For our final contest, which isn’t really a contest, we leave you for this very bizarre and suspense-filled Oscar year with a challenge. Please pick three very unlikely things that might happen. Really out there, wild things that might take hold.
Here are mine.
1. Benh Zeitlin and Luci Alibar win adapted screenplay for Beasts of the Southern Wild
2. Benh Zeitlin wins Best Director for Beasts of the Southern Wild
3. Beasts of the Southern wins Best Picture
I know, I just went balls out. Go big, or go home. I am hoping that Lincoln wins, as you all should by now, but I don’t think that dream is coming true. Still, I’m hoping for some shockers tomorrow night. What think you, AD readers?
Silver Linings Playbook is shut out!
Skyfall and Amour wins more Oscars than Argo
1. Joaquin Phoenix wins Best Actor.
2. Philip Seymour Hoffman wins Best Supporting Actor.
3. Django Unchained wins Best Picture.
Brian Rowe has the best no guts: Ben Affleck still wins Best Director, even though he’s not nominated – WHAT A CLASSIC!!! And I’d like to add, he ties with Ron Howard for Apollo 13, even though it didn’t come out this year. Hey, if they are calling Silver Linings an indie film and the real indie film Beast, didn’t win, anything is possible.
1. Ben Affleck presents Best Director
2. Argo wins everything except supporting actor and a sound category
3. A tie somewhere
1. Beasts of the Southern Wild wins Best Picture
2. David O. Russell wins Best Director
3. Rebelle wins Best Foreign Language
NGNG:
Joaquin Phoenix wins Best Actor
Naomi Watts wins Best Actress
Ben Affleck still wins Best Director, even though he’s not nominated 🙂
NGNG:
1) There will be a tie in one of the categories
2) Somebody will not be there to accept their Oscar
3) Argo wins nothing.
NGNG:
MacFarlane as host is a disaster/boondoggle — at least one post-show apology is made by the Academy for an off-color joke.
Moonrise Kingdom for Original Screenplay
Haneke for Director
LIFE OF PI sweeps, winning 11 Oscars
LINCOLN wins only Best Actor
1. Mirror Mirror wins best costume design.
2. Skyfall leads in total Oscar wins.
3. Kon-Tiki wins best foreign film.
1. Naomi Watts wins Best Actress
2. Michael Haneke wins Best Director
3. Argo wins Picture and Editing ONLY.
Argo sweeps
Lincoln wins just 1 (Actor)
Hanecke wins BD
I’M ADDING A 4TH NGNG TO MY PRIOR 3:
A WIN FOR AT LEAST ONE OF THE THREE ACTING NOMS FOR “THE MASTER”.
1. In directing category there will be tie. 2. Argo wins everything.
AMOUR walks away with 4 awards: Director, Actress, Original Screenplay and Foreign.
– Bradley Cooper for Best Actor
– Amy Adams for Best Supporting Actress
– Michael Haneke for Best Director
ahhh why not?
joaquin phoenix for best actor
naomi watts for best actress
emmanuelle riva for best actress
1. No single film wins the majority of the awards. In 2005, three awards each were given to Crash, Brokeback Mountain, Memoirs of a Geisha and King Kong.
2. Lincoln won’t win anything. Daniel Day-Lewis won’t become the first actor in history to win 3 Best Actor statues.
3. Silver Linings Playbook has 4 acting noms, 1st movie in a generation to accomplish this. Looks very good for Director David O’Russell. *cough, cough*
And I just realized how bold my last prediction is….
😛
Best Picture: Life Of PI
Best Director: Ang Lee Life of PI
Best Actor: Phoenix: The Master
I put up my predictions on my blog, and I’m predicting the following:
1. Michael Haneke will win best director. Amour will win all but best picture tonight. (I actually feel fairly confident about actress and screenplay)
2. Silver Linings Playbook will win nothing.
3. Beasts of the Southern Wild will win score.
NGNG
Daniel Day-Lewis loses Best Actor.
Argo does not win Picture.
Naomi Watts wins Best Actress.
Haneke – Screenplay
Deakins – Cinematography
Desplat – Score
1. Haneke wins Director
2. Hunt wins Best Supporting Actress
3. Riva wins Best Actress
1. ‘Skyfall’ looses best Original Song
2. Anybody but Daniel Day Lewis wins best actor
3. Amour wins best picture
Jackie Weaver, Haneke for director, and Naomi Watts
– Amour wins Best Picture, Best Picture in a Foreign Language and Best Director
Oops…meant to say: Silver Linings Playbook sets Academy record by sweeping screen play, supporting actress, supporting actor, actress, actor, director, and picture.
1. Moonrise Kingdom wins Original Screenplay
2. Before My Time wins Original Song
3. Seth McFarlane is genuinely funny while hosting the Oscars.
…at least the first 2 could happen.
Silver Linings Playbook sets Academy record by sweeping Screenplay, S Actress, S Actor, Actress, Director and Picture.
just two. in chronological & causal order:
1. Lincoln sweeps.
2. Connecticut secedes from the union.
My NGNG
1. Zero Dark Thirty, Django Unchained or Amour win Best Picture.
2. Michael Haneke wins Best Director.
3. Hugh Jackman wins Best Actor. (Daniel Day-Lewis’s Lincoln is a masterpiece, but I would love to see Hugh win)
4. Jessica Chastain wins Best Actress. (I’m still rooting for her)
5. Zero Dark Thirty wins Best Original Screenplay.
6. Argo loses Best Editing to Zero Dark Thirty.
7. NO wins Best Foreing Film. (I have to write this because I’m Chilean)
8. Life of Pi loses Best Visual Effect to The Avengers.
Liked Ian’s suggestion for a tie somewhere. How unlikely is such a thing in the Director or Supporting Actor category really?
Adele loses Skyfall
Amour loses Foreign Picture
Argo wins Best Picture with only one other award
NGNG:
1. Hoffman wins Supporting Actor
2. Roger Deakins (SKYFALL) wins Cinematography after 9 losses
3. BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD wins Adapted Screenplay
Moonrise Kingdom for Original
No for Foreign
Naomi Watts takes it home
I probably won’t get back on here before tomorrow (my partner is sailing over today to join me on the mountain for poutine, red carpet dish and cheers-n-groans) , so I wanted to wish everyone a happy and exciting Oscars.
Tomorrow, we start afresh.
Final NGNG – Sasha recovers from the battle and AD continues for some time.
Hugh Jackman wins Best Actor
5 Broken Cameras wins Best Documentary
Kon-Tiki wins Best Foreign Language Film
1. Philip Seymour Hoffman wins Best Supporting Actor
2. SLP wins Best Adapted Screenplay
3. Michael Haneke wins Best Director
NGNG:
1) Joaquin Phoenix wins Best Actor
2) B. Zeitlin wins Best director
3) No (Chile) wins Best Foreign Language Pic.
1. Zeitlin wins Best Director
2. Riva wins Best Actress
3. Frankenweenie wins Best Animated
–SKYFALL sweeps (they are doing a Bond tribute after all…)
–Jacki Weaver wins Supporting Actress (I’m still confused with the nomination)
–ZERO DARK THIRTY wins Picture, Actress, Original Screenplay, and Editing (because I’d rather see this make Oscar history instead of ARGO)
1. Best Picture: DJANGO UNCHAINED
2. Best Actress: Emmanuelle Riva
3. Best Supportig Actor: Robert De Niro
1. Jessica Chastain wins actress
2. Helen Hunt wins supporting
3. Argo and SLP are completely shut out
1. Michael Haneke wins Best Director.
2. Skyfall wins Best Cinematography over Life of Pi.
3. Best Supporting Actor goes to Philip Seymour Hoffman.
HMMM… And it would be awesome if Silver Linings Playbook went home empty handed (including Riva’s win and a priceless Russell’s reaction).
NGNG
Actor – Joaquin Phoenix
Actress – Emmanuelle Riva
Supporting Actress – Helen Hunt
Director – Haneke
NGNG
– We get a Tie.
– Life of Pi wins 7 including Picture.
– Affleck Best Director with a ‘write in vote’ win.
Since the Oscars are almost here, i think its the right time to say this… thank you so much both Sasha and Ryan for this amazing site and your passion for movies. Personally, this awards season for me was quite insightful and fun thanks to you. Awards Daily is the only site i visited everyday and i use to have a blast reading all the comments that users use to make specially those fights 😀 Its been one hell of a year. Love you guys (even though i hate you both for the SLP-bashing) 😛 Cheers!
NGNG:
1. Zero Dark Thirty Sweep
2. Michael Haneke
3. Joaquin Phoenix
1. Argo wins only one Oscar: Best Picture
2. Philip Seymour Hoffman wins Best Supporting Actor
3. Zero Dark Thirty wins at least three Oscars
NGNG OSCAR VERSION!
Best Picture- Zero Dark Thirty
Supporting Actress- Amy Adams
Editing- Anyone but Argo
Cinematography- DEAKINS!!!
Big NGNG- Argo goes home with ZERO Oscars
NGNG 2013: Lincoln ONLY wins Actor
Watts for actress, Phoenix for actor, Lincoln for editing
Best Director – Michael Haneke
Best Actor – Joaquin Phoenix
Best Supporting Actress – Jacki Weaver
Best Director – Michael Haneke
Best Adapted Screenplay – SLP
Best original Screenplay – Amour
2. Jennifer Lawrence and Emmanuelle Riva tie for Best Actress < + + + + + + !!! 😀
Best Actor – Hugh Jackman (Not giving up on that one until the announcement)
Best Song – Suddenly because it was actually about the story
Best Original Screenplay – Moonrise Kingdom because it was the one movie I left smiling this year.
Jennifer Lawrence and Emmanuelle Riva tie for Best Actress.
Naomi Watts breaks out from far back in the pack to win, as Maggie Smith did between Jane Fonda and Liza Minnelli in 1969. (The irony is that Watts will probably be crowned next year for her Princess Diana movie.)
LIFE OF PI for Best Picture.
Amy Adams for Best Supporting Actress and Phillip Seymour Hoffman for Best Supporting Actor.
Roger Deakins loses no. 10 (Sorry, that’s not a NGNG, actually.)
1. The Skyfall trio (Roger Deakins, Thomas Newman, Greg P. Russell) finally win oscars.
2. Jennifer Lawrence and Emmanuelle Riva tie for Best Actress.
3. Zero Dark Thirty wins Best Picture
1. Alan Arkin wins best supporting actor
2. Jacki Weaver wins best supporting actress
3. Roger Deakins FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY WINS HIS DAMN OSCAR FOR CINEMATOGRAPHY FOR SKYFALL!
1. If Best Actress is indeed that close: Jennifer and Emmanuelle tie.
2. Best Director: David O. Russell
3. Best Supporting Actress: Sally Field
Amour wins best director
Phoenix best actor
Riva best actress
Les Mis wins nothing, the Academy realises that musicals suck and retro-actively takes all of Chicago’s oscars back.
NGNG
1. Amour wins 4 – screenplay, director, Riva and Foreign
2. Life of Pi wins best picture
3. Amour loses foreign film
I am going to submit my predictions soon — for instance six hours from now on : ) – and for the time being, I see SLP win nothing. So, SLP eating eggs at least for now stays outside my NGNG realm – again at least for now.
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“unlikely things that might happen.”
NGNG:
1) MICHAEL HANEKE wins Best Director (To me, it’s between Ang Lee and Steven Spielberg.)
2) LIFE OF PI wins in more than five categories (My take, for now, despite time running out, is for Pi to garner five statuettes; the number may go up or down a bit within the next six hours.)
3) Jessica Chastain wins Best Actress (Either Lawrence or Riva, and I am a happy man; and to be fair to other readers, to pick only one, then in that case I am rooting for Jennifer Lawrence. That said, **I won’t complain if Ms. Chastain wins.)
4) Naomi Watts wins Best Actress (**)
5) Quvanzhane Wallis wins Best Actress (**)
6) Amour does not win in Best Foreign Language Film (This is not a pure NGNG pick in a strict sense to me though.)
7) Django Unchained go home eating eggs (To me it’s NGNG pick.)
8) Tie: Lawrence and Riva / Spielberg and Lee
9) SLP wins Best Picture
NG Ng
1. Q Wallis wins best actress
2. Zd30 wins best picture
3. The master takes all three acting categories
Sasha, I thank you for this amazing site. This site is definitely an important part of the race for me.
My NGNG,
Best Supporting Actor – Philip Seymour Hoffman, with zero buzz and zero campaign the best performance can prevail.
Best Director – Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Best Original Song – Pi’s Lullaby, Life of Pi
This is almost like New Year’s Eve – and Sasha and all, thank you for another amazing year of inspiring, provocative, passionate discourse. It is a privilege to be on this site.
1. Jacki Weaver – Best Supporting Actress
2. Naomi Watts – Best Actress
3. Hugh Jackman – Best Actor
Can you tell I’m from Down Under!!
Happy Oscar Day everyone and thank you again.
– Waltz and De Niro tie in ‘Supporting Actor’
– ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ takes ‘Adapted Screenplay’.
– ‘Skyfall’ sweeps its categories apart from ‘Song’.
Best Pic: Zero Dark Thirty
Best Director: Spielberg (Lee, Haneke, and Russell are all faves over Spiels IMO)
Best Supporting Actress: Sally Field
Best Supporting Actor: Robert De Niro
Best Adapted Screenplay: Tony KUSHner
I almost feel like anything’s possible this year. I will also be upset if there are no upsets. But, having said that:
1. Amy Adams wins for The Master
2. Naomi Watts wins Actress
3. Rebelle wins foreign film
1. Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor sang Come What May in a tribute to musicals.
2. Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta Jones sang Chicago.
3. The cast of Les Miserables perform together.
Joaquin Phoenix defeats Day-Lewis. This would make my day!
Life of Pi sweeps winning picture, directing, cinematography, editing, music, production design, sound mixing, sound editing, visual effects, which is a total of 9 Oscars. This is the NGNG prediction that could actually happen. Unlikely but still possible.
ARGO wins 0 Oscars. LINCOLN wins 0 Oscars.
Three NGNG picks:
1. Hugh Jackman takes best actor, making “Lincoln” the new record holder for biggest shut-out on Oscar night with 12/0.
2. David O. Russell takes best director (a big shock without a DGA nom) and “SLP” ends up with three big prizes, “Pianist”-style.
3. “Anna Karenina” pulls off a “Memoirs of a Geisha” style sweep of the design and cinematography categories, so my NGNG is Seamus McGarvey winning.
I think I technically snuck in four NGNG picks there, sorry!
1. Naomi Watts wins Best Actress
2. LIFE OF PI wins BOTH Best Picture and Best Director (and close to all of its 11 nominations)
3. AMOUR doesn’t win Best Foreign Language Film
1. Lead Actor – Hugh Jackman
2. Best Picture – Django Unchained
3. Original Screenplay – Moonrise Kingdom
The first face on the necrology is Marvin Hamlisch, and they play one of his songs over the whole thing. And the last face is Ernest Borgnine.
1. Joaquin Phoenix wins Best Actor (deservedly so)
2. Ang Lee wins Best Director (deservedly so)
3. Emmanuelle Riva wins Best Actress (deservedly so)
Amour wins best picture.
Phoenix wins best actor.
Weaver wins supporting actress.
ZDT for picture
Kon-Tiki for Foreign
Argo for editing only
1. “Amour” sweeps.
2. “The Pirates! Band of Misfits” wins Animated Feature.
3. “Ted” wins Best Original Song.
1) Michael Haneke wins best director
2) Benh Zeitlin wins adapted screenplay
3) Tarantino wins original screenplay
1. Oscar winner Kate Winslet (Iris, Flushed Away) presents an Award due to another presenter’s sudden illness.
2. Oscar winner Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road, Sense & Sensibility) is awarded the Oscar for Best Actress due to after-last-minute secret nomination and wave of support.
3. Amour does not win any Oscars.
Watts wins Actress
Hanneke wins Director
Argo wins Score
1. Michael Haneke wins best director
2. Sally Field wins best supporting actress
3. Skyfall wins all of it’s categories and will be the film that ends up with the most amount of awards, 5.
1. Flight for original screenplay
2. DDL not winning Actor
3. Ted wins for song
Zero Dark
Chastain
Amy Adams
NGNG:
Joaquin Phoenix over DDL
Amy Adams over Anne Hathaway
Life of Pi for Director and Picture
Silver Linings for Adapted Screenplay
Thus ifI’m correct The Master will sweep
1. War Witch wins Foreign.
2. O. Russell wins Director.
3. SLP wins picture.
LES MISERABLES continues its habit of picking up the most awards for the evening, as it did at the Golden Globes and BAFTA.
Free’s NGNG 2012:
1. BEST DIRECTOR – Michael Haneke
2. Argo wins nothing
3. BEST SONG – Ted
Best Original Screenplay: Amour
Best Production Design: Lincoln
Best Musical Score: Argo
Who I want to take the most awards: Life of Pi
So late to the party:
Best Cinematography – Janusz Kamiński, LINCOLN
Best Foreign Language – NO, Chile
Best Origina Screenplay – Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola, MOONRISE KINGDOM
1.Naomi Watts wins Best Actress for “The Impossible”
2. Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola win Best Original Screenplay for “Moonrise Kingdom”
3. ‘ParaNorman’wins Best Animated Feature
1. Quvenzhane Wallis wins best actress. The other nominees go silent and initially forget to applaud.
2. Alan Arkin stuns by winning best supporting actor despite not having won percusor awards.
3. William Goldenberg wins the Oscar for editing but it is for ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ and not for ‘Argo’.
Paul H says…
1. Avengers wins Visual Effects
2. PSH wins Supporting Actor
3. Zeitlin wins Director
It’s a miracle. I feel like a proud parent. Our little boy is growing up.
1. Alan Arkin wins best supporting actor and proceeds to tell audience to “Argo fuck yourselves”
2. Anne Hathaway doesn’t cry during her acceptance speech.
3. Seth McFarland makes the ceremony watchable.
Zero Dark Thirty for editing
Mirror Mirror for costume design
Skyfall for score
Hoffman wins BSA, Haneke wins Director, Zero Dark Thirty wins Picture.
I don’t think any of these are really that implausible.
BEST PICTURE:Zero Dark Thiry
DIRECTOR: Benh Zeitlin
BEST ACTOR: Joaquin Phoenix
VISUAL EFFECTS: Snow White and the Huntsman
* Amour loses Best Foreign Film
* “Skyfall” loses Best Original Song
* Life Of Pi wins Best Picture
Flight to washington
Impossible for watts
It’s a field day for sally
It’s 2nd road at Hoffman
The playbook burns in ash
picture-the life of pi
director-steven spielberg
actor-daniel day lewis
actress-jessica chastain
supporting actor-robert deniro
supporting actress-anne hathaway
original screenplay-amour
adapted screenplay-the life of pi
film editing-argo
cinematography-the life of pi
art direction-lincoln
costume design-anna karenina
film editing-argo
sound mixing-argo
sound editing-skyfall
original score-the life of pi
original song-skyfall
visual effects-the hobbit
animated feature-wreck it ralph
foreign language film-amour
documentary feature-searching for a sugar man
animated short film-paperman
live action short film-henry
documentary ahort subject-open heart
Best Pic – Life Of Pi
Best Supp Actor – Christoph Waltz
Best Cinematography – Skyfall
1. Alan Arkin wins Best Supporting Actor
2. Skyfall wins Best Score and Cinematography
3. Anne Hathaway loses Best Supporting Actor
1. Naomi Watts wins Best Actress
2. Jackie Weaver wins Best Supporting Actress
3. Michael Haneke wins Best Director
Adele singing about a romantic tryst she shared with Tommy Lee Jones at a Tuscan wine tasting tour
Well that’s not NG, NG either because it’s going to happen just not Adele. I’ve been reading show spoilers so I won’t give it completely away but someone whose name sounds like Ew Pacman will be singing that song. 😉
Just watched Flight. Denzel beat the crap out of Daniel
1. Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola win original screenplay for Moonrise Kingdom
2. Hitchcock wins best makeup
3. Adam and dog wins best animated short
1) Joaquin Pheonix – best actor
2) Amy Adams – best supporting actress
3) Michael Haneke – best director
I truly hope one (all) of these happen
Haneke for Best Director
Jackman for Best Actor
No trophies for SLP, Django and ZD30
Guys, plausible upsets are not NGNG’s. “Lincoln” winning Best Picture, ZD30 winning Original Screenplay, and Emmanuelle Riva winning Best Actress aren’t far flung notions. This article needs more Denzel winning Best Actor, or Adele singing about a romantic tryst she shared with Tommy Lee Jones at a Tuscan wine tasting tour when she should be singing that thing from 007.
1. Django wins Best Picture
2. Pirates! Band of Misfits wins Animated Feature
3. Snow White and the Huntsman wins Visual Effects (although really, anything other than Life of Pi is pretty NGNG)
That’s about as out there as I dare to get.
IN ADDITION TO BEST MOT PIC, “ZERO DARK 30” ALSO WINS BEST ORIG SCREENPLAY AND BEST EDITING……..A TRIFECTA!!!
I wish for Emmanuelle Riva to win Best Actress
Michael Haneke to win best original screenplay
Roger Deakins to win best cinematography
Hmmm…
Avengers takes Visual Effects instead of Life of Pi
Five Broken Cameras takes Documentary Feature instead of Searching for Sugarman
Tarantino takes Original Screenplay (because I can’t help but think watching Quentin lose his shit on live TV before a +1 billion audience might be just the palate cleanser needed at that point in the evening…)
Lincoln wins Best Picture
Emmanuelle Riva wins Best Actress
Frankenweenie wins Best Animated Film
Not that I believe these will actually happen, but my no guts, no glory guesses are:
1. Les Miserables surprises by winning most of its nominations, including Best Picture
2. Hugh Jackman wins Best Actor
3. Beasts of the Southern Wild, Django Unchained, Silver Linings Playbook and Zero Dark Thirty all shut out and win zero awards.
MY #3 IS “ZERO DARK 30” WINING BEST MOTION PICTURE
NO WINS FOR “SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK”
NO WINS FOR “DJANGO UNCCHAINED”
NGNG (wishful thinking)
Naomi Watts takes Best Actress.
Frankenweenie brings the Burton/Bonham Carter family their long overdue Oscar.
Costumes go to Mirror Mirror.
These are both my NGNG picks, and my personal preferences:
– “Argo” wins nothing, and the camera catches the producers halfway out of their seats before they comprehend that they’ve lost Best Picture, and look like fools trying to sneakily sit back down again without anyone noticing
– “ParaNorman” wins Best Animated Feature Film
– “Mirror Mirror” wins Best Costume Design
ZD30 surpasses its “controversy” and wins Best Actress (Jessica Chastain) and Best Original Screenplay (Mark Boal).
1. Naomi Watts wins. (I actually don’t think this is impossible.)
2. The Master does NOT go home empty-handed. (I can’t decide if that means Hoffman or upsetting two of the only locks for the evening: Day-Lewis and Hathaway.)
3. Zero Dark Thirty pulls off a sound trophy, leaving only SLP and Beasts with a Picture nomination and no wins.
One of my No Guts No Glory before Oscar Nominations got correct, when Marion Cottilard didn’t get nominated. I expect one of the below three to again hit the bulls eye.
1. Naomi Watts wins Best Actress – Lawrence, Chastain, Riva into a three way split, whereas Watts with her strong peer support manages to sneak through.
2. Life of Pi wins Best Picture – It’s going to win more than 5 awards on Oscar night and with a widespread support across different categories, it also manages to coupe Picture.
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman wins Best Supporting Actor – Only place where members might decide to reward The Master.
1. Life of Pi wins only 1 Oscar
2. There is a tie in one of the races
3. Argo goes 7/7
Silver Linings takes it all and Harvey taps himself
My NGNG:
1. Zero Dark Thirty/Silver Linings Playbook take Best Picture
2. Joaquin Phoenix takes Best Actor
3. Zero Dark Thirty takes Best Original Screenplay!
Amour leaves with nothing, including no Foreign Language Film
Zero Dark Thirty wins four of its five categories that has Team Argo break into a cold sweat for the whole night
But Argo wins Picture and ONLY Picture
1. Zero Dark Thirty wins Best Picture
2. Behn Zeitlin wins Best Director
3. Quvenzhané Wallis wins Best Actress
Lincoln wins production design
Amour loses in Foreign Language Film (with the history of the award, this isn’t even UNLIKELY! The category is filled with upsets)
Chastain pulls off a stunner in Actress
Pierre’s NG NG picks are CLASS!!!!!!
For me: Haneke wins Best Director
Michael Haneke wins Best Director AND Original Screenplay
Silver Linings Playbook wins THREE acting awards.
Skyfall doesn’t win Original Song.
1. Alphabet Wallis falls asleep during the ceremony (like me every year).
^^ Too Funny. I read that interview too, and thought -hmmm…I guess Joaquim Phoenix doesn’t have a funny name?
I’m with Sasha. BOTSW for the win in all 4. Denzel for actor. It’s time Hollywood made history with it’s first “black” actor film for the win – BOTSW! If Argo wins BP and best screenplay, how BORING!
1. David O. Russell wins Director (hopefully not, but I like to try and predict a few longshots)
2. Philip Seymour Hoffman wins Supporting Actor
3. Argo wins Editing and Picture, but nothing else…
Benh Zeitlin for Director.
Moonrise Kingdom for Original Screenplay.
NGNG
SLP for BP
O. Russell for BD
Skyfall for best score
Skyfall for Best cinematography
Kon Tiki wins Best foreign film
SLP leads with 5 Oscars, Skyfall 2nd with 4
– Django Unchained wins best picture
– Bradly Cooper wins best actor
– whoever wins best director deny’s the award and gives it to Affleck.
Not sure if NGNG, but what the hell:
1. Lincoln wins Picture, Director, 3 acting awards, Screenplay and Production Design
2. Chastain wins Best Actress
3. Deakins wins for Skyfall
And:
4. Amour loses Best Foreign Picture. To Argo, just for kicks.
My NG,NG picks:
1. Quvenzhane Wallis wins and gives the most adorable acceptance speech ever.
2. The preferential ballot system does something wacky and gives Zero Dark Thirty best picture with no other wins.
NO wins foreign film.
Hoffman gets supporting actor.
MacFarlane gets it for song, the first time a host wins an Oscar (Franco had a chance)
I know I’m being silly, but:
1. Lincoln wins in every nominated category.
2. Argo wins nothing.
3. The acceptance speeches of Oscar winners from non-Lincoln movies all include a protest about Ben Affleck’s dirty Oscar campaign.
3.a. The Academy’s rules committee takes the stage at the end of the evening to announce that they were wrong to open up the Best Picture category to 10 nominees and the limit will go back to five next year.
I know I’m being silly, but:
… 2. Argo wins nothing
On the official Big Bad Predictions Chart I have Argo and SLP scheduled to both go home empty handed. Les Mis gets an Oscar for best hairstyles for all its awful hairstyles.
Every day in every way I like to live life no guts no glory.
1. Les Miserables wins Best Picture in addition to Supporting Actress, Makeup, and Sound Mixing.
2. Lincoln wins five: Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay.
3. Argo just takes film editing.
I only have one NGNG and it’s that Anna Karenina wins nothing while Tolstoi shakes his head on the other side once more at probably the worst of all the Karenina adaptions.
LIFE OF PI WINS 7 ACADEMY AWARDS INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, DIRECTOR
LIFE OF PI WINS BEST SONG FOR PI’S LULLABY—WAY BETTER SONG THAN ADELE’S CRAP SONG
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1. Denzel Washington for Best Actor
2. Prometheus for Best Visual Effects
3. War Witch for Best Foreign Language Film
NGNG
Supporting Actor: Robert DeNiro, Silver Linings Playbook
Director: Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Cinematography: Roger Deakins, Skyfall
Actress: Naomi Watts, The Impossible
Actor: Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables
Animated Feature Film: Wreck-It Ralph
Riva and Wallis tie would be amazing! not only the best two performances but the oldest and the youngest nominees! Just daydreaming! hahaha
1. Alphabet Wallis falls asleep during the ceremony (like me every year).
2. “5 Broken Cameras” wins Best Documentary and “Argo” loses Best Picture; oh the irony!
3. Michael Haneke wins goes on stage with his cat dressed up as Naomi Watts in “The Impossible” when he wins Best Director, Foreign Film, and Original Screenplay.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman wins Best Supporting Actor for THE MASTER
“Before My Time” from CHASING ICE win Best Song
ZERO DARK THIRTY wins Best Picture
1. SLP goes home empty-handed
2. Life of Pi takes Best Picture.
3. PSH takes supporting actor.
I am with Sasha on the “Beasts” love. Beyond that…
Cinematography: Robert Richardson, Django Unchained
Production Design: Lincoln
Animated Feature: Frankenweenie
Daniel Day-Lewis and Bradley Cooper tie for Best Actor. Zero Dark Thirty wins Best Picture. Life of Pi wins Screenplay.
1. Kon-Tiki wins best foreign film
2. Zeitlin wins director
3. Skyfall wins cinematography
Life of Pi bats 1.000
1. Avengers wins Visual Effects
2. PSH wins Supporting Actor
3. Zeitlin wins Director
My NGNG
1. Naomi Watts Best Actress
2. Helen Hunt Supporting Actress
3. ARGO Best Score
1. Jessica Chastain wins Best Actress
2. Argo gets shut out
3. Zero Dark Thirty wins BP
1. Naomi Watts wins
2. Haneke wins directing
3. Anna Karenina wins cinematography
LMAO at steve50’s “Ben Affleck is acclaimed the next Pope”. I needed this laugh today. Thanks. 🙂
1. Lincoln wins nothing, with Best Actor going to Hugh Jackman. (Which would be the final nail in the coffin to how this season has turned out …)
2. Quvenzhane Wallis wins Best Actress.
3. Benh Zeitlin wins Best Director.
Here’s to hoping for some Lincoln and Beasts love!
NGNG:
Amour wins BP
Haneke wins BD
Riva wins BA
My ngng
1 Argo gets shut out
2. Flight win best original screenplay
3. Amour wins best picture but not best foreign lanaguge film
4. Tie for best actress between Emmanuelle Riva and Quvenzhane Wallis
Not very out there, but:
1. Michael Haneke wins director
2. Christoph Waltz wins supporting actor
3. Skyfall wins best cinematography
No guts, No Glory:
1.- Flight wins Best Original Screenplay
2.- Jacki Weaver wins Best Supporting Actress
3.- Everybody Needs a Best Friend wins Best Song
NGNG
1. Phoenix wins best actor
2. NO wins foreign language film
3. Ben Affleck is acclaimed the next Pope.
1. Seth McFarlane has a flat tire and is late — Jack Black fills in for him and really kills!
2. Hitchcock wins best makeup.
3. Riva and Wallis tie.
It might sound like I’m copying others here, but I stated these weeks ago on an earlier post.
1. Argo wins only one Oscar –> Best Picture
2. Amour wins three major awards: Director, Actress, and Original Screenplay
3. The Weinstein Company goes home with nothing. Shocking because of its Oscar success in the past two years, including back-to-back wins for Best Picture.
Three Weinstein films are represented in the Best Supporting Actor, but I’m
picking Tommy Lee, just so the WC leaves empty-handed.
1. Alan Arkin wins Best Supporting Actor
2. The Gatekeepers wins Best Documentary
3. Helen Hunt for Best Supporting Actress
I just watched Beasts again yesterday.. it truly is a masterpiece. I wish it had done better in nominations, but oh well, I should know by know that Oscars does not always equal quality. The girl is just breathtaking.. and although six you can clearly see the intention in the acting.
There’s a scene of Naomi Watts in The Impossible (Can be found as Thank you so much) so beautiful and powerful that in another less competitive year would give her the Oscar but this year would be very a long shot.
My no guts would be then:
Best Actress: Watts or Wallis
Best Picture: Life of Pi or Beasts of the Southern Wild (For me, the most deserving ones)
Best Director: Lee (not so guts) or Zeitlin.
Life of Pi sweeps incl. Best Picture and Director. (Yes, Please!)
I already made mine, but just for shits and giggles, someone should guess that Amour wins nothing, even foreign.
Emmanuelle Riva wins Lead Actress
Philip Seymour Hoffman win Supporting Actor
Spielberg wins Director
Big shout out to Antoinette (love how your mind works :)) and Phantom (if your ngng comes to fruition National Holidays will need to be declared in France and Austria and Australia! 🙂
1. Naomi Watts upsets and takes Best Actress
2. Joaquin Phoenix wins Best Actor
3. ZDT takes Picture
Naomi.
1) Namoi Watts wins best actress.
2) Barbra Streisand has a wardrobe malfunction.
3) So does Bradley Cooper.
1. Kon-Tiki upsets as Best Foreign Film
2. Moonrise Kingdom wins Original Screenplay
3. Anna Karenina wins Score
4. Joaquin Phoenix wins for Best Actor
5. Head Over Heels gets recognition as Best Animated Short
6. “Everybody Needs a Best Friend” wins as a shocker for Best Song
just wishful thinking…
-Silver Linings Playbook takes Home 6 Awards for BP, BD, Best Actress, Supp. Actor, Screenplay & Editing
-Argo only wins BP
-Lincoln takes BP, BD, Actor, Supp. Actor, and some tech awards
Sorry about the earlier fuck up.
NGNG:
1. ‘No’ wins best foreign film.
2. ‘Django Unchained’ wins best picture, screenplay and supporting actor.
3. ‘Skyfall’ wins cinematography, but not song.
Amy Adams wining Best Sup. Actress
Bradley Cooper wining Best actor
Emmanuelle Riva wining Best Actress (that’s just wishful thinking!)
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Argo wins Score
Kontiki wins Foreign Film
The Avengers wins Visual Effects
amour wins 4 – foreign, actress, screenplay and director
Argo wins nothing
Emmanuelle Riva wins best actress
Spielberg wins best director
1. Amour wins all 5 of its categories
2. The Aussie duo, Naomi Watts and Hugh Jackman takes the lead acting categories
3. At least two of the Spielberg/Day-Lewis/Field/De Niro quartet will win third Oscars
NGNG picks:
1. Naomi Watts wins Best Actress.
2. “Life of Pi” wins Best Picture
3. “How To Survive a Plague” wins Best Documentary Feature.
1. Lincoln wins Picture, Director, Actor, S. Actor and Screenplay
2. Argo wins nothing
3. Ted wins Best Song
Jessica Chastain wins best Actress
Argo wins both sound categories
Snow White and the Huntsman wins Best Costume
Zeitlin wins Director
Skyfall wins score, song, sound & sound editing (not cinematography though)
Watts wins Actress
My NG, NG:
1) Joaquin Phoenix & Phillip Seymour Hoffman & Amy Adams all win
2) Argo wins 0 Oscars
3) Something freaky happens during the ceremony, like an earthquake or someone faints, etc.
1. The Invisible War wins Best Documentary.
2. Phillip Seymour Hoffman wins Best Supporting Actor.
3. Argo wins ONLY Best Picture.
1. Quvenzhané Wallis wins Actress.
2. Thomas Newman finally wins his long overdue Oscar.
3. Silver Linings Playbook goes 0 for 8.
Since everyone is throwing the race Argo’s way, I’m going to say that thinking Lincoln will win Picture is worthy of No Guts/No Glory but I don’t really expect any of these predictions to take shape. They’re here solely to say I somehow thought that would happen
1. Lincoln wins Best Picture
2. Day-Lewis loses Best Actor
3. Quvenzhane Wallis wins Best Actress
1. ‘Henry’ wins Best Live Action Short Film
2. ‘A Roay Affair’ wins Best Foreign Language Film
3. Jackie Weaver wins Best Supporting Actress
No guts, no glory:
Best Supporting Actress: Helen Hunt
Best Picture: Amour
Director: Ang Lee (i can’t predict a director i don’t want to win, even in a NGNG!!!!)
Actress: Jessica Chastain (if 85 and 22 are too hard to decide for AMPAS)
Supp Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman (cos he rocks!)
1. Haneke wins Director.
2. Skyfall wins three Oscars. (Song, Cinematography and one of the score/sound awards).
3. Argo only wins Best Picture.
Hardest thing about this season might be limiting oneself to 3 NGNG. Except that defining them as “unlikely” really limits your choices because anything goes tomorrow night. I have a billion alternate predictions in my mind, but 3 most unlikely, balls-to-the-wall, I-hope-they-happen predictions? Here goes nothing:
(1) Silver Linings Playbook wins nothing (I’m actually predicting that, but I’ll probably change Riva to Lawrence, if I so desire. And Russell will likely win one Oscar.)
(2) Lincoln wins Art Direction (excuse me, Production Design) because of the accuracy of that watch.
(3) Naomi Watts wins Best Actress because the others just don’t damn deserve it!
3rd would be Skyfall winning all 5 of its potential Oscars.
Ang Lee and Jennifer Lawrence winning are not NGNG picks, everyone.
1. Naomi Watts wins Best Actress
2. Michael Haneke wins Best Director
3. Benh Zeitlin & Lucy Alibar win Best Adapted Screenplay
Hot off its big BAFTA win over Argo, Silver Linings Playbook wins the Oscar for Adapted Screenplay. Russell wins for Director, and SLP is the true runner up with 3 major awards, including Lawrence for Actress.
1. Silver Linings Playbook wins best picture
2. Christoph Waltz wins supporting actor
3. Ang Lee wins director
Not as out there as yours, but still
I agree with you on the Adapted Screenplay prediction. I’m actually predicting it.
My No Guts, No Glory: Joaquin Phoenix manages to take Best Actor from Daniel Day Lewis.