UPDATE
The Oscar nominations are out this morning. Nine films made the final Best Picture race, and of those I correctly predicted eight. I thought Bridesmaids would get in, but instead the Academy served up Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. “Yay!” said nobody. (My 10th film, The Ides of March, didn’t make the cut either, natch.)
Stay tuned to the SING ALL KINDS blog as the Oscars approach. Memphis Flyer film editor Chris Herrington and I will be offering up our annual Academy Awards tête-à-tête, at this point a ritual as rich in tradition as the Masters golf tournament. All we lack is a Jim Nance voiceover.
END UPDATE
Back in September, I made my predictions for the movies that would be nominated for Best Picture in the 2012 Academy Awards.
The real nominations will be announced tomorrow morning at 7:30 a.m. (!!!) The five minute segment is pound-for-pound my favorite thing on TV all year.
In anticipation, here’s my last-ditch guess at what the nominated films will be. A curveball the wily Academy has thrown beginning this year is that there will be somewhere between 5-10 films nominated, with a minimum threshold of votes necessary to make the list. I’m going to go 10 deep for my predictions, but it’s certainly possible that only 7 or 8 (or fewer) will actually make the official cut.
(For ease of use, my September predictions are listed at the bottom of the page.)
2012 Best Picture Oscar Nominee Predictions 2.0 (In order of my certainty):