of Pi (Anna Karenina)

Best Sound Editing
Skyfall (Argo)

Best Sound Mixing
Skyfall (Argo)

Best Visual Effects
Life of Pi (The Avengers)

Best Original Song
Skyfall (Life of Pi)

Best Costume
Anna Karenina (Les Miserables)

Best Foreign Language Film
Amour (No)

IF I HAD AN OSCAR BALLOT 2012

Best Picture

Zero Dark Thirty
Cloud Atlas
Killing them Softly
The Grey
The Dark Knight Rises

Best Director

Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty
Wachowski Starship & Tom Tykwer – Cloud Atlas
Joe Carnahan – The Grey
Andrew Dominik – Killing them Softly
Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight Rises

Best Actor

Daniel Day Lewis – Lincoln
Denzel Washington – Flight
Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
Liam Neeson – The Grey
Jack Black – Bernie

Best Actress

Keira Knightley – Anna Karenina
Naomi Watts – The Impossible
Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty
Michelle Williams – Take This Waltz

Best Original Screenplay

John Gatins – Flight
John Logan, Roger Wade, Neal Purvis -- Skyfall                 
Paul Thomas Anderson – The Master
Rian Johnson – Looper
Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained

Best Adapted Screenplay

Andrew Dominik – Killing Them Softly
Stephen Chbosky – The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Joe Carnahan & Ian Jeffers – The Grey
David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
Wachowski Starship & Tom Tykwer – Cloud Atlas

Best Supporting Actor

Matthew McConaughey – Magic Mike
Leonardo DiCaprio – Django Unchained
Samuel L. Jackson – Django Unchained
Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook
Dwight Henry – Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Cinematography

Seamus McGarvey – Anna Karenina
Roger Deakins – Skyfall
Greig Fraser – Killing Them Softly
Dariusz Wolski – Prometheus
Claudio Miranda – Life of Pi

Best Editing

Brian A. Kates & John Paul Horstmann -- Killing Them Softly
Stuart Baird -- Skyfall
Pietro Scalia -- Prometheus
William Goldenberg -- Argo
Roger Barton & Jason Hellmann -- The Grey

Best Original Score

Dario Marianelli – Anna Karenina
Thomas Newman – Skyfall
Hans Zimmer – The Dark Knight Rises
Marc Streitenfeld -- The Grey                   
Tom Tykwer & Johnny Klimek – Cloud Atlas

Best Production Design

Design Eugenio Caballero -- The Impossible
Sarah Greenwood -- Anna Karenina
Dennis Gassner -- Skyfall
Jeremy Hindle -- Zero Dark Thirty
Alex DiGerlando -- Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Costumes

Anna Karenina
Cloud Atlas
Django Unchained
The Master
Lincoln        

Best Visual Effects

Prometheus
The Dark Knight Rises
Skyfall
The Impossible
Cloud Atlas

Best Make-Up

The Impossible
Les Miserables
Prometheus
Anna Karenina
Cloud Atlas

2012: MY WIFE PICKS 'EM

Here's where my better half stands.  She doesn't want to rank them 1-10, so here are her 10 favorites, with some runner's up:

Anna Karenina
The Impossible
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Silver Linings Playbook
Les Miserables
Zero Dark Thirty
Take This Waltz
Life of Pi
Two Days in New York
Argo

Runner's up:

The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Flight
Chronicle
Ted
End of Watch
The Master
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Your Sister’s Sister
Friends with Kids
The Deep Blue Sea
Perfect Sense
Lincoln
Moonrise Kingdom
Brave
The Hunger Games

2012: THE FILMS THAT GOT AWAY

Here are the notable titles from 2012 that I need to catch up with at home:

Promised Land
Amour
On the Road
Men In Black 3
Sinister
Jack Reacher
The Man with the Iron Fists
Hit and RunThe Intouchables
The Sessions
Robot & Frank
Celeste and Jesse Forever
Damsels in Distress
Cosmopolis
Being Flynn
Holy Motors
Rust and Bone
Little White Lies
Dark Horse

BEST OF 2012

I'm cheating with my best of the year list from 2012...reviews will be coming up for each, but here's my final BEST OF 2012. I've never done this, but this year, my top 10 is really a top 13. Sue me.

1. Zero Dark Thirty
2. Cloud Atlas
3. Killing them Softly
4. The Grey
5. The Dark Knight Rises/Skyfall/Prometheus (aka Hollywood Does Big Budget Right)
6. Silver Linings Playbook
7. Django Unchained
8. Anna Karenina
9. The Impossible
10. Beasts of the Southern Wild

Runners Up: Argo, Lincoln, Flight, Lawless, Les Miserables, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Chronicle, Bernie, Looper, God Bless America, The Raid, Magic Mike, The Avengers, Ted, Haywire, The Bourne Legacy, Take this Waltz, The Master, End of Watch, Savages, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Cabin in the Woods, and Moonrise Kingdom.

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