10/14/12: Oscar Update

This week has a big shake-up in the rankings. My #1 still remains the same for most categories but there are some major advances in Best Picture and Best Actor.

BEST PICTURE

1. Argo
2. Silver Linings Playbook
3. Lincoln
4. Les Miserables
5. Life of Pi
6. The Master
7. Moonrise Kingdom
8. Flight
9. Zero Dark Thirty
10. Beasts of the Southern Wild

BEST ACTOR

1. Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
2. Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
3. Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
4. Denzel Washington, Flight
5. Anthony Hopkins, Hitchcock

BEST ACTRESS

1. Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
2. Helen Mirren, Hitchcock

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Phillip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
2. Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
3. Leonardo DiCaprio, Django Unchained
4. Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
5. Alan Arkin, Argo

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
2. Amy Adams, The Master
3. Helen Hunt, The Sessions
4. Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
5. Sally Field, Lincoln

BEST ANIMATED MOVIE

1. Wreck- It Ralph
2. Paranorman
3. Frankenweenie
4. Brave
5. From Up Poppy Hill

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Ben Affleck, Argo
2. Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master
3. Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
4. Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
5. David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

1. Life of Pi
2. The Avengers
3. The Dark Knight Rises
4. Cloud Atlas
5. Prometheus

BEST SCORE

1. Lincoln
2. The Dark Knight Rises
3. Life of Pi
4. The Avengers
5. Argo