Oddness is something one should be drawn too!! Oddness makes you different...and being drawn to different always wins!!

Oscar Predictions 2013!!

Oscar 2013 Predictions

Another year has come and once again time to make my picks for who will I think will win at this years academy awards…This year we do have some great movies to pick from…but as usual some clearly got snub and to decide on the winners we must try and think as how the academy will pick…with that here go my predictions…

Best motion picture of the year 

 (***Ones I really liked) I really think Argo should win and deserves to win but something tells me they might go with Lincoln being that Ben got snubbed…but I have to stand my ground and pick Argo

·      Beasts of the Southern Wild (not seen)

·      Silver Linings Playbook *****

·      Zero Dark Thirty ****

·      Lincoln ****

·      Les Misérables ****

·      Life of Pi ****

·      Amour (not seen)

·      Django Unchained *****

·      Argo ************

Achievement in directing

(With Ben Affleck & Bigelow snubbed this one is an easy and very much deserved)

·      David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook

·      Ang Lee, Life of Pi

·      Steven Spielberg, Lincoln

·      Michael Haneke, Amour

·      Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Performance by an actress in a leading role

(Really comes down to two of them Lawrence and Chastain both kicked ass...but again being that we are dealing with the academy they might go with a feel good story and go with Emmanuelle Riva…But I still stand by Lawrence..

·      Naomi Watts, The Impossible

·      Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty

·      Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook

·      Emmanuelle Riva, Amour

·      Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Performance by an actor in a leading role

 (Lincoln I mean Daniel Day Lewis)

·      Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln

·      Denzel Washington, Flight

·      Hugh Jackman, Les Misérables

·      Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook

·      Joaquin Phoenix, The Master

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

(Long time since he gotten one and he deserves it)

·      Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained

·      Phillip Seymour Hoffman, The Master

·      Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook

·      Alan Arkin, Argo

·      Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

 (With little screen time)

·      Sally Field, Lincoln

·      Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables

·      Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook

·      Helen Hunt, The Sessions

·      Amy Adams, The Master

Best Original Screenplay

·      Amour, Michael Hanake

·      Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino

·      Flight, John Gatins

·      Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola

·      Zero Dark Thirty, Mark Boal

Best Adapted Screenplay

·      Argo, Chris Terrio

·      Beasts of the Southern Wild, Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin

·      Life of Pi, David Magee

·      Lincoln, Tony Kushner

·      Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell

Best Animated Film
Very hard to pick

·      Brave

·      Frankenweenie

·       

·      ParaNorman

·      The Pirates! Band of Misfits

·      Wreck-It Ralph

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

·      Anna Karenina, Dario Marianelli

·      Argo, Alexandre Desplat

·      Life of Pi, Mychael Danna

·      Lincoln, John Williams

·      Skyfall, Thomas Newman

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

·      “Before My Time” from Chasing Ice

·      “Everybody Needs A Best Friend” from Ted

·      “Pi’s Lullaby” from Life of Pi

·      “Skyfall” from Skyfall

·      “Suddenly” from Les Misérables

Achievement in art direction

·      Anna Karenina

·      The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

·      Les Misérables

·      Life of Pi

·      Lincoln

Achievement in cinematography

·      Anna Karenina

·      Django Unchained

·      Life of Pi

·      Lincoln

·      Skyfall

Achievement in costume design

·      Anna Karenina

·      Les Misérables

·      Lincoln

·      Mirror Mirror

·      Snow White and the Huntsman

Achievement in makeup

·      Hitchcock

·      The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

·      Les Misérables

Best Documentary Feature

·      5 Broken Cameras

·      The Gatekeepers

·      How to Survive a Plague

·      The Invisible War

·      Searching for Sugar Man

Best Documentary Short

·      Inocente **

·      Kings Point

·      Mondays at Racine

·      Open Heart

·      Redemption

Best Foreign Language Film

·      Amour (Austria)

·      Kon-Tiki (Norway)

·      No (Chile)

·      A Royal Affair (Denmark)

·      War Witch (Canada)

Best Live Action Short Film

·      Asad

·      Buzkashi Boys

·      Curfew

·      Death of a Shadow

·      Henry

Best Animated Short Film

·      Adam and Dog

·      Fresh Guacamole

·      Head over Heels

·      Maggie Simpson in “The Longest Daycare”

·      Paperman

Achievement in Visual Effects 

·      The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

·      Life of Pi

·      The Avengers

·      Prometheus

·      Snow White and the Huntsman

Achievement in film editing

·      Argo

·      Life of Pi

·      Lincoln

·      Silver Linings Playbook

·      Zero Dark Thirty

Achievement in sound mixing 

·      Argo

·      Les Misérables

·      Life of Pi

·      Lincoln

·      Skyfall

Achievement in sound editing

·      Argo

·      Django Unchained

·      Life of Pi

·      Skyfall

·      Zero Dark Thirty