Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Best Picture
01. Berberian Sound Studio
02. Holy Motors
03. Amour
04. The Master
05. Beasts of the Southern Wild
06. Skyfall
07. Compliance
08. Django Unchained
09. Looper
10. The Cabin in the Woods

Best Actor
01. Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
02. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Amour
03. Toby Jones, Berberian Sound Studio
04. Denis Lavant, Holy Motors
05. Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln

06. Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook

Best Actress
01. Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
02. Rachel Weisz, The Deep Blue Sea
03. Greta Gerwig, Damsels in Distress
04. Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
05. Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild

06. Marion Cotillard, Rust & Bone

Best Supporting Actor
01. Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
02. Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
03. Samuel L. Jackson, Django Unchained
04. Dwight Henry, Beasts of the Southern Wild
05. Simon Russell Beale, The Deep Blue Sea

06. James Spader, Lincoln

Best Supporting Actress
01. Ann Dowd, Compliance
02. Amy Adams, The Master
03. Helen Hunt, The Sessions
04. Judi Dench, Skyfall
05. Emily Blunt, Looper

06. Jennifer Ehle, Zero Dark Thirty

Best Director
01. Michael Haneke, Amour
02. Peter Strickland, Berberian Sound Studio
03. Leos Carax, Holy Motors
04. Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master
05. Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild

06. Craig Zobel, Compliance

All that, and only one nomination for Maggie Smith?

2012

Best Picture
Amour
Argo
*Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln

Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Hugh Jackman, Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
*Jean-Louis Trintignant, Amour
Denzel Washington, Flight

Best Actress
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Marion Cottilard, Rust and Bone
Judi Dench, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
*Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Naomi Watts, The Impossible

Best Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin, Argo
Javier Bardem, Skyfall
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
*Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Eddie Redmayne, Les Misérables

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, The Master
Sally Field, Lincoln
*Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Maggie Smith, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Best Director
Ben Affleck, Argo
*Michael Haneke, Amour
Tom Hooper, Les Misérables
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln

OscarGuy wrote:Was that the title when released in Pakistan, Reza?

Nope. Lol. My mistake. Thanks Phillip.

Was that the title when released in Pakistan, Reza?

Reza wrote:Best Actress
Michelle Williams, After the Waltz

It's Take this Waltz.

Even if I wanted to I could not come up with a list of ten films.

2012
Best Picture
*Amour
Life of Pi
Lincoln
The Master
Skyfall

Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
John Hawkes, The Sessions
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
*Jean-Louis Trintignant, Amour
Denzel Washington, Flight

Best Actress
Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone
Helen Mirren, Hitchcock
*Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Rachel Weisz, The Deep Blue Sea
Michelle Williams, Take this Waltz

Best Supporting Actor
Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
*Samuel L. Jackson, Django Unchained
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained

Best Supporting Actress
*Judi Dench, Skyfall
Rosemarie DeWitt, Your Sister's Sister
Sally Field, Lincoln
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Nicole Kidman, The Paperboy

Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master
*Michael Haneke, Amour
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild

I'm a long way from having a list I'm remotely happy with but Precious Doll, I love your placement of Moon Bloodgood, who will make my final list for sure with her lovely performance. It's currently Trintignant and Riva heading the list for me with Hawkes and Hunt as very honourable runners-up, but I love all four performances enough to understand your dilemma.

I'm still tinkering with mine. There are several films I want to see over again before coming to a final decision. At this point waiting for the DVDs to come out is my best option. Flight releases here next Tuesday (2/5); Skyfall and The Sessions the following week (2/12) along with two I haven't seen - The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Kid With a Bike. Argo and Anna Karenina are out 2/19. The only other one I really need to re-visit is The Master which doesn't release here until two days after the Oscars (2/26).

Life of Pi and Hitchcock have a release date of 3/12 and Zero Dark Thirty streets on 3/19 . Lincoln; Les Misérables; Rust and Bone; Amour; Silver Linings Playbook; The Impossible and The Intouchables(the latter two which I haven't seen) do not have release dates yet. Rust and Bone has a Region 2 (UK) release date of 2/25 and Amour a Region 2 (UUK) release date of 3/18.

It's never too early to start this thread.

I have a slight problem this year in that I am very divided on my best actor and best actress choice. As a result I'm splitting those particular awards. It's 9 months since I have seen Amour and 6 months since The Sessions and with both of them due out on Blu Ray in March I intend to watch them back to back and make a final choice on the best lead actor/actress. So for now here is goes...

Best Film

1.Amour
2. The Sessions
3. Holy Motors
4. Paradise: Love
5. Dead Europe

Best Director

1. Michael Haneke for Amour
2. Ben Lewin for The Sessions
3. Leos Carax for Holy Motors
4. Ulrich Seidl for Paradise: Love
5. Tony Krawitz for Dead Europe

Best Actor

1. John Hawkes for The Sessions
= Jean-Louis Trintignant for Amour
3.Ewen Leslie for Dead Europe
4. Denis Levant for Holy Motors
5. Jeremie Renier for Cloclo

Best Actress

1. Helen Hunt for The Sessions
= Emmanuelle Riva for Amour
3. Margarete Tiesel for Paradise: Love
4. Debra Mailman for The Sapphires
5. AnnaLynne McCord for Excision

Best Supporting Actor

1. Ben Mendelsohn for Killing Them Softly
2. Samuel L Jackson for Django Unchained
3. Leonardo DiCaprio for Django Unchained
4. Ray Liotta for Killing Them Softly
5. William H Macy for The Sessions

Best Supporting Actress

1. Traci Lords for Excision
2. Ann Dowd for Compliance
3. Ivy Makk for Careless Love
4. Moon Bloodgood for The Sessions
5. Robin Weigert for The Sessions