Monday, January 24, 2011

My 100% Correct (?) Oscar Predictions - EDITED WITH RESULTS



Here they are - feel free to check back and marvel at how amazingly accurate I am. They will be announced tomorrow morning.

Best Picture (10/10)
127 Hours*
Black Swan*
The Fighter*
Inception*
The Kids Are All Right*
The King's Speech*
The Social Network*
Toy Story 3*
True Grit*
Winter's Bone*
Alternate:
The Town

Best Director (4/5) - 5/5 if you count alternate
Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan*
David Fincher, The Social Network*
Tom Hooper, The King's Speech*
Christopher Nolan, Inception
David O. Russell, The Fighter*
Alternate:
The Coen Brothers, True Grit*-

Best Actor (5/5)
Javier Bardem, Biutiful*
Jeff Bridges, True Grit*
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network*
Colin Firth, The King's Speech*
James Franco, 127 Hours*
Alternate:
Robert Duvall, Get Low

Best Actress (4/5)
Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right*
Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole*
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone*
Julianne Moore, The Kids Are All Right
Natalie Portman, Black Swan*
Alternate:
Hilary Swank, Conviction OR Hailee Steinfeld gets placed here instead of Supporting, True Grit

Best Supporting Actor (4/5)
Christian Bale, The Fighter*
Andrew Garfield, The Social Network
John Hawkes, Winter's Bone*
Jeremy Renner, The Town*
Geoffrey Rush, The King's Speech*
Alternate:
Michael Douglas, Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps

Best Supporting Actress (4/5) - 5/5 if you count alternate
Amy Adams, The Fighter*
Helena Bonham Carter, The King's Speech*
Mila Kunis, Black Swan
Melissa Leo, The Fighter*
Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit*
Alternate:
Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom*

Best Original Screenplay (4/5) - 5/5 if you count alternate
Black Swan
The Fighter*
Inception*
The Kids Are All Right*
The King's Speech*
Alternate:
Another Year*

Best Adapted Screenplay (5/5)
127 Hours*
The Social Network*
Toy Story 3*
True Grit*
Winter's Bone*
Alternate:
The Town

Editing (only 8 times in Oscar history has a film not nominated here won Best Picture) (4/5)
127 Hours*
Black Swan*
The King's Speech*
Inception
The Social Network
Alternate:
True Grit*

Cinematography (how purty the film looks onscreen) (5/5)
Black Swan*
Inception*
The King's Speech*
The Social Network*
True Grit*
Alternate:
127 Hours

Art Direction (4/5) with alternate, 5/5
Alice in Wonderland*
Black Swan
Inception*
The King's Speech*
True Grit*
Alternate:
Harry Potter (whichever Harry Potter came out this year)*

Animated Feature (3/3)
How to Train Your Dragon*
The Illusionist*
Toy Story 3*
Alternate:
Tangled

Sound Mixing (3/5)
Black Swan
Inception*
The Social Network*
Tron Legacy
True Grit*
Alternate:
Iron Man 2

Sound Effects Editing (4/5)
Black Swan
Inception*
Toy Story 3*
Tron Legacy*
True Grit*
Alternate:
How to Train Your Dragon

Costume Design (4/5)
Alice in Wonderland*
Black Swan
The King's Speech*
The Tempest*
True Grit*
Alternate:
Tron Legacy

Visual Effects (4/5)
Alice in Wonderland*
Harry Potter*
Inception*
Iron Man 2*
Tron Legacy

Alternate:
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Makeup (1/3)
Alice in Wonderland
The Fighter
The Wolfman*
Alternate: True Grit

Original Score (4/5) with alternate, 5/5
127 Hours*
Alice in Wonderland
Inception*
The King's Speech*
The Social Network*

Alternate: How to Train Your Dragon

Original Song (there probably won't be 5 nominees here, but who knows) (3/4) - with alternate, 4/4
"If I Rise" (127 Hours)*
"I See the Light" (Tangled)*
"Shine" (Waiting for 'Superman')
"You Belong To Me" (Toy Story 3)*
"You Haven't Seen the Last of Me" (Burlesque)
Alternate: "Coming Home" (Country Strong)*

Foreign Language Film (3/5) - with alternate, 4/5
Biutiful (Mexico)*
Confessions (Japan)
Dogtooth (Greece)*
Even the Rain (Spain)
In a Better World (Denmark)*
Alternate: Incendies (Canada)*

Documentary Feature (3/5) - with alternate, 4/5
Exit Through the Gift Shop*
Inside Job*
Restrepo*
The Tillman Story
Waiting for 'Superman'

Alternate: Waste Land*

I would try and predict the shorts, but honestly, I would just be stealing them from other predictions online. I don't even know what's eligible n those categories.

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