My Oscar'13 Picks; nominations are due tomorrow

BEST FILM

Argo 

Zero Dark Thirty

Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook 

Django Unchained 

6. Les Miserábles 

7. Life of Pi 

8. The Master 

9. Moonrise Kingdom 

10. Skyfall 

FYC (For Your Consideraion - probably won't be nominated but would deserve it nonetheless): Flight 

BEST DIRECTOR

Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty) 

Steven Spielberg (Lincoln) 

Ben Affleck (Argo) 

Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained) 

Ang Lee (Life of Pi) 

Alternative 1: Tom Hooper (Les Miserábles) 

Alternative 2: Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master) 

FYC: Juan Antonio Bayona (The Impossible) 

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Zero Dark Thirty 

Django Unchained 

The Master 

Moonrise Kingdom 

Flight 

Alternative 1: Amour 

Alternative 2: Looper 

FYC: Detachment 

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Argo 

Life of Pi 

Lincoln 

Silver Linings Playbook 

The Perks of Being a Wallflower 

Alternative 1: Beasts of the Southern Wild 

Alternative 2: Les Miserábles 

FYC: Skyfall 

BEST ACTOR

Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln) 

Joaquin Phoenix (The Master) 

John Hawks (The Sessions) 

Hugh Jackman (Les Miserábles) 

Denzel Washington (Flight) 

Alternative 1: Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook) 

Alternative 2: Joseph Gordon-Lewitt (Looper) 

FYC: Mathew McCounaghey (Killer Joe) 

BEST ACTRESS

Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook) 

Naomi Watts (The Impossible) 

Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty) 

Marion Cotillard (Rust and Bone) 

Quvenzhane Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild) 

Alternative 1: Emmanuelle Riva (Amour) 

Alternative 2: Keira Knightley (Anna Karenina) 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Anne Hathaway (Les Miserábles) 

Amy Adams (The Master) 

Helen Hunt (The Sessions) 

Sally Field (Lincoln) 

Nicole Kidman (The Paperboy) 

Alternative 1: Maggie Smith (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) 

Alternative 2: Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook) 

FYC: Kelly Reilly (Flight) 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTORS

Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master) 

Leonardo Di Caprio (Django Unchained) 

Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained) 

Tommy Lee Jones (Lincoln)
Alan Arkin (Argo) 

Alternative 1: Javier Bardem (Skyfall) 

Alternative 2: Mathew McCounaghey (Magic Mike) 

FYC: Ezra Miller (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) 

BEST FOREIGN FILM

Amour (Áustria)

The Intouchables (França) 

The Deep (Islândia) 

Kon-Tiki (Noruega) 

A Royal Affair (Dinamarca) 

Alternative 1: No (Chile) 

Alternative 2:Beyond the Hills (Roménia) 

BEST ANIMATED FILM

Brave 

Wreck-it-Ralph 

The Rise of the Guardians 

Frankenweenie 

Hotel Transylvania 

Alternative 1:The Painting 

Alternative 2:Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted 

BEST DOCUMENTARY

The Imposter 

Bully 

The Gatekeepers 

The Invisible War 

This is Not a Film 

Alternative 1: Searching for Sugar Man 

Alternative 2: Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Master (Mihai Malaimare Jr. ) 

Django Unchained (Robert Richardson) 

Zero Dark Thirty (Greig Fraser) 

Lincoln (Janusz Kaminski) Skyfall (Roger Deakins) 

Life of Pi (Claudio Miranda) 

Alternative 1: Les Miserábles (Danny Cohen) 

Alternative 2: Argo (Rodrigo Pietro) 

BEST ART DIRECTION

Django Unchained 

Lincoln 

Anna Karenina 

Life of Pi 

Les Miserábles 

Alternative 1: The Master 

Alternative 2: Moonrise Kingdom

FYC: Cloud Atlas 

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Django Unchained 

Lincoln 

Les Miserábles 

Anna Karenina 

Cloud Atlas 

Alternative 1: Moonrise Kingdom 

Alternative 2: Mirror Mirror 

FYC: The Master 

BEST HAIR AND MAKE-UP

Lincoln 

Les Miserábles 

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 

Alternative 1: Hitchcock 

Alternative 2: Looper 

FYC: Cloud Atlas 

BEST EDITING

Zero Dark Thirty 

Flight 

Lincoln 

Les Miserábles 

Argo 

Alternative 1: Skyfall 

Alternative 2: The Master 

FYC: The Impossible 

BEST SOUND EDITING

The Avengers 

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 

Skyfall 

Zero Dark Thirty 

The Dark Knight Rises 

Alternative 1: Les Miserábles 

Alternative 2: Life of Pi 

FYC: Killing Them Softly 

BEST SOUND MIXING

The Avengers 

Les Miserábles 

Skyfall 

Zero Dark Thirty 

The Dark Knight Rises 

Alternative 1: Life of Pi 

Alternative 2: Lincoln 

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

The Avengers 

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 

Life of Pi 

The Dark Knight Rises 

Battleship: LA 

Alternative 1: Cloud Atlas 

Alternative 2: Prometheus 

FYC: The Amazing Spiderman 

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

The Master 

Beasts of the Southern Wild 

Lincoln 

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 

Alternative 1: Life of Pi 

Alternative 2: Anna Karenina 

FYC: The Dark Knight Rises 

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

"Suddenly" (Les Miserábles) 

"Skyfall" (Skyfall) 

"Song of the Lonely Mountain" (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) 

"Learn Me Right" (Brave) 

"Who Did That to You?" (Django Unchained) 

Alternative 1: "Touch the Sky" (Brave) 

Alternative 2: "Everybody Needs a Best Friend" (Ted)