Let the Games Begin!

Well! Just when you thought I would never update this blog again.....here I am surprising you! Life here at HBPL has been ever changing and busy but I would be very remiss if I didn't at least post for the Oscars!!
Anyone who has read this blog knows I bet with a friend every year. We tend to vote after all the other awards and guilds are presented. This year, to make it interesting, we voted before all of that so we would have less insight into what was being celebrarted by the industry. So....here are my picks for the Oscars this year:

Best Picture : Argo

Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis

Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz

Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence

Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway

Animated Film: Brave

Cinematography: Life of Pi

Costume Design: Anna Karenina

Directing: Ang Lee – Life of Pi

Documentary Feature: Searching for Sugar Man

Editing: Zero Dark Thirty

Foreign Film: Amour

Make-up: The Hobbit

Original Score: Life of Pi
Original Song: Skyfall

Production Design: Anna Karenina

Sound Editing: Skyfall

Sound Mixing: Les Miserables

Visual Effects: Life of Pi

Adapted Screenplay: Silver Linings Playbook

Original Screenplay: Django Unchained

I think this will be a year when one film doesn't win a ton of Oscars. I will say that my friend voted for Lincoln to win quite a few (including film and director) but I just don't think that will happen. Although I do think that Ang Lee has as good of a chance as any (and popular with Oscar voters) to win Best Director, it is probably my least confident category. Vote at your own risk!

Let the games begin!