EGOTing’s 84th Academy Award Predictions
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Leading Actor
Best Leading Actress
Best Supporting Actor
- Winner: The Artist – Thomas Langmann
- Runner-Up: The Descendants – Jim Burke, Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne
- Wild Card: The Help – Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan
- Unlikely: The Tree of Life – Dede Gardner, Sarah Green, Grant Hill and Bill Pohlad
- No Chance in Hell:
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Scott Rudin
- Hugo – Graham King and Martin Scorsese
- Midnight in Paris – Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum
- Moneyball – Michael De Luca, Rachel Horowitz, and Brad Pitt
- War Horse – Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy
Best Director
- Winner: Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
- Runner-Up: Martin Scorsese – Hugo
- Wild Card: Terrence Malick – The Tree of Life
- Unlikely: Woody Allen – Midnight in Paris
- No Chance in Hell: Alexander Payne – The Descendants
- Winner: Jean Dujardin – The Artist as George Valentin
- Runner-Up: George Clooney – The Descendants as Matt King
- Wild Card: Brad Pitt – Moneyball as Billy Beane
- Unlikely: Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as George Smiley
- No Chance in Hell: Demián Bichir – A Better Life as Carlos Galindo
Best Leading Actress
- Winner: Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady as Margaret Thatcher
- Runner-Up: Viola Davis – The Help as Aibileen Clarke
- Wild Card: Michelle Williams – My Week with Marilyn as Marilyn Monroe
- Unlikely: Glenn Close – Albert Nobbs as Albert Nobbs
- No Chance in Hell: Rooney Mara – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as Lisbeth Salander
Best Supporting Actor
- Winner: Christopher Plummer – Beginners as Hal Fields
- Runner-Up: Jonah Hill – Moneyball as Peter Brand
- Wild Card: Max von Sydow – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close as The Renter
- Unlikely: Kenneth Branagh – My Week with Marilyn as Laurence Olivier
- No Chance in Hell: Nick Nolte – Warrior as Paddy Conlon
Best Supporting Actress
- Winner: Octavia Spencer – The Help as Minny Jackson
- Runner-Up: Bérénice Bejo – The Artist as Peppy Miller
- Wild Card: Jessica Chastain – The Help as Celia Foote
- Unlikely: Melissa McCarthy – Bridesmaids as Megan Price
- No Chance in Hell: Janet McTeer – Albert Nobbs as Hubert Page
Best Original Screenplay
- Winner: Midnight in Paris – Woody Allen
- Runner-Up: The Artist – Michel Hazanavicius
- Wild Card: Bridesmaids – Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo
- Unlikely: A Separation – Asghar Farhadi
- No Chance in Hell: Margin Call – J.C. Chandor
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Winner: The Descendants – Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash from The Descendants (novel) by Kaui Hart Hemmings
- Runner-Up: Moneyball – Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin; Story by Stan Chervin from Moneyball by Michael Lewis
- Wild Card: Hugo – John Logan from The Invention of Hugo Cabret byBrian Selznick
- Unlikely: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
- No Chance in Hell: The Ides of March – George Clooney, Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon from Farragut North by Beau Willimon
Best Animated Feature
- Winner: Rango – Gore Verbinski
- Runner-Up: Chico and Rita – Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
- Wild Card: A Cat in Paris – Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli
- Unlikely: Kung Fu Panda 2 – Jennifer Yuh Nelson
- No Chance in Hell: Puss in Boots – Chris Miller
Best Foreign Language Film
- Winner: A Separation (Iran) in Persian – Asghar Farhadi
- Runner-Up: Footnote (Israel) in Hebrew – Joseph Cedar
- Wild Card: In Darkness (Poland) in Polish – Agnieszka Holland
- Unlikely: Monsieur Lazhar (Canada) in French – Philippe Falardeau
- No Chance in Hell: Bullhead (Belgium) in Dutch and French – Michaël R. Roskam
- Winner: Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory – Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
- Runner-Up: Pina – Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel
- Wild Card: If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front – Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman
- Unlikely: Hell and Back Again – Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner
- No Chance in Hell: Undefeated – TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas
Best Documentary Short
- Winner: The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom – Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen
- Runner-Up: The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement – Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin
- Wild Card: Saving Face – Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
- Unlikely: Incident in New Baghdad – James Spione
- No Chance in Hell: God Is the Bigger Elvis – Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson
Best Live Action Short
- Winner: The Shore – Terry George and Oorlagh George
- Runner-Up: Time Freak – Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey
- Wild Card: Raju – Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren
- Unlikely: Tuba Atlantic – Hallvar Witzø
- No Chance in Hell: Pentecost – Peter McDonald and Eimear O'Kane
Best Animated Short Film
- Winner: A Morning Stroll – Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe
- Runner-Up: Dimanche – Patrick Doyon
- Wild Card: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore – William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
- Unlikely: Wild Life – Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby
- No Chance in Hell: La Luna – Enrico Casarose
Best Original Score
- Winner: The Artist – Ludovic Bource
- Runner-Up: Hugo – Howard Shore
- Wild Card: War Horse – John Williams
- Unlikely: The Adventures of Tintin – John Williams
- No Chance in Hell: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Alberto Iglesias
Best Original Song
- Winner: "Man or Muppet" from The Muppets – Bret McKenzie
- Runner-Up: "Real in Rio" from Rio – Sérgio Mendes, Carlinhos Brown and Siedah Garrett
Best Sound Editing
- Winner: Hugo – Tom Fleischman and John Midgley:
- Runner-Up: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Ren Klyce
- Wild Card: Drive – Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis
- Unlikely: Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
- No Chance in Hell: War Horse – Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstroe
Best Sound Mixing
- Winner: Hugo – Tom Fleischman and John Midgley
- Runner-Up: War Horse – Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and Stuart Wilson
- Wild Card: Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Peter J. Devlin
- Unlikely: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Bo Persson
- No Chance in Hell: Moneyball – Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, David Giammarco and Ed Novick
Best Art Direction
- Winner: Hugo – Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo
- Runner-Up: The Artist – Laurence Bennett and Robert Gould
- Wild Card: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 – Stuart Craig and Stephanie McMillan
- Unlikely: War Horse – Rick Carter and Lee Sandales
- No Chance in Hell: Midnight in Paris – Anne Seibel and Hélène Dubreuil
Best Cinematography
- Winner: The Tree of Life – Emmanuel Lubezki
- Runner-Up: The Artist – Guillaume Schiffman
- Wild Card: Hugo – Robert Richardson
- Unlikely: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – Jeff Cronenweth
- No Chance in Hell: War Horse – Janusz Kamiński
Best Makeup
- Winner: The Iron Lady – Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland
- Runner-Up: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 –Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight and Lisa Tomblin
- Wild Card: Albert Nobbs – Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnsonand Matthew W. Mungle
Best Costume Design
- Winner: The Artist – Mark Bridges
- Runner-Up: W.E. – Arianne Phillips Jane Eyre – Michael O'Connor
- Wild Card: Hugo – Sandy Powell
- Unlikely: Jane Eyre – Michael O'Connor
- No Chance in Hell: Anonymous – Lisy Christl
Best Visual Effects
- Winner: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 – Tim Burke,David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson
- Runner-Up: Rise of the Planet of the Apes – Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett
- Wild Card: Hugo – Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann and Alex Henning
- Unlikely: Real Steel – Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Danny Gordon Taylor and Swen Gillberg
- No Chance in Hell: Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Scott Farrar, Scott Benza,Matthew E. Butler and John Frazier
Best Film Editing
- Winner: The Artist – Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
- Runner-Up: The Descendants – Kevin Tent
- Wild Card: Hugo – Thelma Schoonmaker
- Unlikely: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter
- No Chance in Hell: Moneyball – Christopher Tellefsen Hugo – Thelma Schoonmaker
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Oscar Ballot Game
Have a different opinion? Well… share it with me by joining in my Oscar Ballot Game!
Here are the rules of the game:
1. Rank order all the nominees within each category according who you think is most likely (to least likely) to win:
· 5 Points = Winner
· 4 Points = Runner-Up
· 3 Points = Wild Card
· 2 Points = Unlikely
· 1 Point = No Chance in Hell
2. When a category has less than five nominees, always use the top values. For example, with only two nominees in the ‘Best Original Song’ category, you’ll only be using values ‘5’ and ‘4’.
3. Best Picture: Although there are nine nominees, your top point value will remain ‘5’. Use values ‘5’ – ‘2’ only once and then give the five remaining films the value ‘1’.
4. Email your ballot to me at schutzhappens@gmail.com before the telecast.
5. I will post the winners after the telecast. PS: A perfect score is 120.
6. What do you win? Only the satisfaction of defeating an opinionated blogger.