84th Academy Awards-Best Picture -nominees(predictions)

Here is my final prediction for the Oscars as next week  the nominations for most of the big awards will be announced.This year hasn't been a good year for animated films but a good year for the adapted films from the novels, for instance The Help,Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,The Descendants,We Need To Talk About Kevin and many more.Check out my predictions.

1.The Artist

Director: Michael Hazanavicius

Cast:Jean Dujardin ,Berenice Bejo,etc

The Artist has been nominated for best film in almost all the critics awards and winning half of it.The film met with critical reception and both Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo's performance are widely praised and appreciated.Being a silent film with cast who are unknown to many ,the film is still a favourite among those who had watched it.

2.Hugo

Director: Martin Scorcese

Cast: Asa Butterfield,Ben Kingsley,Chloe Moretz,etc

The film had received critical acclaim and was named the best picture by the WAFCA awards.Plus the film had another major Oscar factor name attached to it,Martin Scorcese who the AMPAS loved.

3.War Horse

Director: Steven Spielberg

Cast:Jeremy Irvine,Emily Watson,Peter Mullan,etc

Although the film will be released on Christmas day,with the big names like Steven Spielberg and John Williams surely screams Oscar buzz.An adaptation of the stage play of the same name,the film is about  a horse which is sold to the calvary to be used during the war while its owner,young Albert decides to enlist for the army to find and save  it.

4.The Tree Of Life

Director: Terrence Malick

Cast: Sean Penn,Brad Pitt,Jessica Chastain

The fifth film of Terrence Malick the film received rave reviews from the critics and audience although there were some negative reviews for the complex plot.The film was the winner of the Palm d'Or in the Cannes film festival.



5.Tinker Tailor Soldier and Spy

Director: Tomas Alfredson

Cast:Gary Oldman,Colin Firth,Tom Hardy,etc

Packed with some of the talented actors of Britain,Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy received favourable response by the critics and was nominated for 6 British Independent Film Awards.Gary Oldman performance was praised  which could land him his first Academy nomination.

6.The Descendants

Director: Alexander Payne

Cast:George Clooney,Shailene Woodley,Nick Krause,etc

The Descendants  a movie about a father trying to reconnect with his daughter was named one of the top 10 films of the National Board  of Review.Being a film about family drama  and having met with critical acclaim by the critics and the audience ,surely The Descendants can find its way  for a best picture nod.Plus there is the George Clooney factor.

7.The Help

Director: Tate Taylor

Cast: Viola Davis,Emma Stone,Octavia Spencer,Jessica Chastain,etc

The adaptation of the best seller novel,received both critical acclaim and commercial success.The film about racism and the division between the  different classes of society(the bosses and the maids) is generating huge buzz for its cast especially  for Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer.



8.Midnight In Paris

Director: Woody Allen

Cast: Owen Wilson,Rachel McAdams,Marion Cotillard,Michael Sheen,etc

Being Woody Allen most commercially successful film and the with the critical reception from the critics,Midnight In Paris could get nominated for the Best Picture.



9.Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Director: David Yates

Cast:Daniel Radcliffe,Rupert Grint,Emma Watson,Helena Bonham Carter,etc

The last installment of the Potter film is the highest grossing film this year and the probably the best Potter film of the 8 films.Plus there is some of the sentimental factor that could land it its first Best Picture nomination.

10.Drive

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn

Cast:Ryan Gosling,Carey Mulligan,Christina Hendricks,etc

Nicolas Proved that film packed with action stunts can be stylish and dramatic just as other films.The film received positive reviews mainly for Ryan gosling and its action scenes.

So what do you think of the list?Whats' your prediction?

84th Academy Awards-Best Costume Design

1.Hugo

Besides its beautiful cinematography and visual effects,the costumes in the film Hugo is another category garnering some buzz even before the release.The costume of the 90s in Paris and  with the  choice of colourful costumes gives a feeling of being in another world.Sandy Powell the costume designer of the film had already been nominated 9 times for the Oscar and won 3.

2.The Help

The Help has a setting during the 60s and the costume differs in both of the maids and their bosses in Mississippi.The costumes had some colourful prints did brought  the 60s to life.We had earlier seen the work of the costume designer Sharen Davis  in Dreamgirls and Ray which she was nominated for Best Costume Design and some impressiveve work in both The Pursuit of Happiness and Seven Pounds.

3.The Artist

Mark Bridges used the costumes during the 1920s ,old Hollywood glamour styles in order to revive the  essence of the silent cinema and its actors at that time.He is yet to been nominated and I feel he is about to see his first Oscar nod

4.Anonymous

The film Anonymous had costumes of the aristocrats and  the commoners during time of Queen Elizabeth .The film Anonymous is garnering buzz for its costume design(Lisy Christl) and for its art direction.

 

5.A Dangerous Method

Denise Cronenberg   work for creating the  costumes of the two famous  fathers of psychoanalysis  Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud  and Sabina the Russian patient who  starts to have affair with Jung is also garnering some buzz for the designer who had been working in Cronenberg earlier films. 

6.Immortals

Eiko Ishioska is also garnering some buzz even before the release of the film Immortals for creating the  costumes of the Greek mythology based film.The warrior costumes of the Gods received positive reactions from the critics at the pre-screening of the film.Eiko had already won an Oscar for his work for Dracula.

7.Jane Eyre

Michael O'Connor is the costume designer for the film Jane Eyre.he is well known for his work in the Duchess which he won an Oscar.Michael O'Connor created  amazing costumes worn during the Victorian  era.the film is also garnering some buzz in the art direction department.

Hugo Cabaret-new trailer

Here is the the new trailer of the film Hugo Cabaret.Directed by Martin Scorsese,staring Asa Butterfield,Chloe Grace Moretz,Ben Kingsley and Jude Law. Based on just the trailer,visually its a beautiful film.Every scene looks wonderfully done and the cast is strong too.

The film looks like a serious contender for the following categories.
Best Visual Effects
Best Cinematography
Best Costume Design
Best Art Direction
Best Costume Design