Oscar Predictions Articles

Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, The Help Barring a miracle, the 2012 Best Supporting Actress will go to Octavia Spencer in Tate Taylor’s The Help. Spencer has won several critics’ awards, was the SAG Award winner (and came up with an "inspirational" speech, that’s always a major plus), and took home a Golden Globe as well. Now, if instead of Spencer’s The Help co-star Viola Davis [...]

Jean Dujardin as George Valentin, The Artist In the Oscar 2012 Best Actor category, Gary Oldman, Demián Bichir, and Brad Pitt are dark horses for, respectively, their performances in Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Chris Weitz’s A Better Life, and Bennett Miller’s Moneyball. That leaves George Clooney, who plays a befuddled father in Alexander Payne’s The Descendants, and Jean Dujardin, who plays a mix [...]

Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady The 2012 Best Actress Oscar will go to one of two nominees: Meryl Streep, for her portrayal of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in Phyllida Lloyd’s The Iron Lady, or Viola Davis, for her portrayal of a dignified nanny in Tate Taylor’s comedy-drama The Help. We’ve narrowed the race down to Streep and Davis not because their performances are [...]

Asa Butterfield, Jude Law in Martin Scorsese’s Hugo Oscar Predictions: Best Picture THE ARTIST In early 1996, the Best Picture win of Mel Gibson’s Braveheart wasn’t a surprise, as the Producers Guild/Directors Guild award winner Apollo 13 had failed to be shortlisted in the Academy Awards’ Best Director category. In fact, Ron Howard’s DGA win — much like Steven Spielberg’s for The Color Purple a [...]