My 84th Academy Awards predictions

Best Picture:
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Scott Rudin

Best Director:
Martin Scorsese – Hugo

Best Actor:
Demián Bichir – A Better Life as Carlos Galindo

Best Actress:
Viola Davis – The Help as Aibileen Clarke

Best Supporting Actor:
Max von Sydow – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close as The Renter

Best Supporting Actress:
Melissa McCarthy – Bridesmaids as Megan Price

Best Original Screenplay:
Margin Call – J.C. Chandor

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Moneyball – Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin; Story by Stan Chervin from Moneyball by Michael Lewis

Best Animated Feature: (any of these two films)
Puss in Boots – Chris Miller
Rango – Gore Verbinski

Best Foreign Language Film:
In Darkness (Poland) in Polish – Agnieszka Holland

Best Documentary Feature:
Hell and Back Again – Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner

Best Documentary – Short Subject:
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom – Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen

Best Live Action Short Film:
Time Freak – Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey

Best Animated Short Film: (any of these two films)
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore – William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
A Morning Stroll – Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe

Best Original Score:
The Artist – Ludovic Bource

Best Original Song:
"Man or Muppet" from The Muppets – Bret McKenzie

Best Sound Editing:
Drive – Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis

Best Sound Mixing:
War Horse – Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and Stuart Wilson

Best Art Direction:
The Artist – Laurence Bennett and Robert Gould

Best Cinematography: (any of these three films)
The Artist – Guillaume Schiffman
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – Jeff Cronenweth
The Tree of Life – Emmanuel Lubezki

Best Makeup:
The Iron Lady – Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland

Best Costume Design: (any of these five films)
Anonymous – Lisy Christl
The Artist – Mark Bridges
Hugo – Sandy Powell
Jane Eyre – Michael O'Connor
W.E. – Arianne Phillips

Best Film Editing: (any of these three films)
The Artist – Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
The Descendants – Kevin Tent
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter

Best Visual Effects: (any of these five films)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 – Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson
Hugo – Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning
Real Steel – Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg
Rise of the Planet of the Apes – Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett
Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier