85th Academy Award Predictions

Picture

Argo (6)

Beasts of the Southern Wild (2)

Django Unchained (7)

Les Miserables (9)

Life of Pi (8)

Lincoln (12)

The Master (4)

Moonrise Kingdom (2)

Silver Linings Playbook (5)

Zero Dark Thirty (7)

(Amour, The Dark Knight Rises, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Skyfall)

Director

Ben Affleck; Argo

Kathryn Bigelow; Zero Dark Thirty

Ang Lee; Life of Pi

Steven Spielberg; Lincoln

Quentin Tarantino; Django Unchained

(Tom Hooper; Les Miserables, David O. Russell; Silver Linings Playbook, Paul Thomas Anderson; The Master, Michael Haneke; Amour)

Actor

Bradley Cooper; Silver Linings Playbook

Daniel Day-Lewis; Lincoln

Richard Gere; Armitage (1)

John Hawkes; The Sessions (2)

Hugh Jackman; Les Miserables

(Denzel Washington; Flight, Joaquin Phoenix; The Master)

Actress

Jessica Chastain; Zero Dark Thirty

Jennifer Lawrence; Silver Linings Playbook

Emmanuelle Riva; Amour

Naomi Watts; The Impossible (1)

Quvenzhane Wallis; Beasts of the Southern Wild

(Marian Cotillard; Rust and Bone, Helen Mirren; Hitchcock, Emayatzy Corinealdi; Middle of Nowhere)

Supporting Actor

Alan Arkin; Argo

Robert DeNiro; Silver Linings Playbook

Leonardo DiCaprio; Django Unchained

Phillip Seymour Hoffman; The Master

Tommy Lee Jones; Lincoln

(Javier Bardem; Skyfall, Samuel L. Jackson; Django Unchained, Christoph Waltz; Django Unchained)

Supporting Actress

Sally Field; Lincoln

Anne Hathaway; Les Miserables

Helen Hunt; The Sessions

Nicole Kidman; The Paperboy (1)

Maggie Smith; The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (1)

(Amy Adams; The Master, Judi Dench; Skyfall, Ann Dowd; Compliance)

Animated Film

Brave (1)

Frankenweenie (1)

The Painting (1)

The Rabbi’s Cat (1)

Wreck-It Ralph (1)

(Hotel Transylvania, ParaNorman, Rise of the Guardians)

Adapted Screenplay

Argo

Beats of the Southern Wild

Life of Pi

Lincoln

Silver Linings Playbook

(The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Skyfall)

Original Screenplay

Django Unchained

The Master

Moonrise Kingdom

Zero Dark Thirty

(Flight, Looper)

Song

“Abraham’s Daughter”; The Hunger Games (1)

“Ancora Qui”; Django Unchained

“One Wing”; Sparkle (1)

“Skyfall”; Skyfall (5)

“Suddenly”; Les Miserables

(Possible Upsets: “For You”; Act of Valor, “Snake Eyes”; Promised Land, “Ladies of Tampa”; Magic Mike, “Touch the Sky”/”Learn Me Right”; Brave

Longshots: “Still Alive”; Paul Williams: Still Alive, “Not Running Anymore”; Stand Up Guys, “Pi’s Lullaby”; Life of Pi, )

Score

Argo; Alexandre Desplat

Life of Pi; Michael Dynna

Lincoln; John Williams

The Master; Johnny Greenwood

Zero Dark Thirty; Alexandre Desplat

(Possible Upsets: Anna Karenina, Cloud Atlas, The Hobbit, Looper, Skyfall

Longshots: The Dark Knight Rises, )

Cinematography

Django Unchained; Robert Richardson

Les Miserables; Larry Cohen

Life of Pi; Claudio Miranda

Lincoln; Janusz Kaminski

Skyfall; Roger Deakins

(Possible Upsets: Anna Karenina, Argo, The Dark Knight Rises, The Master, Zero Dark Thirty)

Film Editing

- Argo: William Goldman

- Life of Pi; Tim Squyires

- Lincoln; Michael Kahn

- Skyfall

- Zero Dark Thirty

(Possible Upsets: Django Unchained, Les Miserables, Silver Linings Playbook)

Costume Design

- Anna Karenina (2)

- Django Unchained

- Les Miserables

- Lincoln

- Snow White and the Huntsman (1)

(Possible Upsets: Cloud Atlas, Hitchcock, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Life of Pi)

Art Direction

- Anna Karenina

- Cloud Atlas (2)

- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (4)

- Les Miserables

- Lincoln

(Possible Upsets: The Dark Knight Rises, Hitchcock, Life of Pi, Snow White and the Huntsman)

Sound Mixing

- Django Unchained

- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

- Les Miserables

- Skyfall

- Zero Dark Thirty

(Possible Upsets: Argo, The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, Lincoln)

Sound Effects

- The Avengers (2)

- The Dark Knight Rises (1)

- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

- Skyfall

- Zero Dark Thirty

(Possible Upsets: Django Unchained)

Make-Up

- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

- Lincoln

- Looper (1)

(Possible Upsets: Les Miserables, Men in Black III

Longshots: Hitchcock, Snow White and the Huntsman)

Visual Effects

- The Avengers

- Cloud Atlas

- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

- Life of Pi

- Prometheus (1)

(Possible Upsets: The Dark Knight Rises, Skyfall

Longshots: The Amazing Spider-Man, Snow White and the Huntsman, John Carter)