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I tried this once before (for 2008) and got to about 80% of all nominees. I will try again this year and see how far I get. Of course I don't really notice things like editing or costume design but I still see them. The ones listed in bold are the ones I have seen:

Best Picture

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Silver Linings Playbook

Zero Dark Thirty

Lincoln

Les Miserables

Life of Pi

Amour

Django Unchained

Argo

Best Actor

Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln

Denzel Washington, Flight

Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables

Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook

Joaquin Phoenix, The Master

Best Actress

Naomi Watts, The Impossible

Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty

Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook

Emmanuelle Riva, Amour

Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Supporting Actor

Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained

Phillip Seymour Hoffman, The Master

Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook

Alan Arkin, Argo

Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln

Best Supporting Actress

Sally Field, Lincoln

Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables

Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook

Helen Hunt, The Sessions

Amy Adams, The Master

Best Original Song

"Before My Time," Chasing Ice

"Pi’s Lullaby," Life of Pi

"Suddenly," Les Miserables

"Everybody Needs A Best Friend," Ted

"Skyfall," Skyfall

Best Animated Feature Film

Merida Character Poster

Frankenweenie

Pirates! Band of Misfits

Wreck-It Ralph

Paranorman

Brave

Best Foreign Language Film

Austria: Amour

Chile: No

Canada: War Witch

Denmark: A Royal Affair

Norway: Kontiki

Best Director

David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook

Ang Lee, Life of Pi

Steven Spielberg, Lincoln

Michael Haneke, Amour

Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Original Screenplay

John Gatins, Flight

Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty

Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained

Michael Haneke, Amour

Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola, Moonrise Kingdom

Best Adapted Screenplay

Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Chris Terrio, Argo

Tony Kushner, Lincoln

David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook

David Magee, Life of Pi

Best Cinematography

Anna Karenina Poster

Seamus McGarvey, Anna Karenina

Robert Richardson, Django Unchained

Claudio Miranda, Life of Pi

Janusz Kaminski, Lincoln

Roger Deakins, Skyfall

Best Costume Design

Teaser Poster

Jacqueline Durran, Anna Karenina

Paco Delgado, Les Misérables

Joanna Johnston, Lincoln

Eiko Ishioka, Mirror Mirror

Colleen Atwood, Snow White and the Huntsman

Documentary Feature

5 Broken Cameras

The Gatekeepers

How to Survive a Plague

The Invisible War

Searching for Sugar Man

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

Film Editing

William Goldenberg, Argo

Tim Squyres, Life of Pi

Michael Kahn, Lincoln

Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers, Silver Linings Playbook

Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg, Zero Dark Thirty

Makeup and Hairstyling

Spanish Poster

Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel, Hitchcock

Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell, Les Miserables

Best Original Score

Dario Marianelli, Anna Karenina

Alexandre Desplat, Argo

Mychael Danna, Life of Pi

John Williams, Lincoln

Thomas Newman, Skyfall

Best Production Design

Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer, Anna Karenina

Dan Hennah, Ra Vincent and Simon Bright, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Eve Stewart and Anna Lynch-Robinson, Les Miserables

David Gropman and Anna Pinnock, Life of Pi

Rick Carter and Jim Erickson, Lincoln

Best Animated Short

"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

Best Live Action Short

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

Best Sound Editing

Wylie Stateman, Django Unchained

Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton, Life of Pi

Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers, Skyfall

Paul N.J. Ottosson, Zero Dark Thirty

Best Sound Mixing

Prometheus Official Poster

John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia, Argo

Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes, Les Misérables

Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin, Life of Pi

Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins, Lincoln

Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson, Skyfall

Best Visual Effects

Black Widow

Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott,Life of Pi

Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick, Marvel’s The Avengers

Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill, Prometheus

Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson, Snow White and the Huntsman

Nice. I still need to see BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD, AMOUR, and DJANGO UNCHAINED.

btw, there is no way you will get to see FLIGHT or THE MASTER. They left theaters months ago but don't come out on DVD until after the Oscars. I missed THE MASTER when it was in theatres and now I will never see it :(

@VioletEyedDragon: I am hoping to see them in art house cinemas or something to that degree.

That's some dedication

I'm ashamed to admit the only ones I've seen are

Best Animated Feature Film

Frankenweenie

Paranorman

Brave

None of which I thought was over the top spectacular.

@the_referee: Oh well it makes watching the Academy Awards actually a lot more interesting. Almost no one makes the shorts available though

I'm really torn as to who's gonna win this year.

I mean, last year, we knew The Artist was gonna win big, this year, I'm torn.

@RazzaTazz said:

@the_referee: Oh well it makes watching the Academy Awards actually a lot more interesting. Almost no one makes the shorts available though

Good point I never thought of it that way.

@CherryBomb: From what I have seen so far I would say Jennifer Lawrence is likely for Playbook and Hathaway for Les Mis. I would like to think that Jackman could get best actor, but I havent seen Lincoln yet.

@the_referee: Yes, when random obscure fillmmaker gets on stage to offer thanks, it helps to know who they are. Then it is not all just waiting through the boring stuff for the end categories.

@RazzaTazz said:

@CherryBomb: From what I have seen so far I would say Jennifer Lawrence is likely for Playbook and Hathaway for Les Mis. I would like to think that Jackman could get best actor, but I havent seen Lincoln yet.

I'd really like that to happen, BUT, I don't think Jennifer's role in Silver Linings is as dramatic as Jessica Chastain's in Zero Dark Thirty, or Naomi Watts in The Impossible. They tend to shy away from Comedy-drama's, but hopefully this year is different. I don't think there's any clear winner in Best Actress, it's literally so hard to predict :/ I hope J-Law wins, she was robbed by Natalie Portman last time :(

Yay! Two more off of the list. Best actress down to only the one entrant now

@CherryBomb: I am pulling for Lawrence. I think Chastain and Watts were good, but didn't really stand out as much from their cast like Lawrence did Hopefully she wins, though I haven't seen Amour yet.

@RazzaTazz: Yeah, I hope they award her Best Actress, I haven't even seen the other films, but I hear the woman from Amour is a dark horse to win.

I really tried to like Lincoln, but I couldn't get past 40 minutes.

@CherryBomb: I will update my predictions after I see that one :)

@ThePickle: It is next one my list of ones to watch I think.

@RazzaTazz said:

@CherryBomb: I will update my predictions after I see that one :)

@ThePickle: It is next one my list of ones to watch I think.

Don't let me discourage you, I just don't think Spielberg films are for me anymore.

One more off the list. Searching for Sugar Man, 5 star movie.

@ThePickle: I have heard that it is a bit boring in parts, but it has lots of nominations, so it is a must.

Updated with Prometheus

@RazzaTazz said:

Updated with Prometheus

what did you think of it??

I don't mean to put this whole "seeing all the awards movies" idea down, but being nominated for an oscar literally means nothing. Great movies came out this year that are not popular or have enough money or fame or star power that will never ever ever ever ever get nominated, looked at, or even appreciated. So please don't watch award movies exclusively. There are much better movies than the ones nominated. But the movies that are nominated are great movies, don't get me wrong, but there are so many movies out there that are on an equal, and many times, higher level than the ones nominated.

@VioletEyedDragon: Meh, it had a lot of potential but didn't reach it at many points.

@tibbs17: Agreed, I usually watch the Oscars though, and I find it kind of weird doing so without having seen most of the movies (which was me last year)