Well, Every month, I plan on updating my oscar predictions. This month, ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ seems to be turning into a contender. I’ve omitted ‘Dark Shadows’ from Art Direction and Costume Design, due to low box office and critical reception. I’m also removing certain blockbusters like ‘Hunger Games’ and ‘The Avengers’ from certain categories, but added ‘Prometheus’ and ‘Snow White & The Huntsman’ to others. As for the category of animated feature, I’ve added ‘Wreck It Ralph’, based on that impressive trailer. ‘Madagascar 3’ looks great, but none of the other Madagascar films got a nom, so why should this be any different. Anyway, here are my updated predictions.

BEST PICTURE

Brave
The Dark Knight Rises
Django Unchained
Gravity
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables
Life Of Pi
Lincoln
The Master
The Surrogate

BEST DIRECTOR

Tom Hooper, Les Miserables 
Ang Lee, Life Of Pi
Peter Jackson, The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained 

BEST ACTOR

Daniel Day Lewis, Lincoln
Jamie Foxx, Django Unchained
John Hawkes, The Master
Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables
Bill Murray, Hyde Park On The Hudson 

BEST ACTRESS

Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Keira Knightley, Anna Karenina
Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games
Carey Mulligan, The Great Gadspy
Meryl Streep, Hope Springs

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Richard Armitage, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Russell Crowe, Les Miserables
Leonardo DiCaprio, Django Unchained
William H. Macy, The Surrogate
Edward Norton, Moonrise Kingdom 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Amy Adams, The Master
Samantha Banks, Les Miserables
Anne Hathaway, The Dark Knight Rises
Kristen Stewart, On The Road
Olivia Williams, Hyde Park On The Hudson

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Brave
Django Unchained
Gravity
Moonrise Kingdom
Zero Dark Thirty

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

The Great Gadspy
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables
Life Of Pi
Lincoln

BEST FILM EDITING

The Dark Knight Rises
Gravity
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables
Life Of Pi

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Dark Knight Rises
Gravity
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty

BEST ART DIRECTION

The Dark Knight Rises
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables
Lincoln
Prometheus

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Anna Karenina
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Hunger Games
Les Miserables
Snow White & The Huntsman

BEST MAKEUP

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables
Snow White And The Huntsman

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

The Amazing Spider Man
The Avengers
The Dark Knight Rises
Gravity
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Brave
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables
Life Of Pi
Moonrise Kingdom

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“???”, Brave
“???”, Frankenweenie
“???”, Hope Springs
“???”, Les Miserables
“???”, Moonrise Kingdom

BEST SOUND MIXING

Brave
The Dark Knight
Django Unchained
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Prometheus

BEST SOUND EDITING

The Avengers
Brave
The Dark Knight Rises
The Hunger Games
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Brave
Rise Of The Gaurdians
Wreck-It Ralph

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By the way, I plan on seeing ‘Madagascar 3’ very soon. As for ‘Snow White And The Huntsman’, on one side you’ve got the bad reviews. On the other side, you’ve got that AWESOME TRAILER. And as I haven’t seen the other Aliens movies, I have no intrest in seeing ‘Prometheus’. Well, peace out!