Oscars 2010: Predictions

Here’s our list of predictions for this year’s Academy Award nominations. The ceremony will take place on Sunday March 7, at the Kodak Theatre (where else).

italics – News Hour pick

bold – winner

Best Picture
Avatar

The Blind Side 

District 9

An Education

The Hurt Locker

Inglourious Basterds

Precious

A Serious Man

Up

Up In The Air

Best Actor
Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)

George Clooney (Up In The Air)

Colin Firth (A Single Man)

Morgan Freeman (Invictus)

Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)

Best Actress
Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)

Helen Mirren (The Last Station)

Carey Mulligan (An Education)

Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)

Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia)

Best Supporting Actor
Matt Damon (Invictus)

Woody Harrelson (The Messenger)

Christopher Plummer (The Last Station)

Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones)

Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)

Best Supporting Actress
Penelope Cruz (Nine)

Vera Farmiga (Up In The Air)

Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart)

Anna Kendrick (Up In The Air)

Mo’Nique (Precious)

Best Animated Feature Film
Coraline

Fantastic Mr Fox

The Princess and the Frog

The Secret of Kells

Up

Best Director
James Cameron (Avatar)

Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)

Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)

Lee Daniels (Precious)

Jason Reitman (Up In The Air)

Best Art Direction
Avatar

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Nine 

Sherlock Holmes

The Young Victoria

Best Cinematography
Avatar

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

The Hurt Locker

Inglourious Basterds

The White Ribbon

Best Costume Design
Bright Star

Coco Before Chanel 

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Nine

The Young Victoria

Best Documentary Feature
Burma VJ

The Cove

Food Inc

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

Which Way Home

Best Film Editing
Avatar

District 9

The Hurt Locker

Inglourious Basterds

Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire

Best Foreign Language Film
Ajami (Israel)

El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Argentina)

The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)

Un Prophete (France)

The White Ribbon (Germany)

Best Make-Up
Il Divo

Star Trek

The Young Victoria

Best Music (Original Score)
Avatar

Fantastic Mr Fox

The Hurt Locker

Sherlock Holmes

Up

Best Visual Effects
Avatar

District 9

Star Trek

Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
District 9

An Education

In The Loop

Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire

Up In The Air

Best Writing (Original Screenplay)
The Hurt Locker

Inglourious Basterds

The Messenger

A Serious Man

Up

Bafta Film Awards 2010: Predictions

Another awards ceremony, another list of predictions. Tedious? We hope not. The ceremony took place on February 21.
UPDATE: A 59 per cent success rate. Could try harder.

bold = winner
italic = News Hour pick

BEST FILM
AVATAR
AN EDUCATION
THE HURT LOCKER
PRECIOUS
UP IN THE AIR

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
AN EDUCATION
FISH TANK
IN THE LOOP
MOON
NOWHERE BOY

DIRECTOR
AVATAR James Cameron
DISTRICT 9 Neill Blomkamp
AN EDUCATION Lone Scherfig
THE HURT LOCKER Kathryn Bigelow
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Quentin Tarantino

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
THE HANGOVER Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
THE HURT LOCKER Mark Boal
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Quentin Tarantino
A SERIOUS MAN Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
UP Bob Peterson, Pete Docter

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
DISTRICT 9 Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
AN EDUCATION Nick Hornby
IN THE LOOP Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
PRECIOUS Geoffrey Fletcher
UP IN THE AIR Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
BROKEN EMBRACES
COCO BEFORE CHANEL
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN
A PROPHET
THE WHITE RIBBON

ANIMATED FILM
CORALINE
FANTASTIC MR FOX
UP

LEADING ACTOR
JEFF BRIDGES Crazy Heart
GEORGE CLOONEY Up in the Air
COLIN FIRTH A Single Man
JEREMY RENNER The Hurt Locker
ANDY SERKIS Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

LEADING ACTRESS
CAREY MULLIGAN An Education
SAOIRSE RONAN The Lovely Bones
GABOUREY SIDIBE Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
MERYL STREEP Julie & Julia
AUDREY TAUTOU Coco Before Chanel

SUPPORTING ACTOR
ALEC BALDWIN It’s Complicated
CHRISTIAN McKAY Me and Orson Welles
ALFRED MOLINA An Education
STANLEY TUCCI The Lovely Bones
CHRISTOPH WALTZ Inglourious Basterds

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
ANNE-MARIE DUFF Nowhere Boy
VERA FARMIGA Up in the Air
ANNA KENDRICK Up in the Air
MO’NIQUE Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS Nowhere Boy

CINEMATOGRAPHY
AVATAR Mauro Fiore
DISTRICT 9 Trent Opaloch
THE HURT LOCKER Barry Ackroyd
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Robert Richardson
THE ROAD Javier Aguirresarobe

EDITING
AVATAR Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron
DISTRICT 9 Julian Clarke
THE HURT LOCKER Bob Murawski, Chris Innis
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Sally Menke
UP IN THE AIR Dana E. Glauberman

PRODUCTION DESIGN
AVATAR Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair
DISTRICT 9 Philip Ivey, Guy Potgieter
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan
THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS Nominees TBC
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS David Wasco, Sandy Reynolds Wasco

COSTUME DESIGN
BRIGHT STAR Janet Patterson
COCO BEFORE CHANEL Catherine Leterrier
AN EDUCATION Odile Dicks-Mireaux
A SINGLE MAN Arianne Phillips
THE YOUNG VICTORIA Sandy Powell

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
AVATAR
DISTRICT 9
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE
THE HURT LOCKER
STAR TREK

THE ORANGE RISING STAR AWARD (public vote)
JESSE EISENBERG
NICHOLAS HOULT
CAREY MULLIGAN
TAHAR RAHIM
KRISTEN STEWART

Evening Standard Film Awards 2010: Predictions

Another day, another list of predictions. Here’s our guestimates for this year’s Evening Standard Film Awards. The awards take place on February 8.

UPDATE: A new low – we predicted just 25 per cent of the awards correctly.

italic = News Hour pick
bold = winner

Best Film
Bright Star
Fish Tank
Helen

Best Actor
Tom Hardy (Bronson)
Christian McKay (Me And Orson Welles)
Alex MacQueen (The Hide)
Andy Serkis (Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll)

Best Actress
Anne-Marie Duff (Nowhere Boy)
Kelly Macdonald (The Merry Gentleman)
Carey Mulligan (An Education)

The Peter Sellers Award for Comedy
Peter Capaldi (In The Loop)
Sacha Baron Cohen (Bruno)
Ricky Gervais (The Invention Of Lying)

Best Screenplay
Jesse Armstrong/Simon Blackwell/Armando Iannucci/Tony Roche (In The Loop)
Nick Hornby (An Education)
Paul Laverty (Looking for Eric)

London Film Museum Award for Technical Achievement 
Barry Ackroyd Cinematographer, The Hurt Locker
James Herbert Film editor, Sherlock Holmes
Tony Noble Production designer, Moon

Most Promising Newcomer
Katie Jarvis for her performance in Fish Tank
Duncan Jones for his direction of Moon
Peter Strickland for his direction and screenplay of Katalin Varga

Best Documentary
Afghan Star Havana Marking
Anvil! The Story Of Anvil Sacha Gervasi
Sleep Furiously Gideon Koppel

Golden Globes 2010: Predictions

This year, News Hour will be breaking with tradition and offering predictions for the awards season. Read on for a guestimate of where Sunday’s Golden Globes (hosted by Ricky Gervais, no less) will fall…

italics = News Hour pick
bold = winner

UPDATE: The results are in, and we came in with 50 per cent accuracy on the ten film awards selected (must do better – bring on the Oscars). Congratulations to Robert Downey, Jr, in particular…

Best Motion Picture: Drama
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Basterds
Precious
Up in the Air

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture: Drama
Emily Blunt, The Young Victoria
Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Helen Mirren, The Last Station
Carey Mulligan, An Education
Gabourey Sadibe, Precious

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture: Drama
Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
George Clooney, Up in the Air
Colin Firth, A Single Man
Morgan Freeman, Invictus
Tobey Maguire, Brothers

Best Motion Picture: Musical or Comedy
(500) Days of Summer
The Hangover
It’s Complicated
Julie & Julia
Nine

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture: Musical or Comedy
Sandra Bullock, The Proposal
Marion Cotillard, Nine
Meryl Streep, It’s Complicated
Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
Julia Roberts, Duplicity

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture: Musical or Comedy
Matt Damon, The Informant
Daniel Day Lewis, Nine
Robert Downey Jr., Sherlock Holmes
Joseph Gordon Levitt, (500) Days of Summer
Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Mo-Nique, Precious
Julianne Moore, A Single Man
Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
Penelope Cruz, Nine

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Matt Damon, Invictus
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Woody Harrelson, The Messenger

Best Animated Feature Film
Coraline
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
The Princess and the Frog
Up

Best Director: Motion Picture
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
James Cameron, Avatar
Clint Eastwood, Invictus
Jason Reitman, Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino, Inglorious Basterds