Predicting the Oscars

There were years in the past where friends and I would attempt to predict the Oscar winners. Sometimes with rewards, sometimes just for the fun of trying to predict and understand just how Hollywood sees itself. Funnily enough, I'm not very good at predicting the Academy Awards, and to prove it, I'm going to make my predictions public this time around. I've seen the majority of the films nominated including 4 of the 5 full-length documentaries, but only a couple of the short films, and I'm not seeing True Grit until Tuesday, the day after the awards ceremony. This should be fun...

Best Pic: The Social Network (although I prefer The King's Speech).

Best Director: A toss-up between Fincher and Aronofsky. I'm gonna say Fincher, although I prefer Aronofsky or Hooper.

Best Actor: Colin Firth (although I wish he had won last year instead)

Best Supporting Actor: I'm actually thinking John Hawkes (although I think it should go to either Bale or Rush).

Best Actress: Natalie Portman

Best Supporting Actress: Hailee Steinfeld (although Bonham-Carter was excellent).

Best Animated Feature: Toy Story 3 (although I prefer How to Train Your Dragon).

Best Foreign Language Feature: In a Better World

Best Feature Documentary: Exit Through the Gift Shop (I think Restrepo is very deserving as well).

Best Original Screenplay: The King's Speech

Best Adapted Screenplay: The Social Network

Best Art Direction: Inception

Best Cinematography: True Grit

Best Costume Design: The King's Speech (although it'd be great if I Am Love won).

Best Editing: 127 Hours

Best Score: The Social Network

Best Song: Who cares, because they never get it right.

Best Makeup: Barney's Version (at least it should).

Best F/X: Inception

Best Sound Editing: Inception

Best Sound Mixing: Inception

Tomorrow, we see just how oracular I am...