Bobby’s 2013 Oscar Predictions!

Bold: Who I think will win.
Italics: Who I liked the most.

Best Picture

 

• Lincoln
• Silver Linings Playbook
• Argo
• Amour
• Django Unchained
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Life of Pi
• Zero Dark Thirty
• Les Miserables

 

Best Director

 

• David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
• Ang Lee – Life of Pi
• Steven Speilberg – Lincoln
• Michael Haneke – Amour
• Behn Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild

 

Best Actor

 

• Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
• Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
• Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables
• Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
• Denzel Washington – Flight

 

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

 

Best Supporting Actor

 

• Alan Arkin – Argo
• Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook
• Phillip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
• Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln
• Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained

 

Best Supporting Actress

 

• Amy Adams – The Master
• Sally Field – Lincoln
• Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables
• Helen Hunt – The Sessions
• Jacki Weaver – Silver Linings Playbook

 

Best Writing – Original Screenplay

 

• Amour – Michael Haneke
• Django Unchained – Quentin Tarantino
• Flight – John Gatins
• Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
• Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal

 

Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay

 

• Argo – Chris Terrio
• Bests 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 Feature

 

• Brave
• Frankenweenie
• ParaNorman
• The Pirates! Band of Misfits
• Wreck-It Ralph

 

Best Foreign Language Film

 

• Amour (Austria)
• Kon-Tiki (Norway)
• No (Chile)
• A Royal Affair (Denmark)
• War Witch (Canada)

 

Best Documentary – Feature

 

• 5 Broken Cameras – Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
• The Gatekeepers
• How to Survive a Plague
• The Invisible War
• Searching for Sugar Man

 

Best Documentary – Short Subject

 

• Inocente – Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine
• Kings Point – Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider
• Mondays at Racine – Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan
• Open Heart – Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern
• Redemption – Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill

 

Best Live Action Short

 

• Asad – Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura
• Buzkashi Boys – Sam French and Ariel Nasr
• Curfew – Shawn Christensen
• Death of a Shadow (Dood Van Een Schaduw) – Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele
• Henry – Yan England

 

Best Animated Short Film

 

• Adam and Dog – Minkyu Lee
• Fresh Guacamole – PES
• Head over Heels – Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly
• The Longest Daycare – David Silverman
• Paperman – John Kahrs

 

Best Original Score

 

• Anna Karenina – Dario Marianelli
• Argo – Alexandre Desplat
• Life of Pi – Mychael Danna
• Lincoln – John Williams
• Skyfall – Thomas Newman

 

Best Original Song

 

• “Before My Time” from Chasing Ice – J. Ralph
• “Everybody Needs a Best Friend” from Ted – Walter Murphy and Seth MacFarlane
• “Pi’s Lullaby” from Life of Pi – Mychael Danna and Bombay Jayashri
• “Skyfall” from Skyfall – Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
• “Suddenly” from Les Misérables – Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil

 

Best Sound Editing

 

• Argo – Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn
• Django Unchained – Wylie Stateman
• Life of Pi – Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton
• Skyfall – Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers
• Zero Dark Thirty – Paul N. J. Ottosson

 

Best Sound Mixing

 

• Argo – John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia
• Les Misérables – Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes
• Life of Pi – Ron Bartlett, D. M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin
• Lincoln – Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins
• Skyfall – Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson

 

Best Production Design

 

• Anna Karenina – Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Dan Hennah, Ra Vincent and Simon Bright
• Les Misérables – Eve Stewart and Anna Lynch-Robinson
• Life of Pi – David Gropman and Anna Pinnock
• Lincoln – Rick Carter and Jim Erickson

 

Best Cinemetography

 

• Anna Karenina – Seamus McGarvey
• Django Unchained – Robert Richardson
• Life of Pi – Claudio Miranda
• Lincoln – Janusz Kamiński
• Skyfall – Roger Deakins

 

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

 

• Hitchcock – Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane
• Les Misérables – Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell

 

Best Costume Design

 

• Anna Karenina – Jacqueline Durran
• Les Misérables – Paco Delgado
• Lincoln – Joanna Johnston
• Mirror Mirror – Eiko Ishioka
• Snow White and the Huntsman – Colleen Atwood

 

Best Film Editing

 

• Argo – William Goldenberg
• Life of Pi – Tim Squyres
• Lincoln – Michael Kahn
• Silver Linings Playbook – Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers
• Zero Dark Thirty – Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg

 

Best Visual Effects

 

• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White
• Life of Pi – Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott
• Marvel’s The Avengers – Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick
• Prometheus – Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill
• Snow White and the Huntsman – Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson

The Master

A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future – until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader.

Paul Thomas Anderson [Magnolia, There Will Be Blood] has a remarkable talent for making movies in the same general style while still having each one be incredibly unique and different, not only from his other films but anyone’s films. His slow, deliberate, and simple stylings are far from the Hollywood norm, and it’s too bad that he takes so much time between movies. He does have one slated for 2014, also starring Joaquin Phoenix [Gladiator, Walk the Line], a detective drama set in 1960’s California.

The Deep Blue Sea

The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.

Netflix: Instant Watch

There has always been an interest in the back of my mind somewhere for English theatre and early to mid 1900’s Europe. I loved Midnight in Paris so much because that would be a top three genie’s wish for me, to make that trip back in time. So when I saw that Tom Hiddleston, born and raised in England studying acting and classic humanities, was in such a genre film, I jumped at the chance to fulfill my interests. Hiddleston is best known [in this country] for playing the antagonist Loki in Thor and The Avengers. He landed the original role in Thor after working with director Kenneth Branaugh, another classic enthusiast, in some British TV productions. Hiddleston has always had a connection to classic theatre, and I’ve been waiting to see a non-comic book film of his, both in the past and the future.