OSCAR PREDICTIONS 11 - 0 WEEKS TO GO

I would offer up a brief analysis of my choices in each category, but I don't have time. Tough shit. They don't need analysed anyway - they're as shit as ever, and they'll be wayyy off, because they usually are with me. Les Mis leads with 10, but with no Best Director nomination; Django and Life of Pi are close behind with nine. Silver Linings Playbook gets just four; Skyfall gets seven, and is an alternate in two more major categories.

Best Picture

·          Argo

·          Django Unchained

·          Life of Pi

·          Lincoln

·          Les Misérables

·          Silver Linings Playbook

·          Zero Dark Thirty

alt: Skyfall

Best Directing

·          Ben Affleck (Argo)

·          Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty)

·          Ang Lee (Life of Pi)

·          Steven Spielberg (Lincoln)

·          Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)

alt: Tom Hooper (Les Misérables)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

·          Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook)

·          Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)

·          John Hawkes (The Sessions)

·          Hugh Jackman (Les Misérables)

·          Denzel Washington (Flight)

alt: Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

·          Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)

·          Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)

·          Helen Mirren (Hitchcock)

·          Emmanuelle Riva (Amour)

·          Naomi Watts (The Impossible)

alt: Rachel Weisz (The Deep Blue Sea)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

·          Alan Arkin (Argo)

·          Javier Bardem (Skyfall)

·          Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)

·          Tommy Lee Jones (Lincoln)

·          Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)

alt: Matthew McConaughey (Magic Mike)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

·          Ann Dowd (Compliance)

·          Sally Field (Lincoln)

·          Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables)

·          Helen Hunt (The Sessions)

·          Nicole Kidman (The Paperboy)

alt: Judi Dench (Skyfall)

Best Writing (Original Screenplay)

·          Amour

·          Django Unchained

·          The Master

·          Moonrise Kingdom

·          Zero Dark Thirty

alt: Looper

Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

·          Argo

·          Life of Pi

·          Lincoln

·          The Perks of Being a Wallflower

·          Silver Linings Playbook

alt: Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Cinematography

·          Anna Karenina

·          Django Unchained

·          Life of Pi

·          Les Misérables

·          Skyfall

alt: Lincoln

Best Film Editing

·          Argo

·          Life of Pi

·          Les Misérables

·          Skyfall

·          Zero Dark Thirty

alt: Lincoln

Best Production Design

·          Anna Karenina

·          Django Unchained

·          Life of Pi

·          Lincoln

·          Les Misérables

alt: Cloud Atlas

Best Costume Design

·          Anna Karenina

·          Cloud Atlas

·          Django Unchained

·          Les Misérables

·          A Royal Affair

alt: Moonrise Kingdom

Best Sound Mixing

·          The Avengers

·          Django Unchained

·          Les Misérables

·          Skyfall

·          Zero Dark Thirty

alt: Lincoln

Best Sound Editing

·          The Avengers

·          Django Unchained

·          Life of Pi

·          Skyfall

·          Zero Dark Thirty

alt: The Dark Knight Rises

Best Visual Effects

·          The Avengers

·          The Dark Knight Rises

·          The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

·          Life of Pi

·          Skyfall

alt: Prometheus

Best Makeup

·          The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

·          Looper

·          Les Misérables

alt: Lincoln

Best Music (Original Score)

·          Anna Karenina

·          Argo

·          Beasts of the Southern Wild

·          Life of Pi

·          Lincoln

alt: Cloud Atlas

Best Music (Original Song)

·          ‘Learn Me Right’ (Brave)

·          ‘Skyfall’ (Skyfall)

·          ‘Still Alive’ (Paul Williams Still Alive)

·          ‘Suddenly’ (Les Misérables)

·          ‘Touch the Sky’ (Brave)

alt: ‘Ancora Qui’ (Django Unchained)

Best Animated Feature Film

·          Brave

·          Frankenweenie

·          The Painting

·          ParaNorman

·          Wreck-It Ralph

alt: Rise of the Guardians

Best Documentary Feature

·          5 Broken Cameras

·          The Gatekeepers

·          Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

·          Searching for Sugar Man

·          This Is Not a Film

alt: The Invisible War

Best Foreign Language Film

·          Amour

·          The Deep

·          The Intouchables

·          A Royal Affair

·          Sister

alt: Beyond the Hills