Two Tickets For...'s Oscars Nominations Predictions - Best Picture & Full Predictions

Andrew: Hello readers! So the last few days we've been sharing our predictions for who will be nominated in  the acting categories, the directing category and the screenplay categories for this year's Academy Awards. Today we're going to discuss and share our guesses for which films (and how many) will be nominated in the big one - Best Picture. We will also be posting our picks for ALL the categories (except the short films) because that is what we need to do for the Oscar Nominations Predictions contest being held by Film Actually. 

So, to preface our discussion of the Best Picture nominees, we're briefly going to remind you that the process for voting and determining Best Picture nominees changed last year. Remember in 2009 how the Academy changed the number of nominees from 5 to 10 in large part because Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight didn't get nominated in 2008? Well after two years of having 10 nominees the Academy decided maybe they were watering down the category by letting in a set number of 10.

So last year they changed the process to where there can be anywhere between 5 and 10 nominees in the Best Picture category, but now to get nominated your film MUST receive a minimum of 5% of all first-place votes. That's why last year there were 9 nominees - there weren't that many movies that EVERYONE loved, so a larger amount of films got first-place votes. Could that happen again this year? What do you think, Sarah?

Two Tickets For..'s Oscar Nominations Predictions - Best Director, Original Screenplay, Adapted Screenplay

Sarah: Hello readers! It's been a big day here at Two Tickets For... with our Golden Katz Award! So we're going to continue the awards season predictions with the Academy Award for Best Director. 

I'm going to have to go with the number one spot and that will go to Ben Affleck. His directing in Argo was amazing. He was able to bring enough intrigue ad suspense to a movie that most of the world already knew the ending of. Being able to manipulate the audience to feel real fear for the characters on screen is a feat that few directors have been able to accomplish. I don't typically like Affleck but I do hope that he wins this category this year.

Two Tickets For...'s Oscar Nominations Predictions - Best Actor & Actress

Andrew: Hello readers! Later this week on Thursday morning, Emma Stone and Seth MacFarlane will be announcing the nominees for the 85th Academy Awards that will be held on Sunday, February 24th in Los Angeles. As you may or may not know, we happen to love the Oscars, and as such we're going to be posting our predictions for who will have their nominations announced by Mr. MacFarlane and Ms. Stone. We kicked our predictions off yesterday with our guesses for the Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress categories, which you can read here if you'd like. And today we're going to be discussing whom we think will get nominated in the lead acting categories.

So, Sarah, which of the two categories would you like to start with today? Best Actor or Best Actress?

Two Tickets For...'s Oscar Nominations Predictions - Supporting Actor & Actress

Andrew: Hello readers! It’s getting to be that time of year when the awards circuit is moving full-steam ahead. We’ve already had the nominations for the Golden Globes, the Writers Guild, the Screen Actors Guild and the Producers Guild all announce their awards nominees, plus we’ll have the Directors Guild announcing there’s on Tuesday. 

But we’re not here to talk about them, exactly, no. As you may or may not know, the nominees for the 85^th annual Academy Awards will be announced at 8:30 AM EST on Thursday, January 10^th. With that in mind, Sarah and I are going to be taking part in a Predict the Oscars Nominations Contest that our fellow blogger Squasher88 is hosting over at his blog, Film Actually. Squasher88 is asking all his contest participants to predict the nominees for every category except for the Short Film categories.

So this week, Sarah and I will be posting our Oscar nominations predictions, starting today with our predictions for who will be nominated for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress, and building all the way up to our Best Picture nom predictions and full revelation of the more technical predictions most people have no clue about on Wednesday.

Alright, let’s get down to it Sarah! Today we’re just focusing on the two supporting acting categories. Which one would you like to start with first?