Oscar Predix

The main reason to start a blog for me was covering the oscar prediction game since 2001, now that is just fun and a lot of people do it professionally, making the oscar nominees marketing machine even more disturbing, I decided to just weight in on 3 occasions. On the beginning of the fall period, when oscar prospects are still (mostly) unseen, on the week prior do the actual noms, and on the day prior to the actual awards.

As all of you already know, the best picture game has changed and expanded to 10 nominees, I wont make a judgement now, before the first tryout, but I can say it will be fun to predict the nominees and the winner. And they might just well be:

BEST PICTURE

Avatar

An Education

The Hurt Locker

Invictus

The Lovely Bones

Nine

Precious

Up

Up In the Air*

The Tree of Life

BEST DIRECTOR

James Cameron - Avatar

Jason Reitman - Up In The Air*

Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker

Peter Jackson - The Lovely Bones

Quentin Tarantino - Inglorious Basterds

LEADING ACTOR:

George Clooney - Up In the Air*

Matt Damon - The Informant!

Morgan Freeman - Invictus

Paul Bettany - Creation

Robert DeNiro - Everybody's Fine

LEADING ACTRESS:

Carrey Mulligan - An Education*

Gabourney Sidibe - Precious

Natalie Portman - Brothers

Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia

Saoirse Ronan - The Lovely Bones

SUPORTING ACTOR:

Alfred Molina - An Education

Christoph Waltz - Inglorious Basterds

Matt Damon - Invictus*

Peter Capaldi - In The Loop

Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones

SUPORTING ACTRESS:

Anna Kendrick - Up In the Air

Marion Cotillard - Nine

Mo'Nique - Precious

Penelope Cruz - Nine*

Rachel Weisz - The Lovely Bones

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

(500) Days of Summer

The Hurt Locker

Up*

A Serious Man

The Tree of Life

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

An Education

The Lovely Bones

The Informant!

Precious

Up In the Air*

ANIMATED FEATURE:

Coroline

The Fantastic Mr. Fox

The Princess and the Frog

Ponyo on the Cliff

Up*

CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Avatar

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

The Lovely Bones

Nine

The Tree of Life*

EDITING:

Avatar*

The Hurt Locker

Inglorious Basterds

Nine

Up In the Air

ART DIRECTION:

Avatar

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Inglorious Basterds

The Lovely Bones

Nine*

COSTUME DESIGN:

Amelia

Bright Star

Inglorious Basterds

The Lovely Bones

Nine*

MAKE UP:

District 9

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Star Trek*

SOUNDTRACK:

Amelia

Avatar

The Princess and the Frog*

Up

The Tree of Life

ORIGINAL SONG:

2012

Nine

Precious

The Princess and the Frog*

Up in the Air

SOUND MIXING:

Avatar*

The Hurt Locker

Nine

Star Trek

Transformers

SOUND EDITING:

Avatar*

The Hurt Locker

Star Trek

Transformers

Up

VISUAL EFFECTS:

Avatar*

District 9

Transformers