It’s once again time for my annual highly mediocre, guaranteed to finish in the top 5 but definitely not win your pool Oscar Predictions.  As always, my guess are paired with my own personal award for each category, The Endy.  The Endys follow different rules than the Oscars because only actual 2011 films are eligible, which excludes such luminaries as Certified Copy, Meek’s Cutoff, Carlos, Mysteries of Lisbon, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives and many others which all first saw release in 2010.  This year was an unusually light one for me movie-wise, as the Best of the Year list (to be posted this evening) will attest, and some of the Endy categories (I haven’t seen any 2011 foreign language films!) are a bit lacking.

Best Picture:

Endy: The Tree of Life

Oscar: The Artist

Best Director:

Endy: Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life

Oscar: Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist

Actor:

Endy: Brendan Gleeson, The Guard

Oscar: Jean Dujardin, The Artist

Actress:

Endy: Marion Cotillard, Midnight in Paris

Oscar: Viola Davis, The Help

Supporting Actor:

Endy: Brad Pitt, The Tree of Life

Oscar: Christopher Plummer, Beginners

Supporting Actress:

Endy: Helen McCrory, Hugo

Oscar: Bérénice Bejo, The Artist

Original Screenplay:

Endy: Jason Segel & Nicholas Stoller, The Muppets

Oscar: Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris

Adapted Screenplay:

Endy: Craig Schultz & Stephan Pastis, Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown

Oscar: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon & Jim Rash, The Descendants

Foreign Language Film:

Endy: NA

Oscar: A Separation

Documentary Feature:

Endy: Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

Oscar: Paradise Lost 3

Animated Feature:

Endy: Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown

Oscar: Rango

Film Editing:

Endy: The Tree of Life

Oscar: The Artist

Cinematography:

Endy: Emmanuel Lubezki, The Tree of Life

Oscar: Emmanuel Lubezki, The Tree of Life

Art Direction:

Endy: Hugo

Oscar: Hugo

Costume Design:

Endy: Midnight in Paris

Oscar: The Artist

Make-Up:

Endy: Super 8

Oscar: The Iron Lady

Sound Mixing:

Endy: The Tree of Life

Oscar: Hugo

Sound Editing:

Endy: Drive

Oscar: War Horse

Visual Effects:

Endy: Hugo

Oscar: Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Original Score:

Endy: Alexandre Desplat, The Tree of Life

Oscar: Ludovic Bource, The Artist

Original Song:

Endy: “Man or Muppet”, The Muppets

Oscar: “Man or Muppet”, The Muppets

Documentary Short:

Oscar: Saving Face

Animated Short:

Oscar: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

Live Action Short:

Oscar: The Shore

Soundtrack:

Endy: The Tree of Life