Es ist wieder Goldmännerzeit. Wer Lust hat, mit zu raten, kann das auf der offiziellen Oscarseite tun. Hier meine Vorhersagen (die sich in den vergangenen Jahren als nicht allzu treffsicher erwiesen haben), während der Verleihung dann laufend um die Fakten (Spalte „hat“) ergänzt:
| Kategorie: | sollte: | dürfte: | hat: |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Picture | Amour | Argo | Argo |
| Actress | Emmanuelle Riva | Jennifer Lawrence | Jennifer Lawrence |
| Actor | Daniel Day-Lewis | Daniel Day-Lewis | Daniel Day-Lewis |
| Supporting Actress | Helen Hunt | Anne Hathaway | Anne Hathaway |
| Supporting Actor | Tommy Lee Jones | Tommy Lee Jones | Christoph Waltz |
| Director | Michael Haneke | Steven Spielberg | Ang Lee (Life of Pi) |
| Animated Feature | Wreck It Ralph | Wreck It Ralph | Brave |
| Original Screenplay | Amour (Michael Haneke) | Amour (Michael Haneke) | Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino) |
| Adapted Screenplay | Life of Pi (David Magee) | Lincoln (Tony Kushner) | Argo (Chris Terrio) |
| Art Direction | Anna Karenina (Production Design: Sarah Greenwood. Set Decoration: Katie Spencer) | Les Misérables (Production Design: Eve Stewart. Set Decoration: Anna Lynch-Robinson) | Lincoln (Rick Carter, Jim Erickson) |
| Cinematography | Life of Pi (Claudio Miranda) | Life of Pi (Claudio Miranda) | Life of Pi |
| Costume Design | Anna Karenina (Jacqueline Durran) | Les Misérables (Paco Delgado) | Anna Karenina |
| Documentary (Feature) | Searching for Sugar Man (Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn) | The Invisible War (Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering) | Searching for Sugarman |
| Documentary (Short) | Open Heart (Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern) | Open Heart (Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern) | Inocente |
| Film Editing | Life of Pi (Tim Squyres) | Zero Dark Thirty (Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg) | Argo (William Goldenberg) |
| Foreign-language Film | Amour | Amour | Amour |
| Makeup | Hitchcock (Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel) | Les Misérables (Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell) | Les Misérables |
| Music (Original Score) | Argo (Alexandre Desplat) | Argo (Alexandre Desplat) | Life of Pi (Mychael Danna) |
| Music (Original Song) | Skyfall (Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth) | Skyfall (Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth) | Skyfall |
| Short Film (Animated) | Adam and Dog (Minkyu Lee) | Head over Heels (Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly) | Paperman (John Kahrs) |
| Short Film (Live Action) | Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw) (Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele) | Curfew (Shawn Christensen) | Curfew |
| Sound Editing | Django Unchained (Wylie Stateman) | Zero Dark Thirty (Paul N.J. Ottosson) | Zero Dark Thirty & Skyfall |
| Sound Mixing | Life of Pi (Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin) | Les Misérables (Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes) | Les Misérables |
| Visual Effects | Life of Pi (Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott) | Life of Pi (Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott) | Life of Pi |
Ach ja, die Oscar-Verleihung beginnt um 01.30 Uhr Morgens Mitteleuropäische Zeit am Montag, 25. Februar. Und sie dauert wohl wieder mindestens drei Stunden. Slate hat die Längen der letzten Jahre zusammengestellt:
