JEFF'S OSCAR BALLOT

Best Picture Amour Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka and Michael Katz, Producers Argo Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers Beasts of the Southern Wild Dan Janvey, Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald, Producers Django Unchained Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin and Pilar Savone, Producers Life of Pi Gil Netter, Ang Lee and David Womark, Producers Lincoln Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers Silver Linings Playbook Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon, Producers Zero Dark Thirty Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Megan Ellison, Producers Les Misérables Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward and Cameron Mackintosh, Producers MY PICK : BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED - PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER, MOONRISE KINGDOM Best Actor - in a Leading Role Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln Hugh Jackman - Les Misérables Joaquin Phoenix - The Master Denzel Washington - Flight MY PICK: JOAQUIN PHOENIX -THE MASTER BEST Actress - in a Leading Role Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook Emmanuelle Riva - Amour Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild Naomi Watts - The Impossible MY PICK: JENNIFER LAWRENCE - SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK BEST Actor - in a Supporting Role Alan Arkin - Argo Robert De Niro - Silver Linings Playbook Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained MY PICK: PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN - THE MASTER SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: JASON CLARKE - ZERO DARK THIRTY BEST Actress - in a Supporting Role Amy Adams - The Master Sally Field - Lincoln Anne Hathaway - Les Misérables Helen Hunt - The Sessions Jacki Weaver - Silver Linings Playbook MY PICK: ANNE HATHAWAY - LES MISERABLES BEST Animated Feature Film Brave - Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman Frankenweenie - Tim Burton ParaNorman - Sam Fell and Chris Butler The Pirates! Band of Misfits - Peter Lord Wreck-It Ralph - Rich Moore MY PICK: WRECK IT RALPH BEST Cinematography Anna Karenina Seamus McGarvey Django Unchained Robert Richardson Life of Pi Claudio Miranda Lincoln Janusz Kaminski Skyfall Roger Deakins MY PICK: SKYFALL BEST Costume Design Anna Karenina- Jacqueline Durran Les Misérables - Paco Delgado Lincoln - Joanna Johnston Mirror Mirror - Eiko Ishioka Snow White and the Huntsman -Colleen Atwood MY PICK: ANNA KARENINA BEST Directing Amour - Michael Haneke Beasts of the Southern Wild - Benh Zeitlin Life of Pi - Ang Lee Lincoln - Steven Spielberg Silver Linings Playbook - David O. Russell MY PICK: ANG LEE BEST Documentary Feature 5 Broken Cameras Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi The Gatekeepers Dror Moreh, Philippa Kowarsky and Estelle Fialon. How to Survive a Plague David France and Howard Gertler The Invisible War Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Searching for Sugar Man Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn MY PICK: HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE (Surprisingly the hardest category) BEST Documentary Short Inocente Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine Kings Point Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider Mondays at Racine Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan Open Heart Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern Redemption Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill MY PICK: OPEN HEART Film Editing Argo William Goldenberg Life of Pi Tim Squyres Lincoln Michael Kahn Silver Linings Playbook Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers Zero Dark Thirty Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg MY PICK: LIFE OF PI Foreign Language Film Amour - Austria Kon-Tiki - Norway No - Chile A Royal Affair - Denmark War Witch - Canada MY PICK: AMOUR BEST Makeup and Hairstyling Hitchcock Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane Les Misérables Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell MY PICK: THE HOBBITT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY BEST Music - Original Score Anna Karenina Dario Marianelli Argo Alexandre Desplat Life of Pi Mychael Danna Lincoln John Williams Skyfall Thomas Newman MY PICK: LIFE OF PI SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD BEST Music - Original Song "Before My Time" from Chasing Ice - Music and Lyric by J. Ralph "Everybody Needs A Best Friend" from Ted - Music by Walter Murphy; Lyric by Seth MacFarlane "Pi's Lullaby" from Life of Pi - Music by Mychael Danna; Lyric by Bombay Jayashri "Skyfall" from Skyfall - Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth "Suddenly" from Les Misérables - Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil MY PICK: SKYFALL BEST Production Design Anna Karenina - Sarah Greenwood (Production Design); Katie Spencer (Set Decoration) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Dan Hennah (Production Design); Ra Vincent and Simon Bright (Set Decoration) Les Misérables - Eve Stewart (Production Design); Anna Lynch-Robinson (Set Decoration) Life of Pi - David Gropman (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration) Lincoln - Rick Carter (Production Design); Jim Erickson (Set Decoration) MY PICK: LINCOLN BEST Short Film - Animated Adam and Dog Minkyu Lee Fresh Guacamole PES Head over Heels Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare" David Silverman Paperman John Kahrs MY PICK: PAPERMAN BEST Short Film -Live Action Asad Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura Buzkashi Boys Sam French and Ariel Nasr Curfew Shawn Christensen Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw) Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele Henry Yan England MY PICK: BUZKASHI BOYS Sound Editing Argo Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn Django Unchained Wylie Stateman Life of Pi Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton Skyfall Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers Zero Dark Thirty Paul N.J. Ottosson MY PICK: SKYFALL BEST Sound Mixing Argo John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia Les Misérables Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes Life of Pi Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin Lincoln Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins Skyfall Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson MY PICK: SKYFALL BEST Visual Effects The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White Life of Pi Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott Marvel's The Avengers Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick Prometheus Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill Snow White and the Huntsman Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson MY PICK: PROMETHEUS BEST Writing - Adapted Screenplay Argo - Written by Chris Terrio Beasts of the Southern Wild - Screenplay by Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin Life of Pi - Written by David Magee Lincoln - Written by Tony Kushner Silver Linings Playbook - Written by David O. Russell MY PICK: SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER BEST Writing - Original Screenplay Amour - Written by Michael Haneke Django Unchained - Written by Quentin Tarantino Flight - Written by John Gatins Moonrise Kingdom - Written by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola Zero Dark Thirty - Written by Mark Boal MY PICK: DJANGO UNCHAINED