Do The Hustle aka The MS Maven Oscar Nomination Predix Extravaganza 2013

To paraphrase Screenwriter William Goldman, nobody knows anything, especially when it comes to Oscars. And I have to admit I miss the days when social media didn't exist and you guessed the how Academy voters would go. Now it's constant bombardment, which is just overkill. Put this way: I've probably seen more Oscar-bait than the voting academy.

Here are some basics before my predix:

1--Cate Blanchett is a lock to win Best Actress. Anything else is unacceptable.

2--Jared Leto is a lock to win Best Supporting Actor.

3--This Oscar Season is a tad longer than usual. Thank the Olympics for that one. Will be interesting to see the trends as a result.

4--Actor is the toughest category of the lot in terms of noms  and the winner I've seen in years; it's usually Actress that is loaded. For the fifth spot, I'm hoping Christian Bale, predicting Joaquin Phoenix, but will probably be Leo.

5--The surprise I predict is that Bruce Dern is not nominated and that Sally Hawkins is.

6--David O. Russell better get some Academy love come March 2nd.

7--Editor Thelma Schoonmaker deserves a Purple Heart for Wolf.

8--Gravity is still the most overrated film of the year...

9--...and Prisoners is the most underrated.

10--I don't know shit, either, despite now having seen most the possible nominees...



Enough w/ the preamble. On with the show:

Best Picture
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Gravity
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
The Wolf of Wall Street
Nebraska
Her
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Saving Mr. Banks
Philomena

Best Director
Steve McQueen
David O. Russell
Alfonso Cauron
Paul Greengrass
Spike Jonze
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Martin Scorsese
Alexander Payne
Joel and Ethan Coen

Best Actor
Chiwetel Ejofor
Matthew McConaughey
Tom Hanks
Bruce Dern
Joaquin Phoenix (hey, he finally smiles!)
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Christian Bale
Leonardo DiCaprio
Robert Redford

Best Actress
Cate Blanchett
Sandra Bullock
Emma Thompson
Judi Dench
Amy Adams
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Meryl Streep
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Greta Gerwig

Best Supporting Actor
Jared Leto
Michael Fassbender
Barkhad Abdi
Bradley Cooper
Daniel Bruhl
---
James Gandolfini
Jonah Hill
Tom Hanks

Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Lawrence
Lupita Nyong'o
June Squibb
Julia Roberts
Sally Hawkins
---
Oprah Winfrey
Octavia Spencer
Sarah Paulson

Best Original Screenplay
American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
Her
Nebraska
Dallas Buyers Club
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Inside Llewyn Davis
Enough Said
Saving Mr. Banks

Best Adapted Screenplay
12 Years a Slave
Before Midnight
Captain Phillips
The Wolf of Wall Street
August: Osage County
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Philomena
Lone Survivor
The Great Gatsby

Best Cinematography
Gravity
12 Years a Slave
Captain Phillips
Inside Llewyn Davis
Prisoners
---
Nebraska
Rush
Her

Best Editing
Gravity
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
The Wolf of Wall Street
---
Rush
Dallas Buyers Club
World War Z

Best Production Design
The Great Gatsby
American Hustle
12 Years a Slave
Gravity
The Hobbit
---
Her
Saving Mr. Banks
Oz The Great and Powerful

Best Costume Design
American Hustle
The Great Gatsby
12 Years a Slave
The Invisible Woman
Oz the Great and Powerful
---
Saving Mr. Banks
The Hunger Games
The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Sound Editing
Gravity
Captain Phillips
Rush
All is Lost
12 Years a Slave
---
World War Z
Pacific Rim
Her

Best Sound Mixing
Gravity
All is Lost
Rush
Captain Phillips
Inside Llewyn Davis
---
12 Years a Slave
Frozen
Her

Best Visual Effects
Gravity
Pacific Rim
Elysium
---
The Hobbit
World War Z

Best Makeup
American Hustle
Dallas Buyers Club
Bad Grandpa
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The Great Gatsby

Nominations

 

12 Years a Slave          10

Gravity                            9

American Hustle             8

Captain Phillips               7

Nebraska                        5

Dallas Buyers Club         4

The Wolf of Wall Street  4

Philomena                      3

Her                                 3

 

My work is done here and 8:37am comes pretty early. The Maven will snap-to then. Happy Oscar!