10/7/12: Oscar Update

Every week, I will update the standings for the Oscars leading up to the final night. This week didn't see many major changes except in a couple of categories.

BEST PICTURE

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

Outliers: Flight, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Anna Karenina, The Dark Knight Rises

BEST ACTOR

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

BEST ACTRESS

1. Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

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

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Phillip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
2. Alan Arkin, Argo
3. Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
4. Leonardo DiCaprio, Django Unchained
5. Russell Crowe, Les Miserables

BEST ANIMATED MOVIE

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

BEST DIRECTOR

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

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

1. Life of Pi