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Saturday, February 23, 2013

2013 Academy Awards - Oscar Predictions!




Ok, so I would like to go on record as saying that these picks reflect my predictions, not my opinions. That being said, here are my Oscar picks for the 85th Annual Academy Awards!

Best Motion Picture of the Year
Argo (2012): Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney 

Best PerforMance BY an actor in a Leading roLe
Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln (2012) 

Best PerforMance BY an actress in a Leading roLe
Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

Best PerforMance BY an actor in a suPPorting roLe
Robert De Niro for Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

Best PerforMance BY an actress in a suPPorting roLe
Anne Hathaway for Les Misérables (2012)

Best achieveMent in directing
Steven Spielberg for Lincoln (2012) 

Best Writing, screenPLaY Written directLY for the screen
Django Unchained (2012): Quentin Tarantino 

Best Writing, screenPLaY Based on MateriaL PreviousLY Produced or PuBLished
Argo (2012): Chris Terrio 

Best aniMated feature fiLM of the Year
Frankenweenie (2012):Tim Burton 

Best foreign Language fiLM of the Year
Amour (2012)(Austria) 

Best achieveMent in cineMatograPhY
Django Unchained (2012): Robert Richardson 

Best achieveMent in editing
Argo (2012):William Goldenberg 

Best achieveMent in Production design
Lincoln (2012): Rick Carter, Jim Erickson 

Best achieveMent in costuMe design
Lincoln (2012): Joanna Johnston 

Best achieveMent in MakeuP and hairstYLing
Hitchcock (2012): Howard Berger, Peter Montagna, Martin Samuel

Best achieveMent in Music Written for Motion Pictures, originaL score
Lincoln (2012): John Williams

Best achieveMent in Music Written for Motion Pictures, originaL song
Seth MacFarlane (“Everybody Needs a Best Friend”)

Best achieveMent in sound Mixing
Les Misérables (2012):Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Simon Hayes 

Best achieveMent in sound editing
Django Unchained (2012):Wylie Stateman 

Best achieveMent in visuaL effects
Prometheus (2012/I): Richard Stammers,Trevor Wood, Charley Henley, Martin Hill

Best docuMentarY, feature
Searching for Sugar Man (2012): Malik Bendjelloul, Simon Chinn

Best docuMentarY, short suBject
Inocente (2012): Sean Fine,Andrea Nix 

Best short fiLM, aniMated
Paperman (2012): John Kahrs 

Best short fiLM, Live action
Curfew (2012/I): Shawn Christensen 

ENJOY THE SHOW!

2012! It was a great year for cinema, and I have carefully assembled my Top 25 Films of 2012 List (in no particular order). It's a pretty solid list that includes comedies and dramas, indies and blockbusters, and everything in between. In my humble opinion, the following movies are the best of the best of the year that was... Enjoy!

Mancation
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1866197/

The Dark Knight Rises
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/

Django Unchained
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1853728/

Prometheus
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446714/

Silver Linings Playbook
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1045658/

Cabin in the Woods 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1259521/

The Normals
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1778918/

The Perks of Being a Wallflower
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1659337/

God Bless America
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1912398/

Jeff, Who Lives at Home
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1588334/

Pitch Perfect
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981677/

Lawless
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1212450/

Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1855401/

Cross Bearer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1825728/

Les Miserables
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1707386/

Moonrise Kingdom
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1748122/

Looper
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276104/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Argo
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1024648/

21 Jump Street
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1232829/

Take This Waltz
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1592281/

10 Years
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1715873/

Silent Night
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2347497/

The Words
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1840417/

Savages
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615065/

Miss December
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1611816/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1


...Nominated for an Oscar or not, all of these movies are definitely worth checkin out!

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