Zero Dark Thirty's Kathryn Bigelow wasn't nominated for Best Director as well, leaving the latter category's race mostly to Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee and David O. Russel perhaps? My bet is Spielberg, so the Director's prize, Daniel Day-Lewis for-sure Best Actor win with Best Score or something could form a possible consolation prize for Lincoln. Jennifer Lawrence has very big chances of winning Best Actress, and the Best Actor prize is a bit closed as well. But it could go down in a number of scenarios. Even if Argo wins Best Picture, what else would it win? Editing, Alan Arkin for Best Supporting Actor? It just doesn't seem right, yet I believe it will sadly go down like this. It's not overlong like Lincoln, not controversial like Zero Dark Thirty or not a comedy or a musical like Les Mis and Silver Linings Playbook. Yet, I still hope for one of the latter two to win, since they are my favourite of them all. Yes people, this is the part where my personal opinion jumps in.
And to be honest, my personal opinion caused quite a boiling cauldron of anger inside of me when the nominations were announced, as four of my very dear films of 2012, The Dark Knight Rises, The Hunger Games, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower and Cloud Atlas weren't nominated. Now before you go explaining and complaining that these are not movies that would win Oscars, as they do not reflect the economic crisis or whatever, I tell you, that I understand. But still, some of these movies had chances and would have deserved at least nominations. If I were The Academy, I'd give Best Picture to TDKR, and even tough I know that can't and never will happen, it should have been nominated for anything technical from a completely objective point of view. Perks was a clear contender for Best Adapted Screenplay, and THG's "Safe and Sound" just won a Grammy, but didn't get nominated for Best Original Song. And Cloud Atlas should have won Best Make-Up, everyone who saw the movie would agree. And yet, zero nominations for all of these. At least for TDKR, I bet it was a personal Academy thing. I mean, FUCKING MIRROR MIRROR got nominated for something! And a song from fucking TED! The movie's hilarious and all, but does anyone remember the original song from TED?!?!?!?
My review of Les Mis.
Putting aside most of my my anger-issues-led personal opinions, I sincerely hope either Silver Linings Playbook or Les Miserables will win. The first one has a definite Best Actress win, and could come out as a big winner with Best Director and Best Picture, Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor, if everything would come out perfect. Honestly, what I would like to see the most, is Bradley Cooper getting a gold statue, and even tough that will probably never happen with Day-Lewis in the same category, it's simply a dream I have (not that kind of a dream, you perverts!). Les Mis on the other hand, have Anne Hathaway, who will probably win and all those set design-make-up-hair noms. So I guess it could still come out fine. . Maybe magical Oscar master Harvey Weinstein will bring a bunch of bipolar people to all those parties and a comedy would win after all, like in the 1998's case of Shakespeare in Love. Or maybe The Academy would announce their most heavenly mistakes and decide to give all the awards to Christopher Nolan anyways. We'll see, as this year's awards are, given after a lot of thinking, actually quite open.
There basically isn't a lot of things, that we would be absolutely sure about, except for both of the Actress categories, Adele's Best Original Song win and Life Of Pi being the technical winner. We can't be sure for any of the side-like categories either, like Editing, Original Score and Costume Design, as they could all act as fillers for a potential Best Picture winner or a consolation prize. After all, the Academy awards are never really given out simply by the quality (subjective quality, deemed by 80-yr-old men, I mean), but are usually also equally divided. A most notable example that stuck in my mind (mainly because a lot of my dear movies were participating) comes from 2010, when The King's Speech won Best Picture, Actor, Directing and Screenplay to be the grand winner, Inception was the technical winner with Cinematography, Visual Effects, Sound Mixing and Sound Editing and The Social Network was given a consolation prize in the form of Adapted Screenplay, Score and Editing. But so far we can only wait for the grand awards show, which with the arrival of Seth MacFarlane might actually prove to be an entertaining awards show in the terms of a show, as well.
So what do you think of this year's Oscar race? Which movies do you think will win most Oscars, and which ones? Comment your predictions below, let me know!
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