My predictions for the Academy Awards

The Academy of motion picture arts and sciences (Academy or Oscars as popularly known) is always unpredictable. I guess the main logic working in the background of Academy awards is the best one should win not the popular one. I remember I was rooting up for Russell Crowe to with the best actor award but Academy thought otherwise and gave it to Denzel Washington. No complains though, as Denzel is an exceptionally talented actor and one my favorites but I guess that year (2001) Russell’s performance in Beautiful Mind was well above as compare to the performance of Denzel in Training Day. Same thing happened last year when Academy gave all the important awards to The Hurt Locker where as I believe that Avatar should win some.

Oscars are just around the corner (27th Feb) so I thought to publish my predictions (for some of the main categories) along with what I think Academy will choose (based on the pattern I have noticed in the past years).

We have seen some very good movies last year and believe me the competition will be really tough.

So here goes the prediction list:

Best Picture:
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King’s Speech (Academy will pick)
127 Hours
The Social Network (My Pick)
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winters Bone

Actor in a leading role:
Javier Bardem
Jeff Bridges
Jesse Eisenberg
Colin Firth (My pick & Academy’s Pick)
James Franco

Actor in a supporting role:
Christian Bale (My pick)
John Hawkes
Jeremy Renner
Mark Ruffalo
Geoffrey Rush (Academy will pick)

Actress in a leading role:
Annette Bening
Nicole Kidman
Jennifer Lawrence
Natalie Portman (My pick & Academy’s Pick)
Michelle Williams

Actress in a supporting role:
Amy Adams
Helena Bonham Carter (Academy will pick)
Melissa Leo (My pick)
Hailee Steinfeld
Jacki Weaver

Animated Feature Film
Toy Story 3 (My pick & Academy’s Pick)
How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist

Directing:
Darren Aronofsky
David O. Russell
Tom Hooper (Academy will pick)
David Fincher (My pick)
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen


We will see on Sunday the 27th Feb how good are my intuitions and how good I am at judging academy in picking up the winners.