FINAL Oscar Nomination Predictions

This year's Oscar nominations come earlier then ever, early Thursday morning. So, for anyone participating in any pools, here's what I see getting announced. I will have to admit that I'm more hopeful for The Master and Beasts of the Southern Wild than most people, so take that with a grain of salt:

Best Actor
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
John Hawkes, The Sessions
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Denzel Washington, Flight

Best Actress
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts, The Impossible

Best Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin, Argo
Robert DeNiro, Silver Linings Playbook
Leonardo DiCaprio, Django Unchained
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln

Best Supporting Actor
Amy Adams, The Master
Ann Dowd, Compliance
Sally Field, Lincoln
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Helen Hunt, The Sessions

Best Director
Ben Affleck, Argo
Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
Tom Hooper, Les Miserables
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln

Best Original Screenplay
Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master
Wes Anderson, Moonrise Kingdom
Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty
Michael Haneke, Amour
Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained

Best Adapted Screenplay
Lucy Alibar & Behn Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Tony Kushner, Lincoln
Ben Lewin, The Sessions
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Chris Terrio, Argo

Best Picture
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

The tech awards and everything else after the jump.


Best Cinematography
Roger Deakins, Skyfall
Greig Fraser, Zero Dark Thirty
Janusz Kaminski, Lincoln
Mihai Malamaire Jr., The Master
Claudio Miranda, Life of Pi

Best Editing
Stuart Baird, Skyfall
Chris Dickens, Les Miserables
William Goldenberg, Argo
Michael Kahn, Lincoln
Dylan Tichenor & William Goldenberg, Zero Dark Thirty

Best Original Score
Mychael Danna, Life of Pi
Alexandre Desplat, Argo
Reinhold Heil & Johnny Klimek, Cloud Atlas
Dario Marianelli, Anna Karenina
John Williams, Lincoln

Best Costume Design
Coleen Atwood, Snow White and the Huntsmen
Paco Delgado, Les Miserables
Jacqueline Durran, Anna Karenina
Joanna Johnston, Lincoln
Jacqueline West, Argo

Best Animated Feature
Brave
Frankenweenie
Le Tableu
Para-Norman
Wreck-It-Ralph

Best Art Direction
Rick Carter, Lincoln
Sarah Greenwood, Anna Karenina
David Gropman, Life of Pi
J. Michael Riva, Django Unchained
Eve Stewart, Les Miserables

Best Visual Effects
The Avengers
Cloud Atlas
The Hobbit
Life of Pi
Prometheus

Best Make-Up
The Hobbit
Les Miserables
Lincoln

Best Sound Mixing
The Avengers
Argo
Les Miserables
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Sound Editing
The Avengers
The Dark Knight Rises
Looper 
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Original Song
"Skyfall" from Skyfall
"Still Alive" from Paul Williams is Still Alive
"Suddenly" from Les Miserables
"Touch the Sky" from Brave

Best Foreign Language Feature
Amour (Austria)
Beyond the Hills (Romania)
The Intouchables (France)
No (Chile)
A Royal Affair (Denmark)

Best Documentary Feature
Chasing Ice
The Gatekeepers
How To Survive a Plague
The Invisible War
Searching for Sugarman

Lastly, as for the shorts, your guess is as good as mine. Good luck!