Alan's Oscar Nominee Predictions - 2013

Seth MacFarlane and Emma Stone will announce the Academy Award nominations Thursday a.m.  I have a 88.5% degree of accuracy for nomination predictions over the past five years  — here’s what’s gonna happen:

Best Picture

Amour

Argo

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Django Unchained

Les Miserables

Life of Pi

Lincoln

Moonrise Kingdom

Silver Lining Playbook

Zero Dark Thirty

Spoilers: Skyfall, The Impossible, Flight

Best Director

Ben Affleck, Argo

Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty

Ang Lee, Life of Pi

David O. Russell Silver Linings Playbook

Steven Spielberg, Lincoln

Spoilers: Michael Haneke Amour. Tom Hooper, Les Miserables, Paul Thomas Anderson The Master

Best Actor

Bradley Cooper, The Silver Linings Playbook

Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln

John Hawkes, The Sessions

Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables

Denzel Washington, Flight

Spoilers: Joaquin Phoenix, The Master, Jean-Louis Trintignant Amour

Best Actress

Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty

Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone

Jennifer Lawrence, The Silver Linings Playbook

Emmanueller Riva, Amour

Naomi Watts The Impossible

Spoilers,: Quvenzhane Walllis, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Helen Mirren Hitchcock

Best Supporting Actor

Alan Arkin, Argo

Javier Bardem, Skyfall

Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln

Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master

Robert DeNiro, The Silver Linings Playbook

Spoilers: Christoph Waltz Django Unchained, Leonardo DiCaprio Django Unchained, Dwight Henry Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Adams The Master

Sally Field, Lincoln

Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables

Helen Hunt, The Sessions

Maggie Smith, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Spoilers: Ann Dowd Compliance, Nicole Kidman The Paperboy, Samantha Barks Les Miserables, Jacki Weaver Silver Linings Playbook

 Best Original Screenplay

Amour

Looper

Moonrise Kingdom

The Master

Zero Dark Thirty

Spoilers: Django Unchained, The Master, Flight

Best Adapted Screenplay

Argo

Lincoln

Life of Pi

Perks of Being a Wallflower

Silver Linings Playbook

Spoilers: Beast of Southern Wild

Cinematography

Life of Pi

Lincoln

Les Miserables

The Master

Skyfall

Costume

Anna Karenina

Cloud Atlas

Django Unchained

Lincoln

Les Miserables

Score

Anna Karenina

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Life of Pi

Lincoln

The Master

Song

Freedom, Django

Learn Her Right, Brave   

Skyfall, Skyfall

Suddenly, Les Miserables

Best Foreign Film

Austria, Amour

Denmark, A Royal Affair

France, The Intouchables

Chile No,

Norway, Kon-Tiki

 Spoilers: Switzerland, Sister, Canada War Witch, Iceland The Deep

Best Animated

Brave

Frankenweenie

ParaNorman

The Painting

Wreck It Ralph

 Spoilers: From Up On Poppy Hill, Zarafa