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    Staff Oscar Predictions

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    FINAL STAFF PREDICTIONS – January 9, 2013

    RANK Motion Picture Clayton Joey Anna Michael Mark Terence John Joseph Robert TOTAL POINTS
    1 Lincoln 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 87
    2 Zero Dark Thirty 4 1 3 2 3 3 2 3 3 75
    3 Argo 2 3 5 3 2 4 3 1 2 74
    4 Les Miserables 3 4 4 4 4 1 4 4 5 66
    5 Silver Linings Playbook 5 5 2 5 5 5 6 5 4 57
    6 Life of Pi 6 6 7 6 6 6 5 6 6 45
    7 Django Unchained   8   7 7 8 7 8 7 25
    8 Beasts of the Southern Wild 7 7     8 7   7 8 22
    9 Moonrise Kingdom 8   6 8 9         13
    10 The Master 10 9             9 5
    10 Amour   10         8   10 5
    12 The Impossible     8             3
    12 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 9             10   3
    14 Skyfall               9   2
    15 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey                   0
    15 Promised Land                   0
    15 Cloud Atlas                   0
    15 Flight                   0
    RANK Best Director Clayton Joey Anna Michael Mark Terence John Joseph Robert TOTAL POINTS
    1 Steven Spielberg – Lincoln 1 3 1 2 1 3 1 3 1 38
    2 Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty 3 1 2 1 3 1 2 2 3 36
    3 Ben Affleck – Argo 2 2 3 3 2 2 5 1 2 32
    4 Ang Lee – Life of Pi 5 4 5 4 4 5 3 5 4 15
    5 Tom Hooper – Les Miserables 4         4   4   6
    6 David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook   5 4   5       5 5
    7 Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained       5     4     3
    8 Paul Thomas Anderson – The Master                   0
    8 Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild                   0
    8 Michael Haneke – Amour                   0
    8                     0
    RANK Best Actor Clayton Joey Anna Michael Mark Terence John Joseph Robert TOTAL POINTS
    1 Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 45
    2 Hugh Jackman – Les Miserables 3 2 2 2 2 2 4 2 4 31
    3 Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook 2 4 3 4 3 3   3 2 24
    4 John Hawkes – The Sessions   3 4 3 4 5 3     14
    5 Joaquin Phoenix – The Master 5 5       4 2 5 3 12
    6 Denzel Washington – Flight 4   5 5 5   5 4 5 9
    7 Richard Gere – Arbitrage                   0
    7 Anthony Hopkins – Hitchcock                   0
    7 Ben Affleck – Argo                   0
    7                     0
    RANK Best Actress Clayton Joey Anna Michael Mark Terence John Joseph Robert TOTAL POINTS
    1 Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 41
    2 Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 2 2 40
    3 Naomi Watts – The Impossible 4 3 3 5 3 5   3 3 19
    4 Emmanuelle Riva – Amour   5 5 4 5 3 3 5 5 13
    4 Marion Cotillard – Rust and Bone 3 4 4 3 4   5     13
    6 Quvenzhane Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild           4 4 4 4 8
    7 Helen Mirren – Hitchcock 5                 1
    8 Keira Knightley – Anna Karenina                   0
    8 Maggie Smith – Quartet                   0
    8                     0
    RANK Best Supporting Actor Clayton Joey Anna Michael Mark Terence John Joseph Robert TOTAL POINTS
    1 Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 44
    2 Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook 3 2 2 3 2 3 3 4 2 30
    3 Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master 2 3 3 2 3 2 4 2 4 29
    4 Alan Arkin – Argo 4 5 4   4 4   3 3 15
    5 Leonardo Di Caprio – Django Unchained   4   4   5 1 5 5 12
    6 Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained     5 5           2
    6 Javier Bardem – Skyfall         5   5     2
    8 Matthew McConaughey – Magic Mike 5                 1
    9 Russell Crowe – Les Miserables                   0
    9 Hal Holbrook – Promised Land                   0
    9 Eddie Redmayne – Les Miserables                   0
    9 Jason Clarke – Zero Dark Thirty                   0
    9 John Goodman – Flight                   0
    9                     0
    RANK Best Supporting Actress Clayton Joey Anna Michael Mark Terence John Joseph Robert TOTAL POINTS
    1 Anne Hathaway – Les Miserables 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 45
    2 Sally Field – Lincoln 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 36
    3 Helen Hunt – The Sessions 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 27
    4 Amy Adams – The Master     4 4 5 5 4   4 10
    4 Maggie Smith – Best Exotic Marigold… 4   5 5 4 4   4   10
    6 Ann Dowd – Compliance 5 4             5 4
    7 Judi Dench – Skyfall               5   1
    7 Jacki Weaver – Silver Linings Playbook   5               1
    7 Samantha Barks – Les Miserables             5     1
    10 Kerry Washington – Django Unchained                   0
    10 Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty                   0
    10 Nicole Kidman – The Paperboy                   0
    10                     0
    RANK Original Screenplay Clayton Joey Anna Michael Mark Terence John Joseph Robert TOTAL POINTS
    1 Zero Dark Thirty 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 45
    2 Moonrise Kingdom 2   2 3 2 3 4 4 5 23
    3 Amour   4 3   4 2 2 2 4 21
    4 Django Unchained   2 5 2 3 4 5 5 2 20
    5 The Master 3 3   5 5   3 3 3 17
    6 Looper 4 5 4 4   5       8
    7 The Intouchables 5                 1
    8 Promised Land                   0
    8 Flight                   0
    8 Arbitrage                   0
    8 End of Watch                   0
    8                     0
    RANK Adapted Screenplay Clayton Joey Anna Michael Mark Terence John Joseph Robert TOTAL POINTS
    1 Lincoln 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 45
    2 Argo 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 3 2 34
    3 Silver Linings Playbook 3 3 2 3 3 4 4 2 3 27
    4 Beasts of the Southern Wild 4 4 5 5 4 3 5 5 4 15
    5 Perks of Being a Wallflower 5 5 4 4   5       7
    6 Life of Pi         5   3 4   6
    7 The Sessions                 5 1
    8 Les Miserables                   0
    8 This is 40                   0
    8                     0
    RANK Animated Feature Clayton Joey Anna Michael Mark Terence John Joseph Robert TOTAL POINTS
    1 Wreck-It Ralph 2 1 1 1 2 2 5 1 3 36
    2 Frankenweenie 1 5 3 3 1 1 3 2 1 34
    3 Brave 3 2 2 2 3 3 1 3 2 33
    4 The Painting 4 3 5 4   4   5   11
    5 Rise of the Guardians   4     4   2   4 10
    6 ParaNorman 5     5 5 5 4 4 5 9
    7 From Up On Poppy Hill     4             2
    8 The Rabbi’s Cat                   0
    8                     0
    RANK Foreign Language Clayton Joey Anna Michael Mark Terence John Joseph Robert TOTAL POINTS
    1 Amour (Austria) 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 44
    2 The Intouchables (France) 1 2 2 2 2 2 5 2 3 33
    3 A Royal Affair (Denmark)   4 3 3 3 3   3 2 21
    4 No (Chile) 3     4 4 5 2   5 13
    5 Kon Tiki (Norway) 4 5     5   3 4   9
    6 Beyond the Hills (Romania)     4     4   5   5
    7 War Witch (Canada)   3               3
    7 Sister (Switzerland)       5         4 3
    9 The Deep (Iceland) 5                 1
    10                     0
    RANK Documentary Feature Clayton Joey Anna Michael Mark Terence John Joseph Robert TOTAL POINTS
    1 Searching for Sugar Man 1 1 2 1 2 4 1 2 1 39
    2 The Gatekeepers 4 2 1 3 1   2 1 2 32
    3 How to Survive a Plague 2 4   2 4 2 3 3 3 25
    4 Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the… 3 3 3     1 5     15
    5 The Invisible War     4 4 3 3   5 5 12
    6 Bully     5 5 5 5   4   6
    7 The Imposter   5             4 3
    7 Detropia 5           4     3
    9 West of Memphis                   0
    9 Al Wei Wei: Never Sorry                   0
    9 This is Not a Film                   0
    9 The House I Live In                   0
    9 Chasing Ice                   0
    9 The Waiting Room                   0
    9 Ethel                   0
    RANK Production Design Clayton Joey Anna Michael Mark Terence John Joseph Robert TOTAL POINTS
    1 Lincoln 1 1 2 3 1 3 2 1 1 39
    3 Anna Karenina 2 2 3 2 2 2 3 2 2 34
    2 Les Miserables 3 3 1 1 3 1 1 3 3 35
    4 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 5   4 4 4   4     9
    5 Life of Pi       5       4   3
    5 Skyfall   5     5 5       3
    8 The Master   4               2
    8 Zero Dark Thirty           4       2
    10 Django Unchained     5             1
    10 Prometheus               5   1
    5 Cloud Atlas 4           5     3
    12 Argo                   0
    12 Dark Knight Rises                   0
    12                     0
    RANK Cinematography Clayton Joey Anna Michael Mark Terence John Joseph Robert TOTAL POINTS
    1 Life of Pi 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 44
    2 Zero Dark Thirty 2 1 3 3 3 2 3 3 4 30
    3 Lincoln 5 4 4 5 2 4 2   3 19
    4 The Master 3     2 5 5 5 4 2 16
    5 Skyfall 4 3 5 4 4   4 5 5 14
    6 Les Mis     2         2   8
    7 Beasts of the Southern Wild           3       3
    8 Django Unchained   5               1
    9 Cloud Atlas                   0
    9 Anna Karenina                   0
    9 Argo                   0
    9                     0
    RANK Costume Design Clayton Joey Anna Michael Mark Terence John Joseph Robert TOTAL POINTS
    1 Anna Karenina 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 43
    2 Les Miserables 3 3 2 1 2 2 2 4 3 32
    3 Lincoln 2 2 3 2 3 3 3 2 4 30
    4 Mirror Mirror 4 5 4     5 4 3   11
    5 Snow White and The Huntsman 5       5   5   2 7
    6 A Royal Affair   4 5     4     5 6
    7 Django Unchained       5 4         3
    8 Cloud Atlas       4           2
    9 The Master               5   1
    10 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey                   0
    10 Argo                   0
    10                     0
    RANK Film Editing Clayton Joey Anna Michael Mark Terence John Joseph Robert TOTAL POINTS
    1 Zero Dark Thirty 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 43
    2 Argo 1 3 3 2 3 2 3 1 2 34
    3 Lincoln 3 2 2 5 2 4 2 3 3 28
    4 Les Miserables 4 4 4 3 4 3     5 15
    5 Life of Pi 5   5   5 5 4   4 8
    6 The Master       4       5   3
    7 Silver Linings Playbook               4   2
    8 The Dark Knight Rises   5