i know it's crazy to try to forecast anything at this point. I'm only posting this cause I saw it on a blog, and it caught my interest. At the very least, simply by looking at this list, you will be able to know what films and performances to look out for.
BEST PICTURE
Frontrunners
“J. Edgar” (Warner Brothers, 12/14, ?, ?)
“The Descendants” (Fox Searchlight, 12/16, R, trailer)
“War Horse” (Disney, 12/28, ?, ?)
“The Ides of March” (Sony, 10/14, ?, ?)
“Carnage” (Sony Pictures Classics, ?/?, ?, ?)
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” (Sony, 12/21, ?, ?)
“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” (Paramount/Warner Brothers, ?/?, ?, ?)
“Like Crazy” (Paramount Vantage, 10/28, ?, ?)
“Young Adult” (Paramount, ?/?, ?, ?)
“The Iron Lady” (The Weinstein Company, ?/?, ?, ?)
Major Threats
“Contagion” (Warner Brothers, ?/?, ?, ?)
“Hugo Cabret” (Paramount, 11/23, ?, ?)
“A Dangerous Method” (Universal, ?/?, ?, ?)
“The Artist” (The Weinstein Company, ?/?, ?, trailer)
“Martha Marcy May Marlene” (Fox Searchlight, 10/7, ?, trailer)
“The Help” (Disney, 8/12, PG-13, trailer)
“We Bought a Zoo” (20th Century Fox, 12/23, ?, ?)
“Take Shelter” (Sony Pictures Classics, 10/7, ?, ?)
“Moneyball” (Columbia, 9/23, ?, ?)
“Super 8” (Paramount, 6/10, ?, trailer)
“The Tree of Life” (Fox Searchlight, 5/27, PG-13, trailer)
“We Need to Talk About Kevin” (Oscilloscope, ?/?, ?, ?)
“Coriolanus” (The Weinstein Company, 11/?, ?, ?)
Possibilities
“50/50” (Summit, 9/30, ?, ?)
“The Wettest County in the World” (The Weinstein Company, ?/?, ?, ?)
“The Rum Diary” (FilmDistrict, 10/28, ?, ?)
“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” (Universal, ?/?, ?, ?)
“The Skin I Live In” (Sony Pictures Classics, 11/18, ?, trailer)
“One Day” (Focus Features, 8/19, PG-13, trailer)
“Midnight in Paris” (Sony Pictures Classics, 5/20, PG-13, trailer)
“Melancholia” (Magnolia, 11/4, ?, trailer)
“The Way” (Icon Entertainment, 9/30, ?, ?)
“Beginners” (Focus Features, 6/3, R, trailer)
“Rango” (Paramount, 3/4, PG, trailer)
“Win Win” (Fox Searchlight, 3/18, R, trailer)
“A Better Life” (Summit, 6/24, PG-13, trailer)
“In the Land of Blood and Honey” (FilmDistrict, 12/23, ?, ?)
Still Seeking Domestic Distribution
“Albert Nobbs” (?, ?/?, ?, ?)
“On the Road” (?, ?/?, ?, ?)
“The Promised Land” (?, ?/?, ?, ?)
“Wuthering Heights” (?, ?/?, ?, ?)
BEST DIRECTOR
Frontrunners
Clint Eastwood (“J. Edgar”)
Alexander Payne (“The Descendants”)
Steven Spielberg (“War Horse”)
George Clooney (“The Ides of March”)
Roman Polanski (“Carnage”)
Major Threats
David Fincher (“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”)
Stephen Daldry (“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”)
Drake Doremus (“Like Crazy”)
Jason Reitman (“Young Adult”)
Phyllida Lloyd (“The Iron Lady”)
Steven Soderbergh (“Contagion”)
Martin Scorsese (“Hugo Cabret”)
David Cronenberg (“A Dangerous Method”)
Michel Hazanavicius (“The Artist”)
Sean Durkin (“Martha Marcy May Marlene”)
Tate Taylor (“The Help”)
Cameron Crowe (“We Bought a Zoo”)
Jeff Nichols (“Take Shelter”)
Bennett Miller (“Moneyball”)
J.J. Abrams (“Super 8”)
Possibilities
Terrence Malick (“The Tree of Life”)
Lynne Ramsay (“We Need to Talk About Kevin”)
Ralph Fiennes (“Coriolanus”)
John Hillcoat (“The Wettest County in the World”)
Jonathan Levine (“50/50”)
Bruce Robinson (“The Rum Diary”)
Tomas Alfredson (“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”)
Pedro Almodovar (“The Skin I Live In”)
Lone Scherfig (“One Day”)
Woody Allen (“Midnight in Paris”)
Lars von Trier (“Melancholia”)
Emilio Estevez (“The Way”)
Mike Mills (“Beginners”)
Gore Verbinski (“Rango”)
Tom McCarthy (“Win Win”)
Chris Weitz (“A Better Life”)
Angelina Jolie (“In the Land of Blood and Honey”)
Still Seeking Domestic Distribution
Andrea Arnold (“Wuthering Heights”)
Rodrigo Garcia (“Albert Nobbs”)
Walter Salles (“On the Road”)
Michael Winterbottom (“The Promised Land”)
BEST ACTOR
Frontrunners
Leonardo DiCaprio (“J. Edgar”)
George Clooney (“The Descendants”)
Ryan Gosling (“The Ides of March”)
Anton Yelchin (“Like Crazy”)
Asa Butterfield (“Hugo Cabret”)
Major Threats
Christoph Waltz (“Carnage”)
John C. Reilly (“Carnage”)
Jean Dujardin (“The Artist”)
Michael Fassbender (“A Dangerous Method”)
Michael Shannon (“Take Shelter”)
Matt Damon (“Contagion”)
Matt Damon (“We Bought a Zoo”)
Ralph Fiennes (“Coriolanus”)
Gary Oldman (“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”)
Johnny Depp (“The Rum Diary”)
Brad Pitt (“Moneyball”)
Antonio Banderas (“The Skin I Live In”)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (“50/50”)
Tom Hardy (“The Wettest County in the World”)
Shia LaBeouf (“The Wettest County in the World”)
Possibilities
Jason Clarke (“The Wettest County in the World”)
Steve Carell (“Crazy, Stupid, Love”)
Sam Shepard (“Blackthorn”)
Martin Sheen (“The Way”)
Daniel Craig (“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”)
Brad Pitt (“The Tree of Life”)
Asa Butterfield (“Hugo Cabret”)
Dominic Cooper (“The Devil’s Double”)
Michael Sheen (“Beautiful Boy”)
Eddie Redmayne (“My Week with Marilyn”)
Ewan McGregor (“Beginners”)
Jim Sturgess (“One Day”)
Patrick Wilson (“Young Adult”)
Paul Giamatti (“Win Win”)
James Franco (“Maladies”)
Demian Bichir (“A Better Life”)
Still Seeking Domestic Distribution
Michael Fassbender (“Shame”)
Colin Firth (“The Promised Land”)
Sean Penn (“This Must Be the Place”)
BEST ACTRESS
Frontrunners
Meryl Streep (“The Iron Lady”)
Felicity Jones (“Like Crazy”)
Charlize Theron (“Young Adult”)
Michelle Williams (“My Week with Marilyn”)
Elizabeth Olsen (“Martha Marcy May Marlene”)
Major Threats
Jodie Foster (“Carnage”)
Kate Winslet (“Carnage”)
Sandra Bullock (“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”)
Rooney Mara (“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”)
Tilda Swinton (“We Need to Talk About Kevin”)
Kirsten Dunst (“Melancholia”)
Rachel Weisz (“The Whistleblower”)
Keira Knightley (“A Dangerous Method”)
Emma Stone (“The Help”)
Anne Hathaway (“One Day”)
Possibilities
Charlotte Gainsbourg (“Melancholia”)
Emily Watson (“Oranges and Sunshine”)
Kristin Scott Thomas (“Sarah’s Key”)
Maria Bello (“Beautiful Boy”)
Michelle Williams (“Take This Waltz”)
Andrea Riseborough (“W.E.”)
Ellen Barkin (“Another Happy Day”)
Mia Wasikowska (“Jane Eyre”)
Helen Mirren (“The Debt”)
Still Seeking Domestic Distribution
Glenn Close (“Albert Nobbs”)
Frances McDormand (“This Must Be the Place”)
Carey Mulligan (“Shame”)
Katie O’Grady (“Rid of Me”)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Frontrunners
Christopher Plummer (“Beginners”)
Viggo Mortensen (“A Dangerous Method”)
Jim Broadbent (“The Iron Lady”)
Kenneth Branagh (“My Week with Marilyn”)
Patton Oswalt (“Young Adult”)
Major Threats
Ezra Miller (“We Need to Talk About Kevin”)
Guy Pearce (“The Wettest County in the World”)
Tom Hanks (“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”)
Thomas Haden Church (“We Bought a Zoo”)
Armie Hammer (“J. Edgar”)
John Hawkes (“Martha Marcy May Marlene”)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (“Moneyball”)
Possibilities
Ben Kingsley (“Hugo Cabret”)
Jude Law (“Hugo Cabret”)
George Clooney (“The Ides of March”)
Paul Giamatti (“The Ides of March”)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (“The Ides of March”)
Vincent Cassel (“A Dangerous Method”)
Jeffrey Wright (“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”)
Bobby Cannavale (“Win Win”)
Still Seeking Domestic Distribution
Aaron Johnson (“Albert Nobbs”)
Jonathan Rhys Meyers (“Albert Nobbs”)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Frontrunners
Scarlett Johansson (“We Bought a Zoo”)
Emily Watson (“War Horse”)
Judi Dench (“J. Edgar”)
Marisa Tomei (“The Ides of March”)
Evan Rachel Wood (“The Ides of March”)
Major Threats
Sarah Gadon (“A Dangerous Method”)
Naomi Watts (“J. Edgar”)
Anna Kendrick (“50/50”)
Vanessa Redgrave (“Coriolanus”)
Robin Wright (“Moneyball”)
Viola Davis (“The Help”)
Octavia Spencer (“The Help”)
Catherine Keener (“Maladies”)
Jessica Chastain (“Take Shelter”)
Elle Fanning (“We Bought a Zoo”)
Stephanie Szotak (“We Bought a Zoo”)
Charlotte Rampling (“The Eye of the Storm”)
Emily Mortimer (“Hugo Cabret”)
Possibilities
Judi Dench (“My Week with Marilyn”)
Charlotte Rampling (“Melancholia”)
Jessica Chastain (“The Tree of Life”)
Judy Davis (“The Eye of the Storm”)
Jessica Chastain (“The Wettest County in the World”)
Chloe Moretz (“Hugo Cabret”)
Shailene Woodley (“The Descendants”)
Amara Miller (“The Descendants”)
Lea Thompson (“J. Edgar”)
Alexandra Roach (“The Iron Lady”)
Melanie Laurent (“Beginners”)
Demi Moore (“Another Happy Day”)
Kathryn Morris (“Moneyball”)
Amy Ryan (“Win Win”)
Still Seeking Domestic Distribution
Amy Adams (“On the Road”)
Kirsten Dunst (“On the Road”)
Orianna Herman (“Rid of Me”)
Janet McTeer (“Albert Nobbs”)
Mia Wasikowska (“Albert Nobbs”)
i think some of the choices this guy put for front runners are completely moronic
