OFFICIAL OT THREAD: Oscars Central(taking user bets)

You could have threw up a list of the nominees with your opening post, at the very least.  :(

You could have threw up a list of the nominees with your opening post, at the very least.  :(

Hallenbeck77

You could have threw up a list of the nominees with your opening post, at the very least.  :(

Hallenbeck77

Well...might as well get comfy and get a seat...

Rather keep updated here than actually sit through the ceremony.

[QUOTE="Hallenbeck77"]

You could have threw up a list of the nominees with your opening post, at the very least.  :(

Allicrombie

Clean sweep for Atlas Shrugged Pt. 2

Skyfall wins best original song, with Anne Hathaway recieving the award for best supporting actress.

I'm not one for taking risks. :P

Django for best everything. :Pchessmaster1989

Best science fiction?

BEST PICTURE
Argo

BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln

BEST ACTRESS
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Robert DeNiro, Silver Linings Playbook

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables

BEST DIRECTOR
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln


BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Chris Terrio, Argo


BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Wreck-It Ralph


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Life of Pi, Claudio Miranda

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Anna Karenina, Jacqueline Durran

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Searching for Sugar Man


BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Open Heart, Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern

BEST FILM EDITING
Argo, William Goldenberg

BEST FOREIGN FILM
Amour, Austria

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Les Misérables, Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell


BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Argo, Alexandre Desplat

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Skyfall from Skyfall, Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Les Misérables, Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Anna Lynch-Robinson

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Paperman, John Kahrs

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Curfew, Shawn Christensen

BEST SOUND EDITING
Zero Dark Thirty, Paul N.J. Ottosson


BEST SOUND MIXING
Les Misérables, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Life of Pi, Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott

Best Picture: Beasts of the Southern Wild (My choice) Argo (Oscar)
Best Actor: DDL (My choice & Oscar) | Note still need to see The Master
Best Actress: Jessica Chastain (My choice & Oscar) | Not much of a selection this year
Best Supporting Actor: PSH (Oscar) | Still need to see this, think Dwight Henry deserved a nod
Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway (My choice) Sally Field (Oscar) | Still need to see The Sessions too
Best Director: Please not Spielberg | Need to see Life of Pi
Best Original Screenplay: Moonrise Kingdom (My choice) Django (Oscar) | The 'D' is silent
Best Adapted Screenplay: Argo (My choice & Oscar) | Argo **** yourself
Best Animated Film: I haven't seen any of these *disappointed* Wreck-It-Ralph?
Best Cinematography: Skyfall (My choice & Oscar) | Surprised Looper didn't get nod
Best Costume Design: Les Mes (My choice & Oscar)
Best Documentary Feature/Short Subject: Haven't seen any of these
Best Film Editing: Silver Linings Playbook (My choice) Argo (Oscar) | Why is Lincoln even nominated for this?
Best Foreign Film: Amour duh!
Best Makeup: Les Mes (My choice & Oscar)
Best Original Score: Not sure
Best Original Song: Skyfall (My choice & Oscar)
Best Production Design: Les Mes (My choice & Oscar) | Dat elephant
Best Animated Short: IDK
Best Live Action Short: IDK
Best Sound Editing/Mixing: I'm not going to pretend I know how they evaluate these categories
Best Visual FX: Tossup between Hobbit, Avengers, Prometheus

best thread by dave so far :)

So what's the favorite to win Best Picture? Usually I'd say all signs point to Argo but since Affleck's not even nominated for Best Director..

Anyway I'm firmly on team #JLaw4BestActress even though Chastain is cool too

[QUOTE="mingmao3046"]i hope the whole oscars place gets blown up and they all die honestly.Aljosa23

BEST PICTURE
Argo

BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln

BEST ACTRESS
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams, The Master

BEST DIRECTOR
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Michael Haneke, Amour

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Tony Kushner, Lincoln

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Wreck-It Ralph

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Skyfall, Roger Deakins

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Lincoln, Joanna Johnston

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Searching for Sugar Man

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Open Heart, Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern

BEST FILM EDITING
Zero Dark Thirty, Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg

BEST FOREIGN FILM
Amour, Austria

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Les Misérables, Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Anna Karenina, Dario Marianelli

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Skyfall from Skyfall, Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Lincoln, Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Paperman, John Kahrs

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Henry, Yan England

BEST SOUND EDITING
Argo, Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn

BEST SOUND MIXING
Skyfall, Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White

Here's my pics. Beasts of the Southern Wild is this year's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Movie is garbage.

BEST PICTURE
Will win: Argo
Should win: Zero Dark Thirty

BEST DIRECTOR
Will win: Steven Spielberg
Should win: Meh

BEST ACTOR
Will win: Daniel Day-Lewis 
Should win: Joaquin Phoenix

BEST ACTRESS
Will win: Jennifer Lawrence
Should win: Jessica Chastain

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Will win: Tommy Lee Jones
Should win: Philip Seymour Hoffman

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Will win: Anne Hathaway
Should win: Amy Adams

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Will win: Amour
Should win: Zero Dark Thirty

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Will win: Argo
Should win: Meh

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Will win: Wreck-It Wralph
Should win: N/A (Only seen ParaNorman and Brave)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Will win: Life of Pi
Should win: Skyfall

BEST FOREIGN FILM
Will win: Amour
Should win: N/A (Only seen Amour and A Royal Affair)

Why is everyone saying Wreck it Ralph is going to win? I figured Frankenweenie had the strongest chance of winning.

Oscars is just something I won't miss, I don't have a favorite list, but this is my predictions.

Best Picture: Argo
Best Actor: Daniel Day Lewis (Lincoln)
Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)
Best Supporting Actor: Robert De Niro (Silver Linings Playbook)
Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables)
Best Director: -- I go with David O Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)/ I'd love it if it goes to Ang Lee
Best Original Screenplay: Amour
Best Adapted Screenplay: Argo
Best Animated Film: Wreck it Ralph
Best Cinematography: Life of Pi
Best Costume Design: Anna Karenina
Best Documentary Feature/Short Subject: no idea at all
Best Film Editing: Argo
Best Foreign Film: Amour 
Best Makeup: Les Miserables
Best Original Score: Life of Pi
Best Original Song: Skyfall 
Best Production Design: Les Miserables
Best Animated Short: no idea
Best Sound Editing: Zero Dark Thirty (this can really go to anyone)

Sound Mixing: Les Miserables

Best Visual Effect: Life of Pi

So what's the favorite to win Best Picture? Usually I'd say all signs point to Argo but since Affleck's not even nominated for Best Director..

Anyway I'm firmly on team #JLaw4BestActress even though Chastain is cool too

JML897

Oscar day is supposed to be Emmanuelle riva's 86's birthday, there's are certain calls for her to get votes, and there's probably a reasonable chance that she might get it.

Will let geezer share his thoughts on frakenweenie [QUOTE="MrGeezer"]I mostly liked it. Not quite one of Tim Burton's best movies, but it was sad and funny and visually it just looked amazing. I'm wondering if anyone else here saw it, and what they think of it. Because while I like it, there's a big aspect about it that really just bothers me. [spoiler] That whole subplot with the cat. You know, Mr. Whiskers, that ugly white cat who ends up turning into the main villain. That bothered me a whole lot. Because the plot goes like this...after the main character brings his dead dog back to life with lightning, all of the other kids start trying to do the same thing. Some kids go to the pet cemetary to dig up their pets and revive them. EVERY time this happens, it results in a monstrosity that needs to be killed, even though they're just doing EXACTLY what the main protagonist did. So the town gets overrun with the monstrous reanimated corpses of kids' beloved dead pets, and one kid and HIS reanimated beloved dead pet have to stop the monsters. Okay...that's a little bit messed up, but I'll buy it. At least all those animals end up dead, which I guess doesn't bother me too much since they were dead in the first place. Here's problem #1. I could accept that as a lesson about leearning to let things go. Except for the fact that the kid's reanimated zombie dog actually DIES AGAIN during the climactic ending. The dad comes along, asks the kid how he can help, and the kid then says, "it's okay, the lesson here is to learn to let go." The dad (who was against the whole reanimating-the-dead thing in the first place then basically goes, "f*** you, son. We're gonna bring your pet back from the dead AGAIN." So the whole town comes together to reanimate the dead zombie dog, even though just minutes before the entire town was terrorized by monsters which were the result of trying to reanimate peoples' pets. At first it seems like it didn't work, and the kid says, "it's okay. He didn't come back, but he's still alive in my heart." But then the dog revives again, everyone cheers, movie ends. And...WHAT. THE F***? Seriously? Doesn't that sort of ruin the entire freaking point? Yeah, sure...there was an entire subplot about how science is neither right nor wrong, and that it only becomes right or wrong due to men's intentions. But that got entirely ruined. If there's any single reason for why the Frankenweenie dog came back as a lovable zombie dog instead of a horrible monster, it seems to be because the creator had love in his heart when he did tried to revive the dead. But that point is ***ing ruined, due to the fact that nearly every monster in the movie is the result of some kid trying to revive his dead pet. These are kids whom loved their pets enough to actually buy space in a pet cemetary. One of these kids actually loved his goddamn pet enough to devote a huge mausoleum to it, and the pet in question ends up being a ****ing guinea pig or something. These kids loved their pets just as much, and when they revived them, the audience is supposed to be okay that they become zombie monstrosities that need to be destroyed. Yet the protagonist kid defies the laws of god and nature not once but twice, and everyone is okay with that. That kind of inconsistancy is intolerable, because there is NO difference between what he did and what all the other kids did. Any kind of potential message gets destroyed, and the lesson becomes, "f*** reanimating the dead, except when it comes to the dog, because you all bought tickets to see this cute zombie dog". And yeah...that sort of pisses me off. But there's something worse. After the movie breaks down into a monster fest full of monsters that have to be destroyed, the primary goddamn villain turns out to be Mr Whiskers. The ugly ass white cat who is owned by that one creepy girl. Here's the problem...while all of the other monsters didn't become monsters until they died and were then revived, Mr Whiskers went straight from being a live cat to the main ****ing villain. Mr Whiskers in normal form wasn't even particularly unlikeable. All he ever did was get terrorized by the Frankenweenie dog, and then get accidentally electrocuted by his owner. That turns him into a monster, he becomes the big bad villain that must be stopped, and we're supposed to cheer when he gets ****ing impaled by a flaming stake. And that bothers the hell out of me, because that cat didn't do a single bad thing to ANYONE. In life, all it ever did was get bullied by the dog that we're supposed to love. Its whole becoming a monster in the fisrt place was a total freak accident that it had nothing to do with. And in the end, that's the sole example of a real live innocent life that ended up getting brutally killed through no fault of its own, and no one even mentions it. It's just like, "who gives a $***, it was just a cat." And that really REALLY sort of pisses me off. More to the poijnt...in terms of story, there was really absolutely no reason to kill the cat at all. The cat only becomes a monster due to an attempt to revive a dead bat. So the writers could have just as well left that poor innocent cat out of it completely and just made the main villain a zombie bat. In terms of story, there was absolutely no need whatsoever to kill that poor cat. In the end, it just comes off as if the writer and director just plain like it when cats die. [/spoiler] Anyway, I mostly liked the movie. It was really cool up until it turned into a big monster rampage. At that point it just got boring. Then it got to the end and the stuff that I just complained about, and I was just like, "what the hell?" Overall, while there's alot of stuff to like about it, I think it's just way too mean spirited. And any lessons or points the movie tried to make were completely contradicted by the ending. This is like The Neverending Story. I want to love it, I really do. But the ending pissed me off so much that I have trouble remaining calm.dave123321

Yeah he didn't get the message of this movie.

BEST PICTURE
Will win: Argo
Should win: Beasts of the Southern Wild

BEST DIRECTOR
Will win: Steven Spielberg
Should win: Behn Zeitlin

BEST ACTOR
Will win: Daniel Day-Lewis 
Should win: Denzel Washington or Joaquin Phoenix

BEST ACTRESS
Will win: Jennifer Lawrence
Should win: Quvenzhané Wallis

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Will win: Tommy Lee Jones
Should win: Robert De Niro

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Will win: Anne Hathaway
Should win: I still really need to see Les Miserables so I'll just skip this

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Will win: Amour
Should win: Amour

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Will win: Tony Kushner
Should win: Lucy Alibar and Behn Zeitlin

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Will win: Frankenweenie
Should win: Frankenweenie

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Will win: Life of Pi
Should win: Life of Pi

BEST FOREIGN FILM
Will win: Amour
Should win: N/A (Only seen Amour and A Royal Affair)

Best Documentary
Will win: Searching for Sugar Man
Should win: I haven't seen any of the other nominees but I don't think I would love them as much as I love Searching for Sugar Man 

Oscar gift basket this year valued at $48,000. bling bling!Allicrombie

[QUOTE="Allicrombie"]Oscar gift basket this year valued at $48,000. bling bling!dave123321

No wonder my thread got locked. Didn't see this one. 

BEST PICTURE
Amour
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty


BEST ACTOR
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Denzel Washington, Flight


BEST ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Naomi Watts, The Impossible
Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild


BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alan Arkin, Argo
Robert DeNiro, Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained


BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams, The Master
Sally Field, Lincoln
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook


BEST DIRECTOR
Michael Haneke, Amour
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola, Moonrise Kingdom
Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty
John Gatins, Flight
Michael Haneke, Amour
Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained


BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Tony Kushner, Lincoln
David Magee, Life of Pi
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Chris Terrio, Argo


BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Anna Karenina, Seamus McGarvey
Django Unchained, Robert Richardson
Life of Pi, Claudio Miranda
Lincoln, Janusz Kaminski
Skyfall, Roger Deakins


BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Anna Karenina, Jacqueline Durran
Les Misérables, Paco Delgado
Lincoln, Joanna Johnston
Mirror Mirror, Eiko Ishioka
Snow White and the Huntsman, Colleen Atwood


BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a Plague
The Invisible War
Searching for Sugar Man


BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Inocente, Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine
Kings Point, Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider
Mondays at Racine, Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan
Open Heart, Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern
Redemption, Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill


BEST FILM EDITING
Argo, William Goldenberg
Life of Pi, Tim Squyres
Lincoln, Michael Kahn
Silver Linings Playbook, Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers
Zero Dark Thirty, Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg


BEST FOREIGN FILM
Amour, Austria
Kon-Tiki, Norway
No, Chile
A Royal Affair, Denmark
War Witch, Canada


BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Hitchcock, Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane
Les Misérables, Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell


BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Anna Karenina, Dario Marianelli
Argo, Alexandre Desplat
Life of Pi, Mychael Danna
Lincoln, John Williams
Skyfall, Thomas Newman


BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Before My Time from Chasing Ice, Music and Lyric by J. Ralph
Everybody Needs A Best Friend from Ted, Music by Walter Murphy; Lyric by Seth MacFarlane
Pi's Lullaby from Life of Pi, Music by Mychael Danna; Lyric by Bombay Jayashri
Skyfall from Skyfall, Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
Suddenly from Les Misérables, Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil


BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Anna Karenina, Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Production Design: Dan Hennah; Set Decoration: Ra Vincent and Simon Bright
Les Misérables, Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Anna Lynch-Robinson
Life of Pi, Production Design: David Gropman; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
Lincoln, Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson


BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Adam and Dog, Minkyu Lee
Fresh Guacamole, PES
Head over Heels, Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly
Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare, David Silverman
Paperman, John Kahrs


BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Asad, Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura
Buzkashi Boys, Sam French and Ariel Nasr
Curfew, Shawn Christensen
Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw), Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele
Henry, Yan England


BEST SOUND EDITING
Argo, Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn
Django Unchained, Wylie Stateman
Life of Pi, Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton
Skyfall, Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers
Zero Dark Thirty, Paul N.J. Ottosson


BEST SOUND MIXING
Argo, John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia
Les Misérables, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes
Life of Pi, Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin
Lincoln, Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins
Skyfall, Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson


BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White
Life of Pi, Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott
Marvel's The Avengers, Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick
Prometheus, Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill
Snow White and the Huntsman, Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson.

lol

Unlike Aljosa, I liked beasts of the southern wild. But he also overpraises skyfall, so I don't know what to think.dave123321

[QUOTE="dave123321"]Unlike Aljosa, I liked beasts of the southern wild. But he also overpraises skyfall, so I don't know what to think.Aljosa23

Oscar gift basket this year valued at $48,000. bling bling!Allicrombie

[QUOTE="Allicrombie"]Oscar gift basket this year valued at $48,000. bling bling!soulless4now