Predictions for the 85th Annual Academy Awards (Part 2)

by
Julien Faddoul

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Predictions:

1.      Claudio Miranda (Life of Pi)

2.      Janusz Kaminski (Lincoln)

3.      Roger Deakins (Skyfall)

4.      Danny Cohen (Les Miserables)

5.      Mihai Malamaire Jr (The Master)

Alternates:

6.      Greig Fraser (Zero Dark Thirty)

7.      Robert Richardson (Django Unchained)

8.      Seamus McGarvey (Anna Karenina)

9.      John Toll, Frank Griebe (Cloud Atlas)

10.  Wally Pfister (The Dark Knight Rises)

BEST ART DIRECTION

Predictions:

1.      Eve Stewart (Les Miserables)

2.      Sarah Greenwood (Anna Karenina)

3.      Rick Carter (Lincoln)

4.      J. Michael Riva (Django Unchained)

5.      David Gropman (Life of Pi)

Alternates:

6.      Hugh Bateup (Cloud Atlas)

7.      Dan Hennah (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)

8.      Jack Fisk, David Crank (The Master)

9.      Arthur Max (Prometheus)

10.  Dennis Gassner (Skyfall)

BEST COSTUME

Predictions:

1.      Jacqueline Duran (Anna Karenina)

2.      Paco Delgado (Les Miserables)

3.      Joanna Johnston (Lincoln)

4.      Kym Barrett, Pierre-Yves Gayraud (Cloud Atlas)

5.      Manon Rasmussen (A Royal Affair)

Alternates:

6.      Sharen Davis (Django Unchained)

7.      Arjun Basin (Life of Pi)

8.      Eiko Ishioka (Mirror Mirror)

9.      Mark Bridges (The Master)

10.  Coleen Atwood (Snow White and the Huntsman)

11.  Jacqueline West (Argo)

12.  Julie Weiss (Hitchcock)

BEST FILM EDITING

Predictions:

1.      William Goldenberg (Argo)

2.      William Goldenberg, Dylan Tichenor (Zero Dark Thirty)

3.      Michael Kahn (Lincoln)

4.      Tim Squyres (Life of Pi)

5.      Chris Dickens (Les Miserables)

Alternates:

6.      Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers (Silver Linings Playbook)

7.      Stuart Baird (Skyfall)

8.      Fred Raskin (Django Unchained)

9.      Jeremiah O’Driscoll (Flight)

10.  Alexander Berner (Cloud Atlas)

BEST SOUND

Predictions:

1.      Marvel’s The Avengers

2.      Les Miserables

3.      Zero Dark Thirty

4.      Skyfall

5.      Life of Pi

Alternates:

6.      Django Unchained

7.      Argo

8.      The Dark Knight Rises

9.      Flight

10.  The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

11.  Lincoln

12.  Prometheus

BEST SOUND EDITING

Predictions:

1.      Marvel’s The Avengers

2.      Skyfall

3.      The Dark Knight Rises

4.      Zero Dark Thirty

5.      Django Unchained

Alternates:

6.      Brave

7.      Les Miserables

8.      Life of Pi

9.      The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

10.  Wreck-it-Ralph

11.  The Impossible

12.  Looper

13.  Flight

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Predictions:

1.      Life of Pi

2.      Marvel’s The Avengers

3.      The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

4.      Prometheus

5.      The Dark Knight Rises

Alternates:

6.      Skyfall

7.      Cloud Atlas

8.      Snow White and the Huntsman

9.      John Carter

10.  The Amazing Spider-Man

BEST MAKEUP

Predictions:

1.      Lincoln

2.      The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

3.      Les Miserables

Alternates:

4.      Hitchcock

5.      Men in Black 3

6.      Looper

7.      Snow White and the Huntsman

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Predictions:

1.      John Williams (Lincoln)

2.      Alexandre Desplat (Argo)

3.      Mychael Danna (Life of Pi)

4.      Benh Zeitlin, Dan Romer (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

5.      Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek, Tom Tykwer (Cloud Atlas)

Alternates:

6.      Johnny Greenwood (The Master)

7.      Dario Marianelli (Anna Karenina)

8.      Alexandre Desplat (Zero Dark Thirty)

9.      Thomas Newman (Skyfall)

10.  Howard Shore (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

Predictions:

1.      “Skyfall” (Skyfall)

2.      “Suddenly” (Les Miserables)

3.      “From Here to the Moon and Back” (Joyful Noise)

4.      “Still Alive” (Paul Williams: Still Alive)

5.      “Pi’s Lullaby” (Life of Pi)

Alternates:

And many, many, many others……………………………………………………….

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM

Predictions:

1.      The Intouchables (France)

2.      Amour (Austria)

3.      A Royal Affair (Denmark)

4.      War Witch (Canada)

5.      Kon-Tiki (Norway)

Alternates:

6.      No (Chile)

7.      Sister (Switzerland)

8.      Beyond the Hills (Romania)

9.      The Deep (Iceland)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Predictions:

1.      Searching For Sugar Man

2.      The Gatekeepers

3.      How to Survive a Plague

4.      Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

5.      The Invisible War

Alternates:

6.      The House I Live In

7.      The Imposter

8.      Detropia

9.      The Waiting Room

10.  Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

11.  Bully

12.  Chasing Ice

13.  5 Broken Cameras

14.  Ethel

15.  This is Not a Film