Only a couple of days to go and so it is time to put down my picks for the winners.
There is only one Best Picture nominee that I have not seen ("Beasts of the Southern Wild") which is disappointing but I'll make do.
It should be noted that these are the movies and people that I think will win rather than those that I think should win.
Sometimes they cross over which is of course the ideal situation.
*cough*Argo*cough*
There are some that I will not shift on and even though it is my suspicion that "Brave" will take out the Best Animated Feature category I cannot bring myself to pick it as I was so underwhelmed by it. "Wreck-it-Ralph" therefore gets my vote because I desperately want it to win and would rather back it even if it loses.
In terms of the easy to pick ones it doesn't get any more money in the bank than Daniel Day-Lewis for "Lincoln" as far as I am concerned.
I don't see the most nominated movie taking too many out as common sense will prevail and "Argo" should pick up the majors.
"Zero Dark Thirty" looks good for a few - not nearly as many as it deserves but the politics around this one have doomed it.
The left thinks it supports torture - the right thinks it casts doubt over America's actions.
The sensible see that as a sign it did something very right.
Sense isn't a huge feature this year otherwise Ben Affleck would have been nominated for Best Director but I am learning to make my peace with that.
On a similar note- no nomination for Nash Edgerton's excellent short film "Bear"?
Damn.
There is only one Best Picture nominee that I have not seen ("Beasts of the Southern Wild") which is disappointing but I'll make do.
It should be noted that these are the movies and people that I think will win rather than those that I think should win.
Sometimes they cross over which is of course the ideal situation.
*cough*Argo*cough*
There are some that I will not shift on and even though it is my suspicion that "Brave" will take out the Best Animated Feature category I cannot bring myself to pick it as I was so underwhelmed by it. "Wreck-it-Ralph" therefore gets my vote because I desperately want it to win and would rather back it even if it loses.
In terms of the easy to pick ones it doesn't get any more money in the bank than Daniel Day-Lewis for "Lincoln" as far as I am concerned.
I don't see the most nominated movie taking too many out as common sense will prevail and "Argo" should pick up the majors.
"Zero Dark Thirty" looks good for a few - not nearly as many as it deserves but the politics around this one have doomed it.
The left thinks it supports torture - the right thinks it casts doubt over America's actions.
The sensible see that as a sign it did something very right.
Sense isn't a huge feature this year otherwise Ben Affleck would have been nominated for Best Director but I am learning to make my peace with that.
On a similar note- no nomination for Nash Edgerton's excellent short film "Bear"?
Damn.
THE PICKS
| Best Motion Picture | |
| "Amour" "Argo" |
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| "Beasts of the Southern Wild" | |
| "Django Unchained" "Les Miserables" |
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| "Life of Pi" "Lincoln" |
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| "Silver Linings Playbook" "Zero Dark Thirty" MY PICK: "ARGO" | |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role | |
| Bradley Cooper | "Silver Linings Playbook" |
| Daniel Day-Lewis | "Lincoln" |
| Hugh Jackman | "Les Miserables" |
| Joaquin Phoenix | "The Master" |
| Denzel Washington | "Flight" |
| MY PICK: "DANIEL DAY-LEWIS" Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role |
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| Jessica Chastain | "Zero Dark Thirty" |
| Jennifer Lawrence | "Silver Linings Playbook" |
| Emmanuelle Riva | "Amour" |
| Quvenzhane Wallis | "Beasts of the Southern Wild" |
| Naomi Watts | "The Impossible" |
| MY PICK: JENNIFER LAWRENCE Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role |
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| Alan Arkin | "Argo" |
| Robert DeNiro | "Silver Linings Playbook" |
| Phillip Seymour Hoffman | "The Master" |
| Tommy Lee Jones | "Lincoln" |
| Christoph Waltz | "Django Unchained" |
| MY PICK: CHRISTOPH WALTZ Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role |
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| Amy Adams | "The Master" |
| Sally Field | "Lincoln" |
| Anne Hathaway | "Les Miserables" |
| Helen Hunt | "The Sessions" |
| Jacki Weaver | "Silver Linings Playbook" |
| MY PICK: ANNE HATHAWAY Best Achievment in Directing |
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| Michael Haneke | "Amour" |
| Ang Lee | "Life of Pi" |
| David O. Russell | "Silver Linings Playbook" |
| Steven Spielberg | "Lincoln" |
| Benh Zeitlin | "Beasts of the the Southern Wild" |
| MY PICK: STEVEN SPIELBERG Best Writing - Screenplay Original |
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| "Amour" | Michael Haneke |
| "Django Unchained" | Quentin Tarantino |
| "Flight" | John Gatins |
| "Moonrise Kingdom" | Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola |
| "Zero Dark Thirty" | Mark Boal |
| MY PICK: "DJANGO UNCHAINED" Best Writing - Screenplay Adapted |
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| "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 |
| MY PICK: "ARGO" Best Animated Feature |
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| "Brave" | Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman |
| "Frankenweenie" | Tim Burton |
| "ParaNorman" | Sam Fell, Chris Butler |
| "The Pirates! Band of Misfits" | Peter Lord |
| "Wreck-It-Ralph" | Rich Moore |
| MY PICK: "WRECK-IT-RALPH Best Foreign Language Film |
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| "Amour" | Austria |
| "War Witch" | Canada |
| "No" | Chile |
| "En kongelig affaere" | Denmark |
| "Kon-Tiki" | Norway |
| MY PICK: "AMOUR" Best Achievement in Cinematography |
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| "Anna Karenina" | Seamus McGarvey |
| "Django Unchained" | Robert Richardson |
| "Life of Pi" | Claudio Miranda |
| "Lincoln" | Janusz Kaminski |
| "Skyfall" | Roger Deakins |
| MY PICK: "LINCOLN" Best Achievement in Editing |
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| "Argo" | William Goldenberg |
| "Life of Pi" | Tim Squyres |
| "Lincoln" | Michael Kahn |
| "Silver Linings Playbook" | Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers |
| "Zero Dark Thirty" | William Goldenberg, Dylan Tichenor |
| MY PICK: "ZERO DARK THIRTY" Best Achievement in Production Design |
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| "Anna Karenina" | Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer |
| "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" | Dan Hennah, Ra Vincent, Simon Bright |
| "Les Miserables" | Eve Stewart, Anna Lynch-Robinson |
| "Life of Pi" | David Groupman, Anna Pinnock |
| "Lincoln" | Rick Carter, Jim Erickson |
| MY PICK: "ANNA KARENINA" Best Achievement in Costume Design |
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| "Anna Karenina" | Jacqueline Durran |
| "Les Miserables" | Paco Delgado |
| "Lincoln" | Joanna Johnston |
| "Mirror Mirror" | Eiko Ishioka |
| "Snow White and the Huntsman" | Colleen Atwood |
| MY PICK: "ANNA KARENINA" Best Achievement in Makeup & Hairstyling |
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| "Hitchcock" | Howard Berger, Peter Montagna, Martin Samuel |
| "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" | Peter King, Rick Findlater, Tami Lane |
| "Les Miserables" | Lisa Westcott, Julie Dartnell |
| MY PICK: "THE HOBBIT" Best Achievement in Music - Original Score |
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| "Anna Karenina" | Dario Marianelli |
| "Argo" | Alexandre Desplat |
| "Life of Pi" | Mychael Danna |
| "Lincoln" | John Williams |
| "Skyfall" | Thomas Newman |
| MY PICK: "LINCOLN" Best Achievement in Music - Original Song |
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| "Chasing Ice" | J Ralph - "Before My Time" |
| "Les Miserables" | Alain Boubill, Claude-Michel Schonberg, Herbert Kretzmer - "Suddenly" |
| "Life of Pi" | Mychael Danna, Bombay Jayshree -"Pi's Lullaby" |
| "Skyfall" | Adele, Paul Epworth - "Skyfall" |
| "Ted" | Walter Murphy, Seth MacFarlane - "Everybody Needs A Friend" |
| MY PICK: "SKYFALL" Best Achievement in Sound Mixing |
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| "Argo" | John T Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, Jose Antonio Garcia |
| "Les Miserables" | Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Simon Hayes |
| "Life of Pi" | Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill, Drew Kunin |
| "Lincoln" | Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom, Ron Judkins |
| "Skyfall" | Scott Millan, Greg P Russell, Stuart Wilson |
| MY PICK: "SKYFALL" Best Achievement in Sound Editing |
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| "Argo" | Erik Aadahl, Ethan Van der Ryn |
| "Django Unchained" | Wylie Stateman |
| "Life of Pi" | Eugene Gerty, Philip Stockton |
| "Skyfall" | Per Hallberg, Karen M Baker |
| "Zero Dark Thirty" | Paul N.J Ottosson |
| MY PICK: "SKYFALL" Best Achievement in Visual Effects |
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| "The Avengers" | Janek Sirrs, Jeff White,Guy Williams, Daniel Sudick |
| "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" | Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, R. Christopher White |
| "Life of Pi" | Bill Westenhofer, Guillame Rocheron, Erik De Boer, Donald Elliott |
| "Prometheus" | Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley, Martin Hill |
| "Snow White and the Huntsman" | Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Phil Brennan, Neil Corbould, Michael Dawson |
| MY PICK: "THE AVENGERS" Best Documentary - Feature |
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| "5 Broken Cameras" | Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi |
| "The Gatekeepers" | ** To be determined ** |
| "How To Survive A Plague | ** To be determined ** |
| "The Invisible War" | ** To be determined ** |
| "Searching For Sugar Man" | ** To be determined ** |
| MY PICK: "SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN" Best Documentary - Short Subject |
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| "Inocente" | Sean Fine, Andrea Nix |
| "Kings Point" | Sari Gilman, Jedd Wider |
| "Mondays at Racine" | Cynthia Wade, Robin Honan |
| "Open Heart" | Kief Davidson, Cori Shepherd Stern |
| "Redemption" | Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill |
| MY PICK: "MONDAYS AT RACINE" Best Short Film - Animated |
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| "Adam and Dog" | Minkyu Lee |
| "Fresh Guacamole" | PES |
| "Head Over Heels" | Timothy Reckart,Fodhia Cronin O'Reilly |
| "Paperman" | John Kahrs |
| "The Simpsons: The Longest Daycare" | David Silverman |
| MY PICK: "ADAM AND DOG" Best Short Film - Live Action |
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| "Asad" | Bryan Buckley, Mino Jarjoura |
| "Buzkashi Boys" | Sam French, Ariel Nasr |
| "Curfew" | Shawn Christiensen |
| "Dood van een Schaduw" | Tom Van Avermaet, Ellen De Waele |
| "Henry" | Yan England |
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