Community Corner
UPDATE: See How You Did! Challenge Mr. Studio City With Your Oscar Predictions
Cut and paste the main categories, put them in the COMMENTS below, and let's see how we all do!
(Thanks to those who entered below! Micah L did best with getting five of the major categories correct! Mr. Studio City was pleased with his predictions.)
This year the Academy Awards seem more out there and unpredictable than ever before. Even the frontrunners (like Anne Hathaway) seem unclear as we get closer to the final announcements.
Find out what's happening in Studio Citywith free, real-time updates from Patch.
Are you going to a party where there's an Oscar poll? Why not practice here.
Mr. Studio City has been predicting Oscars even when he was too young to watch some of the movies.
Find out what's happening in Studio Citywith free, real-time updates from Patch.
There are instructions below on how you can register your predictions with Pach. Join in the fun!
INSTRUCTIONS
Because our COMMENTS area doesn't allow unlimited characters, we will only cut and paste the top categories. Here's what you do:
* Cut and paste the "ballot" until it says STOP CUT HERE.
* Paste it into the COMMENTS box at the end of this story.
* At the end of your prediction type in ALL CAPs the letter W for WIN
* If you want to add your ideas of what SHOULD win but won't, then type S after that name.
* There won't be any room for commentary, so do that in a separate COMMENT entry (which you can do).
* Then click SUBMIT
* And, if you're ambitious enough to want to do ALL the categories, you can.
If you want to enter, CUT from here:
Best Picture
Amour
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
Best Actor
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Hugh Jackman, Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Denzel Washington, Flight
Best Actress
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark 30
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Quvenzhanae Wallis, Beasts of Southern Wild
Naomi Watts, Impossible
Best Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin, Argo
Robert De Niro, Silver Linings
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, The Master
Sally Field, Lincoln
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Helen Hunt,Sessions
Jacki Weaver,Silver Linings
Best Director
Michael Haneke, Amour
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
David O. Russell, Silver Linings
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of Southern Wild
Original Screenplay
Amour
Django Unchained
Flight
Moonrise Kingdom
Zero Dark 30
Adapted Screenplay
Argo
Beasts of Southern Wild
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Animated Feature
Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph
STOP CUT HERE
I know some of you want to challenge us with ALL the predictions, and again, you can do so if you want to cut and paste it in a bunch of different sections below. What do you win? Nothing, but you get the pleasure of beating Mr. Studio City!
Many of you have gone to see the group of shorts and animated shorts that have had special screenings around the country, which is always helpful in the party pools that some of you will enter while watching the show together. So, don't hesitate to vote!
Also, because of space constraints we couldn't put all the names of the nominees in the categories above, but they are all listed in the list below.
A lot of times, we know that the movie that wins isn't the movie that should win, but you have to think like the Academy.
Here are our full predictions:
(* WINNERS ARE IN BOLD)
Best Picture
Amour
* Argo WILL WIN
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained SHOULD WIN
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
Best Actor
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
* Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln WILL WIN and SHOULD WIN
Hugh Jackman, Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Denzel Washington, Flight
Best Actress
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
* Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook WILL WIN
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Quvenzhanae Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts, The Impossible SHOULD WIN
Best Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin, Argo WILL WIN
Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln SHOULD WIN
* Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained SHOULD WIN
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, The Master
Sally Field, Lincoln
* Anne Hathaway, Les Misearables WILL WIN
Helen Hunt, The Sessions SHOULD WIN
Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook
Best Director
Michael Haneke, Amour
* Ang Lee, Life of Pi SHOULD WIN
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook WILL WIN
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Original Screenplay
Michael Haneke, Amour
* Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained WILL WIN and SHOULD WIN
John Gatins, Flight
Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola, Moonrise Kingdom
Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty
Adapted Screenplay
* Chris Terrio, Argo WILL WIN
Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
David Magee, Life of Pi SHOULD WIN
Tony Kushner, Lincoln
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Animated Feature
* Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman, Brave
Tim Burton, Frankenweenie WILL WIN and SHOULD WIN
Sam Fell and Chris Butler, ParaNorman
Peter Lord, The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Rich Moore, Wreck-It Ralph
Production Design
Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer, Anna Karenina
Eve Stewart and Anna Lynch-Robinson , Les Miserables
David Gropman and Anna Pinnock, Life of Pi WILL WIN
* Rick Carter and Jim Erickson, Lincoln
Dan Hennah, Ra Vincent and Simon Bright , The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey SHOULD WIN
Cinematography
Seamus McGarvey, Anna Karenina
Robert Richardson , Django Unchained
* Claudio Miranda, Life of Pi WILL WIN
Janusz Kaminski, Lincoln
Roger Deakins, Skyfall SHOULD WIN
Costume Design
* Jacqueline Durran, Anna Karenina
Paco Delgado, Les Miserables WILL WIN
Joanna Johnston, Lincoln
Eiko Ishioka, Mirror Mirror
Colleen Atwood, Snow White and the Huntsman SHOULD WIN
Documentary Feature
5 Broken Cameras
How to Survive a Plague
The Invisible War
* Searching for Sugar Man WILL WIN
The Gatekeepers SHOULD WIN
Film Editing
* William Goldenberg, Argo WILL WIN
Tim Squyres, Life of Pi SHOULD WIN
Michael Kahn, Lincoln
Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers, Silver Linings Playbook
Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg, Zero Dark Thirty
Foreign Language Film
Denmark, A Royal Affair
* Austria, Amour WILL WIN
Norway, Kon-Tiki
Chile, No SHOULD WIN
Canada, War Witch
Hair and Makeup
Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel, Hitchcock
* Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell, Les Miserables WILL WIN
Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey SHOULD WIN
Original Score
Dario Marianelli, Anna Karenina
Alexandre Desplat, Argo WILL WIN
* Mychael Danna, Life of Pi SHOULD WIN
John Williams, Lincoln
Thomas Newman, Skyfall
Original Song
Music and lyric by J. Ralph, "Before My Time," Chasing Ice
Music by Claude-Michel Schumlberg, lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil, "Suddenly," Les Miserables
Music by Mychael Danna, lyric by Bombay Jayashri, "Pi's Lullaby," Life of Pi
* Music and lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth, "Skyfall," Skyfall WILL WIN and SHOULD WIN
"Everybody Needs a Best Friend," music by Walter Murphy, lyric by Seth MacFarlane, Ted
Sound Editing
Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn, Argo WILL WIN
Wylie Stateman, Django Unchained
Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton, Life of Pi SHOULD WIN
* Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers, Skyfall
* Paul N.J. Ottosson, Zero Dark Thirty
Sound Mixing
John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia, Argo WILL WIN
* Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes, Les Miserables
Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin, Life of Pi
Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins, Lincoln
Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson, Skyfall SHOULD WIN
Visual Effects
* Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott, Life of Pi WILL WIN and SHOULD WIN
Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill, Prometheus
Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick, Marvel's The Avengers
Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson, Snow White and the Huntsman
Screen Actors Guild member and Studio City film critic Cheyenne Chasen offers her suggestions here.
Also see what our Single in Studio City columnist Debra Graff predicts, by clicking here.
Now it's your turn!
Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts.