Post Cannes 85th Academy Awards Predictions

The year’s first major opportunity for Oscar contenders to emerge, Cannes Film Festival, has come and gone and we are now heading into the heat of summer.  So here is another complete update of my Oscar predictions for the 85^th annual ceremony.

BEST PICTURE

-Argo

-Beasts of the Southern Wild

-Hyde Park on Hudson

-Les Miserables

-Lincoln

-The Master

-Six Sessions

BEST DIRECTOR

-Ben Affleck, Argo

-Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master

-Tom Hooper, Les Miserables

-Roger Michell, Hyde Park on Hudson

-Steven Spielberg, Lincoln

BEST LEAD ACTOR

-Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln

-Clint Eastwood, Trouble With the Curve

-John Hawkes, Six Sessions

-Bill Murray, Hyde Park on Hudson

-Joaquin Phoenix, The Master

BEST LEAD ACTRESS

-Helen Hunt, Six Sessions

-Keira Knightley, Anna Karenina

-Jennifer Lawrence, The Silver Linings Playbook

-Laura Linney, Hyde Park on Hudson

-Quevanzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

-Bryan Cranston, Argo

-Russell Crowe, Les Miserables

-Leonardo DiCaprio, Django Unchained

-Woody Harrelson, Seven Psychopaths

-Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

-Amy Adams, The Master

-Sally Field, Lincoln

-Anne Hathaway, Les MIserables

-Kerry Washington, Django Unchained

-Olivia Williams, Hyde Park on Hudson

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

-Anna Karenina

-Argo

-Les Miserables

-Lincoln

-The Silver Linings Playbook

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

-Amour

-Hyde Park on Hudson

-The Master

-Seven Psychopaths

-Six Sessions

BEST ART DIRECTION

-Anna Karenina

-The Great Gatsby

-The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

-Les Miserables

-Prometheus

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
-Anna Karenina

-Dark Shadows

-The Great Gatsby

-Les Miserables

-Snow White and the Huntsman

BEST FILM EDITING
-Argo

-The Dark Knight Rises

-Lincoln

-The Master

-Zero Dark Thirty

BEST MAKEUP

-Dark Shadows

-Hyde Park on Hudson

-Looper

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

-Argo

-Brave

-The Dark Knight Rises

-The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

-Lincoln

BEST SOUND EDITING

-The Avengers

-The Dark Knight Rises

-The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

-Prometheus

-Zero Dark Thirty

BEST SOUND MIXING

-The Dark Knight Rises

-The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

-Les Miserables

-Prometheus

-Zero Dark Thirty

BEST VISUAL EFEFCTS

-The Avengers

-The Dark Knight Rises

-The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

-Prometheus

-Cloud Atlas