OSCAR 2012, Predictions & Probable Winners

Hmmm, New year has rolled in, yeap it is January 2012. Oscars Nominations will be dished out likely on 24th Of January with Red Carpet Grand Finale on 26th Feburary. It's time to make some guess work. So lets share our list of probable nominations / winners. My guess for movies, not in any particular order or preference are:

1- The Help.
2- Water for Elephants.
3- The Descendants.
4- The Artist.
5- The Iron Lady.
6- War horse.
7- The tree of Life.
8- The Ides of March.
9- The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo.
10- Hugo

Best Picture
- The Artist
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- The Help
- Hugo
- The Ides of March
- The Iron Lady
- Moneyball
- My Week With Marilyn

Best Visual Effects (preferential order)
- Captain America: The First Avenger (they deserve it for "Skinny Steve" alone, that was some kind of alchemy)
- Thor (the Bifrost wormhole sequence was fantastic, and the Destroyer looked amazing)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon (despite the quality of the film, you'd be crazy not to give them at least a nod)
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes (primarily for Andy Serkis/Caesar)

Best Actor (preferential order)
Michael Fassbender, Shame
Gary Oldman, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (give this man a nomination already!)
Woody Harrelson, Rampart
Ryan Gosling, Drive
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 50/50

Best Actress
Viola Davis, The Help
Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Tilda Swinton, We Need To Talk About Kevin
Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn
Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs

Great Rylvan. You shared more categories. Let see how others predicts.

This year only 8 will be nominated for Best Picture instead of the usual 10.

hmm, it means competition would be stiff.lets see

1. Hugo
2. The Tree of Life
3. Moneyball
4. The Artist
5. My Week with Marilyn
6. Midnight in Paris
7. The Descendants
8. War Horse

I'd love to see Drive get a nomination, but I don't see it happening. Moneyball shouldn't even be anywhere in the conversation but, well, the Academy is screwy.

C'mon guys! Nominees are announced Tuesday. We're running out of time. Surely many of you think I'm wrong!

Here are my choices:

Best Picture:
The Artist
The Descendants
The Help
War Horse
Hugo
Moneyball
My Week With Marilyn
Midnight In Paris

Best Actor:
George Clooney-The Descendats
Jean Dujardin-The Artist
Michael Fassbender-The Artist
Ryan Gosling-The Ides of March-I prefer him on Drive but...
Brad Pitt-Moneyball

Best Actress:
Meryl Streep-The Iron Lady
Michelle Williams-My Week With Marilyn
Viola Davis-The Help
Tilda Swinton-We Need to Talk About Kevin
Glenn Close-Glenn Close - Albert Nobbs

Best Director:
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Martin Scorsese - Hugo
George Clooney - The Ides of March
Alexander Payne - The Descendants
Woody Allen - Midnight in Paris

Best Picture:
The Descendants
The Artist
Hugo
The Help
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Moneyball
The Tree of Life
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Best Actor:
George Clooney - The Descendants
Leonardo DiCaprio - J. Edgar
Jean Dujardin - The Artist
Michael Fassbender - Shame
Gary Oldman - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Best Actress:
Viola Davies - The Help
Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady
Michelle Williams - My Week with Marilyn
Rooney Mara - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Tilda Swinton - We Need to Talk About Kevin


Best Director:
Alexander Payne - The Descendants
Martin Scorcese - Hugo
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Terrence Malick - The Tree of Life
David Fincher - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Seen few of these. Just based on buzz etc.

The nominations are in so im gonna give some my personal opinions. First off atleast Oldman got his nomination. Fassbender did not get(WHY?) and Gosling also(WHY?). But hey Clooney did:D. Hurraa for that one. Where´s Tom Hardy or Joel Edgerton from Warrior?? Nick Nolte should win but i guess that has Plummer written all over. Malick also could be the winner this year with his Tree of Life. Drive was snubbed as i expected. Well that remains as the Cult movie of this year alredy. It doesnt need any awards or nominations. All nominations considering this looks like a boring Award show coming up. Im gonna root for The Artist just because its black and white and thats about it. Better nominations next time Academy!!!

Bro, I wined about this somewhere but i'm gonna join in with you. WTF is Extremely close doing with the best pics, that movie got shat on by the critics, 47% rotten tomatoes!!!. Why not just pick Drive. Or even Take Shelter, We need to talk about kevin, the girl with the dragon tattoo, 50/50, Martha marcy may marlene or The ides of march. Also Jonah Hiil, ALBERT BROOKS!!!! they snubbed brooks, fassbender, dunst, olsen, swinton and the documentary Senna.

Oscars fail

Well I've now seen 7 of the 9 Best Picture nominees. And let's face it, that's probably as far as I'll ever get. I just don't have it in me to watch War Horse, and don't see any compelling reason to see Extremely Loud either.

Hugo deserves to win, but won't. The Artist is almost sure to win and I can sort of live with that.

I'm not sure about 'The Artist'... It is a French movie. It has happened before that a British production won the Best picture award but never when that a movie came from another country (exception maybe for 'The Last emperor' but it was an international production, not really specifically from Italy or anywhere else).

This is one of the worst list of nominations I've ever seen. It doesn't surprise me, the academy has been losing its credibility for some time now. In any case, there are still 2 or 3 worthy movies of best picture in there, so let's just see how it goes.

PS: Why didn't they just select 4 nominees like previous years if there weren't enough good picks? I will never understand these guys.

@Veed, just out of curiosity, how many of those selected movies have you actually seen ?

I've only seen The Artist, Moneyball and The Help. I couldn't watch The Tree of Life and Midnight in Paris. I can't bother with any of the other ones. I haven't seen half of them because either I couldn't get into them or am not interested in what's left (except for Hugo, which I'm hoping to be a good one).

@Veed, so you haven't seen 2/3 of the nominees but you think can judge the whole bunch of them ?

Im not judging, Im showing my dislike for this list for the fact that most of the films are uninspiring or fail to pull more interest on my part. Many of past lists were of movies that I wanted to watch, this list is comprised most of movies that fail to look interesting (I couldn't watch 2 of them and I honestly tried).

Im not judging movies I haven't seen, I'm saying the list is bad compared to others, because I'm looking back and drawing a comparison with what I feel had more quality in the bulk.

Some of these movies ive nevr seen therefore i have no clue how to judge them.........