Here are my predictions for Sunday’s “85th Annual Academy Awards” in all 24 categories. The winners will kind be spread-out this year: “Lincoln” will lead with 4 Oscars, followed by “Argo” and “Les Miserables” with 3 each:
Best Picture – “Argo”
Best Director – Steven Spielberg – “Lincoln”
Best Actor – Daniel Day-Lewis – “Lincoln”
Best Actress – Jennifer Lawrence – “Silver Linings Playbook”
Best Supporting Actor – Robert De Niro – “Silver Linings Playbook”
Best Supporting Actress – Anne Hathaway – “Les Miserables”
Best Animated Feature – “Wreck-It Ralph”
Best Documentary Feature – “Searching for Sugar Man”
Best Foreign Language Film – “Amour”
Best Original Screenplay – Mark Boal – “Zero Dark Thirty”
Best Adapted Screenplay – Chris Terrio – “Argo”
Best Animated Short Film – “Adam and Dog”
Best Live-Action Short Film – “Henry”
Best Documentary Short Film – “Open Heart”
Best Visual Effects – “Life of Pi”
Best Cinematography – “Life of Pi”
Best Production Design – “Lincoln”
Best Makeup and Hairstyling – “Les Miserables”
Best Costume Design – “Anna Karenina”
Best Film Editing – “Argo”
Best Sound Editing – “Skyfall”
Best Sound Mixing – “Les Miserables”
Best Original Score – “Lincoln”
Best Original Song – “Skyfall” – music and lyrics by Adele and Paul Epworth – “Skyfall”
Seth MacFarlane will be a big hit, and the show will end at approx. 12:10 am ET
BONUS BLOG:
Best Picture Nominees A-F
Argo – A
Silver Linings Playbook – A
Lincoln – A-
Les Miserables – B+
Zero Dark Thirty – B+
Amour – B
Beasts of the Southern Wild – B-
Django Unchained – C
Life of Pi – C