Critic’s Oscar Predictions

 

Best Picture

  • Amour
  • Argo *
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild
  • Django Unchained
  • Les Miserables
  • Life of Pi
  • Lincoln
  • Silver Linings Playbook
  • Zero Dark Thirty

Directing

  • Michael Haneke – Amour *
  • Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild
  • Ang Lee – Life of Pi
  • Steven Spielberg – Lincoln
  • David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook

Actor in a Leading Role

  • Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
  • Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln *
  • Hugh Jackman – Les Miserables
  • Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
  • Denzel Washington – Flight

Actress in a Leading Role

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

Actor in a Supporting Role

  • Alan Arkin – Argo
  • Robert De Nero – Silver Linings Playbook
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
  • Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln
  • Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained *

Actress in a Supporting Role

  • Amy Adams – The Master
  • Sally Field – Lincoln
  • Anne Hathaway – Les Miserables *
  • Helen Hunt – The Sessions
  • Jacki Weaver – Silver Linings Playbook

For the complete list of Oscar nominees visit Oscar.go.com/nominees. The Oscars air live on Feb. 24th at 7 p.m. EST on ABC.