Oscar nominations, part 2

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The nominees:
Anna Karenina
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall

How I did:
I thought Lincoln wasn't flashy enough to be nominated. I had Argo in its place.

Analysis of Category:

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

The nominees:
Anna Karenina
Les Miserables
Lincoln
Mirror Mirror
Show White and the Huntsman

How I did:
I though Lincoln wasn't flashy enough to be nominated. I had Django Unchained in its place.

Analysis of Category:

BEST FILM EDITING

The nominees:
Argo
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

How I did:
I thought Skyfall's technical excellence would continue here. I had Skyfall instead of Silver Linings Playbook

Analysis of Category:

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

The nominees:
Hitchcock
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables

How I did:
Here, I overestimated Lincoln's appeal. I had Lincoln instead of Hitchcock.

Analysis of Category:

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

The nominees:
Anna Karenina
Argo
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall

How I did:
I thought Skyfall would be seen as too derivative of other Bond scores, so I had Cloud Atlas instead, probably colored by the fact that's one of only two scores I bought this year (and the other, Haywire, had no chance).

Analysis of Category:

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

Do we have to discuss this one? Yikes. I got the two obvious nominees, and missed the others.

The nominees:
(Chasing Ice)
Suddenly (Les Miserables)
(Life of Pi)
Skyfall (Skyfall)
(Ted)

How I did:
The two shoo-ins were Suddenly and Skyfall. Besides them, I had predicted Learn Me Right (Brave), Abraham's Daughter (The Hunger Games0 and Ancora Qui (Django Unchained).

Analysis of Category:
The race is between the two shoo-ins. No one else has ever has a chance.

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Anna Karenina
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

How I did:
I thought Life of Pi would be perceived as mostly effects, and The Hobbit had that perception problem and that the first major set piece, the shire, is from another film. But if I was shying away from effects work, I probably shouldn't have then predicted Promethius, which I knew was a gamble. I was surprised my other prediction, Django Unchained, did not get in.

Analysis of category:

BEST SOUND EDITING

The nominees:
Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty

How I did:
Yikes. I got Django Unchained and Skyfall. My other three were The Avengers, Les Miserables, and Promethius.

Analysis of category:

BEST SOUND MIXING

The nominees:
Argo
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall

How I did:
Just as bad as Sound Mixing. I got Les Miserables and Skyfall. My other three were The Avengers, Django Unchained, and Promethius.

Analysis of category:

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

The nominees:
The Avengers
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Life of Pi
Promethius
Show White and the Huntsman

How I did:
I did not see Snow White as the fifth nominee, nor do I think it deserved it. I think Cloud Atlas deserved it, but I predicted The Dark Knight Rises.

Analysis of category:
The animals are not in the lifeboat, but sure look it. This should be an easy win for Life of Pi.

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

The nominees:
Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck It Ralph

How I did
I did not see The Pirates! in the running. I thought there would be one arthouse slot this year, and I had it occupied by The Painting.

Analysis of category:

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

The nominees:
5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a Plague
The Invisible War
Searching for Sugar Man

How I did:
I missed 5 Broken Cameras and The Invisible War. I had the wrong sex abuse scandal in Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, and the wrong issue entirely in The House I Live In.

Analysis of category:

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

The nominees:
Amour (Austria)
War Witch (Canada)
No (Chile)
A Royal Affair (Denmark)
Kon-Tiki (Switzerland)

How I did:
Outside of the directing category, the single biggest surprise omission for me was France's The Intouchables, which I thought had the sort of emotional appeal which tends to play well. I also took Sister, from Switzerland. Instead War Witch and Kon-Tiki were nominated.

Analysis of category:
It is hard to imagine Amour, up for picture, director, actress, and screenplay, losing to any of these films, when none of them are nominated in another category.
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