Here I go again with another Oscar Challenge. It’s simple–just pick the winner in each of the 24 categories.
I suggest you simply cut and paste the list of categories below in a comment and type your choice of winner next to it. If you change your mind, either edit your comment or post a new one. I will take your last predictions as official.
Best Picture:
Best Director:
Best Actor:
Best Actress:
Best Supporting Actor:
Best Supporting Actress:
Best Original Screenplay:
Best Adapted Screenplay:
Best Foreign Language Film:
Best Animated Film:
Best Cinematography:
Best Editing:
Best Production Design:
Best Costume Design:
Best Song:
Best Musical Score:
Best Documentary Feature:
Best Documentary Short Subject:
Best Makeup and Hairstyles:
Best Animated Short Subject:
Best Live Action Short Subject:
Best Sound Editing:
Best Sound Mixing:
Best Visual Effects:
The nominees can be found all over the web, including here.
Deadline will be six PM blog-time on Sunday the 24th. The Oscar show is that night.
Best Picture: Argo
Best Director: David O.Russell
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis
Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence
Best Supporting Actor: Robert Deniro
Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway
Best Original Screenplay: Django Unchained
Best Adapted Screenplay: Silver Linings Playbook
Best Foreign Language Film: Amour
Best Animated Film: Brave
Best Cinematography: Skyfall
Best Editing: Zero Dark Thirty
Best Production Design: Lincoln
Best Costume Design: Lincoln
Best Song: Suddenly
Best Musical Score: Life of Pi
Best Documentary Feature: Searching for Sugarman
Best Documentary Short Subject: Redemption
Best Makeup and Hairstyles: Les Miserables
Best Animated Short Subject: Paperman
Best Live Action Short Subject: Henry
Best Sound Editing: Zero Dark Thirty
Best Sound Mixing: Skyfall
Best Visual Effects: Life of Pi
Best Picture: Silver Linings Playbook
Best Director: David O. Russell
Best Actor: Hugh Jackman
Best Actress: Quvenzhané Wallis
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz
Best Supporting Actress: Jacki Weaver
Best Original Screenplay: Zero Dark Thirty
Best Adapted Screenplay: Silver Linings Playbook
Best Foreign Language Film: Amour
Best Animated Film: Brave
Best Cinematography: Skyfall
Best Editing: Zero Dark Thirty
Best Production Design: Anna Karenina
Best Costume Design: Anna Karenina
Best Song: Skyfall
Best Musical Score: Lincoln
Best Documentary Feature: 5 Broken Cameras
Best Documentary Short Subject: Open Heart
Best Makeup and Hairstyles: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Best Animated Short Subject: Paperman
Best Live Action Short Subject: Dood van een Schaduw
Best Sound Editing: Skyfall
Best Sound Mixing: Lincoln
Best Visual Effects: Life of Pi
Best Picture: Zero Dark Thirty
Best Director: David O. Russell
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis
Best Actress: Jessica Chastain
Best Supporting Actor: Robert De Niro
Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway
Best Original Screenplay: “Zero Dark Thirty” Written by Mark Boal
Best Adapted Screenplay: “Argo” Screenplay by Chris Terrio
Best Foreign Language Film: “Amour” Austria
Best Animated Film: “Wreck-It Ralph”
Best Cinematography: “Lincoln” Janusz Kaminski
Best Editing: “Zero Dark Thirty” Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg
Best Production Design: “Lincoln”
Best Costume Design: “Les Misérables” Paco Delgado
Best Song: “Skyfall” by Adele
Best Musical Score: “Argo” Alexandre Desplat
Best Documentary Feature: “Searching for Sugar Man” by Malik Bendjelloul
Best Documentary Short Subject: “Open Heart”
Best Makeup and Hairstyles: “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
Best Animated Short Subject: “Paperman” John Kahrs
Best Live Action Short Subject: “Buzkashi Boys” Sam French and Ariel Nasr
Best Sound Editing: “Zero Dark Thirty” Paul N.J. Ottosson
Best Sound Mixing: “Zero Dark Thirty” Paul N.J. Ottosson
Best Visual Effects: “Life of Pi”
Best Picture: Argo
Best Director: Ang Lee
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis
Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence
Best Supporting Actor: Robert De Niro
Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway
Best Original Screenplay: Zero Dark Thirty
Best Adapted Screenplay: Argo
Best Foreign Language Film: Amour
Best Animated Film: Wreck-It Ralph
Best Cinematography: Life of Pi
Best Editing: Argo
Best Production Design: Lincoln
Best Costume Design: Anna Karenina
Best Song: “Skyfall”
Best Musical Score: Life of Pi
Best Documentary Feature: Searching for Sugar Man
Best Documentary Short Subject: Inocente
Best Makeup and Hairstyles: Les Miserables
Best Animated Short Subject: Paperman
Best Live Action Short Subject: Curfew
Best Sound Editing: Life of Pi
Best Sound Mixing: Les Miserables
Best Visual Effects: Life of Pi
Master cinematographer Robert Richardson once again got robbed by someone who lit was is basically an animated movie.
True enough. Same could be said for Deakins. Honestly, even aside from the CGI component, I thought that Life of Pi was the weakest of the nominees in that category.
Robert Richardson has won three Oscars, I think he’ll get over it. Deakins, on the hand, has never won. However, Gregg Allman, er, Claudio Miranda, did win the ASC Award, which is voted on by nothing but cinematographers.
Wait, Richardson was steamrolled by Avatar…who beat Deakins?
How many he won has nothing to do with how many animated films beat him.
Deakins is like 0-for-8 or 9. It’s a long list.
Sorry, I think we’re getting off my main beef. It pains me to see Richardson lose to animated films.
I fully agree that Deakins, who lit one of the greatest cinematography feats this new millenium, True Grit, got supremely robbed by some dude who lit the dream movie.
Deakins’s nominations:
The Shawshank Redemption
Fargo
Kundun
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Man Who Wasn’t There
No Country for Old Men
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Reader (shared)
True Grit
Skyfall
Christoph Waltz must have some sort of record for having won an oscar twice for playing the same character in two different movies, each movie by the same director.
It’s a crime and a sin that Deakins got no nomination for the remarkable cinematography that was A Serious Man.
For some reason, I didn’t realize he did Skyfall, or it didn’t register. My bad.
I didn’t care all that much for Skyfall, but it was beautifully shot. That high-rise Shanghai fight was terrific.
So…who’s winning this thing so far?
I agree with you. I didn’t like Skyfall, but the cinematography was great, and I felt it was the best of them all.
Is Kristen Stewart high or something?
Seth MacFarlane? I’m generally not a fan, but he’s doing the best job anyone’s done with this gig in a long time.
Any thoughts on Seth McFarlane?
I kind of like his irreverance, like it’s not the biggest thing in the world.
That’s Kristen Stewart’s thing. She always acts likes she’s pissed off.
Sorry, I meant the challenge…between us.
He’s really gotten some irreverent zingers in there. It’s more like a Golden Globes than an Oscar.
I’ll total up when it’s over.
Who knew that Daniel Day-Lewis was funny?
It feels kinda offensive that Lawrence didn’t thank Russell.
Oh come on, she was nervous. She’s probably thanking him effusively backstage.
Jackrabbit Slim: 20
Filmman: 14
Nick: 10
James: 8
Too nervous? Her agent, the agency, various and sundry members of the crew, all the female actors not even nominated…but not the guy who guided her for 30 days to her oscar?
Wow. you got 20? You’re good.
Yeah, my talents are useless for making money.
I didn’t care for this year’s Oscars. Waltz winning twice for the same role? Django winning oscar screenplay…boobie songs…Life of Pi winning everything Argo didn’t…anywho. Well played, Slim. 20? I want to see the Oscar winning short ‘Curfew’.
She’s working with him again, so I guess she doesn’t hate him. But she did trip, so I think she got thrown off. Give her a break.
Has there been any oscar where the first lady announced the best picture? Or any category? Am I the only one who found that strange? I don’t wanna see politicians there. Let the old man with the strange glasses do it. He’s famous.
I don’t think so…it’s Hollywood’s attempt to convince us they’re important.
Crash and burned, oh well. I’ve tuned in for 5 minutes of the Oscars before and bailed after 15 min or so of Billy Crystal last year – but I think this is the first time I haven’t watched a single second of the broadcast. I just couldn’t do 3+ hours of Seth McFarlane.
I gotta say, I’m in complete agreeance with Wells that the awards were just…wrong. Unchained wasn’t nearly the best writing I saw all year and Waltz now has two oscars for playing the same guy and Affleck deserved a directing Oscar and Deakins…the more I think about what Slim and Brian pointed out, you know, for a master of light like him (Really, A Serious Man still stays with me) to be 0-for 8 or 9…anyway. Poor, poor evening.
I did appreciate how much of Affleck’s boyish charm has apparently held-over since winning for Goodwill Hunting…says a lot. And it’s nice to see.
Too bad, James, because McFarlane turned out to be the best host in years. Totally surprised me.
Huh. I’m with James. Didn’t see it that good. And using William Shatner as Kirk to come from the future to show online reviews and to play a ‘boobie song’? You thought that worked well?
And my FB has pilloried me as much and as quickly as you, Slim, for the egregious act of a young girl not thanking one of America’s premiere directors.
I watched some clips on Gawker and actually found myself laughing. I’ll probably watch it streaming tonight or something where I can fast forward.
I thought the boobie song worked because the actresses in question played along (they were obviously filmed earlier). The sock puppet thing was funny, too. I think he was edgy without being as offensive as Ricky Gervais. Of course it’s all over the Net that he was terrible, but that happens every year. There’s no pleasing some people.
Oh, yeah, they’re funny James. The Mel Gibson and Jouaquin Phoenix thing, the evisceration of so many things. That’s why it was like a golden globe.
You know, it was like TED! I gut-laughed like 6 times, and then I kept asking myself why the hell I was watching.
So I guess it made sense in that sense.
The sock thing was really funny.
Look forward to your post on your thoughts of the winners and losers, Slim.
I do agree with you, FM, that some of the winners were inexplicable. When QT won, I yelled, “Stop encouraging him!”
With ratings being so high, I’d have to imagine McFarlane is going to be asked back almost immediately. They’ll probably just get Jimmy Fallon, though.
A lot of feminist backlash. The New Yorker and Salon. I think they’re over-reacting.
Those two articles are both really pathetic. The Salon article, especially, seems to be having its cake and eating it too, imagining punchlines to improve MacFarlane’s jokes while at the same time pretending to be disgusted with his level of humor.
What hypocritical bullshit.
Criticism along those lines isn’t just in America – here’s one from the Australian media.
Last watched the Oscars in 2010 – was so painful that I don’t think I’ll ever watch another one.
McFarlane is nixing any talk of doing it again, which probably is a blessing in disguise for the Academy. Now they can go after Fey and Poehler.
FM, I hope this calms you down:
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/02/25/oscars-2013-jennifer-lawrence-thanks/