Final Academy Awards 2013 nominees predictions

BEST PICTURE

1. Argo
2. Zero Dark Thirty
3. Lincoln
4. Les Misérables
5. Silver Linings Playbook
6. Beasts of the Southern Wild
7. Life of Pi
8. Django Unchained
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9. Moonrise Kingdom
10. Amour.

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Ben Affleck for Argo
2. Kathryn Bigelow for Zero Dark Thirty
3. Steven Spielberg for Lincoln
4. David O. Russell for Silver Linings Playbook
5. Tom Hooper for Les Misérables

6. Ang Lee for Life of Pi
7. Paul Thomas Anderson for The Master
8. Benh Zeitlin for Beasts of the Southern Wild

BEST LEADING ACTOR

1. Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln
2. Hugh Jackman for Les Misérables
3. Bradley Cooper for Silver Linings Playbook
4. Joaquin Phoenix for The Master
5. John Hawkes for The Sessions

6. Denzel Washington for Flight

7. Richard Gere for Arbitrage

8. Omar Sy for The Intouchables

BEST LEADING ACTRESS

1. Jessica Chastain for Zero Dark Thirty

2. Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook

3. Naomi Watts for The Impossible

4. Quvenzhané Wallis for Beasts of the Southern Wild

5. Emmanuelle Riva for Amour

6. Marion Cotillard for Rust and Bone
7. Helen Mirren for Hitchcock
8. Rachel Weisz for The Deep Blue Sea

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Tommy Lee Jones for Lincoln

2. Robert De Niro for Silver Linings Playbook

3. Alan Arkin for Argo

4. Philip Seymour Hoffman for The Master

5. Christoph Waltz for Django Unchained

6. Matthew McConaughey for Magic Mike
7. Javier Bardem for Skyfall
8. Ezra Miller for The Perks of Being a Wallflower

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Anne Hathaway for Les Misérables

2. Helen Hunt for The Sessions

3. Sally Field for Lincoln

4. Amy Adams for The Master

4. Nicole Kidman for The Paperboy

6. Ann Dowd for Compliance

7. Emma Watson for The Perks of Being a Wallflower

8. Scarlett Johansson for Hitchcock

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. Mark Boal for Zero Dark Thirty

2. Quentin Tarantino for Django Unchained

3. Paul Thomas Anderson for The Master

4. Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola for Moonrise Kingdom

5. Rian Johnson for Looper

6. Michael Haneke for Amour

7. John Gatins for Flight

8. Reid Carolin for Magic Mike

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. Chris Terrio (screenplay); Joshuah Bearman (article) - Argo

2. David O. Russell (screenplay); Matthew Quick (novel) - Silver Linings Playbook

3. Tony Kushner (screenplay); Doris Kearns Goodwin (book) (in part) - Lincoln

4. Stephen Chbosky (screenplay & novel) - The Perks of Being a Wallflower

5. David Magee (screenplay); Yann Martel (novel) - Life of Pi

6. Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin (screenplay); Lucy Alibar (stage play) - Beasts of the Southern Wild

7. William Nicholson (screenplay), Claude-Michel Schönberg & Alain Boublil (book), Victor Hugo (novel) - Les Misérables

8. Ol Parker (screenplay); Deborah Moggach (novel) - The Best Exoctic Marigold Hotel

NOTE: I wrote this post last Sunday, but I hadn't time to make it "look pretty" and then I had a few personal problems and I wasn't able to post it before Oscar noms announcement. I didn't change anything... and I'm actually pretty shocked for not seeing Affleck and Bigelow between the Best Director nominees.

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