Once again, Oscar season is upon us and the big predicting game of who will actually be nominated to take home the infamous golden guy is consuming everyone in Hollywood. I happen to be one of the few people outside of the Golden State that is as consumed as everyone else inside the state. And after agonizing and panicking and even sacrificing a few small rodents in order to view the future, I have finally cemented my predictions for the nominees for the upcoming Academy Awards. The 10 categories predicted are the ones that will be announced during the nomination announcement on Tuesday, January 25 at 8:30 AM EST.

BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR

• 127 Hours
• Black Swan
• The Fighter
• Inception
• The Kids Are All Right
• The King's Speech
• The Social Network
• Toy Story 3
• True Grit
• Winter's Bone

Alternate Possibilities: The Town, Waiting for Superman, Biutiful

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN THE FIELD OF DIRECTING

Black Swan, Directed by Darren Aronofsky
The Fighter, Directed by David O. Russell
Inception, Directed by Christopher Nolan
The King's Speech, Directed by Tom Hooper
The Social Network, Directed by David Fincher

Alternate Possibilities: 127 Hours, Directed by Danny Boyle; The Kids Are All Right, Directed by Lisa Cholodenko; Toy Story 3, Directed by Lee Unkrich; The Town, Directed by Ben Affleck; True Grit, Directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen; Biutiful, Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu; Winter's Bone, Directed by Debra Granik

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Jeff Bridges, True Grit
Robert Duvall, Get Low
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
Colin Firth, The King's Speech
James Franco, 127 Hours

Alternate Possibilities: Mark Wahlberg, The Fighter; Ryan Gosling, Blue Valentine; Javier Bardem, Biutiful; Paul Giamatti, Barney's Version; Leonardo DiCaprio, Inception

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right
Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone
Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine

Alternate Possibilities: Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit; Hillary Swank, Conviction; Lesley Manville, Another Year; Julianne Moore, The Kids Are All Right; Naomi Watts, Fair Game

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Christian Bale, The Fighter
Andrew Garfield, The Social Network
Jeremy Renner, The Town
Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right
Geoffrey Rush, The King's Speech

Alternate Possibilities: John Hawkes, Winter's Bone; Michael Douglas, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps; Matt Damon, True Grit; Pete Postlethwaite, The Town; Sam Rockwell, Conviction

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Amy Adams, The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter, The King's Speech
Mila Kunis, Black Swan
Melissa Leo, The Fighter
Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit

Alternate Possibilities: Jackie Weaver, Animal Kingdom; Barbara Hershey, Black Swan; Dianne Weist, Rabbit Hole

BEST WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY WRITTEN DIRECTLY FOR THE SCREEN)

Black Swan, Written by Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz and John J. McLaughlin
The Fighter, Written by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson & Keith Dorrington
The Kids Are All Right, Written by Stuart Blumberg and Lisa Cholodenko
The King's Speech, Written by David Seidler
Inception, Written by Christopher Nolan

Alternate Possibilities: Blue Valentine, Written by Derek Cianfrance & Cami Delavigne and Joey Curtis; Another Year, Written by Mike Leigh; Please Give, Written by Nicole Holofcener; Biutiful, Written by Alejandro González Iñárritu and Armando Bo and Nicolás Giacobone; Greenberg, Written by Noah Baumbach and Jennifer Jason Leigh

BEST WRITING (SCREENPLAY ADAPTED FROM ANOTHER MEDIUM)

127 Hours, Written by Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle
The Social Network, Written by Aaron Sorkin
Toy Story 3, Written by Michael Arndt (Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich)
True Grit, Written by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
Winter's Bone, Written by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini

Alternate Possibilities: The Ghost Writer, Written by Robert Harris and Roman Polanski; The Town, Written by Peter Craig and Ben Affleck & Aaron Stockard; Rabbit Hole, Written by David Lindsay-Abaire

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Toy Story 3

Alternate Possibilities: Despicable Me, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, Tangled

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Biutiful (Mexico)
Confessions (Japan)
In a Better World (Denmark)
Incendies (Canada)
Life, Above All (South Africa)

Alternate Possibilities: Hors la Loi (Outside the Law) (Algeria), Dogtooth (Greece), Simple Simon (Sweden), Tambien la Lluvia (Even the Rain) (Spain)