If I Could Choose the Oscars... 2013

Blue: My Pick, Red: The Academy's Pick, Purple: It's a match!

Best Picture

Amour (Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, & Michael Katz)
Argo (Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, & George Clooney)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Dan Janvey, Josh Penn, & Michael Gottwald)
Django Unchained (Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin, & Pilar Savone)
Les Miserables (Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, & Cameron Mackintosh)
Life of Pi (Gil Netter, Ang Lee, & David Womack)
Lincoln (Steven Spielberg & Kathleen Kennedy)
Silver Linings Playbook (Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen, & Jonathan Gordon)
Zero Dark Thirty (Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, & Megan Ellison)

Actress

Jessica Chastain for Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva for Amour
Quvenzhane Wallis for Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts for The Impossible

Actor

Bradley Cooper for Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln
Hugh Jackman for Les Miserables
Joaquin Phoenix for The Master
Denzel Washington for Flight

Supporting Actress

Amy Adams for The Master
Sally Field for Lincoln
Anne Hathaway for Les Miserables
Helen Hunt for The Sessions
Jackie Weaver for Silver Linings Playbook

Supporting Actor

Alan Arkin for Argo
Robert De Niro for Silver Linings Playbook
Phillip Seymour Hoffman for The Master
Tommy Lee Jones for Lincoln
Christoph Waltz for Django Unchained

Animated Feature Film

Brave (Mark Andrews & Brenda Chapman)
Frankenweenie (Tim Burton)
ParaNorman (Sam Fell & Chris Butler)
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (Peter Lord)
Wreck-It-Wralph (Rich Moore)

Cinematography

Anna Karenina (Seamus McGarvey)
Django Unchained (Robert Richardson)
Life of Pi (Claudio Miranda)
Lincoln (Janusz Kaminski)
Skyfall (Roger Deakins)

Costume Design

Anna Karenina (Jacqueline Durran)
Les Miserables (Paco Delgado)
Lincoln (Joanna Johnston)
Mirror Mirror (Eiko Ishioka)
Snow White and the Huntsman (Colleen Atwood)

Directing

Michael Haneke for Amour
Benh Zeitlin for Beasts of the Southern Wild
Ang Lee for Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg for Lincoln
David O. Russell for Silver Linings Playbook

Documentary Feature

5 Broken Cameras (Emad Bernat & Guy Davidi)
The Gatekeepers (Dror Moreh, Phillippa Kowarsky, & Estelle Fialon)
How to Survive a Plague (David France & Howard Gertler)
The Invisible War (Kirby Dick & Amy Ziering)
Searching for Sugar Man (Malik Bendjelloul & Simon Chinn)

Documentary Short

Inocente (Sean Fine & Andrea Nix Fine)
Kings Point (Sari Gilman & Jedd Wider)
Mondays at Racine (Cynthia Wade & Robin Honan)
Open Heart (Kief Davidson & Cori Shepherd Stern)
Redemption (Jon Alpert & Matthew O'Neill)

Film Editing

Argo (William Goldenberg)
Life of Pi (Tim Squyers)
Lincoln (Michael Kahn)
Silver Linings Playbook (Jay Cassidy & Crispin Struthers)
Zero Dark Thirty (Dylan Tichenor & William Goldenberg)

Foreign Language Film

Amour (Austria)
Kon-Tiki (Norway)
No (Chile)
A Royal Affair (Denmark)
War Witch (Canada)

Makeup & Hairstyling

Hitchock (Howard Berger, Peter Montagna, & Martin Samuel)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater, & Tami Lane)
Les Miserables (Lisa Westcott & Julie Dartnell)

Original Score

Dario Marianelli for Anna Karenina
Alexandre Desplat for Argo
Mychael Danna for Life of Pi
John Williams for Lincoln
Thomas Newman for Skyfall

Original Song

"Before My Time" from Chasing Ice, by J. Ralph
"Everybody Needs a Best Friend" from Ted, music by Walter Murphy/lyric by Seth MacFarlane
"Pi's Lullaby" from Life of Pi, music by Mychael Danna/lyric by Bombay Jayashri
"Skyfall" from Skyfall, by Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth
"Suddenly" from Les Miserables, music by Claude-Michel Schonberg/lyric by Herbert Kretzmer & Alain Boubil

Production Design (Production Design: PD/Set Decoration: SD)

Anna Karenina (Sarah Greenwood - PD/Katie Spencer - SD)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Dan Hennah - PD/Ra Vincent & Simon Bright - SD)
Les Miserables (Eve Stewart - PD/Anna Lynch-Robinson - SD)
Life of Pi (David Gropman - PD/Anna Pinnock - SD)
Lincoln (Rick Carter - PD/Jim Erickson - SD)

Animated Short Film

Adam and Dog by Minkyu Lee
Fresh Guacamole by PES
Head over Heels by Timothy Reckart & Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly
Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare" by David Silverman
Paperman by John Kahrs

Live Action Short Film

Asad by Bryan Buckley & Mino Jarjoura
Buzkashi Boys by Sam French & Ariel Nasr
Curfew by Shawn Christensen
Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw) by Tom Van Avermaet & Ellen De Waele
Henry by Yan England

Sound Editing

Argo (Erik Aadahl & Ethan Van der Ryn)
Django Unchained (Wylie Stateman)
Life of Pi (Eugene Gearty & Philip Stockton)
Skyfall (Per Hallberg & Karen Baker Landers)
Zero Dark Thirty (Paul N. J. Ottosson)

Sound Mixing

Argo (John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, & Jose Antonio Garcia)
Les Miserables (Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, & Simon Hayes)
Life of Pi (Ron Bartlett, D. M. Hemphill, & Drew Kunin)
Lincoln (Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom, & Ronald Judkins)
Skyfall (Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell, & Stuart Wilson)

Visual Effects

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, & R. Christopher White)
Life of Pi (Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocherson, Erik-Jan De Boer, & Donald R. Elliott)
The Avengers (Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams, & Dan Sudick)
Prometheus (Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley, & Martin Hill)
Snow White and the Huntsman (Cedric Nicholas-Troyan, Phillip Brennan, Neil Corbould, & Michael Dawson)

Adapted Screenplay

Argo by Chris Terrio
Beasts of the Southern Wild by Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin
Life of Pi by David Magee
Lincoln by Tony Kushner
Silver Linings Playbook by David O. Russell

Original Screenplay

Amour by Michael Haneke
Django Unchained by Quentin Tarantino
Flight by John Gatins
Moonrise Kingdom by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola
Zero Dark Thirty by Mark Boal


Matches: 12 out of 24