My Prediction of the 2013 Oscar Nominees at the End of the Year

Seeing as the awards season is now firmly under-way, I think it is now time for my annual feature in this blog, my Oscar predictions. Now all of these predictions are based on the current awards season releases going on and I will of course be commenting on the actual nominations when they are announced. So, let's get started:

Best Film:

• The Master
• Argo
• Moonrise Kingdom
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Les Miserables
• Silver Linings Playbook
• Django Unchained
• Zero Dark Thirty
• Lincoln
• Life of Pi

Best Director:

• Steven Spielberg - Lincoln
• Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty
• Paul Thomas Anderson - The Master
• Tom Hooper - Les Miserables
• Ben Affleck - Argo

Best Actor:

• Denzel Washington - Flight
• Hugh Jackman - Les Miserables
• Daniel Day Lewis - Lincoln
• Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook
• Anthony Hopkins - Hitchcock

Best Actress:

• Naomi Watts - The Impossible
• Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook
• Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
• Mary Elizabeth Winstead - Smashed
• Marion Cotillard - Rust and Bone

Best Supporting Actor:

• Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln
• Matthew McConoughey - Magic Mike
• Phillip Seymour Hoffman - The Master
• Leonardo DiCaprio - Django Unchained
• Alan Arkin - Argo

Best Supporting Actress:

• Amy Adams - The Master
• Maggie Smith - The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
• Ann Dowd - Compliance
• Anne Hathaway - Les Miserables
• Scarlett Johansson - Hitchcock

Best Original Screenplay:

• Moonrise Kingdom
• The Master
• Zero Dark Thirty
• Looper
• Django Unchained

Best Adapted Screenplay:

• Lincoln
• Les Miserables
• Argo
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Silver Linings Playbook

Best Animated Film:

• Frankenweenie
• Paranorman
• Brave
• Wreck It Ralph
• The Pirates In An Adventure With Scientists

Best Foreign Language Film:

• Untouchable
• Amour
• A Royal Affair
• War Witch
• No

Best Documentary:

• Bully
• 5 Broken Cameras
• The Imposter
• This Is Not A Film
• Searching for Sugar Man

Best Original Score:

• Argo
• Lincoln
• Anna Karenina
• Life of Pi
• The Master

Best Original Song:

• Learn Me Right - Brave
• Skyfall - Skyfall
• Touch the Sky - Brave
• Song of the Lonely Mountain - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• Suddenly - Les Miserables

Best Art Direction:

• Anna Karenina
• Les Miserables
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• Cloud Atlas
• Moonrise Kingdom

Best Cinematography:

• Moonrise Kingdom
• Les Miserables
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• Anna Karenina
• Argo

Best Makeup:

• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• Looper
• Hitchcock

Best Costume Design:

• Cloud Atlas
• Mirror, Mirror
• Anna Karenina
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• Les Miserables

Best Visual Effects:

• The Dark Knight Rises
• Avengers Assemble
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• Life of Pi
• Cloud Atlas

Best Editing:

• Anna Karenina
• Django Unchained
• Les Miserables
• Zero Dark Thirty
• Cloud Atlas

Best Sound Editing:

• Argo
• The Dark Knight Rises
• Avengers Assemble
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• Les Miserables

Best Sound Mixing:

• Les Miserables
• The Dark Knight Rises
• Avengers Assemble
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• Argo

Quick announcement to make for this feature, I will be changing it so that my predictions only go up halfway through the year and at the end of the year. 

One final thing, my thoughts on Seth MacFarlane as host. As long as he doesn't write any of the little jokes, the show could be in good hands. (Sorry but I cannot stand anything I've seen that MacFarlane's written, granted I haven't seen Ted yet and I hope that could prove me wrong)