My Fearless Oscar Predictions

If you want to win your Oscar pool, then you'll want to pay close attention to my picks.

best picture: Lincoln - This is an upset pick with all of the sentiment going to Argo

best director: Stephen Spielberg - In what should be a rock solid night for Lincoln, Spielberg is a rock solid pick

best actor: Daniel Day Lewis - This is a stone cold, mortal lock. Bet the farm on it

best actress: Jennifer Lawrence - It could go to Jessica Chastain, but Jennifer Lawrence is my pick

best supporting actor: Tommy Lee Jones - chalk up another Oscar for the greatest president in US history

best supporting actress: Anne Hathaway - see Daniel Day Lewis

best original screenplay: Amour - this is a toss up

best adapted Screenplay: Lincoln - the former president takes another one

best cinematography: Life of Pi - look for Life of Pi to take a lot of the technical categories

best editing: Argo

best score: Life of Pi

best production design: Anna Karenina

best costume design: Anna Karenina

best makeup: The Hobbit - chalk this one of up for the little dudes

best visual effects: Life of Pi - this one should go to The Avengers

best sound editing: Zero Dark Thirty - this one's a toss up

best sound mixing: Les Miserables

best original song: Skyfall

best documentary: Searching for Sugar Man - lock this one up

best foreign film: Amour - this has no chance of losing

best animated: Wreck It Ralph - this is a four way toss up with Paranorman, Frankenweenie, and Brave. Any one of them could win

best short documentary: Open Heart

best animated short: Paperman

best live action short: Curfew