Director and Screenplay Predictions (Updated 1/9/13)
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85th Oscar Best Director Predictions (Updated 1/9/13)
1. Kathryn Bigelow for Zero Dark Thirty (Predicted Winner)
2. Steven Spielberg for Lincoln
3. Ben Affleck for Argo
4. Ang Lee for Life Of Pi
5. Tom Hooper for Les Miserables
Alternates:
6. Michael Haneke for Amour
7. Quentin Tarantino for Django Unchained
8. David O. Russell for Silver Linings Playbook
9. Paul Thomas Anderson for The Master
10. Benh Zeitlin for Beasts Of The Southern Wild
11. Wes Anderson for Moonrise Kingdom
12. Joe Wright for Anna Karenina
13. Robert Zemeckis for Flight
14. Christopher Nolan for The Dark Knight Rises
15. Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski and Andy Wachowski for Cloud Atlas
16. Juan Antonio Bayona for The Impossible
17. Peter Jackson for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
18. Ben Lewin for The Sessions
19. Sam Mendes for Skyfall
20. Kim Ki-Duk for Pieta
85th Oscar Original Screenplay Predictions (Updated 1/9/13)
1. Zero Dark Thirty (Predicted Winner)
2. Moonrise Kingdom
3. Django Unchained
4. The Master
5. Amour
Alternates:
6. Looper
7. Flight
8. Seven Psychopaths
9. The Intouchables
10. Arbitrage
11. Keep The Lights On
12. Middle Of Nowhere
13. The Impossible
14. Magic Mike
15. Ruby Sparks
16. The Cabin In The Woods
17. Brave
18. Ted
19. Promised Land
20. Take This Waltz
21. Safety Not Guaranteed
22. Celeste And Jesse Forever
23. Your Sister’s Sister
24. Compliance
25. Wreck-It Ralph
85th Oscar Adapted Screenplay Predictions (Updated 1/9/13)
1. Lincoln (Predicted Winner)
2. Argo
3. Silver Linings Playbook
4. Beasts Of The Southern Wild
5. The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
Alternates:
6. Life Of Pi
7. Les Miserables
8. The Sessions
9. Anna Karenina
10. Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
11. Cloud Atlas
12. Skyfall
13. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
14. Rust And Bone
15. The Dark Knight Rises
16. This Is Forty
17. Hitchcock
18. Salmon Fishing In The Yemen
19. On The Road
20. 21 Jump Street
21. Frankenweenie
22. Quartet
23. Killing Them Softly
24. The Avengers
25. Cosmopolis
86th Oscar Best Director Predictions (Updated 5/13/11)
1. Guillermo Del Toro for Pacific Rim (Predicted Winner)
2. Martin Scorsese for Silence
3. Neill Blomkanp for Elysium
4. Quentin Tarantino for Django Unchained
5. Derek Cinfrance for The Place Beyond The Pines
Alternates:
6. Tom Hooper for Les Miserables
7. Francis Lawrence for Snow And The Seven
8. David Fincher for Cleopatra
9. Steven Soderbergh for Liberace
10. Nick Cassavetes or Barry Levinson for Gotti: Three Generations
11. Peter Jackson for The Hobbit Part 2
12. John Wells for August: Osage County
13. Lee Daniels for Iced
14. The Color Purple
15. Jodie Foster for Flora Plum
16. Brad Anderson for Concrete Island
17. John Millus for Genghis Khan
18. Martin Scorsese for The Wolf Of Wall Street
19. Edward Norton for Motherless Brooklyn
20. The Legend Of Cain
21. Ron Howard for The Dark Tower
22. Werner Herzog for The Piano Tuner
23. Sam Raimi for Oz The Great And Powerful
24. George Clooney for Our Brand Is Crisis
25. Ben Affleck for Replay
26. Ryan Murphy for Annie
27. David O. Russell for The Silver Lining Playbook
28. The Devil In The White City
29. They Marched Into Sunlight
30. John Madden for The Rivals
31. Sergey Bodrov for The Seventh Son
32. Tim Burton for Maleficent
33. Deepa Mehta for Masterpiece
34. James Cameron for The Last Train From Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back
35. David Cronenberg for The Matarese Circle
36. Ruben Fleischer for The Gangster Squad
37. Martin Scorsese for Sinatra
38. Pan Nalin for Buddha: The Inner Warrior
39. M. Night Shyamalan for One Thousand A.E.
40. Kenneth Branagh for The Boys In The Boat
41. Sheldon Turner for By Virtue Fall
42. Ari Folman for The Congress
43. Danny Boyle for Trance
44. Niels Arden Oplev for The Last Pharaoh
45. Jody Lee Lipes for Confederacy
46. Roger Michell for Burmese Days
47. Rania Ajami for My Eyes Through Carnage
48. Wayne Wang for Einstein
49. Ben Affleck for Argo
50. Bryce Dallas Howard for The Originals
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87th Oscar Best Director Predictions (Updated 9/28/11)
1. Ridley Scott for The Color Of Lightening (Predicted Winner)
2. Christopher Nolan for Citizen Hughes: The Power, The Money And The Madness
3. Darren Aronofsky for Noah
4. James Cameron for Avatar 2
5. Angelina Jolie for Churchill And Roosevelt
Alternates:
6. George Clooney for The $700 Billion Man
7. Kenny Ortega for In The Heights
8. Darren Aronofsky for Serena
9. Steven Spielberg for Interstellar
10. Steve McQueen for Twelve Years A Slave
11. Andrew Niccol for Dali & I: The Surreal Story
12. Cary Fukunaga for No Blood, No Guts, No Glory
13. John Akomfrah for Touti In Harlem
14. Guillermo Del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for Saturn And The End Of Days
15. Alain Choquart for A Green And Quiet River
16. Scott Cooper for Empire Of The Summer Moon
17. Thomas R. Bond II for The Red Man’s View
18. Darren Aronofsky for The Tiger
19. Rania Ajami for My Eyes Through Carnage
20. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon or Joshua Marston for The Fortress Of Solitude
21. Quentin Tarantino for Kill Bill: Volume 3
22. Paulo Morelli for Americana
23. Steven Spielberg for Pirate Latitudes
24. Laurence Fishburne for The Alchemist
25. Guillermo Del Toro for The Witches
26. Fleming
27. Martin Scorsese for The Gambler
28. Deepa Mehta for Exclusion
29. Salim Akil for Sparkle
30. Ryan Murphy for The Normal Heart
31. Brad Silberling for An Ordinary Man
32. Errol Morris for The Demon In The Freezer
33. Roland Emmerich for Independence Day 3
34. Nicolas Winding Refn for Logan’s Run
35. Craig Gillespie and Jean-Marc Vallee for The Dallas Buyer’s Club
36. Wicked
37. Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski for Jupiter Rising
38. John Singleton for Tulia
39. Oren Moverman for The Terrorist Search Engine
40. Kimberly Peirce for The Knife
41. Timur Bekmambetov for The Casebook Of Victor Frankenstein
42. Harmony Korine for Twinkle Twinkle
43. Rodrigo Garcia for La Corona
44. Tim Burton for The Addams Family
45. Barry Levinson for The Humbling
46. Joe Wright for Indian Summer
47. Allen Hughes for Broken City
48. Kenny Leon for Babylon
49. Antoine Fuqua for Storming Las Vegas
50. Danny Torres for Innocence In A Garden Of Lies
87th Oscar Original Screenplay Predictions (Updated 9/14/11)
1. Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack for The Dallas Buyer’s Club (Predicted Winner)
2. Michael Arndt for Human Mind
3. Angelina Jolie for Churchill And Roosevelt
4. Brian Tucker for Broken City
5. Rania Ajami and Kurt Lustgarten for My Eyes Through Carnage
Alternates:
6. Garrett Knight for Americana
7. Damian Stevenson for Fleming
8. John Gatins for Flight
9. Deepa Mehta for Exclusion
10. The Daughter
11. Song Of Justice
12. Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski for Jupiter Rising
13. Todd Robinson for The Last Full Measure
14. Guillermo Del Toro for Saturn And The End Of Days
15. Jonah Nolan for Interstellar
16. An Ordinary Man
17. Nisar Modi for Outback
18. Oren Moverman for Touti In Harlem
19. Innocence In A Garden Of Lies
20. Doug Atchison for Class Act
21. Jason Smilovic for The Architect
22. Nick Schenk and David Seidler for The Judge
23. Edward Ricourt and Boaz Yalkin for Now You See Me
24. Diane English for First Man
25. Cary Fukunaga and Chase Palmer for No Blood, No Guts, No Glory
26. Cyclops
27. Paul Thomas Anderson for Inherent Vice
28. Vineet Dewan for The Knife
29. Dandelion Wine
30. Art Linson and Jeffrey Ross for The Comedian
31. Harmony Korine for Twinkle Twinkle
32. Rene Hinojosa for Templar: Honor Among Thieves
33. Lauren Goodman for Sexual Healing
34. Mike White for Santa Wars
35. William Monahan for The Long Play
36. Richard Clark Jr. and Ken Allen for The Guilty Kinsman
37. Tina Fey for Curly Oxide And The Vic Thrill
38. Neil Burger for The Criminals
39. Rust
40. Rodrigo Garcia for La Carona
41. Agincourt
42. The Prophetess
43. Marshall Lewy for Exodus
44. Oren Uziel for The Kitchen Sink
45. Adam Foulkes and Alan Smith for Cog
46. Adam Cohen for The Greys
47. Ahmat Zappa for The Museum Of The Weird
48. Ti West for The Side Effects
49. Edgar Wright for The World’s End
50. S. Craig Zahler for The Big Stone Grid
87th Oscar Adapted Screenplay Predictions (Updated 9/20/11)
1. Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana for The Color Of Lightening (Predicted Winner)
2. Christopher Nolan for Citizen Hughes: The Power, The Money And The Madness
3. Alain Choquart and Laurence Coriat for A Green And Quiet River
4. Zach Helm for The $700 Billion Man
5. Darren Aronofsky for Noah
Alternates:
6. Chris Kyle for Serena
7. Steve McQueen and John Ridley for Twelve Years A Slave
8. Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana for Empire Of The Summer Moon
9. The Fotrtress Of Solitude
10. Quiara Alegria Hudes for In The Heights
11. Tomas R. Bond II and Frank Marks for The Red Man’s View
12. Topper Lilien and Amy Albany for Low Down
13. Guillermo Arriaga for The Tiger
14. Oren Moverman for The Terrorist Search Engine
15. Stan Lauryssens for Dali & I: The Surreal Story
16. William Monahan for The Gambler
17. Errol Morris for The Demon In The Freezer
18. Mara Brock Akil and Joel Schumacher for Sparkle
19. Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman for Kill Bill Volume 3
20. Wicked
21. Joe Wright for Indian Summer
22. Larry Kramer for The Normal Heart
23. Steven Knight for Untitled RFK New Regency Project
24. Sing You Home
25. Jean-Pierre Jeunet for Red Leaves
26. Guillermo Del Toro for The Witches
27. Buck Henry for The Humbling
28. Ruben Arnaiz for El Futuro De Ellas
29. Laurence Fishburne, David Siegel Scott McGehee, Patrick Cirillo and Jeremy Leven for The Alchemist
30. The People’s Act Of Love
31. Will Beall for Logan’s Run
32. David Koepp for Pirate Latitudes
33. The Daughter
34. Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson for Joe
35. Moses
36. Battle Of New Orleans
37. James Gray for Untitled Steve McQueen BIopic
38. David Auburn for The Casebook Of Victor Frankenstein
39. Brian Klugman, Lee Sternthal and Jim Uhls for Rex Mundi
40. Grant Pierce Myers for Ness/Capone
41. John Fusco for Last Train To Memphis
42. Tim Dowling for Uptown Saturday Night
43. Susannah Grant for Same Time Next Year
44. Marco Polo, A Young Man In Love
45. Noah Oppenheim for The Secret Life Of Houdini
46. James Cameron for Avatar 2
47. Emir Kusturica for The Bridge On The Drina
48. Peter O’Brien for The Chancellor Manuscript
49. Emma Forrest for The Boss Of It All
50. Geoffrey Powell and Matt Walker for Men At Arnhem
88th Oscar Best Director Predictions (Updated 8/13/11)
1. Robert Zemeckis for The Corrections (Predicted Winner)
2. Oliver Stone or Paul Greengrass for Travis McGee
3. Steven Zaillian for A Thousand Splendid Suns
4. Richard Linklater for Boyhood
5. James Cameron for Avatar 3
Alternates:
6. Alan Parker for Coram Boy
7. James Franco for Blood Meridian
8. The Five Hundred
9. The Epic Of Troy Knight
10. Inamorata
11. James Cameron for Myth
12. Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck for Special Topics In Calamity Physics
13. Black Mafia Family Project
14. The Many Deaths Of Barnaby James
15. Untitled Tintin Film
16. Quentin Tarantino for Faster Pussycat Kill Kill
17. Sylvain Chomet and Thais Sher for Ivan The Fool
18. Guillermo Del Toro and Rodrigo Blaas for Trollhunters
19. Toy Story 4
20. The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Silver Chair
21. Divergent
22. Important Artifacts And Personal Property From The Collection Of Lenore Doolan And Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, And Jewelry
23. The Believers
24. John Woo for Caliber
25. Affected Provincial’s Companion
26. Neil Labute or Robert Edwards for Trust
27. Rodrigo Blaas for Alma
28. I, Robot 2
29. Untitled Batman Reboot
30. Wonder Woman
31. Mike Mitchell for Imaginary Enemies
32. The Swarm
33. Time Bandits
34. Michael Bay for Bad Boys 3
35. The Occasionally Interesting Anti-Adventures Of An Unnamed Girl
36. Bride Of Frankenstein
37. Star Blazers
38. The Hunger Games 3
39. Continuum
40. Robert Glickert for Untitled Bobby Glickert Sci-Fi Thriller
41. John Moore for Untitled John Moore Peter Buchman Project
42. Guardians Of The Galaxy
43. R. J. Cutler for Maynard & Jennica
44. Chuck Martin for Mr. Nice Guy
45. The Mighty
46. Jan Svankmajer for Insects
47. Evidence
48. Echo
49. Untitled Paul Revere Project
50. Conrad Vernon for Lidsville
88th Oscar Original Screenplay Predictions (Updated 7/24/11)
1. Wes Jones for The Epic Of Troy Knight (Predicted Winner)
2. Brian Nathanson for The Many Deaths Of Barnaby Jones
3. Will Staples or James Cameron for Myth
4. Joe Syracuse and Lisa Addario for Imaginary Enemies
5. Robert Edwards for Trust
Alternates:
6. Richard Linklater for Boyhood
7. Alain Gagnol for Phantom Boy
8. The Believers
9. Untitled Black Mafia Family Project
10. Brian Nathanson for The Occasionally Interesting Anti-Adventures Of An Unnamed Girl
11. The Swarm
12. Portofino
13. Untitled Paul Revere Project
14. Sarah Haskins and Emily Halpern for Booksmart
15. Echo
16. Continuum
17. Mr. Nice Guy
18. Gravity
19. Tricky Bastards
20. Alien At Large
21. Untitled Bobby Glickert Sci-Fi Thriller Project
22. Untitled John Moore/Peter Buchman Project
23. Adam Wilson and Melaine Wilson for Untitled Happy Troll Doll Project
88th Oscar Adapted Screenplay Predictions (Updated 7/24/11)
1. Steven Zaillian for A Thousand Splendid Suns (Predicted Winner)
2. Inamorata
3. David Hare for The Corrections
4. Coram Boy
5. The Five Hundred
Alternates:
6. Thais Sher for Ivan The Fool
7. Blood Meridian
8. Travis McGee
9. Demosthenes Armeniades for The Secret (Of Happiness)
10. David Schickler for The Smoker
11. Guillermo Del Toro for Troll Hunters
12. Rodrigo Blaas for Alma
13. Lidsville
14. James Cameron for Avatar 3
15. Guillaume Laurant for Untitled Tintin Film
16. The Chronicles Of narnia: The Silver Chair
17. Evan Daugherty for Divergent
18. Toy Story 4
19. Important Artifacts And Personal Property From The Collection Of Lenore Doolan And Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, And Jewelry
20. Your Voice In My Head
21. Pig Scrolls
22. Affected Provincial’s Companion
23. Special Topics In Calamity Physics
24. Quentin Tarantine for Faster Pussycat Kill Kill
25. Caliber
26. Flawed Dogs
27. Untitled Batman Reboot
28. The Mighty
29. Cape No. 7
30. Maynard & Jennica
31. Time Bandits
32. Soapdish
33. The Hunger Games 3
34. Bad Boys 3
35. Bride Of Frankenstein
36. The Dangerous Book For Boys
37. Angry Birds
38. Wonder Woman
39. I, Robot 2
40. The Amazing Spiderman 2
41. Star Blazers
42. Hot Wheels
89th Oscar Best Director Predictions (Updated 4/1/11)
1. James Cameron for Battle Angel (Predicted Winner)
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