Remember when I called September “The Calm Before The Storm.” I was wrong. The calm dragged on. November and December. That’s when all the big and important movies are released. Expect a lot more 2012 Movie Reviews in these coming months. ‘The Master’ came out and stage dived onto the floor with nobody to catch it, and I think I’ll wait until it goes on DVD before I see it. As for ‘Argo’, I have two reasons to believe that it’s not going to be a serious Oscar Contender. One, it doesn’t look like the serious movie that usually becomes an Oscar Contender, and Two, it’s from the director of ‘The Town’. That movie was supposed to be a big Oscar Contender, but only got one nomination. Unless this movie is really really good, I think it will fall to the wayside.

Okay, so you know, these predictions are almost identical to my September ones. The only change I made was adding ‘Cloud Atlas’ to a few categories. Watch this trailer and weep.

BEST PICTURE

Anna Karenina
Cloud Atlas
The Dark Knight Rises
Django Unchained
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables
Life Of Pi
Lincoln
Moonrise Kingdom
Zero Dark Thirty

BEST DIRECTOR

Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master
Wes Anderson, Moonrise Kingdom
Tom Hooper, Les Miserables
Ang Lee, Life Of Pi
Peter Jackson, The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey

BEST ACTOR

Daniel Day Lewis, Lincoln
John Hawkes, The Surrogate
Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables
Bill Murray, Hyde Park On The Hudson
Denzel Washington, Flight

BEST ACTRESS

Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Kiera Knightley, Anna Karenina
Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games
Meryl Streep, Hope Springs

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Richard Armitage, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Russell Crowe, Les Miserables
Leonardo DiCaprio, Django Unchained
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lincoln

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Amy Adams, The Master
Amanda Bynes, Les Miserables
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Kristen Stewart, On The Road
Olivia Williams, Hyde Park On The Hudson

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Brave
Cloud Atlas
Django Unchained
Moonrise Kingdom
Zero Dark Thirty

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Anna Karenina
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables
Lincoln
On The Road

BEST FILM EDITING

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

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

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

BEST ART DIRECTION

Anna Karenina
Cloud Atlas
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables
Lincoln

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Anna Karenina
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Hunger Games
Les Miserables
The Master

BEST MAKEUP

Cloud Atlas
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

The Avengers
Cloud Atlas
The Dark Knight Rises
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Life Of Pi

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

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

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“???”, Anna Karenina
“???”, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
“???”, Hope Springs
“???”, Les Miserables
“??”, On The Road

BEST SOUND MIXING

Cloud Atlas
The Dark Knight Rises
Django Unchained
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Life Of Pi

BEST SOUND EDITING

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

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Brave
ParaNorman
Rise Of The Gaurdians