Well, almost every category… Every week (or so) from today until the Oscar Nominations are announced on Thursday, January 10, 2013, I will update predictions in every category of the Academy Awards. These are my best guesses based on my own assessments and buzz around the awards world.

Note: Films or people above the stars are my predictions as of today. These updates will also be on the sidebar.

Please check out the “Oscars” section for more detailed, in-progress write-ups about each award.

And now then:

Best Picture:
Argo
Silver Linings Playbook
The Master
Moonrise Kingdom
Lincoln
Les Misérables
Amour
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Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Anna Karenina
Promised Land
The Impossible
Flight
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Director:
Ben Affleck, Argo
Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Michael Haneke, Amour
Tom Hooper, Les Misérables
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David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained

Best Actor: 
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Ben Affleck, Argo
John Hawkes, The Sessions
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
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Denzel Washington, Flight
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Bill Murray, Hyde Parks on Hudson
Matt Damon, Promised Land

Best Actress:
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Marion Cotillard, Rust & Bone
Michelle Williams, Take This Waltz
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Naomi Watts, The Impossible
Keira Knightley, Anna Karenina
Amy Adams, Trouble with the Curve

Best Supporting Actor:
Alan Arkin, Argo
Dwight Henry, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
Leonardo DiCaprio, Django Unchained
William H. Macy, The Sessions
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Matthew McConaughey, Magic Mike
Hal Hobrook, Promised Land
James Gandolfini, Killing Them Softly

Best Supporting Actress:
Anne Hathaway, The Dark Knight Rises
Nicole Kidman, The Paperboy
Ann Dowd, Compliance
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Maggie Smith, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
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Amy Adams, The Master
Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables
Sally Field, Lincoln

Adapted Screenplay:
Argo, Chris Terrio
Lincoln, Tony Kushner/John Logan/Paul Webb
Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell
Les Misérables, William Nicholson
The Sessions, Ben Lewin
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Life of Pi, David Magee
On the Road, Jose Rivera
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Ol Parker

Original Screenplay:
The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson
Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino
Flight, John Gatins
Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson/Roman Coppola
Amour, Michael Haneke
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Seven Psychopaths, Martin McDonaugh
Take This Waltz, Sarah Polley
Zero Dark Thirty, Mark Boal

Best Cinematography: 
Lincoln, Janusz Kaminski
The Dark Knight Rises, Wally Pfister
The Master, Mihai Milaimare Jr.
Anna Karenina, Seamus McGarvey
Argo, Rodrigo Prieto
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Les Misérables, Danny Cohen
Skyfall, Roger Deakins
Django Unchained, Robert Richardson

Costume Design:
Mirror Mirror, Eiko Ishioka
The Master, Mark Bridges
Lincoln, Joanna Johnston
Django Unchained, Sharen Davis
Snow White and the Huntsman, Colleen Atwood
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Les Misérables, Paco Delgado
On the Road, Danny Glicker
Anna Karenina, Jacqueline Durran

Best Production Design:
Lincoln
Life of Pi
Anna Karenina
Les Misérables
Cloud Atlas
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Django Unchained
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Master

Best Film Editing:
Argo, William Goldenberg
Zero Dark Thirty, Dylan Tichenor
Lincoln, Michael Kahn
Skyfall, Stuart Baird
The Master, Peter McNulty
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Life of Pi, Tim Squyres
Silver Linings Playbook, Jay Cassidy/Crispin Struthers
Beasts of the Southern Wild, Crockett Doob/Alfonso Gonclaves

Best Original Score:
John Williams, Lincoln
Argo, Alexandre Desplat
The Master, Jonny Greenwood
On the Road, Gustavo Santaolella
Anna Karenina, Dario Marianelli
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Silver Linings Playbook, Danny Elfman
Cloud Atlas, Tom Twyker/Reinhold Heil
Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin/Dan Romer

Best Original Song:
Strange Love, Karen O (Frankenweenie)
Midnight Run, Willie Nelson (Lawless)
Celebrate, Jennifer Hudson/Whitney Houston (Sparkle)
Skyfall, Adele (Skyfall)
Learn Me Right, Birdy/Mumford and Sons (Brave)
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Everybody Needs a Friend, Norah Jones (Ted)
Suddenly, Les Misérables (Hugh Jackman)
Fire in the Blood, The Bootleggers/Emmylou Harris (Lawless)

Best Documentary Feature:
Searching for Sugar Man
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Marley
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Invisible War
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The Queen of Versailles
Central Park Five
Bully
West of Memphis

Best Animated Feature:
Paranorman
Frankenweenie
Brave
Rise of the Guardians
The Lorax
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From Up on Poppy Hill
The Rabbi’s Cat
The Pirates! Band of Misfits

Best Foreign Film:
Amour (Austria)
The Intouchables (France)
Beyond the Hills (Romania)
War Witch (Canada)
Barbara (Germany)
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Pieta (South Korea)
The Hypnotist (Sweden)
Our Children (Belgium)

Best Visual Effects:
Prometheus
The Avengers
Cloud Atlas
Life of Pi
The Dark Knight Rises
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Flight
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Looper

Best Sound Editing:
The Avengers
Zero Dark Thirty
The Dark Knight Rises
Flight
Prometheus
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Cloud Atlas
Django Unchained
Les Misérables

Best Sound Mixing:
Zero Dark Thirty
Dark Knight Rises
Les Misérables
The Avengers
Prometheus
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Cloud Atlas
Skyfall
Django Unchained

Best Makeup:
Men in Black 3
Lincoln
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
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Looper
Dark Shadows
Snow White and the Huntsman