Oh, what the hell. I said I wasn't going to do it this year since I didn't see some of the bigger movies, but here goes anyway.

Proviso: I have yet to see, because they have yet to arrive, or because I've been too busy or lazy or just have no interest, the following films: “Rust and Bone,” “On the Road,” “Amour,” “Arbitrage” “Magic Mike,” “Killer Joe.” Probably more. That thing with Liam Neeson in the snow that's getting late  and odd attention. “The Grey.” A slew of foreign films. Yet somehow I saw “Men in Black 3.” Skewed priorities.

Further proviso: These are wishes, not predictions. Fuck predictions. To quote George W.S. Trow: You say/Survey says...  You say/Survey says... For greater detail of why I want what I want, feel free to click on the review. Also feel free to go, “What the fuck, Erik?”

Here goes:

Best Picture:

• “Argo”
• “End of Watch”
• “Lincoln”
• “The Master”
• “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”

Best Actor

• Daniel Day-Lewis, “Lincoln”
• Jake Gyllenhaal, “End of Watch”
• Ethan Hawke, “The Woman in the Fifth”
• Hugh Jackman, “Les Misérables”
• Joaquin Phoenix, “The Master”

Best Actress

• Jessica Chastain, “Zero Dark Thirty”
• Cecile de France, “Le gamin au velo”
• Jennifer Lawrence, “Silver Linings Playbook”
• Sarah Silverman, “Wreck-It Ralph”
• Quvenzhané Wallis, “Beasts of the Southern Wild”

Best Supporting Actor

• Javier Bardem, “Skyfall”
• Jason Clarke, “Zero Dark Thirty”
• Leonardo DiCaprio, “Django Unchained”
• Ed Norton, “Moonrise Kingdom”
• James Spader, “Lincoln”

Best Supporting Actress

• Amy Adams, “The Master”
• Doona Bae, “Cloud Atlas”
• Laura Dern, “The Master”
• Anne Hathaway, “The Dark Knight Rises”
• Anne Hathaway, “Les Misérables”

Best Director:

• Paul Thomas Anderson, “The Master”
• Wes Anderson, “Moonrise Kingdom”
• David Ayer, “End of Watch”
• Ang Lee, “Life of Pi”
• Steven Spielberg, “Lincoln”

Original Screenplay:

• David Ayer, “End of Watch”
• Joseph Cedar, “Footnote”
• Zak Penn and Joss Whedon, “The Avengers”
• Ken Scott, Martin Petit, “Starbuck”
• Quentin Tarantino, “Django Unchained”

Adapted Screenplay:

• Stephen Chbosky, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”
• Tony Kushner, “Lincoln”
• David Magee, “Life of Pi”
• Tom Stoppard, “Anna Karenina”
• Chris Terrio, “Argo”

Documentary Feature:

• “The Central Park Five”
• “Chasing Ice”
• “How to Survive a Plague”
• “Searching for Sugarman”
• “Under African Skies”

A weak year for movies but not for acting or writing.

As for my choices from these choices? My final picks? I'd go: “Lincoln,” Day-Lewis, Wallis, Clarke, Hathaway (“Les Miz”), Paul Thomas Anderson, Penn and Whedon, Kushner, and “The Central Park Five.”

You?

“Lincoln” would win three of my big awards: picture, actor, screenplay.

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