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