2013 Oscar Predicitons

I love to predict the Oscars, so here is my (constantly updated) list of potential 2013 Oscar nominees. Keep in mind, these are early predictions.

Best Picture
Zero Dark Thirty
Lincoln  
Les Miserables
Argo
Silver Linings Playbook
Django Unchained 
Life of Pi
Moonrise Kingdom 
The Master  
Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty
Ben Affleck - Argo 
Tom Hooper - Les Miserables
Steven Spielberg - Lincoln 
Ang Lee - Life of Pi

Best Actor
Daniel Day Lewis - Lincoln
Hugh Jackman - Les Miserables
Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook
Denzel Washington - Flight 
John Hawkes - The Sessions  

Best Actress
Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook
Naomi Watts - The Impossible  
Marion Coltiard - Rust and Bone
Helen Mirren - Hitchcock

Best Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained
Phillip Seymour Hoffman - The Master 
Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln
Robert De Niro - Silver Linings Playbook  
Javier Bardem - Skyfall

Best Supporting Actress
Anne Hathaway - Les Miserables
Helen Hunt - The Sessions
Sally Field - Lincoln
Amy Adams - The Master
Nicole Kidman - The Paperboy

Best Original Screenplay
Zero Dark Thirty
Django Unchained
Moonrise Kingdom
The Master 
Looper

Best Adapted Screenplay
Lincoln
The Silver Linings Playbook
Argo
The Perks of Being a Wallflower 
Life of Pi


Best Animated Film
Frankenweenie 
Wreck-It Ralph
Paranorman
Brave
The Rabbi's Cat

Best Foreign Language Film
Amour (Austria)
The Intouchables (France)
A Royal Affair (Denmark)
Kon-Tiki (Norway)
The Deep (Iceland)


Best Production Design*
Les Miserables 
Anna Karenina
Lincoln
Django Unchained 
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Best Cinematography
Life of Pi   
Skyfall
Les Miserables
Lincoln 
The Master


Best Costume Design
Anna Karenina
Les Miserables 
Cloud Atlas
Lincoln
Snow White and the Huntsmen

Best Editing
Zero Dark Thirty
Argo  
Lincoln
Les Miserables
Django Unchained

Best Makeup and Hairstyling**
Les Miserables
Lincoln 
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Best Score
Lincoln
Life of Pi
Anna Karenina
Cloud Atlas  
Beasts of the Southern Wild 

Best Song***
"Suddenly" from Les Miserables
"Skyfall" from Skyfall 
"Touch the Sky" from Brave
"Still Alive" from Paul Williams: Still Alive
"Learn Me Right" from Brave

Best Sound Editing
Zero Dark Thirty
The Dark Knight Rises
Skyfall
The Avengers
Life of Pi 

Best Sound Mixing
Les Miserables
Zero Dark Thrity 
The Avengers 
The Dark Knight Rises
Life of Pi

Best Visual Effects
Life of Pi
Cloud Atlas
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Avengers 
Prometheus

Best Animated Short
Paperman
Adam and Dog
Fall of the House of Usher
The Eagleman Stag
Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare

Best Documentary Short   
Open Heart
Mondays at Racine
Redemption
Education of Mohammad Hussein
Kings Fit

Best Livc Action Short
Death of a Shadow
Curfew
when you find me
Asad
The Night Shift Belongs to the Stars  

*Best Art Direction category changed to Best Production Design
** Best Makeup category changed to Best Makeup and Hairstyling
***Best Song category amended to guarantee five nominees in the category following last year's two nominees

2012 Oscar Predictions

Here is my list of my predicted 2012 Oscar nominees:
(Italicized is my prediction for winner and it is in the order I think they would win)
Best Picture: (since there will be anywhere between 5-10 actual nominees, I will list 10)
The Descendants
The Artist
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
War Horse
Midnight in Paris
The Help
Moneyball

Best Director:
Martin Scorsese (Hugo)
Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)
Alexander Payne (The Descendants)
Steven Spielberg (War Horse)
David Fincher (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo)

Best Actor:
George Clooney (The Descendants)
Jean Dujardin (The Artist)
Michael Fassbender (Shame)
Brad Pitt (Moneyball)
Leonardo DiCaprio (J. Edgar)

Best Actress:
Rooney Mara (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) 
Viola Davis (The Help)
Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn)
Tilda Swinton (We Need to Talk About Kevin)
Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)

Best Supporting Actor:
Albert Brooks (Drive)
Christopher Plummer (Beginners)
Max von Sydow (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
Kenneth Branagh (My Week with Marilyn)
Viggo Mortensen (A Dangerous Method)

Best Supporting Actress:
Jessica Chastain (The Help)
Shailene Woodley (The Descendants)
Octavia Spencer (The Help)
Berenice Bejo (The Artist)
Carey Mulligan (Shame)

Best Original Screenplay:
Midnight in Paris
The Artist
50/50
Bridesmaids
Young Adult

Best Adapted Screenplay:
The Descendants
Moneyball
The Help
Hugo
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Best Animated Film: 
Rango
The Adventures of Tintin
Puss in Boots
Arthur Christmas
Kung Fu Panda 2

Best Visual Effects:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 
Hugo
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
The Tree of Life
Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Best Original Song
"The Living Proof" - The Help
"Man or Muppet" - The Muppets
"Life's a Happy Song" - The Muppets
"The Keeper" - Machine Gun Preacher
"Hello Hello" - Gnomeo and Juliet

Best Original Score  
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
War Horse
The Arist
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

Best Art Direction
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 
Hugo
The Artist
War Horse
Anonymous

Best Costume Design
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 
Jane Eyre
Hugo
W.E.
Anonymous

Best Cinematography
Hugo
The Artist
War Horse
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
The Tree of Life

Best Makeup
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 
The Iron Lady
Anonymous

Best Editing
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
War Horse
The Artist
Moneyball

Best Sound Editing
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Hugo

Best Sound Mixing
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Hugo
Super 8

Best Documentarty
We Were Here
Project Nim
Battle for Brooklyn
Pina
Battle for Brooklyn

Total Tally for my predictions per film (Excluding documentary, short, and foreign films):

Hugo  - 11
The Artist - 10
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 - 8
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - 7
The Help - 6
The Descendants - 5
War Horse - 5
Moneyball - 4
Anonymous - 3
Transformers: Dark of the Moon - 3
The Iron Lady - 2
Midnight in Paris - 2
Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol - 2
The Muppets - 2
My Week With Marilyn - 2
Rise of the Planet of the Apes - 2
Shame - 2
The Tree of Life - 2
50/50 - 1
The Adventures of Tintin - 1
Arthur Christmas - 1
Beginners - 1
Bridesmaids - 1
A Dangerous Method - 1
Drive - 1
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - 1
Gnomeo and Juliet - 1
J. Edgar - 1
Jane Eyre - 1
Kung Fu Panda 2 - 1
Machine Gun Preacher - 1
Puss in Boots - 1
Rango - 1
Super 8 - 1
W.E. - 1
We Need to Talk About Kevin - 1
Young Adult - 1

Early Oscar Predictions

I like to predict the Oscars a while before they actually happen. I usually predict earlier than this point in the year, but I would to predict now. Last year, I got 8/10 best picture corrections correct (including District 9). I also got most acting nominations predicted.

♥ = Movie I Want to Wn
☀ = Movie That I Think Will Win

Best Picture

1. Toy Story 3  ♥
2. The Social Network ☀
3. The King's Speech
4. Love and Other Drugs
5. Winter's Bone
6. The Kids Are All Right
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1  ♥♥
8. Black Swan
9. The Fighter
10. Inception

Best Actor

1. Jesse Eisenberg - The Social Network
2. Leonardo DiCaprio - Inception ♥ 
3. James Franco - 127 Hours
4. Colin Firth - The King's Speech  ☀
5. Mark Wahlberg - The Fighter

Best Actress

1. Anne Hathaway - Love and Other Drugs
2. Nicole Kidman - Rabbit Hole
3. Noomi Rapace - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo  ♥♥
4. Natalie Portman - Black Swan  ☀  ♥
5. Jennifer Lawrence - Winter's Bone

Best Supporting Actor

1. Christian Bale - The Fighter
2. Andrew Garfield - The Social Network  ☀ ♥
3. Justin Timberlake - The Social Network
4. Aaron Eckhart - Rabbit Hole
5. Matt Damon - True Grit

Best Supporting Actress

1. Melissa Leo - The Fighter
2. Helena Bonham Carter - The King's Speech  ☀ ♥♥
3. Elle Fanning - Somewhere
4. Marion Coltiard - Inception  ♥
5. Kristin Scott Thomas - Nowhere Boy  

Best Original Screenplay

1. Inception  ☀ ♥♥
2. Black Swan ♥ 
3. The Fighter
4. The Kids Are All Right 
5. The King's Speech

Best Adapted Screenplay

1. Toy Story 3 ♥
2. The Social Network  ☀
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows  ♥♥
4. Love and Other Drugs
5. Winter's Bone

Best Animated Film

1. Toy Story 3  ☀ ♥♥♥♥♥
2. How to Train Your Dragon
3. The Illusionist

Best Director

1. Toy Story 3  ♥
2. Inception
3. Black Swan 
4. The King's Speech
5. The Social Network  ☀

Best Visual Effects

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1   ♥
2. Inception  ☀
3. Tron: Legacy

Best Editing

1. Inception  ☀ ♥
2. The Social Network
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1  ♥♥
4. Black Swan  
5. Tron: Legacy

Best Score

1. Inception  ☀  ♥♥
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1  ♥
3. The Social Network
4. Black Swan
5. Toy Story 3

Well, when the Oscar nominees are announced, we will see if I am right, but I have a feeling that I am very wrong. But I hope I'm right about Harry Potter because I love Harry Potter :)