Best of 2012, part 5: My Dream Oscar Ballot/Discussions About the Future

Alright, the list madness finally comes to an end. Today's really more of a wrap-up than an actual post. Just in case reading hours and hours of lists isn't your thing, I'm going to list all my picks here. No commentary, just alphabetical nominees with winners in bold. Stick around for the end and you'll be rewarded with a video! Oh happy day! And if you're around after that, we'll have a little discussion about the future of this blog.



I'll put an asterisk next to my nominees which are also up for Oscars. Funny, there's really not much overlap at all, and yet I still think the Academy did a fairly good job with nominations this year. Just goes to show there were a lot of movies worth praising this year.
(Note, I'm going to list only 9 best picture nominees, for the sake of lining up w/ academy numbers. Sorry, Silver Linings Playbook.)

Best Picture
Amour*
Anna Karenina
Beasts of the Southern Wild*
The Cabin in the Woods
Cloud Atlas
How to Survive a Plague
Lincoln*
Magic Mike
The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Director
Michael Haneke-Amour*
Steven Soderbergh-Magic Mike
Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer-Cloud Atlas
Joe Wright-Anna Karenina
Benh Zeitlin-Beasts of the Southern Wild*

Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis-Lincoln*
Tom Holland-The Impossible
Logan Lerman-The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Joaquin Phoenix-The Master*
Matthias Schoenaerts-Rust and Bone

Actress
Jessica Chastain-Zero Dark Thirty*
Marion Cotillard-Rust and Bone
Jennifer Lawrence-Silver Linings Playbook*
Emmanuelle Riva-Amour*
Quvenzhane Wallis-Beasts of the Southern Wild*

Supporting Actor
Michael Fassbender-Prometheus
Samuel L. Jackson-Django Unchained
Tommy Lee Jones-Lincoln*
Michael Pena-End of Watch
Andy Serkis-The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Supporting Actress
Elizabeth Banks-The Hunger Games
Emily Blunt-Looper
Anne Hathaway-Les Miserables*
Helen Hunt-The Sessions*
Nicole Kidman-The Paperboy

Original Screenplay
Amour*
The Cabin in the Woods
Magic Mike
Moonrise Kingdom*
Zero Dark Thirty*

Adapted Screenplay
21 Jump Street
Beasts of the Southern Wild*
Cloud Atlas
Lincoln*
The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Art Direction
Anna Karenina*
Cloud Atlas
Django Unchained
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey*
Skyfall

Costume Design
Anna Karenina*
Django Unchained
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Lawless
Mirror Mirror*

Visual Effects
The Avengers*
Cloud Atlas
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey*
Life of Pi*
Prometheus

Makeup
Cloud Atlas
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey*
The Impossible

Film Editing
Argo*
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Cloud Atlas
The Hunger Games
Zero Dark Thirty*

Cinematography
Anna Karenina*
Django Unchained*
Life of Pi*
The Master
Skyfall*

Original Score
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Cloud Atlas
The Master
Moonrise Kingdom
The Secret World of Arrietty

Sound Mixing
The Avengers
Chronicle
The Hunger Games
Life of Pi*
Skyfall*

Sound Editing
The Avengers
Chronicle
Django Unchained*
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Life of Pi*

Original Song
"Touch the Sky"-Brave
"Freedom"-Django Unchained
"Song of the Lonely Mountain"-The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
"Skyfall"-Skyfall*
"Breath of Life"-Snow White and the Huntsman

As promised, here's a really gorgeous wrap-up video from Joe Reid over at Low Resolution. Watch it, it's totally worth your time.
http://vimeo.com/59821418

Well, that's another movie year over, believe it or not. And I for one am glad that I've got all these new movies in my life. What about you? Any cinematic moments you're particularly grateful for?

And is there anything you'd like to see me right about in the future? I've been debating trying to resurrect this blog a bit. What do we think? It probably wouldn't be terribly regular, but it'd be something. I think what killed the blog last time was forcing myself to come up with content, regardless of how good it actually was. So this time around, I'd just write about something when I felt motivated/inspired to, rather than trying to churn out daily content. Anyone here who would actually read that?