State of the Oscar Race: Final Nomination Prediction List

Ok, so whew! This has been an incredibly crazy week. The predictions below are the shakiest I have made in the last four years of following the Academy Awards. Moving the date up is frustrating for those of us who try to make a clear picture of it all, but also incredibly exciting for tomorrow morning, where literally anything can happen. I will watch the nominations live, and then by 10 (I have to run an errand), will have the nominations up. Sometime tomorrow afternoon hopefully I will post my reactions, all before tomorrow night's BFCA Critics Choice Awards (jeez tomorrow is busy). So here is my final list, no changes.

Best Picture
Amour
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Moonrise Kingdom
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Director
Michael Haneke "Amour"
Ben Affleck "Argo"
Ang Lee "Life of Pi"
Steven Spielberg "Lincoln"
Kathryn Bigelow "Zero Dark Thirty"

Best Actor
Bradley Cooper "Silver Linings Playbook"
Daniel Day-Lewis "Lincoln"
John Hawkes "The Sessions"
Hugh Jackman "Les Miserables"
Denzel Washington "Flight"

Best Actress
Jessica Chastain "Zero Dark Thirty"
Marion Cotillard "Rust & Bone"
Jennifer Lawrence "Silver Linings Playbook"
Helen Mirren "Hitchcock"
Emmanuelle Riva "Amour"

Best Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin "Argo"
Robert DeNiro "Silver Linings Playbook",
Philip Seymour Hoffman "The Master"
Tommy Lee Jones "Lincoln"
Christoph Waltz "Django Unchained"

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams "The Master"
Sally Field "Lincoln"
Anne Hathaway "Les Miserables"
Helen Hunt "The Sessions"
Nicole Kidman "The Paperboy"

Best Adapted Screenplay
Chris Terrio "Argo"
Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
David McGee "Life of Pi"
Tony Kushner "Lincoln"
David O. Russell "Silver Linings Playbook"

Best Original Screenplay
Michael Haneke "Amour"
Quentin Tarantino "Django Unchained"
Paul Thomas Anderson "The Master"
Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola "Moonrise Kingdom"
Mark Boal "Zero Dark Thirty"

Best Animated Feature
Brave
Frankenweenie
Le Tableau
ParaNorman
Wreck-It Ralph

Best Foreign Language Film
Amour (Austria)
The Intouchables (France)
Kon-Tiki (Norway)
No (Chile)
A Royal Affair (Denmark)

Best Documentary Feature
Bully
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a Plague
The Invisible War
Searching for Sugar Man

Best Cinematography
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall

Best Costume Design
Anna Karenina
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Lincoln
Snow White and the Huntsman

Best Film Editing
Argo
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Makeup and Hair Design
Les Miserables
Lincoln
Men in Black III

Best Original Song
"Learn Me Right" from Brave
"Who Did That to You?" from Django Unchained
"Suddenly" from Les Miserables
"Still Alive" from Paul Williams: Still Alive
"Skyfall" from Skyfall

Best Original Score
Dario Marianelli "Anna Karenina"
Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
Alexandre Desplat "Argo"
Mychael Danna "Life of Pi"
John Williams "Lincoln"

Best Production Design
Anna Karenina
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln

Best Sound Editing
\Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Sound Mixing
Django Unchained
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Zero Dark Thirty
Les Miserables
Skyfall

Best Visual Effects
The Avengers
Cloud Atlas
The Dark Knight Rises
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Life of Pi