The 84th Academy Awards take place this Sunday at 7pm (CST) on ABC. Below are my predictions in all 24 categories. (Please keep in mind that these aren’t the movies I necessarily WANT to win, but who I think WILL win).
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BEST PICTURE
*The Artist
The Descendants
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Help
Hugo
Midnight in Pa ris
Moneyball
The Tree of Life
War Horse
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Demián Bichir – A Better Life
George Clooney – The Descendants
*Jean Dujardin – The Artist
Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Brad Pitt – Moneyball
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Kenneth Branagh – My Week with Marilyn
Jonah Hill – Moneyball
Nick Nolte – Warrior
*Christopher Plummer – Beginners
Max von Sydow – Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Glenn Close – Albert Nobbs
*Viola Davis – The Help
Rooney Mara – The Girl with the Dragon Tatt oo
Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady
Michelle Williams – My Week with Marilyn
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Bérénice Bejo – The Artist
Jessica Chastain – The Help
Melissa McCarthy – Bridesmaids
Janet McTeer - Albert Nobbs
*Octavia Spencer – The Help
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
A Cat in Pa ris
Chico & Rita
Kung Fu Pa nda 2
Puss in Boots
*Rango
ART DIRECTION
*The Artist
Harry Potter and the Deat hly Hallows
Hugo
Midnight in Pa ris
War Horse
CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Artist
The Girl with the Dragon Tatt oo
Hugo
The Tree of Life
*War Horse
COSTUME DESIGN
Anonymous
The Artist
*Hugo
Jane Eyre
W.E.
DIRECTING
*The Artist – Michel Hazanavicius
The Descendants – Alexander Payne
Hugo – Martin Scorsese
Midnight in Pa ris – Woody Allen
The Tree of Life – Terrence Malick
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Hell and Back Again
If a Tree Fa lls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
*Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Pina
Undefeat ed
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
*God Is the Bigger Elvis
Incident in New Baghdad
Saving Fa ce
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
FILM EDITING
The Artist
The Descendants
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
*Hugo
Moneyball
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Bullhead – Belgium
Footnote – Israel
In Darkness – Poland
Monsieur Lazhar – Canada
*A Separat ion – Iran
MAKEUP
*Albert Nobbs
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pa rt 2
The Iron Lady
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
*The Adventures of Tintin – John Williams
The Artist – Ludovic Bource
Hugo – Howard Shore
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Alberto Iglesias
War Horse – John Williams
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
*Man or Muppet – The Muppets – Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
Real in Rio – Rio – Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown – Lyric by Siedah Garrett
SHORT FILM/ANIMATED
Dimanche/Sunday
The Fa ntastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
La Luna
A Morning Stroll
*Wild Life
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
Pentecost
*Raju
The Shore
Time Freak
Tuba Atlantic
SOUND EDITING
Drive – Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis
*The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Ren Klyce
Hugo – Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty
Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
War Horse – Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom
SOUND MIXING
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
*Hugo
Moneyball
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
War Horse
VISUAL EFFECTS
Harry Potter and the Deat hly Hallows Pa rt 2
Hugo
Real Steel
*Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
*The Descendants – Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
Hugo – Screenplay by John Logan
The Ides of March – Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
Moneyball - Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin – Story by Stan Chervin
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Screenplay by Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
The Artist – Written by Michel Hazanavicius
Bridesmaids – Written by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig
Margin Call – Written by J.C. Chandor
*Midnight in Paris – Written by Woody Allen
A Separation – Written by Asghar Farhadi
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