. "Ang Lee for Best Director, Emmanuelle Riva for Amour (along with Michael Haneke for his screenplay), Robert De Niro for Silver Linings Playbook, Argo for Best Film Editing and Best Adapted Screenplay (there was a time when it COULD NOT WIN ANYTHING OTHER THAN BEST PICTURE OMG), all predicted here and there now, all possibilities I have been mulling over for weeks." . . . .