Oscars 2013: My Final Predictions

These are my final Oscars 2013 predictions. There have been some changes after thinking about the nominees and with relevant recent news affecting the probabilities of winning for each nominee. The window for voting by Academy members has closed on Tuesday 19 February. The winners are now locked as vote counting begins. This list is final and no changes will be made once it is published. 

** - Winner!

Accuracy: 16/21 (76%) or 19/21 (90%) including dark horse.

My Official Oscars 2013 Predictions:

BEST PICTURE

Amour

**Argo WILL WIN!

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Django Unchained

Les Miserables

Life of Pi

Lincoln DARK HORSE!

Silver Linings Playbook

Zero Dark Thirty

BEST DIRECTOR

Michael Haneke (Amour)

**Lee Ang (Life of Pi) DARK HORSE!

David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)

Steven Spielberg (Lincoln) WILL WIN!

Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

BEST LEADING ACTOR

Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook)

**Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln) WILL WIN!

Hugh Jackman (Les Miserables)

Joaquin Phoenix (The Master) DARK HORSE!

Denzel Washington (Flight)

BEST LEADING ACTRESS

Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)
**Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook) WILL WIN!

Emmanuelle Riva (Amour) DARK HORSE!

Quvenzhane Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
Naomi Watts (The Impossible)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Alan Arkin (Argo)
Robert De Niro (Silver Linings Playbook)
Phillip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)
Tommy Lee Jones (Lincoln) DARK HORSE!
**Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained) WILL WIN!

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Amy Adams (The Master)
Sally Field (Lincoln) DARK HORSE!
**Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables) WILL WIN!
Helen Hunt (The Sessions)
Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Michael Haneke (Amour)

**Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained) WILL WIN!

John Gatins (Flight)

Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola (Moonrise Kingdom)

Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty) DARK HORSE!

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

**Chris Terrio (Argo)
Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
David Magee (Life of Pi)
Tony Kushner (Lincoln) WILL WIN!
David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook) DARK HORSE!

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Seamus McGarvey (Anna Karenina)

Robert Richardson (Django Unchained)

**Claudio Miranda (Life of Pi) WILL WIN!

Janusz Kaminski (Lincoln)

Roger Deakins (Skyfall) DARK HORSE!

BEST FILM EDITING

**William Goldenberg (Argo) WILL WIN!
Tim Squyres (Life of Pi)
Michael Kahn (Lincoln)
Jay Cassidy & Crispin Struthers (Silver Linings Playbook)
William Goldenberg & Dylan Tichenor (Zero Dark Thirty) DARK HORSE!

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

**Lincoln

Life of Pi DARK HORSE!

Les Miserables

Anna Karenina WILL WIN!

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

**Anna Karenina WILL WIN!

Les Miserables DARK HORSE!

Lincoln

Mirror Mirror

Snow White and the Huntsman

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

Hitchcock

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey WILL WIN!

**Les Miserables DARK HORSE!

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

The Avengers
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
**Life of Pi WILL WIN!
Prometheus DARK HORSE!
Snow White and the Huntsman

BEST SOUND MIXING

Argo
**Les Miserables WILL WIN!
Life of Pi DARK HORSE!

Lincoln
Skyfall

BEST SOUND EDITING

Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi WILL WIN!
**Skyfall DARK HORSE!
**Zero Dark Thirty

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Dario Marianelli (Anna Karenina)
Alexander Desplat (Argo) DARK HORSE!
**Mychael Danna (Life of Pi) WILL WIN!
John Williams (Lincoln)
Thomas Newman (Skyfall)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

"Before My Time" - Chasing Ice
"Suddenly" - Les Miserables
"Pi's Lullaby" - Life of Pi DARK HORSE!
**"Skyfall" – Skyfall WILL WIN!
"Everybody Needs a Best Friend" - Ted

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

**Amour (Dir. Michael Haneke, Austria) WILL WIN!
War Witch (Dir. Kim Nguyen, Canada) DARK HORSE!
No (Dir. Pablo Larrain, Chile)
A Royal Affair (Dir. Nikolaj Arcel, Denmark)
Kon-Tiki (Dir. Joachim Ronning & Espen Sandberg, Norway)

BEST ANIMATED FILM

**Brave (Dir. Mark Andrews & Brenda Chapman) WILL WIN!
Frankenweenie (Dir. Tim Burton)
ParaNorman (Dir. Sam Fell & Chris Butler)
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (Dir. Peter Lord)
Wreck-It Ralph (Dir. Rich Moore) DARK HORSE!

BEST DOCUMENTARY

5 Broken Cameras (Dir. Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi)
The Gatekeepers (Dir. Dror Moreh)
How to Survive a Plague (Dir. David France)
The Invisible War (Dir. Kirby Dick) DARK HORSE!
**Searching for Sugar Man (Dir. Malik Bendjelloul) WILL WIN!