It is an interesting category in its own way. They can recognize Quentin Tarantino, who always delivers very dense and literary screenplays with unusual characters and almost musical dialogue. They can recognize Moonrise Kingdom since this category is often utilized to award the year's most popular idiosyncratic comedy. Or they can honor the enormous journalistic research required to outline and detail Zero Dark Thirty.

I do not believe either Amour or Flight can win. Flight should not be nominated.

Amour can definitely win. I think it's between Haneke and Tarantino.

Watch the Oscars fuckweith us and give Amour Foreign Film, Actress, Screenplay and Diector.

I'm starting to think it's possible. This year has been such a tossup comparing the Academy nominations to the precursors.

Has anyone won Best Director without a DGA nomination? I may just be between Spielberg and Lee for that award.

No, never happened.

In factm the DGA winner and the BD winner matched every single time between 1949 and 2011, except for 6 times!!!

Ron Howard is the only person to win DGA without a BD nom at the Oscars.

The future Best Animated Short winner is now online in full:

De Niro looks pissed off, Naomi Watts looks sexy, and Bradley Cooper is trying to be such a cool guy with the same undone shirt look that he has in loads of movies, but he just looks like an ass.

Tim Burton hanging out with Amy Adams.

Jennifer Lawrence looking like a prostitute.

No Day-Lewis or Tarantino

But, fear not, Waltz is there.

Phew.

That's because he needs to do promotional work before he co-stars in One Nation Under Seige.

One Nation Under Siege is already a film.

Theft! Theft! Theft!

Was that a hint of a smile on Tommy Lee Jones' face?

The guy in purple next to Amy Adams looked like he was texting.

Her and her STRAPLESS dress! What a whore!

Also, you point out Cooper with his "unbuttoned" shirt... what about the other 50% of the men with unbuttoned shirts?

What about them? I'm not contractually obliged to mention every person.

But you made it a point to point out Cooper. Why?

The reason is stated in the post that I made.

It's not, though. You pointed him out specifically for an unknown reason.

Although The Dark Knight and The Guardians will not rise at this year’s Oscars, Daniel Day-Lewis is going to be named the real Beast of the Southern Wild (for playing the president and a vampire hunter). The Master will not find Amour for the Life of Pi, and Quentin Tarantino will get all The Perks of Being a Wallflower so that Anne Hathaway can be finally Unchained by Django until Moonrise Kingdom come. Michael Haneke will make an Unexpected Journey and find out that Tommy Lee Jones is so Brave he’s gonna do The Impossible with Jennifer Lawrence. Seeing that Jessica Chastain took Flight with Joaquin Phoenix, Bradley Cooper and Hugh Jackman will get lost Searching for Sugar Man on Kon-Tiki. Paul Thomas Anderson, Kathryn Bigelow and Leonardo DiCaprio are clearly Les Miserables and The Hobbit is getting Thirty Dark Zeros, but Ben Affleck will get the Silver Linings Playbook when Steven Spielberg takes the Skyfall and Argo wins over Lincoln.

Some easy calls early on, if you look at the early pages of this thread. Heck, David got three of the BP noms (Django, Lincoln, Life of Pi)

Based off the early predicts, Leo was the biggest snub.

Based off the midway predicts, Bigelow was the biggest snub.

And obviously, based off the final predicts, Affleck was the biggest snub.