Inspired by/ reply to  Kyell livejournal picks. Plus being an aspiring film critic it wouldn't be propper of me to ignore one of the biggest film events of the year and I am also not going to let someone like Kyell out do me lol.

Have fun with the read, tell me your picks in the comments below!

And to encourage you to watch the awards show I'm gonna tell you a little drinking game for the Oscars inspired by  Blotch and the rules are simple!
1. drink everytime someone says "honor"
2. drink everytime someone cries
3. if your pick loses, take a drink
4. if your pick wins, pick someone to take a drink
5. find a place to crash! (you're gonna need it)

P.S. if this sounds clunky it's because i hashed it out between essays

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Out of the 9 movies nominated for Best Picture I have seen 8 of them and I don’t think I’ve ever been that close to seeing all the nominees before. And why shouldn’t I? It was a great year for movies and this year has a more interesting mix than Dwayne Johnson’s racial background. Though with Lincoln coming up as an obvious Academy favorite and Argo being surprisingly snubbed in most of the major categories I think instead of one single movie sweeping the awards away this is going to be a year for appeasement to everyone. That being said, here are my win/should/snuffed picks for the major categories.

Original Screenplay

Should win: Django Unchained, Tarantino just has a way with words and delivery that’s so enjoyable that it can make you forget that it usually has little to no relevance in the plot or characters.

Will win: Django Unchained, this brutal slave freeing movie has no chance at winning when it’s running up against the nice slave freeing movie (Lincoln), because movies put with politics has a leniency to want to forget past mistakes. Therefore this award will give Django its pat on the back while keeping their head up their ass.

Snuffed: ParaNorman, though a bit lacking in supportive character depth, this movie proves that even an animated movie can make a grown up think.

Adapted Screenplay

Should win: Life of Pi, I’d say that it’s a pretty close tie between Pi and Beasts of the Southern Wild since Wild had the difficult task of portraying such simple dialect in an enlightening way. Pi though won me over with its humor, beautiful translation and the ability to make me cry repeatedly with only three lines of dialogue.

Will win: Lincoln, for the Academy old English is the best English.

Snuffed: Cloud Atlas, it adapted an incredibly complex book into a comprehensive movie in its own unique way. Adapted screenplays are like cover songs, they should not be carbon copies but reflect the artist working on them and Cloud Atlas does it with quotable grace.

Best Animated Feature

Should win: ParaNorman, smart, funny and incredibly insightful, it’s the movie for inner monsters of all ages

Will win: Wreck-It Ralph, It’s safe, it’s no Pixar for once and they owe us for Scott Pilgrim.

Best Supporting Actor

Should win: Tommy Lee-Jones, Jones being as awesome as he could ever be with a cemented frown on his face. Unless you’re a racist bigot yourself, how can you not like this character?

Will win: Christoph Waltz, Though a very, very close race with Jones I feel the Academy wants to make up for having a Nazi win in the last Waltz/Tarantino collaboration.

Best Supporting Actress

Should win: Anne Hathaway, not even James Brown can have this much soul.

Will win: Anne Hathaway, she is everything that the Academy loves: A period prostitute with a heart of gold that cut her hair for the role and her biggest moment is a 4 and half minute sob fest.

Best Actor

Should win: Daniel Day-Lewis, did you know that Meryl Streep is actually Day-Lewis in drag?

Will win: Daniel Day-Lewis, have you seen how many awards Meryl Streep has taken?!

Best Actress

Should Win: Jessica Chastain, She was ignored by the Academy last year quietly brilliant performance in The Tree of Life and now she seems to have gone all out this year as the world’s most intense workaholic.

Will win: Jessica Chastain, while I can only say that I’ve watch only 3 out of the 5 nominees, I can also say that she’s a fresh face to the world and has paid her dues a lot longer than Jennifer Lawrence and 6-year-old Quvenzhane Wallis ever had (Be awesome if Wallis did win though).

Best Director

Should Win: Ang Lee, he not only created an outstanding piece of visual poetry, but a delivered a dramatic, clever, tense, spiritual, funny and lighthearted film that would’ve fallen apart in any other director’s hands. To him it seems that adapting a said impossible film to the big screen is as easy as Pi :D It’s also the first movie that I’ve seen since Avatar where the 3D actually had a narrative point to the movie, so kudos just for that.

Will win: Steven Spielberg, it’s a tight race with Lee, but Spielberg is an Academy favorite and is serving their favorite subject, talking.
Snuffed: Cloud Atlas, three directors working in perfect sync with each other, what could ever sum up the movie better? Also it would’ve been the first time a transgender has been nominated for the category.

Best Picture

Should win: Life of Pi, to me the Best Picture title should go to a movie that is daring, enlightening and entertaining all at once and Pi you could say takes the CAKE on that one (... no doesn’t work as well). What will drag it down is the lack of outstanding performances, aside from the CG tiger, and its heavy religious themes that the Academy usually strays away from. But this movie will probably go down into one of my all time favorites.

Will win: Argo, another tight race between Lincoln, Life of Pi, and plus this but I think a lot of the Academy are going to vote for Argo out of spite for it being excluded out of so many other categories. Plus it’s the biggest pat on the back that Hollywood could ever give themselves. Is it well done? Very much so. Is it deserving of the title? No, I cannot see it as being risky or deep enough to be remembered as anything special when the years pass.

Snuffed: Cloud Atlas (seriously WTFFFFFF), without a doubt the year’s most risky, complex and exciting feature. In a year that made the impossible possible, Cloud Atlas did the most with what it was given and deserved to be recognised for it.