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It's that time of year again! Here are my predictions for 21 of the 24 categories (excluding Best Live Action Short, Best Animated Short, and Best Documentary Short) recognized at the 85th Annual Academy Awards, one of the most heated competitions in recent memory.
Best Picture
Winner: Argo
Possible: Lincoln, Life of Pi
Unlikely: Silver Linings Playbook, Les Misérables, Zero Dark Thirty, Amour, Django Unchained, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Best Director (VERY close race)
Winner: Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Possible: Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Unlikely: David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook; Michael Haneke, Amour; Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Winner: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Possible: None
Unlikely: Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook; Hugh Jackman, Les Misérables; Denzel Washington, Flight; Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Winner: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Possible: Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Unlikely: Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty; Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild; Naomi Watts, The Impossible
Best Actor in a Supporting Role (VERY close race)
Winner: Robert de Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
Possible: Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln; Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Unlikely: Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master; Alan Arkin, Argo
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner: Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables
Possible: None
Unlikely: Sally Field, Lincoln; Helen Hunt, The Sessions; Amy Adams, The Master; Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook
Best Original Screenplay (VERY close race)
Winner: Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty
Possible: Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
Unlikely: Michael Haneke, Amour; Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola, Moonrise Kingdom; John Gatins, Flight
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: Chris Terrio, Argo
Possible: Tony Kushner, Lincoln; David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Unlikely: Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild; David Magee, Life of Pi
Best Animated FIlm
Winner: Wreck-It Ralph
Possible: Brave
Unlikely: Frankenweenie; Paranorman; The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Best Documentary Feature
Winner: Searching for Sugar Man
Possible: None
Unlikely: The Gatekeepers; The Invisible War; How to Survive a Plague; 5 Broken Cameras
Best Foreign Feature Film
Winner: Amour, Austria
Possible: None
Unlikely: Kon-Tiki, Norway; No, Chile; A Royal Affair, Denmark; War Witch, Canada
Best Original Song
Winner: "Skyfall" from Skyfall - Music and Lyrics by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
Possible: "Suddenly" from Les Misérables - Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil
Unlikely: "Pi's Lullaby" from Life of Pi - Music by Mychael Danna, Lyrics by Bombay Jayashiri; "Everybody Needs a Best Friend" from Ted - Music by Walter Murphy, Lyrics by Seth MacFarlane; "Before My Time" from Chasing Ice - Music and Lyrics by J. Ralph
Best Original Score
Winner: Life of Pi, Mychael Danna
Possible: Lincoln, John Williams
Unlikely: Anna Karenina, Dario Marianelli; Skyfall, Thomas Newman; Argo, Alexandre Desplat
Best Cinematography
Winner: Life of Pi
Possible: Skyfall
Unlikely: Lincoln; Anna Karenina; Django Unchained
Best Costume Design
Winner: Anna Karenina
Possible: Les Misérables
Unlikely: Lincoln; Snow White and the Huntsman; Mirror Mirror
Best Film Editing
Winner: Argo
Possible: None
Unlikely: Lincoln; Zero Dark Thirty; Life of Pi; Silver Linings Playbook
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Winner: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Possible: Les Misérables
Unlikely: Hitchcock
Best Production Design
Winner: Anna Karenina
Possible: Les Misérables; Lincoln
Unlikely: Life of Pi; The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Best Sound Editing (VERY close race)
Winner: Skyfall
Possible: Life of Pi; Zero Dark Thirty
Unlikely: Argo; Django Unchained
Best Sound Mixing
Winner: Les Misérables
Possible: Life of Pi
Unlikely: Skyfall; Argo; Lincoln
Best Visual Effects
Winner: Life of Pi
Possible: None
Unlikely: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey; Marvel's The Avengers; Prometheus; Snow White and the Huntsman
Categories: None
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