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Film Feature: Predictions For the 84th Annual Academy Award Nominations
THE REST OF THE NOMINEES
For the record, “The Artist” and “Hugo” will lead the way with ten nominations a piece, followed by “The Help” with seven, and “The Descendants” & “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” with five each. “Drive” and “Warrior” get one and “Melancholia” gets none. Sigh.
BEST ART DIRECTION
“The Artist” — Laurence Bennett
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2” — Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan
“Hugo” — Dante Ferretti, Dorothee Baussan, Francesca Lo Schiavo
“Jane Eyre” — Will Hughes-Jones, Tina Jones
“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” — Maria Djurjovic
Alternate: “The Tree of Life”
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
“The Artist” — Guillame Schiffman
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” — Jeff Cronenweth
“Hugo” — Robert Richardson
“The Tree of Life” — Emmanuel Lubezki
“War Horse” — Janusz Kaminski
Alternate: “Midnight in Paris”
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
“The Artist” — Mark Bridges
“The Help” — Sharen Davis
“Hugo” — Sandy Powell
“Jane Eyre” — Michael O’Connor
“My Week With Marilyn” — Jill Taylor
Alternate: “War Horse”
BEST EDITING
“The Artist” — Anne-Sophie Bion
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” — Kirk Bazter & Angus Wall
“Hugo” — Thelma Schoonmaker
“Midnight in Paris” — Alisa Lepstelter
“War Horse” — Michael Kahn
Alternate: “Moneyball”
BEST MAKEUP
“Albert Nobbs”
“Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life”
“The Iron Lady”
Alternate: “Hugo”
BEST SCORE
“The Adventures of Tintin” — John Williams
“The Artist” — Ludovic Bource
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” — Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
“Hugo” — Howard Shore
“War Horse” — John Williams
Alternate: “The Help”
BEST SONG
“Albert Nobbs” — “Lay Your Head Down”
“Captain America: The First Avenger” — “Star Spangled Man”
“The Help” — “The Living Proof”
“The Muppets” — “Life’s a Happy Song”
“The Muppets” — “Pictures in My Head”
Alternate: I could have one of the Muppet songs wrong (they’re only allowed two) and “Hello Hello” from “Gnomeo and Juliet” could sneak in.
BEST SOUND EDITING
“Hugo”
“Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol”
“Rise of the Planet of the Apes”
“Super 8”
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
Alternate: “The Adventures of Tintin”
BEST SOUND MIXING
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2”
“Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol”
“Super 8”
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
“War Horse”
Alternate: “The Adventures of Tintin”
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2”
“Hugo”
“Rise of the Planet of the Apes”
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
“The Tree of Life”
Alternate: “Captain America: The First Avenger”
BEST ANIMATED FILM
“The Adventures of Tintin”
“Cars 2”
“Kung Fu Panda 2”
“Puss in Boots”
“Rango”
Alternate: “Rio”
BEST DOCUMENTARY
“Buck”
“Hell and Back Again”
“Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory”
“Project Nim”
“We Were Here”
Alternate: “Pina”
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
“Footnote”
“In Darkness”
“Monsieur Lazhar”
“Pina”
“A Separation”
Alternate: “Bullhead”
By BRIAN TALLERICO |