2013 Oscar Predictions

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• amir | Fri Feb 08 09:25:51 EST 2013Reply

  Picture: Argo or Lincoln, either is fine with me, great movies!!
  Director: Steven Speilberg, only because Ben Affleck isnt nominated
  Actor: Daniel Day Lewis, he only does Oscar worthy movies
  Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, you talent and Oscars like her
  Supporting Actor: Tommy Lee Jones, hands down, better performance than Lewis in Lincoln
  Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, veteran actress, probably only time she'll win, and she cut all her hair off for this movie.

• Shaun | Thu Feb 07 19:54:16 EST 2013Reply

  @ Jay
  I agree with you.

• HONOR THE TRUE WINNER | Wed Feb 06 21:07:27 EST 2013Reply

  You gotta watch LIFE OF PI at least once [and then THINK about it even more], and you would realize that this film has to be the BEST PICTURE. It has all the great ingredients to win this accolade [hope The Academy get it right this time].
  
  Art, Technology, Storytelling, All perfectly and beautifully blended together. It has such Great depth that makes you want to watch it over and over and over and over again, in a long, long, long, long time to come.
  
  It's like listening to John Lennon. It's like slowly peeling an onion to find out what's in the core, whilst tears slowly trickle down.
  
  Anyway, it doesn't really matter to me whether it wins any Oscars. @laurelhero

• Michael M. | Wed Feb 06 20:45:07 EST 2013Reply

  Academy award for best director/picture: Ang Lee "Life of Pi".
  Wait, watch, ponder.

• Jay | Wed Feb 06 16:22:39 EST 2013Reply

  *****My Picks (Not Predictions)*****
  
  Best Makeup and Hairstyling - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
  
  Best Visual Effects - Life of Pi
  
  Best Sound Editing - Life of Pi
  
  Best Sound Mixing - Les Miserables
  
  Best Original Score - Life of Pi
  
  Best Original Song - Skyfall
  
  Best Animated Short - Paperman
  
  Best Live Action Short - Curfew
  
  Best Costume Design - Anna Karenina
  
  Best Production Design - Life of Pi
  
  Best Film Editing - Zero Dark Thirty
  
  Best Cinematography - Life of Pi
  
  Best Animated Feature - Frankenweenie
  
  Best Documentary Short Subject - Inocente
  
  Best Documentary Feature - The Invisible War
  
  Best Foreign Language Film - Amour
  
  Best Adapted Screenplay - Lincoln
  
  Best Original Screenplay - Moonrise Kingdom
  
  Best Supporting Actress - Anne Hathaway for Les Miserables
  
  Best Supporting Actor - Phillip Seymor Hoffman for The Master
  
  Best Actress - Emanuelle Riva for Amour
  
  Best Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln
  
  Best Director - Ang Lee for Life of Pi
  
  Best Picture - Life of Pi

• HONOR THE TRUE WINNER | Tue Feb 05 23:26:49 EST 2013Reply

  IF race/ethnicity of its nominees is one of the influencing factors in determining the Winners, then sadly The Academy will lose its meaning and its place/role as the ultimate representation of GLOBAL films recognition. @laurelhero

• Alfredo | Sun Feb 03 17:04:45 EST 2013Reply

  No Hobbit?
  Why? Its better then most of these movies.

• Aaron | Fri Feb 01 19:59:50 EST 2013Reply

  Awful movies and overrated performences. An 9 year old girl can get a nomination but not impressive and powerful actresses like Marion Cotillard or Rachel Weis? Poor Naomi was great but its between the PR ladies like Lawrence and Chastain. Terrible. The Academy has losts its touch.

• plainsimplejake | Tue Jan 29 13:41:01 EST 2013Reply

  WHAT ABOUT THE SHORTS?!?

• Max Gratelli | Mon Jan 28 19:59:40 EST 2013Reply

  This is bull, Django Unchained was the best movie and so was Zero Dark Thirty, Licoln sucked ball sack

• Joseph daniel | Tue Jan 22 15:27:57 EST 2013Reply

  I really thought that dicaprio this year is gonna have at least a nomination for his performance in django unchained. he is simply brillant, but it looks that the academy has his favorites... I´m just saying... but at same christopher waltz, that deserve also his nomination, dicarpio dieserve this nomination.

• Ariel | Sat Jan 19 19:49:35 EST 2013Reply

  My Prediction
  Best Picture: Lincoln (30%)
  Best Director: Steven Spielberg (60%)
  Best Actor: Daniel Day Lewis (80%)
  Best Actress: Jessica Chastain (40%)
  Best Supporting Actor: Tommy Lee Jones (30%)
  Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway (100%)
  Best Foreign Language Film: Amour (95%)
  Best Animated Feature: Frankenweenie (40%)
  Best Cinematography: Life of Pi (50%)
  Best Film Editing: Zero Dark Thirty (30%)
  Best Production design: Les Miserables (50%)
  Best Costume Design: Anna Karenina (60%)
  Best Original Song: Suddenly, Les Miserables (50%)
  Best Original Score: Life of Pi (80%)
  Best Visual Effects: Life of Pi (70%)
  Best Makeup: The Hobbit (50%)
  
  Predicted that Lincoln will win 5, Life of Pi win 3, Zero Dark Thirty win 2, Les Miserables win 2!

• Helmer Oster | Wed Jan 16 23:04:22 EST 2013Reply

  We have actors like Meryl Streep and Daniel Day Lewis. Then we have personalities like
  Sally Field and Denzel Washington. Distinction and versatility vs. been there, seen that!!

• Danny93 | Tue Jan 15 12:22:28 EST 2013Reply

  I really like all the nominations, maybe because im not a fanboy of a specific franchise - to me TDKR was shit compared to The Dark Knight, Hobbit was shit compared to TLOTR, and Cloud Atlas was shit compared to anything it made no sense. And something tells me the people defending Cloud, hated the tree of life, last year so lets not b cynical. And also the girl fr beasts was great, she deserved it more than Mirren who would b only a "filler" like Meryl. If anything I would drop watts for cottillard. N director I would drop David for Kathryn not Ben. I pick Life of Pi to win because if they award Argo they would look more followers than leaders so they won't do that. N Lincoln is too divisive.
  
  Life of Pi
  Steven Spieldberg
  Daniel D. Lewis
  Jennifer Lawrence
  Amour (screenplay)
  Lincoln (screenplay)
  Alan arkin
  Anne Hathaway

• Roope | Tue Jan 15 08:54:38 EST 2013Reply

  The Oscar's will match the Globes in the major categories with Haneke replacing Affleck for Best Director. Mark my words.

• bredwill | Mon Jan 14 00:47:56 EST 2013Reply

  Argo movie deserve in Oscar best movies categories.Argo is based on a unique story.i like this movie.
  http://www.rsmoviez.com/watch-argo.html

• becky parrish | Sun Jan 13 15:35:56 EST 2013Reply

  Mind Boggling! How in the hell could a movie be nominated for Best Movie and it's director not be nominated for Best Director????????? That is a complete contradiction.
  Hello, Quentin Tarantino for Django, Ben Affleck for Argo, etc!!!!!
  Outrageous, the Academy needs to get their act and logic together, even if it means changing the election process!

• Coconut | Mon Jan 21 14:35:28 EST 2013

  Actually I think you need to get your logic together. Since there are ten best picture nominations, but only five best director nominations, it's mathematically impossible for all directors of a "best picture" movie to be nominated for best director.

• becky parrish | Sun Jan 13 15:35:54 EST 2013Reply

  Mind Boggling! How in the hell could a movie be nominated for Best Movie and it's director not be nominated for Best Director????????? That is a complete contradiction.
  Hello, Quentin Tarantino for Django, Ben Affleck for Argo, etc!!!!!
  Outrageous, the Academy needs to get their act and logic together, even if it means changing the election process!

• becky parrish | Sun Jan 13 15:34:45 EST 2013Reply

  Mind Boggling! How in the hell could a movie be nominated for Best Movie and it's director not be nominated for Best Director????????? That is a complete contradiction.
  Hello, Quentin Tarantino for Django, Ben Affleck for Argo, etc!!!!!
  Outrageous, the Academy needs to get their act and logic together, even if it means changing the election process!

• Girl | Sat Jan 12 17:07:38 EST 2013Reply

  Where is The Hobbit?? Why only 3 nominations?! :(

• Ross | Sat Jan 12 15:53:48 EST 2013Reply

  The academy really has gone to shit, as this year's lot have proven. Not a single nomination for TDKR, Cloud Atlas or The Raid. Silver Linings Playbook got nominated in best picture, director, screenplay and all four acting categories, and it was average at best. Marion Cotillard wasn't nominated for Rust & Bone. The Hobbit wasn't nominated for Original score. And, why do the academy feel the need to consistently ignore Christopher Nolan? Memento, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and Inception are consistently considered amoung the best films of the 2000s, and only one of them (Inception) even got a best picture nom, and he hasn't had a single best director nom. The only decent year for the academy in recent memory was 2003 (when Return Of The King won 11 out of 11).

• Jack | Thu Feb 07 18:57:15 EST 2013

  Because unfortunately, after recent successes of The Artist and Slumdog Millionaire, it seems the academy feels it prudent that they MUST nominate at least one indie/ foreign language film. Dunno why, really. Just got back from watching django unchained at the pics, if Licoln beats tarantino for best screenplay, than the oscars can go fuck themselves for all i care

• Luis | Sun Jan 20 06:03:24 EST 2013

  Cloud Atlas is piss poor movie. The Hobbit was entertaining, but nowhere near its predecessors or the movies actually nominated.

• londa | Sun Jan 13 00:10:12 EST 2013

  I don't agree with the Batman movies( They were overrated big time) But the Hobbit was good. LOTR was fantastic. Its far more memorable then most movies nominated anyways.
  I also agree that the Academy has gone really bad. I mean nominating an 8 year old girl for Best Actress??? Have you seen Beasts of the Souther nWild? its an awful movie. The little girl was just reciting lines. She was not 'acting'! If anything the father did real acting and he was good. How come he didn't get a nomination?

• Oalid Islam | Sat Jan 12 02:47:42 EST 2013Reply

  wanna keep intouch

• oli | Thu Jan 10 21:15:07 EST 2013Reply

  I was not the hugest fan of Lincoln, at all. I am really wishing Argo got more nominations, it was a great movie, I wish Ben Affleck would have gotten nominated as Best Director for Argo. It makes me sad...

• Chris | Thu Jan 10 21:12:43 EST 2013Reply

  The best part of the actual nominations being announced is that we get to compare them side-by-side with your wacky predictions and see how wrong you were (schadenfreude). But you've deprived us of this opportunity and committed an act of journalistic incompetence by replacing your predictions with nominations and winner predictions instead of placing the new information where it belongs, in a separate article.

• Sylvie | Thu Jan 10 16:10:35 EST 2013Reply

  Javier Bardem in Skyfall? Could there actually be a supporting actor Oscar nomination for a Bond film? NO WAY! Whatever... I enjoy a lot his acting, and 'Silva' was such an amazing character to watch.

• Sharpe | Thu Jan 10 11:19:26 EST 2013Reply

  The Hobbit only a couple of nominations? The world has gone mad!!

• Joanna | Wed Jan 09 21:08:52 EST 2013Reply

  ,,The Hobbit" is the best movie I've seen this year. Richard Armitage is amazing :) ,,The Hobbit" should be nominated in many categories!

• Jo | Wed Jan 09 21:13:51 EST 2013

  Richard Armitage, Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis - one of them should have a chance for Oscar :) Great preformances in Hobbit.

• Jennifer | Tue Jan 08 08:25:36 EST 2013Reply

  I think that Django Unchained should win best picture! Not only does it have solid acting, direction, plot and a fantastic original songs, but because of its controversial subject matter and the fact that it sticks tue to the days without backing away from the violence or the terrible ways white people treated black people. If it wins, the academy awards will have a new standed of how visually and verbally graphic and explicit a movie can be. Well that's MO anyway!!!

• Grace | Mon Jan 07 01:21:14 EST 2013Reply

  I think its quite possible Les Miserables could lead the nominations... It is almost a lock in 9 categories because of its acting and the technical aspects. I really hope Eddie Redmayne joins Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman as a contender for the acting categories!

• teacher | Sun Jan 06 05:40:54 EST 2013Reply

  Zero Dark Thirty is a predicted favourite, but CIA people and the special committee may seek to ensure that the picture be banned from the competition. It is theoretically possible to interpret the story and plot more liberally and differently than it is immediately suggested. If you watch it very closely, you will see things that are ostensibly obvious (CIA girls have it harder) are not so very obvious. What you think is regular stuff for American patriots may be seen as an elaborate conspiracy theory: if you watch it very, very closely, you will probably see there was more than one "human error" committed there. The ending of the movie (eg intentional and effective or ineffective, depending on how you interpret the picture; was Maya the only agent supposed to ID the X before he disappeared without a trace? ) suggests and shows there may be more to it than the eye can see. Bigelow is smarter than you think. She should win again.

• ruth | Sat Jan 05 21:30:38 EST 2013Reply

  I have seen most of these movies. Les Miserable is the best. It is a mastpiece. Hugh jackman deserves to be best actor. Anne and Eddie should be best support actress and actor. It should be the best picture. I will watch it again and read the book again. Buy the dvd in the future.

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• GERARD KENNELLY | Sat Jan 05 20:43:46 EST 2013Reply

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• Fant | Sat Jan 05 19:43:27 EST 2013Reply

  The hobbit should get something, it was brilliant. TDKR is overrated crap. Funny how all the reviews said its was gonna snag major award but it hasn't been nomiated for any award lately.

• Paul | Sun Jan 06 23:48:27 EST 2013

  Top Ten's AFI, Top Ten's Southeastern Film Critics and Critics Choice not Best Picture, but yes Best Action Film.

• GERARD KENNELLY | Sat Jan 05 20:46:59 EST 2013

  i agree
  when i saw TDKR in the cinema i felt very let down

• todd | Sat Jan 05 18:29:33 EST 2013Reply

  from my movie blog, where my predictions in the six major categories stand currently. I'll do final update Wednesday:
  
  http://toddmthatcher.wordpress.com/2012/12/27/the-state-of-the-oscar-race-updated/

• Ross | Sat Jan 05 16:04:10 EST 2013Reply

  My predictions:
  Picture - Life Of Pi
  Director - Kathryn Bigelow (ZDT)
  Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
  Actress - Jennifer Lawrence (SLB)
  Supporting Actor - Phillip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)
  Supporting Actress - Anne Hathaway (Les Mis)
  Screenplay (Original) - The Master
  Screenplay (Adapted) - Argo
  Score - Howard Shore (The Hobbit)
  
  ...And why I want to win
  Picture - ZDT
  Director - Christopher Nolan (TDKR)
  Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
  Actress - Marion Cotillard (Rust & Bone)
  Supporting Actor - Sir Michael Caine (TDKR)
  Supporting Actress - Don't really mind
  Screenplay (Original) - ZDT
  Screenplay (Adapted) - Cloud Atlas
  Score - Howard Shore (The Hobbit)

• teacher | Fri Jan 04 15:10:00 EST 2013Reply

  Let's get serious! Lincoln, Les Mis, Argo et al are just little funny jokes when compared with ZTD.

• Jess | Fri Jan 04 01:42:46 EST 2013Reply

  Anyone know who will announce the oscar noms this year?

• Stephen | Sat Jan 05 13:59:37 EST 2013

  I believe they announce them on Jan. 10.

• dumbassindiewire@morons..com | Wed Jan 02 17:47:31 EST 2013Reply

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• Ford | Wed Jan 02 07:54:17 EST 2013Reply

  I'd never seen the stageplay but was blown away by Les Mis the movie. IMHO: Hugh Jackman ought to get Best Actor for Les Mis; Anne Hathaway Best Actress Les Mis; Samantha Barks Best Supporting Actress Les Mis (would be a terrible shame if they put Hathaway and Barks both into this category against each other); Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Hair and Makeup, Best Costumes, Best Original Song, Best Sound Editing, Best Production Design = all Les Mis. I've seen most of the other main contenders and think Daniel Day Lewis could/should possibly beat out Hugh Jackman for Best Actor.

• NameHoney | Tue Jan 22 12:44:46 EST 2013

  Your Comment I have seen the musical many time. Les Mis is my favorite musical of all times. This said I have to say that the movie was incredible! I have never that kind of emotion and spirit of the soul ever in a stage production. The movie started and my husband, grandson and I were drawn into the story and the deep emotion and thinking of nothing but what the performers were bringing to the screen for over 2 hours. Bravo!

• RC3 | Wed Jan 09 10:03:58 EST 2013

  @Ford,
  To give you an idea how Les Mis was sung (played) in musical theater get a copy of the 10th Anniversay Concert (The Dream Cast).
  Or just checked youtube... Bring Him Home Colm Wilkinson, Stars Philip Quast, Javert's Suicide Philip Quast, Who Am I? 24601 Colm Wilkinson, Master of The House Alum Armstrong, On My Own Lea Salonga , (On My Own Frances Ruffelle), Empty Chairs And Empty Tables Michael Ball, One Day More 10th Anniversary.

• RC3 | Wed Jan 09 09:54:45 EST 2013

  I think only Anne Hathaway should be nominated from this Les Mis. Eddie Redmayne did a good job playing Marius but the Supporting Actor Category being always the toughest, to even get nominated will be a surprise.
  Hugh Jackman did good on the acting part, but the singing part is not quite good.
  The problem with Les Mis... Colm Wilkinson, Philip Quast, Alun Armstrong (etc!) set the bar too high it's almost impossible to recreate it masterfully.

• Sammy Trujillo | Fri Jan 04 18:43:04 EST 2013

  Les Mis does not have a chance at any major award, except Supporting Actress. It doesn't maatter how "blown away" you were. The movie was not well received by critics. It currently has a 70% on rotten tomatoes and a 58% among "Top Critics"
  
  Now for your minor awards: Makeup: Possibly Les Mis. I see The Hobbit or Lincoln winning as well.
  Costumes: This one is even less certain for Les Mis. Ana Karenina will win this.
  Original Song: This one will win for lack of competition.
  Sound Editing: Skyfall will have this one. Sorry. I didn't like Skyfall, but they definitely had the best
  Production Design: Ana Karenina or Lincoln will take this. Production design was not that impressive in Les Mis. Hell, even The Hobbit had better.
  
  Hugh Jackman might get nominated, but he will certainly not win. It isn't Day-Lewis vs Jackman but rather Day-Lewis vs Phoenix.

• Film Fan | Thu Jan 03 22:58:33 EST 2013

  Anne Hathaway will not be nominated for best actress, she did not have enough screen time to be accepted in that category plus for the rest of the awards she has been placed in supporting (they have to submit their names they aren't just chosen). Barks has a chance but Hathaway will probably win. Lewis is an amazing actor (Foreverplaid you should watch some of his films, he is brilliant) and he was so beyond fantastic in Lincoln. However Jackman does have a chance. He was so very good and he is running a great campaign. It will be interesting to see what the results are for the Globes and BAFTAs are in this category.

• ForeverPlaid | Wed Jan 02 15:41:52 EST 2013

  I have never seen a Daniel Day-Lewis film and thus I have nothing against the man, but I don't think he's half as rock solid as his fans think-if only because he's already won two leading Oscars already. Am I saying he does or doesn't deserve it? Absolutely not, but as only two actors in the history of the Oscars have won three (and at least one was for supporting both times), I think Hugh Jackman, Day-Lewis's rival for the award, will get it. Based on Oscar history and his own jaw-dropping performance.

• Autumn | Tue Jan 01 02:32:52 EST 2013Reply

  I read through most of these comments and I'm blown away at the lack of chatter about Les Mis? I personally am a huge fan of a lot of films this year (Lawless, Les Mis, The Hobbit, Lincoln, Argo, the list goes on), but Les Mis has been so hyped and talked about...where's the rallying support? Come on, Les Mis fans!

• Martins | Sun Dec 30 13:37:46 EST 2012Reply

  Shocking! Brilliant! Nicole Kidman is always reinventing herself. She deserves the Oscar nomination for versatility and the risks assumed... Sexy, Wild, Exotic. Charlotte Bless is one of the characters for the history of contemporary cinema. Art

• GERARD KENNELLY | Sat Jan 05 20:48:40 EST 2013

  i am blown away by her work in DOGVILLE
  
  TO DIE FOR was amazing too
  
  and i like EYES WIDE SHUT
  
  but DOGVILLE is her best

• Cruella | Thu Jan 03 06:11:12 EST 2013

  sorry but I cant take her seriously with all that botox in her face. She literally struggles with emoting now. So stupid freezing your face when your an actress!

• Movie Truth | Sun Dec 30 01:21:08 EST 2012Reply

  I don't know why so many people are pushing for The Avengers to get any oscars other than visual effects. The movie was well recieved because Whedon did the perfect job of making a fun and enjoyable super hero movie. It wasn't too over the top, was witty, true to its origins, and not too campy or predictable. Many past super hero movies just all in all aren't fantastic and have many flaws. Whedon finally made a movie in this genre that stayed on the right track and was fun at the same time! However it does not deserve all the awards in the world my dear fan boys/girls. It was a good summer blockbuster, not a well crafted (basically piece of art) like these other films. Please get that through your head. The directing was nice but nothing special, and the acting (minua Tom Hiddleston who should have atleast gotten a golden globe nom) was well done but not oscar worthy what so ever. The Dark Knight Rises is a different story. Yes another super hero movie, but it dove into a lot different themes and explored some fantastic things. It would be nice to see this film grab a several nominations because of how well made it was and basically how utterly brilliant and innovative this entire trilogy is. It would also be a nice change for the academy to open up to something like this, but I don't think they will. And on a final note I just want to say it is so annoying to see several people mention that many of the possible nominees are one that not many people have heard of. You are kidding right? Lincoln, Argo, Le Miz, Django, Life of Pi, and Zero Dark Thirty are all very well known movies. Open your eyes folks!

• Riki | Sat Jan 05 19:41:07 EST 2013

  There is not much of a diffrence between The Dark Knigtht Rises and The Avengers. They are both superhero movies that are good but not Oscar materail. TDK is def not Oscar material lol. Its big time overrrated. It hasn't even been nomiated for GG or SAGS or any other major before the Oscars. I doubt it will get into the Oscars for anything other then visaul effects. I clearly don't knwo why everyone likes to dismiss the other superhero flicsk but act like TDK is Oscar gold or soemthing. Its really not.

• NameVernon Sears | Fri Dec 28 15:44:17 EST 2012Reply

  Your CommentI think that Lincoln will have a big sweep including best actor , best supporting actor , best diretor , best picture , best original score , best editing , best make-up and best cinema-photography

• erick | Wed Dec 26 14:22:18 EST 2012Reply

  i really tink the life of pi should win for best picture

• Jess | Thu Dec 27 14:31:29 EST 2012

  You are kidding right? Pi was so well produced!

• Mike | Wed Dec 26 19:51:00 EST 2012

  Life of PI was a good story but it is not a well produced film

• Tiffani | Sun Dec 23 21:28:21 EST 2012Reply

  No mention of the Avengers of any amazing actor/actress in it?! Blasphemy!

• Jon | Thu Dec 27 18:10:05 EST 2012

  Oscars are meaningless and Bias. A superhero genre will never win anything outside of effects. Most of the oscar winners are movies that suck anyway. They are mostly the movies that a lot of people don't know of. Movies can be enjoyable. But only the technically excellent movies will win. It's like looking at, a drummer for instance. Someone may be an AMAZING technically skilled drummer, better than anyone. However, technicallity isn't the only thing that makes a drummer. In terms of technical skill., Neil Peart drums circles around John Bonham. However, technicality isn't the only thing that makes a drummer great. John Bonham's power, groove and influence is uncontested. However, due to neil peart being "technically" better, he wins the "oscar", when in reality, Bonham IS the better drummer. It's like that. The technically sound drummer will win best picture oscar. Most of the movies that would be nominated for best picture, outside of lincoln, guarentee you, 7 out 10 people didn't even see them, or didnt want to, or didn't enjoy them. Of all the predicted, the only ones I enjoyed was Lincoln, the others I didn't enjoy, and didn't even remember them. A movie like the dark knight rises (end of one of the greatest trilogies ever, mind you) , prometheus, which was mind blowing, and avengers, which is the start to a new franchise, not to mentioned, united what marvel studios has done (no other movies have created a shared universe, marvel comics have literally expanded their 616 comic universe into another alternate universe, the ultimates, and now a film universe, marvel comics officially has a film universe, and avengers is the film that brought all these characters together, and makes this movie universe work. THAT is what is great about the avengers, and it should win something. What it has done is simply amazing, never mind the money and fun, the fact that marvel sucessfully has created an ever expanding movie universe for marvel characters, is unpresidented. No other film studio has done such a thing, and it is probably one of the biggest achievements ever.)
  of course "film critics" don't recognize this

• Film Fan | Thu Dec 27 14:33:28 EST 2012

  Really? I mean the movie was fantastic and the acting was good but not Oscar worthy what so ever. The only one that comes close is Hiddleston as Loki but he doesn't stand a chance next to other possible nominees.

• david | Fri Dec 21 19:47:55 EST 2012Reply

  Indiewire is predicting, with these acting nomination predictions, that for the first time in Academy award history only 2 acting nominees will be first time nominees. The existing record for one year is 5, and in a typical year about 10 of the acting nominees are first time nominees. When trying to predict acting nominees look for people who've never been nominated before.

• Alwyn | Fri Dec 21 17:39:14 EST 2012Reply

  Not even one mention of The Grey or Liam Neeson - absolutely shocking if you consider the performance he gave, and the quality of this film.

• GERARD KENNELLY | Sat Jan 05 20:50:35 EST 2013

  if that was meryl streep in THE GREY ...
  they would throw oscars at her

• james forsyth | Mon Dec 31 23:25:32 EST 2012

  liam neeson made that movie great, if he wasnt in that movie it wouldnt of went to theaters. he is the (mva) most valuable actor of the year.

• MARIAM | Fri Dec 21 16:37:53 EST 2012Reply

  I really want "The Impossible" to win all of it's nomination.. Yes, I am in love with this film. It was a very sad and touching story. It really gets you thinking on what you have and makes you appreciate life even more. The acting was also beyond perfect. Every deatil was just spectacular. I think that the movie deserves to win. I mean I liked almost all the other movies, but "The Impossible" is based on a true event and a real family. It is something real, not just some fake thing that you can only dream or think about. It could have happened to anyone. I totally nominate it to work; it's a masterpeice.

• Art Effect | Wed Dec 19 15:03:40 EST 2012Reply

  So excited for the ceremony this year! And what will take home Best Picture? Hmm... we wrote some predictions on our blog – check it out! http://blog.shoparteffect.com/2012/12/our-bold-oscar-predictions-for-leading.html

• Stuart O'Connor | Tue Dec 18 16:33:36 EST 2012Reply

  End of Watch.....could it be possible that 2 male actors in a leading role in the same movie win the Oscar........ Gyllenhall and Pena......if neither are up for the award Ill stop watching movies...as for David Ayers he has taken Cop movie making to a whole new level......unbelieveable serious edge of seat stuff

• GERARD KENNELLY | Sat Jan 05 20:52:03 EST 2013

  last year
  Jonah Hill was the ''surprise'' nomination for Moneyball ... this year it will be michael pena for End Of Watch best supp actor

• ed lichtenfeld | Tue Dec 18 13:12:00 EST 2012Reply

  how many oscars will be presented in 2013 on 2/24?

• António Freitas | Mon Dec 17 21:42:38 EST 2012Reply

  Well, here are my predictions.
  Movie: Argo, Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty, Silver Linings Playbook, Life of Pi, Les Miserables, Django Unchained. Lincoln will win.
  Director: Steven Spielberg, Kathryn Bigelow, Ben Afflek, Paul Thomas Anderson, Ang Lee. Paul Thomas Anderson will win
  Actor: Daniel Day Lewis, John Hawkes, Denzel Washington, Joaquin Phoenix, Bradley Cooper. Joaquin Phoenix will win, but the most beautiful work is John Hawkes
  Actress: Jessica Chastain, Naomi Wats, Jennifer Lawrence, Emmanuelle Riva, Marion Cotillard. Jessica Chastain, but i would like to see win Emmanuelle Riva
  We'll see ...

• zirku12 | Sat Dec 15 02:44:34 EST 2012Reply

  I think it is possible that "Amour" gets an best picture nomination, but it will lose against "the Untouchables" in best foreign film categorie at the Sscars . The Chances are small, but it is realistic, like 20%-30 % . The Untouchables won`t get an best picture nomination for sure . Sounds weird but it could really happen !

• declan | Thu Dec 13 15:21:14 EST 2012Reply

  ZDT wins and takes it all! It's going to be Bigelow again.

• Julie | Sat Dec 08 12:59:45 EST 2012Reply

  Because of your failure to acknowledge 2016 as a worthy documentary, I am choosing to snub the Academy. Our home will not be going to the theatre from now on and we will not be watching the awards on TV. We will also be encouraging all we know to boycott movies from now throughout 2013.

• DREW | Sun Dec 09 16:34:25 EST 2012

  Oh no!! What will Hollywood do? And the Academy Awards? I predict this will be the last year they are held.
  
  You have made a childish statement. Sounds like a tantrum to me.

• Eulalia Díaz Yagüe | Thu Dec 06 21:31:04 EST 2012Reply

  In my opinion as an expert on Reincarnation and Past Lifetimes, "Cloud Atlas" story does not reach the climax, it says "everything is connected" but does not show up any connection, only that the characters are played by the same actors in diffetent lifetimes, but there is no conductor issue so for me it was empty, it explains really nothing. It is nice to see but get to know our previous lifetimes and how they affect our present one is much more than that.

• Lautaro Lacoste | Thu Dec 06 11:31:44 EST 2012Reply

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• name | Wed Dec 05 16:51:20 EST 2012Reply

  SAME 5 MOVIES RECIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THIS SITE!

• Martin | Wed Dec 05 13:11:36 EST 2012Reply

  Check my predictions at http://www.mondoglam.com/search/label/Oscars

• omar | Wed Dec 05 05:59:39 EST 2012Reply

  in my opinion, matt damon should be at least among the list of best supporting actor

• Jean-Mike | Tue Dec 04 15:35:40 EST 2012Reply

  Am I the only person who thinks Cloud Atlas is being vastly undervalued? I think it should make the list for best adapted screenplay.

• Teri | Tue Jan 01 14:46:10 EST 2013

  No,you are not the only one; No one even got a chance to see Cloud Atlas because it was so poorly promoted. It was pulled from Chicago theaters in 2 weeks. Got 10 minute standing ovation at Cannes. I wonder why. It should win for best adapted screenplay, and best editing as well. Outrageously underrated because hardly anyone saw it, and those who did, didn't understand it.

• Bowen | Sat Dec 08 20:20:30 EST 2012

  So true!! Cannot believe it wasn't rated higher for best adapted screenplay :'(

• Bowen | Sat Dec 08 20:19:51 EST 2012

  So true!! Cannot believe it wasn't rated higher for best adapted screenplay :'(

• ZAC | Tue Nov 27 22:06:37 EST 2012Reply

  Do you guys hate Looper or something, I think that it will be a Best Picture nominee with 10 movies, and you guys listed TWENTY+ higher. Looper wasn't mentioned for that category OR Best Director. I strongly disagree. With this major gap in your predictions, everything else seems to be almost perfect. Thank you.

• Mark | Sat Nov 24 13:10:22 EST 2012Reply

  I would disagree with comments that Adele's "Skyfall" might be ineligible because the "Bond theme" is simply a chord progression that has been entirely re-orchestrated and used as the bass of the song. The melody is entirely original and so is the music, even though it features the iconic chord progression. If the Academy disqualified it on the basis of those chords, then they would have to meticulously search through EVERY song and EVERY piece of music considered from there on out for the category to see if there was a shared element... it's ridiculous and unfair. "Skyfall" is an iconic Bond song and an accomplishment in film music and deserves to be recognized as such. Also, didn't the 1st and 3rd LOTR original scores have a similar issue that was eventually and rightfully circumvented so that the 3rd film could win Best Original Score?

• Suzy | Sat Nov 24 03:16:00 EST 2012Reply

  I hope Spike Lee's Bad25 documentary will be nominated in the BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE category!