BAFTA 2013 predictions

With only one week to go until the BAFTA awards, I thought I’d post my predictions for the 2013 winners. This post was inspired by my friend Natasha Saxby who created her own list of predictions. She is a filmmaker/cinematographer whose blog you can check out here.

Here are the nominees and my predictions highlighted in bold:

BEST FILM:

• Argo
• Les Miserables
• Life of Pi
• Lincoln
• Zero Dark Thirty

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM:

• Anna Karenina
• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
• Les Miserables
• Seven Psychopaths
• Skyfall

LEADING ACTOR:

• Ben Affleck – Argo
• Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
• Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
• Hugh Jackman – Les Miserables
• Joaquin Phoenix – The Master

LEADING ACTRESS:

• Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty
• Marion Cotillard – Rust and Bone
• Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
• Dame Helen Mirren – Hitchcock
• Emmanuelle Riva – Amour

SUPPORTING ACTOR:

• Alan Arkin – Argo
• Javier Bardem – Skyfall
• Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
• Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln
• Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained

SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

• Amy Adams – The Master
• Dame Judi Dench – Skyfall
• Sally Field – Lincoln
• Anne Hathaway – Les Miserables
• Helen Hunt – The Sessions

DIRECTOR:

• Ben Affleck – Argo
• Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty
• Michael Haneke – Amour
• Ang Lee – Life of Pi
• Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

• Amour – Michael Haneke
• Django Unchained – Quentin Tarantino
• The Master – Paul Thomas Anderson
• Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola
• Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

• Argo – Chris Terrio
• Beasts of the Southern Wild – Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin
• Life of Pi – David Magee
• Lincoln – Tony Kushner
• Silver Linings Playbook – David O Russell

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER:

• James Bobin (director) – The Muppets
• Dexter Fletcher (director/writer) and Danny King (writer) – Wild Bill
• Tina Gharavi (director/writer) – I Am Nasrine
• Bart Layton (director) and Dmitri Doganis (producer) – The Imposter
• David Morris (director) and Jaqui Morris (director/producer) – McCullin

ANIMATED FILM:

• Brave
• Frankenweenie
• Paranorman

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:

• Amour
• Headhunters
• The Hunt
• Rust and Bone
• Untouchable

CINEMATOGRAPHY:

• Anna Karenina
• Les Miserables
• Life of Pi
• Lincoln
• Skyfall

COSTUME DESIGN:

• Anna Karenina
• Great Expectations
• Les Miserables
• Lincoln
• Snow White and the Huntsman

EDITING:

• Argo
• Django Unchained
• Life of Pi
• Skyfall
• Zero Dark Thirty

MAKE UP AND HAIR:

• Anna Karenina
• Hitchcock
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• Les Miserables
• Lincoln

ORIGINAL MUSIC:

• Anna Karenina
• Argo
• Life of Pi
• Lincoln
• Skyfall

PRODUCTION DESIGN:

• Anna Karenina
• Les Miserables
• Life of Pi
• Lincoln
• Skyfall

SOUND:

• Django Unchained
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• Les Miserables
• Life of Pi
• Skyfall

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS:

• The Dark Knight Rises
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• Life of Pi
• Marvel Avengers Assemble
• Prometheus

RISING STAR (public vote):

• Elizabeth Olsen
• Andrea Riseborough
• Suraj Sharma
• Juno Temple
• Alicia Vikander