It's Oscar Time

Well, tomorrow morning the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce the nominees for this year's Oscars - to be official its the 84th Annual Acadey Awards.  I'm pretty sure the silent film The Artist will be a sweep at this year's Oscars, but just for fun here are my predicitions for nominations. 


BEST PICTURE

The Artist, The Weinstein Company; Thomas Langmann
Bridesmaids, Universal; Judd Apatow, Barry Mendel & Clayton Townshend
The Descendants, Fox Searchlight; Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, & Jim Taylor
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Columbia; Cean Chaffin, Scott Rudin
The Help, Touchstone; Michael Barnathan, Chris Columbus, Brunson Green
Hugo, Paramount/GK Films; Tim Headington, Graham King & Martin Scorsese
Midnight in Paris, Sony Pictures Classics; Letty Aronson & Stephen Tenenbaum
Moneyball, Columbia Pictures; Michael De Luca, Rachel Horovitz & Brad Pitt

ACTOR

George Clooney, The Descendants

Leonardo Di Caprio, J Edgar

Jean Dujardin, The Artist

Woody Harrelson, Rampart

Brad Pitt, Moneyball

ACTRESS

Rooney Mara, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady

Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin

Michelle Williams, My Week with Marilyn

Viola Davis, The Help

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Albert Brooks, Drive

Jonah Hill, Moneyball

Christopher Plummer, Beginners

Nick Nolte, Warrior

Kevin Spacey, Margin Call

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Berenice Bojo, The Artist

Jessica Chastain, The Help

Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids

Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs

Octavia Spencer, The Help

 

DIRECTING

Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist

Alexander Payne, The Descendants

Martin Scorsese, Hugo

Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris

Terrence Malick, Tree of Life

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

The Adventures of Tintin, Steven Spielberg & Peter Jackson

Kung Fu Panda 2, Jennifer Yuh

Rango, Gore Verbinski

DOCUMENTARY – FEATURE FILM

Bill Cunningham New York, Philip Gefter, Richard Press

Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky

Project Nim, James Marsh, Simon Chinn

Undefeated, Daniel Lindsay, Seth Gordon

We Were Here, David Weissman

COSTUME DESIGN

The Artist, Mark Bridges

The Help, Sharen Davis

Hugo, Sandy Powell

Jane Eyre, Michael O’Connor

Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides, Penny Rose

CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Artist, Guillaume Schiffman

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Jeff Cronenweth

Hugo, Robert Richardson

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Hoyte van Hoytema

Tree of Life, Emmanuel Lubezki

So, who do think will get a nod from the Academy and who do you think will be snubbed tomorrow morning?