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This year’s Oscar campaign was two weeks longer than usual, since the Academy moved up its nominations deadline without moving up the actual Oscar ceremony. Whether the length of the campaigns had any effect on the Oscar outcomes will only be known come Sunday night. The Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actress categories look pretty locked up but there’s still a chance for some movement in the other top categories.

Here’s hoping there will be at least a few surprises.

Best Supporting Actor
	Will Win: Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln Should Win: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained Alan Arkin, Argo Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Best Supporting Actress
	Will & Should Win: Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables Amy Adams, The Master Sally Field Lincoln Helen Hunt, The Sessions Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook
Best Actor
	Will Win: Daniel Day Lewis, Lincoln Should Win:Joaquin Phoenix, The Master Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables Denzel Washington, Flight
Best Actress
	Will win: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook Should Win: Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty Emmanuelle Riva, Amour Naomi Watts, The Impossible
Best Director
	Will win: Steven Spielberg, Lincoln Should Win: Ang Lee, Life of Pi Michael Haneke, Amour Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Best Picture
	Will win: Argo Should Win: Django Unchained Amour Beasts of the Southern Wild Les Miserables Life of Pi Lincoln Silver Linings Playbook Zero Dark Thirty

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