Oscar Predictions 2013 (FEATURE)
Oscar Predictions 2013
The Envelope Please:
Who Will Win, Who Deserves to
Win, Who Was Snubbedby Kam Williams
Lincoln opened the awards season as the odds-on favorite to win the
Academy Award for Best Picture by virtue of its landing the most nominations.
But the snub of Ben Affleck in the Best Director category made his movie, Argo,
the sentimental favorite of the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild, and
the momentum of that sympathy vote is likely to carry over to Oscar night.
While Lincoln won’t take home
the top prize, it will nevertheless win the most awards (5), followed by Les
Miserables (3), and then by a number of films taking 2 apiece: Argo, Silver
Linings Playbook, Life of Pi, Skyfall and Django Unchained. A quintet of Oscars
sans Best Picture won’t exactly be a sweep, but it’s a far better fate than
that of Zero Dark Thirty, whose hopes were torpedoed by political blowback even
before it had a chance to open in theaters.
Besides
forecasting the winners below, I also indicate which among the nominees in the
major categories are actually the most deserving. And because some great
performances are invariably snubbed by the Academy, I also point out a few I
feel were overlooked entirely.
The 85th
Academy Awards will air live on ABC on Sunday, February 24th at 8 PM
ET/5 PM PT, and will be hosted by Seth MacFarlane.
Best
Picture
Will Win:
Argo
Deserves
to Win: Zero Dark Thirty
Overlooked: Looper
Best
Director
Will Win:
Steven Spielberg (Lincoln)
Deserves
to Win: David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)
Overlooked: Kathryn Bigelow
(Zero Dark Thirty), Ben Affleck (Argo) and Quentin Tarantino (Django
Unchained)
Best
Actor
Will Win:
Daniel Day Lewis (Lincoln)
Deserves
to Win: Daniel Day Lewis (Lincoln)
Overlooked: John Hawkes
(The Sessions) and Suraj Sharma (Life of Pi)
Best
Actress
Will Win:
Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)
Deserves
to Win: Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)
Overlooked:
Rachel Weisz (The Deep
Blue Sea)
and Ann Dowd (Compliance)
Best
Supporting Actor
Will Win:
Tommy Lee Jones (Lincoln)
Deserves
to Win: Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)
Overlooked:
Leonardo DiCaprio (Django Unchained) and Matthew McConaughey (Magic Mike)
Best
Supporting Actress
Will Win:
Ann Hathaway (Les Miserables)
Deserves
to Win: Helen Hunt (The Sessions)
Overlooked:
Emily Blunt (Looper)
Best
Original Screenplay:
Will Win:
Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)
Deserves
to Win: Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty)
Overlooked:
Rian Johnson (Looper)
Best
Adapted Screenplay:
Will Win:
Tony Kushner (Lincoln)
Deserves
to Win: David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)
Overlooked:
Ben Lewin (The Sessions)
Predictions
for Secondary Categories
Animated
Feature: Brave
Foreign
Language Film: Amour
Documentary
Feature: Searching for Sugarman
Cinematography:
Life of Pi
Costume
Design: Anna Karenina
Production
Design: Les Miserables
Film
Editing: Argo
Makeup
and Hairstyling: The Hobbit
Original Score: Lincoln
Original
Song: Skyfall
Sound
Editing: Zero Dark Thirty
Sound
Mixing: Les Miserables
Visual
Effects: Life of Pi
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