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    Oscar countdown

    Foolproof guide to Oscar gold: Every Academy Award winner is named here (we hope)

    Duncan Carson
    Feb 24, 2013 | 7:19 am

    There is an entire Internet subculture devoted to predicting the Oscars. Like sporting events, it has its own Vegas odds-makers, and several blogs are devoted to handicapping the ceremony. Hard and fast rules don't work, and even renowned statistician Nate Silver wasn't as good at predicting who got little gold men as he was at predicting how the 2012 election would unfold.

    No matter. If you followed my advice last year, you went with a tried-and-true regimen of pre-Oscar indicators, gut instinct and a resolution to not take it so seriously. You also got 18 out of 24 categories correct, which is more than enough to win most office Oscar pools.
    This year should be no different if you follow my foolproof guide to the Oscars. These are the winners wrought by the awards season narrative, and I'll be absolutely sure of each one — until a few of them are wrong on Sunday.
    Argo has made a late-season push to the front of the pack for Best Picture. Hollywood loves itself, so a movie about making movies (sort of) could swoop in and prevent the solid but straightforward Lincoln from Mitt-Romney-ing its way to victory.
    Argo should pick up Editing and Adapted Screenplay awards as well, while Lincoln consoles itself with wins for performances by Daniel Day-Lewis and Tommy Lee Jones and Steven Spielberg's direction.
    In the other major categories, Jennifer Lawrence wins Best Actress by a nose for Silver Linings Playbook, while Anne Hathaway wins Best Supporting Actress in a landslide (pretty much just for singing the Susan Boyle song from Les Mis, which will also win Sound Mixing for its innovative live-singing production).
    In a wide-open race, Django Unchained stands poised to take Original Screenplay.
    Life of Pi should take a bunch of technical awards for looking pretty. Skyfall will become only the third Bond movie to win an Oscar, taking home both Sound Effects Editing and Best Original Song for Adele's titular ballad.
    Anna Karennina easily wins Best Costumes, and The Hobbit wins makeup for dusting off the hobbit feet.
    That leaves Wreck-It Ralph winning Best Animated Feature, Amour (a Best Picture nominee) easily winning Best Foreign Language Film, Searching For Sugar Man taking Best Documentary and, finally, the unpredictable short films.
    Getting one short film right is a good day: at least Paperman (a partially hand-drawn industry favorite) is a lock for Animated Short. I have gone with Curfew in Live Action Short (it has a cute little kid), and Mondays at Racine (it's about cancer) in Documentary Short.
    Without further ado, here's my comprehensive guide to the Academy Awards. Best of luck! And if I'm way off, I promise all of your money back.

    Picture: Argo
    Director: Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
    Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
    Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
    Supporting Actor: Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
    Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
    Original Screenplay: Django Unchained
    Adapted Screenplay: Argo
    Editing: Argo
    Cinematography: Life of Pi
    Score: Life of Pi
    Song: "Skyfall" by Adele from Skyfall
    Art Direction: Life of Pi
    Costumes: Anna Karennina
    Sound Mixing: Les Miserables
    Sound Effects Editing: Skyfall
    Makeup: The Hobbit
    Visual Effects: Life of Pi
    Foreign: Amour
    Animated Feature: Wreck-It Ralph
    Doc Feature: Searching for Sugar Man
    Doc Short: Mondays at Racine
    Animated Short: Paperman
    Live Short: Curfew

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    In the top six categories of CultureMap's "Pick the Oscar Winners" Contest, readers agreed with Duncan except for Best Supporting Actor, where the pick was Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained. And in a surprise for Best Director, newcomer Benh Zeitlin, who directed the haunting Beasts of the Southern Wild, narrowly beat out Spielberg in our readers poll.

    Argo for Best Picture.

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    Concert News

    Jack Johnson rides into Houston on surf-themed 2026 tour

    Alex Bentley
    Nov 7, 2025 | 1:00 pm
    Jack Johnson
    Photo by Tahnei Roy
    Jack Johnson will play at Dos Equis Pavilion in Dallas on August 30, 2026.

    Singer-songwriter Jack Johnson, known his for laidback surf-rock music, will embark on the SURFILMUSIC Tour in 2026, which will include a stop at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands on Friday, August 28.

    The expansive 43-date North American tour, which starts on June 19 in Gilford, New Hampshire, will have three separate legs.

    The three Texas dates — The Woodlands on August 28, Austin on August 29, and Dallas on August 30 — will be part of the second leg, where Johnson will be joined by Lake Street Dive.

    The tour is Johnson’s first since 2022 and will celebrate a new era of music, film, and environmental connection rooted in his 20+ year career.

    Johnson is touring in support of a forthcoming soundtrack, scored by Johnson and Hermanos Gutiérrez for a new documentary, SURFILMUSIC, that chronicles Johnson’s evolution from surfer to filmmaker to musician.

    The film, which will be released in 2026, weaves through the making of his iconic surf films Thicker Than Water (1999) and The September Sessions (2000), which paved the way for his music career.

    It celebrates the lifelong friendships and ocean-driven community that shaped Johnson’s path, and features many of the surfers who appeared in the original films, including Kelly Slater, Rob Machado, and the Malloy Brothers.

    Johnson released his first album, Brushfire Fairytales, in 2001, and he has gone on to put out eight other albums, most recently Meet the Moonlight in 2022.

    Fans can register for the Jack Johnson presale at jackjohnsonmusic.com, now through Sunday, November 9. The presale begins Monday, November 10, 2025 at 10 am local time and runs through general on-sale date of Friday, November 14.

    Jack Johnson SURFILMUSIC 2026 Tour Dates

    • June 19 – Gilford, NH – Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion
    • June 20 – Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center
    • June 21 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center
    • June 24 – Saratoga, NY – Saratoga Performing Arts Center
    • June 26 – Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion
    • June 27 – Philadelphia, PA – Highmark Mann Center
    • June 28 – Wantagh, NY – Northwell at Jones Beach Theater
    • June 30 – Toronto, ON – RBC Amphitheatre
    • July 1 – Canandaigua, NY – CMAC
    • July 3 – Burgettstown, PA – Pavilion at Star Lake
    • July 4 – Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music Center
    • July 5 – Grand Rapids, MI – Acrisure Amphitheater
    • July 7 – Cuyahoga Falls, OH – Blossom Music Center
    • July 8 – Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend Music Center
    • July 10 – Clarkston, MI – Pine Knob Music Theatre
    • July 11 – Chicago, IL – Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
    • July 12 – Shakopee, MN – Minnesota Quarry Amphitheater
    • August 18 – West Palm Beach, FL – iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre
    • August 19 – Tampa, FL – MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
    • August 21 – Alpharetta, GA – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
    • August 22 – Raleigh, NC – Coastal Credit Union Music Park
    • August 23 – Charlotte, NC – PNC Music Pavilion
    • August 25 – Nashville, TN – Ascend Amphitheater
    • August 26 – Orange Beach, AL – The Wharf Amphitheater
    • August 28 – The Woodlands, TX – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
    • August 29 – Austin, TX – Germania Insurance Amphitheater
    • August 30 – Dallas, TX – Dos Equis Pavilion
    • September 1 – Riverside, MO – MORTON Amphitheater
    • September 2 – Greenwood Village, CO – Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre
    • September 3 – Greenwood Village, CO – Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre
    • September 4 – West Valley City, UT – USANA Amphitheatre
    • September 6 – Stateline, NV – Lake Tahoe Amphitheatre at Caesars Republic
    • September 26 – George, WA – The Gorge Amphitheatre
    • September 27 – Bend, OR – Hayden Homes Amphitheater
    • September 28 – Troutdale, OR – McMenamins Edgefield Amphitheater
    • September 30–October 1 – Berkeley, CA – The Greek Theatre
    • October 3 – Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara Bowl
    • October 4 – Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara Bowl
    • October 6 – Phoenix, AZ – Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre
    • October 9 – Chula Vista, CA – North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre
    • October 10– Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl
    • October 11– Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl
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