2012 Oscar Predictions
What Movies Will WIN 2012 Oscars?
2012 Best Picture Oscar Nominees 1 The Artist
But I think that this year's Oscar winners will be compiled from an array of movies, rather than any one movie sweeping. 2012 Best Director Oscar Nominees 1 Martin Scorsese - Hugo 2012 Best Actor Oscar Nominees 1 George Clooney - The Descendants 2012 Best Actress Oscar Nominees 1 Glenn Close - Albert Nobbs 2012 Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominees 1 Kenneth Branagh - My Week With Marilyn 2012 Best Supporting Actress Oscar Nominees 1 Jessica Chastain - The Help 2012 Best Original Screenplay Oscar Nominees 1 The Artist 2012 Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Nominees 1 The Descendants 2012 Best Animated Feature Film Oscar Nominees 1 A Cat In Paris 2012 Best Foreign Film Oscar Nominees 1 Bullhead 2012 Best Cinematography Oscar Nominees 1 The Artist 2012 Best Art Direction Oscar Nominees 1 The Artist 2012 Best Costume Design Oscar Nominees 1 Anonymous 2012 Best Editing Oscar Nominees 1 The Artist 2012 Best Makeup Oscar Nominees 1 Albert Nobbs 2012 Best Original Score Oscar Nominees 1 The Adventures Of Tintin 2012 Best Original Song Oscar Nominees 1 Man Or Muppet (The Muppets) 2012 Best Sound Editing Oscar Nominees 1 Drive 2012 Best Sound Mixing Nominees 1 Girl With The Dragon Tattoo 2012 Best Visual Effects Oscar Nominees 1 Harry Potter 7: Part 2 2012 Best Documentary (Feature) Oscar Nominees 1 Hell And Back Again 2012 Best Documentary (Short) Oscar Nominees 1 The Barber of Birmingham 2012 Best Short Film (Animated) Oscar Nominees 2012 Best Short Film (Live Action) Oscar Nominees 1 Pentecost
CLICK HERE to PRINT YOUR 2012 OSCAR BALLOT
Predicting Oscar winners is just about as easy, er, hard, as predicting which team will win any game.
However, since it's fun to do, and even more fun to go back and look at the selections after the winners have been announced, here are my predictions for all 2012 Oscar winners.
COMPLETE LIST 2012 OSCAR NOMINEES and UPDATED 2012 OSCARS NEWS - CLICK HERE
My predictions of winners are highlighted in Yellow.
Editor's note: Winners highlighted in RED, only if different.
2 The Descendants
3 The Help
4 Midnight In Paris
5 Moneyball
6. Hugo
7. Tree Of Life
8. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
9. War Horse
Yes, both Hugo and The Artist are front-runners with 11 and 10 Oscar nominations, respectively, and The Help has only 4 Oscar nominations; not even a Best Director Oscar nomination.
2 Terrence Malick - Tree Of Life
3 Woody Allen - Midnight In Paris
4 Alexander Payne - The Descendants
5 Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Does The Artist deserve a Best Picture Oscar? Yes. But it almost certainly will not. However, its director, the Frenchman Michel Hazanavicius, won the coveted DGA (Directors Guild of America) trophy this year. And the vast majority of times the winner of the DGA Award also wins the Oscar for Best Director. In addition, if The Help wins the Best Picture Oscar, its director, Tate Taylor, hasn't a chance to win as he was not nominated.
2 Gary Oldman - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
3 Brad Pitt - Moneyball
4 Jean Dujardin - The Artist
5 Demián Bichir - A Better Life
George Clooney is an overrated Hollywood star. He already has an acting Oscar. And The Artist is a true Hollywood movie. A Frenchman has never won an Oscar. And since we're betting the movie won't win the Best Picture Oscar, we're giving it Best Actor and Best Director.
2 Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady
3 Viola Davis - The Help
4 Rooney Mara - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
5 Michelle Williams - My Week With Marilyn
Yes, Meryl Streep is due for an Oscar. It's been nearly 30 years since her last win. But The Iron Lady is a horrible movie. And she has a plethora of roles in great movies on the horizon. Can she win? Yes. Will she? Probably not. So our prediction is Viola Davis.
2 Jonah Hill - Moneyball
3 Nick Nolte - Warrior
4 Max Von Sydow - Extremely Loud...
5 Christopher Plummer - Beginners
Christopher Plummer was not even nominated for his role in The Sound Of Music, which pretty much swept the 1966 Oscars. Will this be a charity win? Of course. But he will win. It's almost the most sure-thing win.
2 Octavia Spencer - The Help
3 Janet McTeer - Albert Nobbs
4 Melissa McCarthy - Bridesmaids
5 Berenice Bejo - The Artist
This is one of the biggest and closest races. We love Jessica Chastain. We discovered her for her role in Jolene, four years ago; a movie that never received a proper theatrical release and which we thought was deserving of a Best Actress Oscar nomination. And she's won a boatload of Best Supporting Actress awards this year for her role in The Help.
But Bridesmaids was overlooked in the Best Picture race - and Melissa McCarthy is brilliant in Bridesmaids. And she is fat. The Academy should stick it to all of the pretty girls in Hollywood and go with Melissa McCarthy for Bridesmaids.
2 Bridesmaids
3 Margin Call
4 Midnight In Paris
5 A Separation
Instead of a Best Director or Best Picture Oscar win, Midnight In Paris will have to settle for a Screenplay win.
2 Hugo
3 Ides Of March
4 Moneyball
5 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
While we don't think that The Descendants deserves to win the Oscar, none of the other movies do either, so we're going with The Descendants since George Clooney most likely will not win the Best Actor Oscar and the movie will most likely not win the Best Picture Oscar.
2 Chico & Rita
3 Kung Fu Panda 2
4 Puss In Boots
5 Rango
Was Rango the 'best' animated movie of 2011? No. Butit was better than any of the others nominated in the category. A Cat In Paris and Chico & Rita are not even in English; both are subtitled.
2 Monsieur Lahzar
3 A Separation
4 Footnoote
5 In Darkness
All five movies are great. In Darkness, though, is about the Holocaust. Need we say more?
2 The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
3 Hugo
4 Tree Of Life
5 War Horse
There's really no love for Terrence Malick when it comes to winning Oscars. But we think that Tree Of Life will grab this award without a problem.
2 Harry Potter 7: Part 2
3 Hugo
4 War Horse
The Artist is a movie about Hollyood. About the beginning of the talkie and the end of the silent film. It's a movie filmed completely in black and white. And done very well. We're going with The Artist.
2 The Artist
3 Hugo
4 Jane Eyre
5 W.E.
This is a hard one. But Anyonymous seems to us to have had the most 'costumes' and based on that alone, we're going with that.
2 The Descendants
3 The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
4 Hugo
5 Moneyball
A magnificently edited movie.
2 Harry Potter 7: Part 2
3 The Iron Lady
It's hard to give the makeup award to a movie that is not laden with special effects, in our estimation. Could The Iron Lady win? Yes! But I'm pretty sure that Harry Potter will fly away with this one.
2 The Artist
3 Hugo
4 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
5 War Horse
There has been some controversy about this category this year. 20 minutes of music from Vertigo was used towards the end of The Artist. Regardless, the score was the movie, as there was no dialogue. So this seems like a sure thing.
2 Real In Rio (Rio)
God. What has happened to songs in movies for the past 20 years? Up until the 90s, with Pretty Woman, (It Must Have Been Love) and The Bodyguard, (the whole movie), and Titanic, (need we say more), songs written for movies were so fantastic.
If you can utter one line from any of the above nominated two songs, we'd crap our pants. It's time for Hollywood producers to start spending the money again on fantastic original songs, sung by A-list talent, for their movies. We really don't care which movie wins this award but we like The Muppets much better than Rio and we're hoping (and predicting) that The Muppets wins.
2 Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
3 Hugo
4 Transformers 3
5 War Horse
Just listening to the horses neighing and clip-clopping was enough to get our vote for this prediction.
2 Hugo
3 Moneyball
4 Transformers 3
5 War Horse
See above.
2 Hugo
3 Real Steel
4 Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
5 Transformers 3
This seems to be - as well - one of the few no brainers.
2 If A Tree Falls
3 Paradise Lost 3
4 Pina
5 Undefeated
Pina is the best reviewed documentary - and one of the best reviewed movies of 2011, overall - so we're going with this for a win.
2 God Is the Bigger Elvis
3 Incident in New Baghdad
4 Saving Face
5 The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
A great, the best, short documentary in years.
1 Dimanche/Sunday
2 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
3 La Luna
4 A Morning Stroll
5 Wild Life
Disney knows how to make short films. And La Luna is no exception.
2 Raju
3 The Shore
4 Time Freak
5 Tuba Atlantic
We're just picking a name out of a hat with this one. But we still predict that it will win.
