Istanbul - Blue Mosque - March 2012

2013 Oscar Predictions - Round 2

Best Picture

1. Argo
2. Les Miserables
3. Lincoln
4. Silver Linings Playbook
5. The Master
6. Life of Pi
7. Zero Dark Thirty - New
8. Beasts of the Southern Wild
9. Hitchcock

2nd Tier
Amour

Best Director

1. Ben Affleck (Argo)
2. Steven Spielberg (Lincoln) - Promoted
3. Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master)
4. Tom Hooper (Les Miserables)
5. David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)

2nd Tier
Ang Lee (Life of Pi) - Demoted

Best Actor

1. Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)
2. Daniel Day Lewis (Lincoln)
3. John Hawkes (The Sessions)
4. Denzel Washington (Flight)
5. Anthony Hopkins (Hitchcock)

2nd Tier
Hugh Jackman (Les Miserables) - New

Dropped Out
Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook)


Best Actress

1. Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)
2. Quvenzhane Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
3. Marion Cotillard (Rust and Bone)
4. Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty) - New
5. Keira Knightley (Anna Karenina)

2nd Tier
Naomi Watts (The Impossible) - Demoted
Helen Mirren (Hitchcock)

Dropped Out
Emmanuelle Riva (Amour)


Best Supporting Actor

1. Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)
2. Leonardo DiCaprio (Django Unchained)
3. Tommy Lee Jones (Lincoln) - New
4. Alan Arkin (Argo)
5. Robert DeNiro (Silver Linings Playbook)

2nd Tier
Russell Crowe (Les Miserables)

Dropped Out
Matthew McConaughey (Magic Mike)


Best Supporting Actress

1. Amy Adams (The Master)
2. Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables)
3. Helen Hunt (The Sessions)
4. Sally Field (Lincoln)
5. Maggie Smith (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel)

2nd Tier
Kerry Washington (Django Unchained)

Promoted to Best Actress
Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)

60 Books in 2012 - Updates

List of Books

1. One Shot (Jack Reacher #9) by Lee Child
2. Batman, Vol. 1: The Court of Owls by Scott Snyder
3. Batman: The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb
4. Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power by Steve Coll
5. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
6. Atomic Robo and the Fightin' Scientists of Tesladyne (Atomic Robo #1) by Brian Clevinger
7. Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings
8. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't by Jim Collins
9. The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History by Gregory Zuckerman
10. Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness by Frank Brady
11. Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson
12. American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle
13. The Day We Lost the H-Bomb: Cold War, Hot Nukes and the Worst Nuclear Weapond Disaster in History by  Barbara Moran
14. Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
15. Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
16. 11/22/63 by Stephen King
17. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
18. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
19. The Magicians by Lev Grossman
20. Anathem by Neal Stephenson