85th Academy Awards – Official Ballot

Today is the day!  My picks are locked in and ready to go.  For each category I have rank ordered my pictures from most likely to least-likely.

Best Picture: 

1.      Argo

2.     Zero Dark Thirty

3.     Silver Linings Playbook

4.     Life of Pi

5.     Les Miserables

6.     Lincoln

7.     Django Unchained

8.    Beasts of the Southern Wild

9.     Amour

Best Director:

1.      Ang Lee – Life of Pi

2.     David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook

3.     Steven Spielberg – Lincoln

4.     Michael Haneke - Amour

5.     Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Leading Actor: 

1.      Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln

2.     Hugh Jackman – Les Miserables

3.     Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings PLaybook

4.     Joaquin Phoenix – The Master

5.     Denzel Washington – Flight

Best Leading Actress: 

1.      Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook

2.     Emmanuelle Riva - Amour

3.     Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty

4.     Quvenzhane Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild

5.     Naomi Watts – The Impossible

Best Supporting Actor: 

1.     Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained

2.     Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln

3.     Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master

4.     Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook

5.     Alan Arkin – Argo

Best Supporting Actress: 

1.     Anne Hathaway – Les Miserables

2.     Sally Field - Lincoln

3.     Amy Adams – The Master

4.     Helen Hunt – The Sessions

5.     Jackie Weaver – Silver Linings Playbook

Best Original Screenplay: 

1.      Django Unchained

2.     Zero Dark Thirty

3.     Moonrise Kingdom

4.     Amour

5.     Flight

Best Adapted Screenplay: 

1.      Argo

2.     Lincoln

3.     Silver Lining Playbook

4.     Beasts of the Southern Wild

5.     Life of Pi

Best Animated Feature: 

1.      Wreck-It-Ralph

2.     Brave

3.     Frankenweenie

4.     ParaNorman

5.     The Pirates!  Band of Misfits

Best Foreign Film: 

1.      Amour

2.     War Witch

3.     A Royal Affair

4.     No

5.     Kon-Tiki

Best Documentary Feature: 

1.      Searching for Sugar Man

2.     The Invisible War

3.     5 Broken Cameras

4.     The Gatekeepers

5.     How to Survive a Plague

Best Documentary Short: 

1.      Monday at Racine

2.     Inocente

3.     Open Heart

4.     Kings Point

5.     Redemption

Best Animated Short: 

1.      Adam and Dog

2.     Head Over Heels

3.     Paperman

4.     The Longest Daycare

5.     Fresh Guacamole

Best Live Action Short: 

1.      Asad

2.     Curfew

3.     Buzkashi Boys

4.     Death of a Shadow

5.     Henry

Best Original Score: 

1.      Life of Pi

2.     Argo

3.     Lincoln

4.     Skyfall

5.     Anna Karenina

Best Original Song: 

1.      Skyfall

2.     Les Miserables

3.     Life of Pi

4.     Ted

5.     Chasing Ice

Best Sound Editing: 

1.      Life of Pi

2.     Skyfall

3.     Argo

4.     Django Unchained

5.     Zero Dark Thirty

Best Sound Mixing: 

1.      Les Miserables

2.     Skyfall

3.     Life of Pi

4.     Argo

5.     Lincoln

Best Production Design: 

1.      Life of Pi

2.     Anna Karenina

3.     Lincoln

4.     Les Miserables

5.     The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Best Cinematography: 

1.      Life of Pi

2.     Skyfall

3.     Lincoln

4.     Django Unchained

5.     Anna Karenina

Best Makeup & Hairstyling: 

1.      The Hobbit:  An Unexpected Journey

2.     Les Miserables

3.     Hitchcock

Best Costume Design: 

1.      Anna Karenina

2.     Les Miserables

3.     Mirror Mirror

4.     Lincoln

5.     Snow White and the Huntsman

Best Film Editing: 

1.      Zero Dark Thirty

2.     Life of Pi

3.     Argo

4.     Lincoln

5.     Silver Lining Playbook

Best Visual Effects: 

1.      Life of Pi

2.     Marvel’s The Avengers

3.     The Hobbit:  An Unexpected Journey

4.     Prometheus

5.     Snow White and the Huntsman