2013 Academy Awards

Here are my annual picks and predictions for this year's Academy Awards:

Best Actor:
My choice: Bradley Cooper
Prediction: Daniel Day-Lewis
Actual Winner: Daniel Day-Lewis

Best Actress:
My choice: Jessica Chastain or Quvenzhane Wallis
Prediction: Jennifer Lawrence
Actual Winner: Jennifer Lawrence

Best Supporting Actor:
My choice: Robert De Niro
Prediction: Tommy Lee Jones
Actual Winner: Christoph Waltz

Best Supporting Actress:
My choice: Anne Hathaway
Prediction: Anne Hathaway
Actual Winner: Anne Hathaway

Best Animated Feature:
My choice: Brave
Prediction: Brave or Wreck-It Ralph
Actual Winner: Brave

Best Director:
My choice: David O. Russell
Prediction: Steven Spielberg
Actual Winner: Ang Lee

Best Picture:
My choice: Argo
Prediction: Argo
Actual Winner: Argo

For the second year in a row, I will be live tweeting the awards show here and will update this page as winners are announced.

xoxo
c
-------------------------------------------

Jack: I love getting tossed in a sack and shoved through a magic portal.

Santa: Oh, good, that was my idea!

----------------------

Over the holiday weekend, I got a chance to see both Silver Linings Playbook and Rise of the Guardians.

My mom came into town for Thanksgiving, so Wednesday night I introduced her to the Alamo Drafthouse. While she was not used to eating in the dark, she enjoyed her first Drafthouse experience and we both really liked Rise of the Guardians. I had heard a bad review on the radio and was not sure about it, but it ended up being fantastic.

When the Boogeyman, aka Pitch, tries to take over the world, the immortal guardians must join forces to stop him before children stop believing in the guardians and they disappear. If you have not already figured it from the picture, the group of guardians is comprised of Santa Claus, Jack Frost, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and the Sandman voiced by Alec Baldwin, Chris Pine, Isla Fisher and Hugh Jackman respectively (the Sandman does not speak) and the Boogeyman is Jude Law. I also quite enjoyed the elves and the yetis, who help Santa in his workshop.

While the plot was fairly predictable, my mom and I both thought that it was funny and very entertaining. It was visually beautiful, the dialogue was witty and it is just a great holiday adventure for the whole family.