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Oscars 2012: Best Sound and Best Visual Effects
So it begins—my third go-around dissecting every category at the Academy Awards in a three-week span. This year, the 84th Academy Awards take place on Feb. 26, three days before we leap. Fittingly, I...
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Oscars 2012: Best Art Direction, Costumes and Makeup Predictions
Stop number two on my 2012 Oscar breakdown involves the more old-school technical categories, the stuff that can’t be done entirely by computer. As you might imagine, these categories tend to be a...
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Oscars 2012: Best Cinematography and Best Editing Predictions
My final technical predictions come in the Best Cinematography and Best Editing categories. The people whose names are recognized alongside these categories are pivotal in the filmmaking process. Most...
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Oscars 2012: Best Score and Original Song Predictions
Although both categories have to do with music, audience favor in these two Oscar categories are going in opposite directions. With more and more noteworthy musicians, artists and composers trying...
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Oscars 2012: Best Animated and Live-Action Short Predictions
My first year of predictions, I could find all these shorts on YouTube, but that hasn’t been the case the last two years. As if I wasn’t taking enough of a shot in the dark already. Much of this was...
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Oscars 2012: Best Documentary Feature and Short Subject Predictions
Unlike in previous years, the Best Documentary Feature award has none of the widely released, popular or well-known documentaries. I’m not sure who make the shortlist, but they’re probably the same...
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Oscars 2012: Best Animated Feature and Foreign Film Predictions
Considering the high bar set these days for animation, Best Animated Feature seems to be the only category with an upward trajectory at the Academy Awards. While the music categories and documentary...
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Oscars 2012: Best Original and Adapted Screenplay Predictions
The screenwriting categories always feel the most genuine of all the major awards. It’s not about big films for buzzing films—just about good writing. It seems as if these are the “safe” categories in...
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Oscars 2012: Best Supporting Actress and Actor Predictions
The best supporting actors steal scenes. When a film focuses on its central character and his or her predicament, these are the performers who snatch that attention for that brief moment they enter...
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Oscars 2012: Best Actor and Best Actress Predictions
In the acting categories this year it’s been all about the ladies. The powerhouse performances of 2011 were all of the female persuasion. The Best Actress in a Leading Role category is maybe stronger...
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Oscars 2012: Best Director Prediction
Last year, being a veteran filmmaker meant nothing, as Tom Hooper walked away with an Oscar for what was his third major project (and second film) ever. That looks to be the case again this year...
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Oscars 2012: Best Picture
Perhaps the most unexciting category at the Oscars this year is Best Picture. Only two films were even in the conversation to begin with, and the momentum turned toward squarely toward just one of...
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Oscars 2012: Final Predictions List
Happy Oscar Day! Below is my full list of predictions in the event that you care or want to know what the safe picks are for potential use in an Oscar pool. The nominees for each are listed followed...
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Oscars 2012: The Winners –‘The Artist’ Tapped as Best Picture
The 84th Academy Awards offered minimal surprises, as the silent film “The Artist” took home five awards including three of the biggest prizes: Best Director, Best Actor and Best Picture. “Hugo,”...
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Oscars 2012: Final Thoughts
Another year in the books, but what a more unusual journey. I could be sitting here this fine Monday morning with spit and ire for Brett Ratner’s production job and Eddie Murphy’s hosting duties, but...
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