And "Argo" pulled it out in the end. No one thought it wouldn't, right?<em> - Kristopher Tapley</em>

Good Bets

• "Argo" (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  1.
• "Silver Linings Playbook" (The Weinstein Company)
  2.
• "Lincoln" (Touchstone Pictures)
  3.
• "Life of Pi" (20th Century Fox)
  4.
• "Les Misérables" (Universal Pictures)
  5.

Other Possibilities

• "Amour" (Sony Pictures Classics)
  6.
• "Beasts of the Southern Wild" (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
  7.
• "Zero Dark Thirty" (Sony Pictures)
  8.
• "Django Unchained" (The Weinstein Company)
  9.

Dark Horses

The Rest of the field