Spielberg spearheads jury of Cannes'13

President of the Jury

Quentin, Waltz, Affleck&Terrio, DDL, Jennifer

Academy Awards: my picks for Sunday [RESULTS]

16/24 and 18/24 with alternatives. Didn't see Life of Pi coming.

BEST FILM

Argo 

Alternative: Lincoln

BEST DIRECTOR

Steven Spielberg (Lincoln) 

Alternative: Michael Haneke (Amour)
Ang Lee (Life of Pi)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)

Alternative: Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Chris Terrio (Argo)

Alternative: Tony Kushner (Lincoln)

BEST ACTOR

Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln) 

Alternative: Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook)

BEST ACTRESS

Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook) 

Alternative: Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Anne Hathaway (Les Miserábles) 

Alternative: Amy Adams (The Master)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTORS

Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained) 

Alternative: Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)

BEST FOREIGN FILM

Amour (Austria)

Alternative: Kon-Tiki (Norway)

BEST ANIMATED FILM

Wreck-it-Ralph 

Alternative: Frankenweenie
Brave

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Searching for Sugar Man 

Alternative: The Gatekeepers

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Lincoln (Janusz Kaminski)

Alternative: Skyfall (Roger Deakins)
Life of Pi (Claudio Miranda)

BEST ART DIRECTION

Lincoln 

Alternative: Les Miserábles

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Lincoln

Alternative: Anna Karenina

BEST HAIR AND MAKE-UP

Les Miserábles 

Alternative: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

BEST EDITING

Argo

Alternative: Zero Dark Thirty

BEST SOUND EDITING

Zero Dark Thirty 

Alternative: Skyfall
[it's a tie: both movies won the Oscar]

BEST SOUND MIXING

Les Miserábles 

Alternative: Skyfall

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

The Avengers 

Alternative: Life of Pi

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Lincoln 

Alternative: Skyfall
Life of Pi

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

"Skyfall" (Skyfall) 

Alternative: "Suddenly" (Les Miserábles)

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

Asad

Alternative: Death of a Shadow
Curfew

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Paperman

Alternative: Heads Over Heels

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM

Open Hearts

Alternative: Kings Point
Inocente

Argo fuck yourself, Academy

Having missed the nomination for Best Director by the Academy might have been the best thing to ever happen to Ben Affleck and his Argo. Since 1948, only six times didn't the Oscar winner match the DGA's victor. Steven Spielberg for The Color Purple (1985) and Ron Howard for Appolo 13 (1995), like Ben, didn't even get a nomination. The others were Anthony Harvey with A Lion in the Winter (1968), Francis Ford Coppola with The Godfather (1972), Ang Lee with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Rob Marshall with Chicago (2002).

The other winners here.