It’s taken me a while to get this list
together, but finally with just a few more hours until the awards show, here
are my predictions for who should win tonight. First is my short list, followed
by the awards I’m especially looking forward to:
Foreign Language
Film
Amour (from Austria)
Best Documentary
Feature
David France & Howard Gertler – How to Survive a Plague
Best Documentary
Short
Kief Davidson & Cori Shepherd
Stern – Open Heart
Short Film (Live
Action)
Shawn Christensen - Curfew
Short Film
(Animated)
John Kahrs - Paperman
Best Original
Score
John Williams - Lincoln
Best Original Song
Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth – “Skyfall” from Skyfall
Best Sound Editing
Per Hallberg & Karen Baker
Landers - Skyfall
Best Sound Mixing
Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, &
Simon Hayes – Les Misérables
Best Production
Design
Rick Carter & Jim Erckson - Lincoln
Best
Cinematography
Roger Deakins – Skyfall
Bets Makeup and
Hairstyling
Howard Berger, Peter Montagna, &
Martin Samuel - Hitchcock
Best Costume
Design
Jacqueline Durran – Anna Karenina
Best Film Editing
William Goldenberg - Argo
Best Visual
Effects
Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume
Rocheron, Erik-Jan de Boer, & Donald R. Elliott – Life of Pi
Best Writing
(Original Screenplay)
Amour – Michael Haneke
Django Unchained – Quentin
Tarantino
Flight – John Gatins
Moonrise Kingdom – Wes
Anderson & Roman Coppola
Zero Dark Thirty – Mark
Boal
Who SHOULD Win: Quentin
Tarantino for Django Unchained
Who WILL Win: Michael
Haneke for Amour
Best Writing
(Adapted Screenplay)
Argo – Chris Terrio
Beasts of the Southern
Wild – Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin
Life of Pi – David
Magee
Lincoln – Tony Kushner
Silver Linings
Playbook – David O. Russell
Who SHOULD Win: David O.
Russell for Silver Linings Playbook
Who WILL Win: Tony Kushner
for Lincoln
Best Animated
Feature
Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
The Pirates! Band of
Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph
Who SHOULD Win: Wreck-It Ralph
Who WILL Win: Wreck-It Ralph
Best Director
Michael Haneke – Amour
Ang Lee- Life of Pi
David O. Russell – Silver
Linings Playbook
Steven Spielberg – Lincoln
Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of
the Southern Wild
Who SHOULD Win: Ben
Affleck for Argo
Who WILL Win: Steven
Spielberg for Lincoln
Best Supporting
Actor
Alan Arkin – Argo
Robert De Niro – Silver
Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman
– The Master
Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln
Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained
Who SHOULD Win: Robert De
Niro for Silver Linings Playbook
Who WILL Win: Tommy Lee
Jones for Lincoln
Best Supporting
Actress
Amy Adams – The Master
Sally Field – Lincoln
Anne Hathaway – Les
Misérables
Helen Hunt – The
Sessions
Jacki Weaver – Silver
Linings Playbook
Who SHOULD Win: Anne
Hathaway for Les Misérables
Who WILL Win: Anne
Hathaway for Les Misérables
Best Actor
Bradley Cooper – Silver
Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
Hugh Jackman – Les
Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix – The
Master
Denzel Washington - Flight
Who SHOULD Win: Bradley
Cooper for Silver Linings Playbook
Who WILL Win: Daniel
Day-Lewis for Lincoln
Best Actress
Jessica Chastain – Zero
Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence – Silver
Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts
of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts – The Impossible
Who SHOULD Win: Jennifer
Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook
Who WILL Win: Jennifer
Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook
Best Picture
Amour
Argo
Beasts of the Southern
Wild
Django Unchained
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings
Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
Who SHOULD Win: Django Unchained
Who WILL Win: Argo
