Best Production Design
Anna Karenina
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Another category where I just assume the Academy’s love of Life of Pi’s visuals will lead them to give it an Oscar. It is far from the most deserving of the five – again, the film is an achievement of effects more than anything else – but among the likely winners, it is the flashiest. Still, I cannot imagine anyone actually watching The Hobbit and not giving it the win; Jackson’s Middle Earth is a masterful feat of production design if ever there was one.
Will Win: Life of Pi
Should Win: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
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
Anna Karenina certainly did not ‘clean up’ at the nominations, but the Academy obviously loves the film’s visual palette, and this seems like the easiest place to award it, as well as the category’s most likely winner.
Will Win: Anna Karenina
Should Win: Lincoln
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Hitchcock
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Misérables
Will Win: Les Miserables
Should Win: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
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