This year's Oscar nominations were very surprising, especially in the Best Director field. My predictions as to who would get nominated were pretty good, but there were a couple of nominations that I should have gone with my gut instead of what other people were saying (Jacki Weaver in Silver Linings Playbook, Argo for Best Score, etc.). Now here are my Oscar 2013 predictions on who will win come Oscar Night (with a complete list of the nominees).
Best Picture
Amour
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
Best Director
Michael Haneke - Amour
Ang Lee - Life of Pi
David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook
Steven Spielberg - Lincoln
Benh 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 Animated Film
Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph
Best Foreign Film
Amour (Austria)
Kon-Tiki (Norway)
No (Chile)
A Royal Affair (Denmark)
War Witch (Canada)
Best Documentary
5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a Plague
The Invisible War
Searching for Sugar Man
Best Original Screenplay
Amour
Django Unchained
Flight
Moonrise Kingdom
Zero Dark Thirty
Best Adapted Screenplay
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Best Original Song
"Before My Time" from Chasing Ice
"Suddenly" from Les Misérbles
"Pi's Lullaby" from Life of Pi
"Skyfall" from Skyfall
"Everybody Needs a Best Friend" from Ted
Best Costume Design
Anna Karenina
Les Misérables
Lincoln
Mirror, Mirror
Snow White and the Huntsman
Best Original Score
Anna Karenina
Argo
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall
Best Cinematography
Anna Karenina
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall
Best Production Design
Anna Karenina
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Best Film Editing
Argo
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Hitchcock
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Misérables
Best Sound Editing
Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty
Best Sound Mixing
Argo
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall
Best Visual Effects
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Life of Pi
Marvel's The Avengers
Prometheus
Snow White and the Huntsman
Best Live-Action Short Film
Asad
Buzkashi Boys
Curfew
Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)
Henry
Best Animated Short Film
Adam and Dog
Fresh Guacamole
Head Over Heels
Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare"
Paperman
Best Documentary Short Film
Inocente
Kings Point
Mondays at Racine
Open Heart
Redemption
These are how many awards I predict each film to win (excluding shorts):
Life of Pi - 5
Argo -3
Les Misérables - 3
Anna Karenina - 2
Amour - 1
Django Unchained - 1
Lincoln - 1
Searching for Sugar Man - 1
Silver Linings Playbook - 1
Skyfall - 1
Wreck-It Ralph - 1
Zero Dark Thirty - 1
It looks like its going to be a pretty spread out year with a lot of films winning only one award, but I can be totally wrong.
