UPDATE, Feb. 24: How did we fare with our predictions? We got 19 winners out of 24 so not awesome but pretty good! How did you do?
The Academy Awards are Sunday, so naturally we're engaged in the guessing game of who will go home with an Oscar. But will the winners be the ones we truly wanted to see get the nod?
These are the movies and artists we think should win and will win. And we encourage you to play Academy Voter in the Comments Section, and sound off with your Oscar picks. Or better yet, cast your vote in our Oscar poll here!
- Amour
- Argo
- Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Django Unchained
- Les Miserables
- Life of Pi
- Lincoln
- Silver Linings Playbook
- Zero Dark Thirty
Who Will Win: Argo. Lincoln may have a bunch of nominations, but Argo has momentum is in its favor as it's been on a streak of winning all the major film awards of late.
Who Should Win: While we're absolutely fine with Argo winning, we'd still be very happy if Zero Dark Thirty took home the Oscar.
WINNER: Argo
- Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
- Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
- Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables
- Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
- Denzel Washington, Flight
Who Will Win: Daniel Day-Lewis is a lock. Everyone knows that.
Who Should Win: As with Argo, we're totally fine with DDL winning, but we'd also love to see Joaquin Phoenix pull an upset just because we dig what he did in that film.
WINNER: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
- Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
- Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
- Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
- Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Naomi Watts, The Impossible
Who Will Win: Jennifer Lawrence is the "It" girl of the moment and a damn fine actress so the common wisdom is that she'll add an Oscar to her spate of other awards for her performance in Silver Linings Playbook.
Who Should Win: Jessica Chastain. She's a highly respected actress and Zero Dark Thirty was the frontrunner for Best Picture before politics seemed to derail its chances. This could be the Academy's way of honoring the film. (It should be noted there's a possibility that Chastain and Lawrence could split the vote leaving Emmanuelle Riva the winner.)
WINNER: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
- Alan Arkin, Argo
- Robert De Niro, Silver inings Playbook
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
- Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
- Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Who Will Win: Tommy Lee Jones, who has won several awards for Lincoln already.
Who Should Win: In a film with such an awesome ensemble, Christoph Waltz was the standout in Django Unchained and we'd love to see him win here.
WINNER: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
- Amy Adams, The Master
- Sally Field, Lincoln
- Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
- Helen Hunt, The Sessions
- Jackie Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook
Who Will Win: Anne Hathaway, because she dreamed a dream like nobody else could.
Who Should Win: Amy Adams for her less showy, but compelling turn in The Master.
WINNER: Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
- Michael Haneke, Amour
- Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Ang Lee, Life of Pi
- Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
- David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Who Will Win: This is the Oscars' biggest horse race this year. Ben Affleck won the Directors Guild award for Argo, but wasn't even nominated for an Oscar. Zero Dark Thirty's Kathryn Bigelow was also snubbed. We think this gives the edge to industry titan Steven Spielberg to walk away with the trophy for Lincoln. There's also a chance Michael Haneke could win, but our money's on Spielberg.
Who Should Win: Ang Lee for pulling off Life of Pi in such dazzling, poetic fashion.
WINNER: Ang Lee, Life of Pi
- Brave
- Frankenweenie
- Paranorman
- The Pirates! Band of Misfits
- Wreck-It Ralph
Who Will Win: Brave, because we're not convinced that enough Oscar voters saw the non-Pixar nominees.
Who Should Win: Wreck-It Ralph or Frankenweenie, two heartfelt crowd-pleasers that unfortunately might still be too niche for Oscar voters to reward.
WINNER: Brave
- Argo, Chris Terrio
- Beasts of the Southern Wild, Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin
- Life of Pi, David Magee
- Lincoln, Tony Kushner
- Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell
Who Will Win: Argo. It's won most of the other major screenplay awards so an Oscar seems inevitable now.
Who Should Win: Life of Pi, because it was long deemed "an unfilmable book" and Magee and Lee found a way to do it. We're also OK with the brilliant playwright Tony Kushner being awarded for his adaptation of Lincoln.
WINNER: Argo
- Amour, Michael Haneke
- Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino
- Flight, John Gatins
- Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola
- Zero Dark Thirty, Mark Boal
Who Will Win: We're torn. We give the edge to Zero Dark Thirty after its Writers Guild win, but never count out Tarantino as the Academy may want to reward Django in some major category.
Who Should Win: We'd be happy with either Django Unchained or Moonrise Kingdom.
WINNER: Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
- Anna Karenina
- Django Unchained
- Life of Pi
- Lincoln
- Skyfall
Who Will Win: Life of Pi
Who Should Win: Life of Pi, but Skyfall's cinematographer Roger Deakins did a wonderful job here and has an amazing body of work that the Academy might want to reward him for.
WINNER: Life of Pi
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
- Life of Pi
- Marvel's The Avengers
- Prometheus
- Snow White and the Huntsman
Who Will Win: Life of Pi, because that CG tiger "Richard Parker" was an amazingly realistic creation and better than all the Orcs in Middle-earth or aliens combined.
Who Should Win: Life of Pi.
WINNER: Life of Pi
- Anna Karenina
- Argo
- Life of Pi
- Lincoln
- Skyfall
Who Will Win: Life of Pi
Who Should Win: We're cool with Pi winning the Oscar, but it was also nice to see John Williams' do something far different than his usual fare with his score for Lincoln.
WINNER: Life of Pi
- Hitchcock
- The Hobbit
- Les Miserables
Who Will Win: Les Mis because Oscar voters love to see beautiful actors looking ugly in heavy period pieces.
Who Should Win: The Hobbit, because those 13 dwarves weren't born looking that way. Except for maybe that sexy, boy band-looking one.
WINNER: Les Miserables
- "Before My Time" from Chasing Ice
- "Everybody Needs A Best Friend" from Ted
- "Pi's Lullaby" from Life of Pi
- "Skyfall" from Skyfall
- "Suddenly" from Les Miserables
Who Will Win: Adele for Skyfall. Outside of DDL as Best Actor and Hathaway as Best Supporting Actress, this is the surest category to predict.
Who Should Win: Skyfall for being not just the best Bond song in ages but, yes, the best original song in a movie that year.
WINNER: Skyfall
And the remaining Oscars go to:
Foreign Film will almost certainly go to Amour. Anna Karenina seems likely to win for both Costume Design and Production Design. Expect the editing award to go to Argo (this award is usually a pretty solid indicator of what will also win Best Picture). Disney's lovely Paperman should snag the Best Animated Short, while Searching for Sugar Man will likely win for Best Documentary. And judging from the recent sound editors awards, we expect Skyfall to win Sound Editing and Les Miserables to take Sound Mixing. Industry conventional wisdom peg Mondays at Racine to Best Documentary Short and Curfew to take home Best Live Action Short.
]We pegged all above except for Production Design (Lincoln), Best Documentary Short (Inocente), and Sound Editing was actually a tie between Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty.
Source : ign[dot]com
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