Oscar Picks 85th Academy Awards

I need to preface these choices by saying that I find it unfathomable that Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty) and Ben Affleck (Argo) weren't nominated for directing; that Moonrise Kingdom and The Master weren't nominated for Best Picture; and that Paul Thomas Anderson wasn't nominated for Best Director, and Jonny Greenwood for score, both for The Master.


BEST PICTURE
Zero Dark Thirty

DIRECTOR
Michael Haneke, Amour

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Ann Hathaway, Les Miserables

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Moonrise Kingdom 
Wes Anderson (also directed) & Roman Coppola

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Argo

Chris Terrio

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Amour

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Searching for Sugar Man

ANIMATED FEATURE
Brave

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Skyfall

Roger Deakins

COSTUME DESIGN
Snow White and the Huntsman

Colleen Atwood

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Les Miserables 
Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell

MUSIC - Original Score
SKYFALL 

Thomas Newman

MUSIC - ORIGINAL SONG
Adele - "Skyfall"

FILM EDITING
Zero Dark Thirty
Dylan Tichenor & William Goldenberg

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Anna Karenina
Sarah Greenwood (Production Design), Katie Spencer (Set Decoration)

SOUND EDITING
Life of Pi
Eugene Gearty & Philip Stockton

SOUND MIXING
Les Miserables
Andy Nelson, Mark Patterson, & Simon Hayes

VISUAL EFFECTS
Life of Pi

Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer, and Donald R. Elliott

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