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Here are my predictions for the 83rd Academy Awards<\/a><\/strong> which will take place this Sunday.<\/p>\n This year there appear to be less certainties and the only major category I would bank on would be Best Actor.<\/p>\n The big debate for most of the awards season has been the battle between The King\u2019s Speech<\/a> and The Social Network<\/a>: whilst David Fincher\u2019s drama about the creation of Facebook is the superior film, the moving qualities of Tom Hooper\u2019s period piece will probably give it the edge.<\/p>\n However, I would be surprised if the Academy didn’t award David Fincher Best Director over Tom Hooper, even though the latter\u00a0surprisingly\u00a0won the DGA Award<\/a>, which is usually an indicator for the Oscars.<\/p>\n In the major acting categories Colin Firth (The King\u2019s Speech) is a near-certainty and although Natalie Portman (Black Swan) is still the favourite, look out for Annette Benning (The Kids Are Alright) to cause a possible upset.<\/p>\n The supporting acting slots are fiendishly hard to call this year, so I\u2019m going with the obvious\u00a0front-runners\u00a0in Christian Bale (The Fighter) and Melissa Leo (The Fighter). However, Geoffrey Rush (The King\u2019s Speech), Haileee Steinfeld (True Grit) and Helena\u00a0Bonham-Carter (The King\u2019s Speech) are strong contenders.<\/p>\n In other categories, Inception to seems favourite to nab a few technical awards in visual effects and sound, which will make up for it being criminally overlooked in Direction<\/a> and Editing<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Best Documentary category could see Banksy<\/a> appear on stage if Exit Through The Gift Shop<\/a> wins. In truth I thing Inside Job<\/a> will win, but Waste Land and Restrepo are also strong contenders in a very good year for documentaries.<\/p>\n Make sure to check back on Monday, to see how right (or wrong) I was.<\/p>\n OSCAR PREDICTIONS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n > Full list of Oscar nominations for 2010-11<\/a> Here are my predictions for the 83rd Academy Awards which will take place this Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[768],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\n>\u00a0Official Oscars site<\/a>
\n>\u00a083rd Academy Awards at Wikipedia<\/a>
\n> Analysis at\u00a0Awards Daily<\/a> and\u00a0In Contention<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"