2012 Awards Season: The Artist Hot Oscar Favorite
February 26, 2012
We have received all the votes now in our annual Predict the Oscars contest, and the big
prize of the night is predicted to go to The Artist, which
scored a remarkable 86% of all votes, making it the hottest favorite to win the prize since
Slumdog Millionaire won 91% of the votes in 2009.
Several other categories have overwhelming favorites, with Rango
winning 86% support for Best Animated Feature, Christopher Plummer
scoring 88% for Supporting Actor, and Octavia Spencer 84% for
Supporting Actress. Numbers readers seem very confident in their predictions this year in general, with the winner in 21
out of 24 categories receiving more than half of the votes.
The Artist is favorite in six categories overall, with Michel Hazanavicius
predicted to win Best Director and Jean Dujardin getting most votes for
Best Actor. It also tops the poll for Costume Design, Film Editing and Original Score. Hugo
looks as though it will pick up the second-largest haul with three technical awards: Art Directing, Sound Editing and Sounds Mixing.
Other than that, only one film is predicted to win more than one award: The Help's
Viola Davis is expected to join Octavia Spencer and give the film both
actress awards.
With the Oscars spread far and wide, we should be in for an interesting evening. You can follow along here at The Numbers as
C.S. Live Blogs the event tonight.
- Click here to see our predicted winners
- Click here to see the complete vote tallies in each category
Filed under: Awards Season, Hugo, The Help, The Artist