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Thursday, January 10, 2013

2012 OSCAR NOMINATIONS and how I did predicting...

Out of 107 total nominations in the 21 categories that I predicted, I got 78 (73%) of my choices correct. If you include my alternate choices, that goes up to 89 (83%) correct. Not too shabby.

Here are the Academy Award nominations for 2012.

BEST PICTURE -- 8/9
  • Amour
  • Argo
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild
  • Django Unchained (alternate)
  • Les Miserables
  • Life of Pi
  • Lincoln
  • Silver Linings Playbook
  • Zero Dark Thirty
BEST DIRECTOR -- 2/5
  • Michael Haneke -- "Amour" (alternate)
  • Ang Lee -- "Life of Pi"
  • David O. Russell -- "Silver Linings Playbook" (missed)
  • Steven Spielberg -- "Lincoln"
  • Behn Zeitlin -- "Beasts of the Southern Wild" (missed)
BEST ACTOR -- 4/5
  • Bradley Cooper -- "Silver Linings Playbook"
  • Daniel Day-Lewis -- "Lincoln"
  • Hugh Jackman -- "Les Miserables"
  • Joaquin Phoenix -- "The Master"
  • Denzel Washington -- "Flight" (alternate)
BEST ACTRESS -- 4/5
  • Jessica Chastain -- "Zero Dark Thirty"
  • Jennifer Lawrence -- "Silver Linings Playbook"
  • Emmanuelle Riva -- "Amour"
  • Quvenzhane Wallis -- "Beasts of the Southern Wild" (alternate)
  • Naomi Watts -- "The Impossible"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR -- 5/5
  • Alan Arkin -- "Argo"
  • Robert De Niro -- "Silver Linings Playbook"
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman -- "The Master"
  • Tommy Lee Jones -- "Lincoln"
  • Christoph Waltz -- "Django Unchained"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS -- 4/5
  • Amy Adams -- "The Master"
  • Sally Field -- "Lincoln"
  • Anne Hathaway -- "Les Miserables"
  • Helen Hunt -- "The Sessions"
  • Jacki Weaver -- "Silver Linings Playbook" (missed)
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY -- 3/5
  • Amour (alternate)
  • Django Unchained
  • Flight (alternate)
  • Moonrise Kingdom
  • Zero Dark Thirty
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY -- 5/5
  • Argo
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild
  • Life of Pi
  • Lincoln
  • Silver Linings Playbook
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE -- 4/5
  • Brave
  • Frankenweenie
  • ParaNorman
  • The Pirates! Band of Misfits (alternate)
  • Wreck-It Ralph
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY -- 4/5
  • Anna Karenina
  • Django Unchained (missed)
  • Life of Pi
  • Lincoln
  • Skyfall
BEST FILM EDITING -- 4/5
  • Argo
  • Life of Pi
  • Lincoln
  • Silver Linings Playbook (missed)
  • Zero Dark Thirty
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN -- 4/5
  • Anna Karenina
  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
  • Les Miserables
  • Life of Pi (alternate)
  • Lincoln
BEST COSTUME DESIGN -- 4/5
  • Anna Karenina
  • Les Miserables
  • Lincoln
  • Mirror Mirror (missed)
  • Snow White and the Huntsman
BEST SOUND MIXING -- 2/5
  • Argo (missed)
  • Les Miserables
  • Life of Pi (missed)
  • Lincoln
  • Skyfall (alternate)
BEST SOUND EDITING -- 2/5
  • Argo (missed)
  • Django Unchained (missed)
  • Life of Pi (alternate)
  • Skyfall
  • Zero Dark Thirty
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS -- 4/5
  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
  • Life of Pi
  • Marvel's The Avengers
  • Prometheus
  • Snow White and the Huntsman (alternate)
BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING -- 2/3
  • Hitchcock (missed)
  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
  • Les Miserables
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE -- 4/5
  • Anna Karenina
  • Argo
  • Life of Pi
  • Lincoln
  • Skyfall (missed)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG -- 2/5
  • "Before My Time" -- Chasing Ice (missed)
  • "Everybody Needs a Best Friend" -- Ted (missed)
  • "Pi's Lullaby" -- Life of Pi (missed)
  • "Skyfall" -- Skyfall
  • "Suddenly" -- Les Miserables
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM -- 4/5
  • Amour - [Austria]
  • Kon-Tiki - [Norway]
  • No - [Chile] (missed)
  • A Royal Affair - [Denmark]
  • War Witch - [Canada]
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE -- 3/5
  • 5 Broken Cameras (missed)
  • The Gatekeepers
  • How to Survive a Plague
  • The Invisible War (missed)
  • Searching for Sugar Man
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
  • Inocente
  • Kings Point
  • Mondays at Racine
  • Open Heart
  • Redemption
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

Nominations by Film

12 nominations
LINCOLN*

11 nominations
LIFE OF PI*

8 nominations
LES MISERABLES*
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK*

7 nominations
ARGO*

5 nominations
AMOUR*
DJANGO UNCHAINED*
SKYFALL
ZERO DARK THIRTY*

4 nominations
ANNA KARENINA
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD*

3 nominations
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
THE MASTER

2 nominations
FLIGHT
SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN

1 nomination
BRAVE
CHASING ICE
FRANKENWEENIE
HITCHCOCK
THE IMPOSSIBLE
KON-TIKI
MARVEL'S THE AVENGERS
MIRROR MIRROR
MOONRISE KINGDOM
NO
PARANORMAN
THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS
PROMETHEUS
A ROYAL AFFAIR
THE SESSIONS
TED
WAR WITCH
WRECK-IT RALPH

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