Peggy's Oscar Picks

For those of you playing along at home, here are my predictions for the Oscars tonight.  Not all are necessarily my favorite in each category, but they are the ones I think are most likely to win.

Note: I'm historically TERRIBLE at this.  :)

BEST PICTURE

Argo

(Even though I think that Django Unchained was a MUCH better movie)

(Ugh, but I'm torn between Argo and Les Mis... Ok... I'm going with Argo. Final Answer.)

ACTOR in a Leading Role

Hugh Jackman

Les Misérables

ACTRESS in a Leading Role

Jessica Chastain

Zero Dark Thirty

(Also, not my favorite performance, but I think she's going to take it.  WEAK nominations this year, if you ask me.)

ACTOR in a Supporting Role

Christoph Waltz

Django Unchained

(DUH)

ACTRESS in a Supporting Role

Anne Hathaway

Les Misérables

(I mean, come on.  How can she not win?)

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Wreck-It Ralph

Rich Moore

(Here's rooting for an actual comedy!)

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Django Unchained

Robert Richardson

COSTUME DESIGN

Les Misérables

Paco Delgado

DIRECTING

Silver Linings Playbook

David O. Russell

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Searching for Sugar Man

Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn

(I didn't see any of the nominees in this category, but I have heard TONS about this movie, so I assume it will win.)

DOCUMENTARY SHORT

Mondays at Racine

Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan

FILM EDITING

Argo

William Goldenberg

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Amour

Austria

(For the record, I don't think that there should be a Foreign Language Film category.  Obviously, if one of the nominees in this category is up for Best Picture, and none of the other nominees are, it will win.  So... why have a separate category?  It also assumes that non-English movies are inherently sub-par and therefore need their own JV category, and that's becoming less and less the norm.  I say, cut this shit out.)

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane

Original Score

Lincoln

John Williams

Original Song

"Skyfall" from Skyfall

Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth

(That song from Les Mis was shit.)

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Les Misérables

Eve Stewart (Production Design); Anna Lynch-Robinson (Set Decoration)

SHORT FILM Animated

Paperman

John Kahrs

(This is a really awesome short, and you can watch it online!)

SHORT FILM Live Action

Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)

Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele

SOUND EDITING

Django Unchained

Wylie Stateman

SOUND MIXING

Les Misérables

Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes

VISUAL EFFECTS

Prometheus

Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill

(I don't care what anyone says.  Prometheus was awesome.)

WRITING Adapted Screenplay

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Screenplay by Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin

WRITING Original Screenplay

Django Unchained

Written by Quentin Tarantino

Am I right or am I right?  Right?