2013 Academy Awars Predictions

It's that time of the year again, folks, and the predictometers are a-working overtime.

The 2013 Academy Awards are to be announced this Sunday and here are Cinewise's own little predictions, wishes, and a few other words to that effect. As per previous years, I will only comment on categories where I have seen at least 3 films. The minimum for Best Motion Picture is 5, because of the expanded number of nominees.

Without further ado, here are my thoughts on this Sunday's glam-a-thon:

Oscars 2011: The Should-Winners

My BAFTA predictions were quite off the mark and the main reasons for that debacle were the mushy heart and the myopic vision of the BAFTA members in giving The King's Speech awards in categories that it truly did not deserve - no one can tell me with a straight face that David Seidler's script (decent as it is) deserves more credit than Inception or Black Swan or The Fighter or even The Kids Are All Right.

Either way, good for The King's Speech - at least it's a film partially funded by the UK Film Council and when it wins a plethora of awards come next Sunday, David Cameron's cabinet will have made yet another ill-judged cut in their hands. But, this is not a political blog, so let's get back to film.