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Wednesday January 09, 2013
My Oscar Picks! (Wishes Not Predictions)
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:
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.