Oscar Race 2012
by timmydave | created - 09 Feb 2013 | updated - 09 Feb 2013 | PublicA List of the top front runners for winning an oscar. Catagories: Best Director,Best Actor,Best Actress,Best Supporting Actor,Best Supporting Actress,Best Song.
1. Steven Spielberg
Producer | Schindler's List
One of the most influential personalities in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg is Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. He has an extraordinary number of commercially successful and critically acclaimed credits to his name, either as a director, ...
Nominated for his 7th Best Director Academy Award for his work on Lincoln. The film stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The film is also nominated for 11 other awards including; Best Actor(Day-Lewis), Supporting Actress(Field),Supporting Actor(Jones) and Best Picture.
2. Ang Lee
Director | Wo hu cang long
Born in 1954 in Pingtung, Taiwan, Ang Lee has become one of today's greatest contemporary filmmakers. Ang graduated from the National Taiwan College of Arts in 1975 and then came to the U.S. to receive a B.F.A. Degree in Theatre/Theater Direction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ...
Nominated for his 3rd Best Director Academy Award for his work on the film Life of Pi. He previously won for his film Brokeback Mountain(2005). The film also received another 10 nominations.
3. Kathryn Bigelow
Director | Zero Dark Thirty
A very talented painter, Kathryn spent two years at the San Francisco Art Institute. At 20, she won a scholarship to the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program. She was given a studio in a former Offtrack Betting building, literally in an old bank vault, where she made art and waited to be ...
Nominated for her 2nd Best Director Academy Award for her work on Zero Dark Thirty. She won the award in 2009's Hurt Locker, becoming the first female to achieve the honor. Zero Dark Thirty also received 4 other nominations including a Best Actress nomination for Jessica Chastain.
4. Daniel Day-Lewis
Actor | There Will Be Blood
Born in London, England, Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is the second child of Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the U.K., and his second wife, actress Jill Balcon. His maternal grandfather was Sir Michael Balcon, an important figure in the history of British cinema and head of the famous Ealing ...
Nominated for his 5th Best Actor Academy Award for portraying Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln. He previously won for My Left Foot(1990) and There Will Be Blood(2008).
5. Hugh Jackman
Actor | Les Misérables
Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer and producer. Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as superhero, period, and romance characters. He is best known for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men film ...
Nominated for his 1st Best Actor Academy Award for playing Jean Valjean in Les Miserables. He previously won the Golden Globe for the role for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy.
6. Jessica Chastain
Actress | Zero Dark Thirty
Jessica Michelle Chastain was born in Sacramento, California, and was raised in a middle-class household in a Northern California suburb. Her mother, Jerri Chastain, is a vegan chef whose family is originally from Kansas, and her stepfather is a fireman. She discovered dance at the age of nine and ...
Nominated for her 1st Best Actress Academy Award for playing Maya in Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty. Chastain was previously nominated for Best Supporting Actress in 2011 for The Help.
7. Tommy Lee Jones
Actor | The Fugitive
Tommy Lee Jones was born in San Saba, Texas, the son of Lucille Marie (Scott), a police officer and beauty shop owner, and Clyde C. Jones, who worked on oil fields. Tommy himself worked in underwater construction and on an oil rig. He attended St. Mark's School of Texas, a prestigious prep school ...
Nominated for his 3rd Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for portraying Thaddeus Stevens in Speilberg's Lincoln. He has won the award for The Fugitive(1993).
8. Christoph Waltz
Actor | Django Unchained
Christoph Waltz is an Austrian-German actor. He is known for his work with American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, receiving acclaim for portraying SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds (2009) and bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained (2012). For each performance, he won...
Nominated for his 2nd Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for playing Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained. He won the award in 2009 for his role in Inglorious Bastards.
9. Sally Field
Actress | Forrest Gump
Sally Margaret Field was born November 6, 1946 in Pasadena, California, to actress Margaret Field (née Morlan) and salesman Richard Dryden Field. Her parents divorced in 1950 and her mother then married stuntman Jock Mahoney, and they had a daughter, Princess O'Mahoney. She also has a brother, ...
Nominated for her 1st Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Mary Todd Lincoln in Speilberg's Lincoln. Field has won 2 Best Actress Awards for Norma Rae(1979) and Places in The Heart(1984).
10. Anne Hathaway
Actress | Les Misérables
Anne Jacqueline Hathaway was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Kate McCauley Hathaway, an actress, and Gerald T. Hathaway, a lawyer, both originally from Philadelphia. She is of mostly Irish descent, along with English, German, and French. Her first major role came in the short-lived television series ...
Nominated for her 1st Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role as Fantine in Les Miserables. She was nominated for a Best Actress Award in 2008 for her role as Kym Bucham in Rachel Getting Married.
11. Adele
Soundtrack | Skyfall
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born May 5, 1988) is a British singer-songwriter who has sold millions of albums worldwide and won a total of 15 Grammys as well as an Oscar. Adele's first two albums, 19 and 21, earned her critical praise and a level of commercial success unsurpassed among her peers. ...
Nominated for her 1st Best Original Song Academy Award for her performance & songwriting of Skyfall for the James Bond film of the same name starring Daniel Craig. Adele has been awarded the Golden Globe for Best Original Song.
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