Saturday, February 23, 2013

85th Oscar Final Predictions

Here are my final Oscar predictions for the 85th Academy Awards.

Best Picture: Argo
Director: Ang Lee for Life Of Pi
Lead Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln
Lead Actress: Emmanuelle Riva for Amour
Supporting Actor: Tommy Lee Jones for Lincoln
Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway for Les Miserables
Original Screenplay: Django Unchained
Adapted Screenplay: Argo
Cinematography: Life Of Pi
Film Editing: Argo
Visual Effects: Life Of Pi
Production Design: Anna Karenina
Costume Design: Anna Karenina
Makeup And Hairstyling: Les Miserables
Original Song: Skyfall
Original Score: Life Of Pi
Sound Editing: Life Of Pi
Sound Mixing: Les Miserables
Animated Feature: Brave
Documentary Feature: Searching For Sugar Man
Foreign Language Film: Amour
Animated Short: Paperman
Documentary Short: Open Heart
Live Action Short: Curfew

Most likely to make me look like an amateur: Silver Linings Playbook. More specifically, Harvey Weinstein’s campaign machine that is behind Silver Linings Playbook, which could take awards for Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Director and Screenplay.

Predictions Tally:
5- Life Of Pi
3- Argo, Les Miserables
2- Amour, Anna Karenina, Lincoln
1- Brave, Curfew, Django Unchained, Open Heart, Paperman, Searching For Sugar Man, Skyfall
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10 comments:

  1. SLP winning will kill my predictions too. It scares me that it won so many Spirit Awards yesterday, but I am sticking to my guns. Good Luck!

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    1. Agreed. My only hope is that somehow Harvey split himself too thin between Lawrence & De Niro, but they could both easily end up stealing the show.

      Mind you I'm someone who liked the film well enough. I just don't think any of the performances are strong enough on their own to take the big prizes.

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  2. You think Riva for actress and Lee for director? I hope you're right on both counts but I suspect Spielberg and Lawrence will take them! Be interesting to see the results tonight!

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    1. I'm thinking that both Riva and Lee have more passion behind them, and hoping that translates into the win. But you're right that Lawrence and Spielberg are probably safer choices.

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  3. (Hey, it's that Israeli "Anonymous" again. long time no see, ha?)

    When will you make an offical prediction for next year's awards?

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    1. Hey my friend! Great to hear from you!

      It's unlikely that I'll have too much up this month, because I've signed up to run a feature over at the blogging community I'm part of.

      But I really do want to get back in the habit of updating more often, as well as rewriting some of the predictions that are further out. I just need more hours in the day to make it happen!

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    2. Okay, good luck with that new feature.

      But hey, if you'll have the time, here are some of my predictions for next year:
      http://www.tapuz.co.il/blog/net/viewentry.aspx?entryid=2497096#response

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    3. Oops, wrong link. here's the right one:
      http://www.tapuz.co.il/blog/net/viewentry.aspx?entryid=2497096

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    4. Looks great my friend. I'll definitely be checking out all those films when I eventually get mine up as well!

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    5. I'm happy to see that your computer can still translate. I had a pretty bad time transalting all those names to hebrew. That title for the Wikileaks film was one hard SOB.

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