Best Picture Predictions (Updated 11/29/12)
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85th Oscar Best Picture Predictions (Updated 11/29/12)
1. Argo (Predicted Winner)
2. Lincoln
3. Les Miserables
4. Silver Linings Playbook
5. Life Of Pi
6. Beasts Of The Southern Wild
7. Zero Dark Thirty
8. The Master
Then:
9. The Impossible
10. Amour
Alternates:
11. Moonrise Kingdom
12. Flight
13. Anna Karenina
14. Django Unchained
15. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
16. Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
17. Hitchcock
18. Cloud Atlas
19. Middle Of Nowhere
20. Promised Land
21. The Dark Knight Rises
22. Quartet
23. The Sessions
24. Skyfall
25. Rust And Bone
26. End Of Watch
27. The Intouchables
28. The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
29. Not Fade Away
30. Looper
31. Arbitrage
32. Bernie
33. On The Road
34. Killing Them Softly
35. Hope Springs
36. Keep The Lights On
37. The Avengers
38. The Loneliest Planet
39. Trouble With The Curve
40. Lawless
41. No
42. Take This Waltz
43. Brave
44. The Paperboy
45. Cosmopolis
46. Prometheus
47. Hyde Park On Hudson
48. Holy Motors
49. Song For Marion
50. Your Sister’s Sister
86th Oscar Best Picture Predictions (Updated 4/2/11)
1. The Place Beyond The Pines (Predicted Winner)
2. The Legend Of Cain
3. Pacific Rim
4. Silence
5. They Marched Into Sunlight
6. The Devil In The White City
7. Our Brand Of Crisis
8. Elysium
9. The Color Purple
10. The Rivals
Alternates:
11. Motherless Brooklyn
12. Snow And The Seven
13. Liberace
14. Les Miserables
15. Toussaint
16. The Hobbit Part 2
17. Will
18. Cleopatra
19. Concrete Island
20. August: Osage County
21. Tender Is The Night
22. The Last Pharaoh
23. Flora Plum
24. The Last Train From Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back
25. The Piano Tuner
26. Genghis Khan
27. Iced
28. Masterpiece
29. The Boys In The Boat
30. Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
31. The Wolf Of Wall Street
32. The Angel, The Bad And The Wise
33. Annie
34. The Seventh Son
35. Buddha: The Inner Warrior
36. Heart Of A Shepherd
37. Ruined
38. Pawn Sacrifice
39. The Silver Lining Playbook
40. Sinatra
87th Oscar Best Picture Predictions (Updated 10/24/11)
1. Noah (Predicted Winner)
2. Citizen Hughes: The Power, The Money And The Madness
3. Churchill And Roosevelt
4. Avatar 2
5. The $700 Billion Man
6. The Color Of Lightening
7. Serena
8. Americana
Then:
9. Human Mind (from Pixar)
10. Independence Day 3
Alternates:
11. A Green And Quiet River
12. In The Heights
13. Twelve Years A Slave
14. Sparkle
15. The Normal Heart
16. Wicked
17. An Ordinary Man
18. The Tiger
19. Empire Of The Summer Moon
20. The Fortress Of Solitude
21. Interstellar
22. Saturn And The End Of Days
23. The Demon In The Freezer
24. Outback
25. Kill Bill: Volume 3
26. Indian Summer
27. The Gambler
28. Broken City
29. My Eyes Through Carnage
30. Low Down
31. Untitled RFK New Regency Project
32. The Dallas Buyer’s Club
33. Fleming
34. The Alchemist
35. Logan’s Run
36. The Humbling
37. Jupiter Ascending
38. Tulia
39. Pirate Latitudes
40. The Terrorist Search Engine
41. Flight
42. Sexual Healing
43. Joe
44. The People’s Act Of Love
45. Song Of Justice
46. The Chancellor Manuscript
47. Last Train To Memphis
48. Ness/Capone
49. Agincourt
50. Touti In Harlem
88th Oscar Best Picture Predictions (Updated 7/24/11)
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns (Predicted Winner)
2. Travis McGee
3. The Epic Of Troy Knight
4. The Corrections
5. Coram Boy
6. The Five Hundred
7. Avatar 3
Then:
8. Divergent
9. Inamorata
10. Important Artifacts And Personal Property From The Collection Of Lenore Doolan And Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fasion, And Jewelry
Alternates:
11. Boyhood
12. Myth
13. Untitled Tintin Film
14. The Many Deaths Of Barnaby James
15. Wonder Woman
16. Bride Of Frankenstein
17. Echo
18. Line Of Sight
19. The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Silver Chair
20. Trollhunters
21. Toy Story 4
22. Untitled Black Mafia Family Project
23. Blood Meridian
24. Ivan The Fool
25. Alma
26. Trust
27. The Occasionally Interesting Anti-Adventures Of An Unnamed Girl
28. Imaginary Enemies
29. Untitled Batman Reboot
30. Lidsville
31. Faster Pussycat Kill Kill
32. Your Voice In My Head
33. Phantom Boy
34. Untitled Paul Revere Project
35. Evidence
36. The Swarm
37. I, Robot 2
38. Star Blazers
39. Continuum
40. Gravity
41. Alien At Large
42. One World Ocean
43. The Smoker
44. The Believers
45. The Secret (Of Happiness)
46. Caliber
47. Time Bandits
48. The Hunger Games 3
49. Affected Provincial’s Companion
50. Booksmart
89th Oscar Best Picture Predictions (Updated 4/1/11)
1. Climate Control (Predicted Winner)
2. Battle Angel
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90th Oscar Best Picture Predictions
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A Few Updades:
ReplyDelete"The Ides of March" dissapointed critics in both toronto and veince festivals, and "A Dangerous Method" did so as well.
One the other hand, "Moneyball" and "The Descendants" got a critical accalaim, and "Shame" plays the roll of that movie that almost no one heard of, but has VERY (very very very) good reviews. for you consideration...
Indeed, I'm thinking that Dangerous Method is out of the nominations for Picture(although probably still in the top 20 or 25), while Descendants is definitely in. For Ides Of March and Moneyball I'm thinking they both still have a chance depending on box office (Moneyball comes out this weekend, and at least a few prognosticators are saying that American audiences may take better to Ides.)
ReplyDeleteI'm a little nervous about Shame given that it supposedly will get an NC-17 rating, but Fassbender will definitely be in my top 10 actors in the next round. Still trying to decide whether to list him as an actual nominee or not. I'd love it, but is the academy too prudish?
And now they've just released the J. Edgar trailer.
On my current schedule, I'm hoping to have new predictions for the 84th Lead Actor race on Thursday, and updated predictions for the 84th Best Picture race on Saturday, so stay tuned!
did you ever considered the film On The Road,the cast consisting Amy adams,Kristen Stewart,Viggo Mortensen,kirsten dunst looks very promising!!!
ReplyDeleteOn The Road is definitely on my radar. I think that it doesn't appear on this list at the moment because I used to have it as a 2011 release, and I hadn't updated the 2012 ones since it became clear that it would move to that year.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why you have Divergent in the 8th position and Mockingjay in 48?
ReplyDeleteAlso, I dont't think you have The Silver Linings Playbook by David O'Russell just yet. Anyways great list!! And they seem accurate as well :)
@Mia, Thanks for this! I like looking into the future and trying to figure out which films will be the best successes.
ReplyDeleteI haven't actually read either Divergent or Mockingjay, so I don't remember why I had one so much higher than the other. There might have been a casting rumor right before I did those predictions that made me think it would be higher, but I'm not sure.
I do have Silver Linings Playbook on my 85th list, but probably too low given that it is O'Russell and now has a November release date that's good for Oscars.
Glad to see someone else who likes to do these early predictions!
I have this feeling Hunger Games will be a good film having Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson......I just read all three novels after watching the trailer and i enjoyed the book and really appreciated the fact Katniss is a strong female character unlike Bella(sorry i know you like twilight) and the books tries not to focus much on the romance and more on the war and how the government misues its power...the ending of the mockingjay is strong
ReplyDeleteI cant wait for Lincoln,On The Road,The Great Gatsby,Anna Karenina and the Efiie Gray film.
ReplyDelete@F.Franklin, Thanks for this. The casting for Hunger Games does look a lot better than Twilight, and I'm glad to hear that the story is better too.
ReplyDeleteI think we're looking forward to a lot of the same films.
I completely agree with F.Franklin on this! I read both The Hunger Games series and Divergent and as much as I love both, the story of the hunger games is much more compelling. Since the movie is coming out in March and Divergent is still in pre-production, I would rank Hunger Games higher than Divergent for now.
ReplyDeleteAlso the cast and the crew of the Hunger games is worth noticing. Jennifer Lawrence, Woody Harrelson, Stanley Tucci, director Gary Ross, cinematographer Tom Stern, composers James Newton Howard and T Bone Burnett, costume designer Judianna Makovsky are already all oscar nominees/winners. This makes the entire team kinda at the top already. And by Mockingjay (which is the strongest book) something or the other will probably get nominated anyways.
Sorry for ranting so much...I am kinda obsessed with Hunger Games and Jennifer Lawrence (after Winter's Bone) at the moment lol. But I am feeling very positive from the trailer as F.Franklin said. That being said, you should start reading them soon. :)
And I love how you put A Thousand Splendid Suns as the predicted winner for the 88th and I couldn't agree more. That is one life-changing book and since Steven Zaillian is scripting and directing, I have no doubt it will be a top contender for oscars.
You pretty much covered it all though with this impressive list. Keep it coming :)
Thanks Mia! I've been updating my predictions, and have added the Hunger Games into the mix, although not too high because it still has a March release date which could work against it.
DeleteDo you have information about the Color Purple? I haven't heard news about it in a long while and figured it was cancelled when Fantasia got into all those very public personal problems.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately I haven't heard anything new about it for a while. At one point it was going to be a musical, which sounded kind of exciting!
DeleteI saw her in the lead of the musical onstage in New York and she was sensational. She has so much potential and just one big role like this could be a huge breakout for her.
DeleteOn top of it, I think a new film version would clean up at the Oscars as a sort of act of contrition on the Academy's part regarding the travesty that went down in 1985!
Very true, and musicals usually go particularly well with the Academy.
DeleteWhat do you think about the indie film Smashed..Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Paul got rave reviews for their roles
ReplyDeleteAt the moment, I have Winstead at #15, but that could rise once we know more about their release plans. I'll also be including it in the screenplay predictions that I hope to do this week. I haven't heard quite as much about Aaron Paul, and it may depend on whether he's pushed lead or supporting. His doesn't feel like the kind of role or star that they usually allow in the lead actor race, but if he can be pushed supporting he might have a better chance.
DeleteWow you think Argo is going to win! Exciting stuff!
ReplyDeleteThanks Pete. I think it is between Lincoln and Argo for the win at this point, depending on if they are in a serious mood or a more crowd pleasing mood. But I haven't seen Zero Dark Thirty yet, so I could still change my mind before the big night!
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