WATCH: Video Montage of Every Best Picture Oscar Winner

The win by 12 Years A Slave for best picture last week was historic, and here is a very cool video of all 86 Best Picture Oscar winners, in a montage that interestingly uses a track from Steven Price's Oscar-winning score for Gravity.

2013 OSCARS: Predictions, Mine and Nate Silver's

Sunday is the day of the Gay Super Bowl, i.e. the 85th Annual Academy Awards ceremony. I have previously made my predictions for this year's winners of the Top 8 categories, like I have done every year since 2007:

In 2012, I predicted 7 of the Top 8 categories correctly; 

In 2011, I predicted 15 of 24 correctly (7 of the Top 8).

In 2010, I predicted 17 of 24 correctly (7 of the Top 8).

In 2009, I predicted 20 of 24 correctly (8 of the Top 8).
In 2008, I predicted 8 of the Top 8 categories correctly.
In 2007, I predicted 7 of the Top 8 categories correctly.

Here are my predictions for all 24 categories (with 2nd choices) for the 2013 Oscars:

Best Picture: Argo (2nd: Lincoln) 

Director: Steven Spielberg (2nd: David O. Russell) 

Original Screenplay: Django Unchained (2nd: Amour) 

Adapted Screenplay: Lincoln (2nd: Argo) 

Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis  (2nd: Bradley Cooper ) 

Actress: Jennifer Lawrence (2nd: Jessica Chastain) 

Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway (2nd: Amy Adams) 

Supporting Actor: Robert De Niro (2nd: Tommy Lee Jones) 

Editing: Argo (2nd: Zero Dark Thirty) 

Production Design: Anna Karenina (2nd: Life of Pi) 

Sound Mixing: Les Miserables (2nd: Life of Pi) 

Sound Editing: Life of Pi (2nd: Django Unchained) 

Cinematography: Life of Pi (2nd: Skyfall) 

Costume Design: Anna Karenina (2nd: Lincoln) 

Documentary: Searching for Sugarman  (2nd: How To Survive A Plague) 

Foreign Language: Amour (2nd: A Royal Affair) 

Animated Film: Frankenweenie (2nd: Brave) 

Makeup: The HobbitScore: Lincoln (2nd: Life of Pi) 

Song: "Skyfall" (from Skyfall) (2nd: "Pi's Lullaby") 

Visual Effects: Life of Pi (2nd: Prometheus) 

Animated Short: Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare (2nd: Paperman) 

Live Action Short: Buzkashi Boys (2nd: Asad)  

Documentary Short: Inocente (2nd: Redemption)

Predictions Guru Nate Silver has gotten into the game, somewhat, by predicting the Top 6 categories. His choices are Argo, Spielberg, Lawrence, Day-Lewis, Hathaway, Jones.

I generally agree with him on his predictions, but the hardest category to pick is Best Supporting Actor this year (usually the first acting award given out of the night) and I think De Niro is going to pull a surprise win. And really there are 8 top categories so it is a bit of a cop-out to not do the screenplay categories. The adapted screenplay category is particularly tough this year, basically a coin flip between Argo and Lincoln while Original Screenplay is basically anyone's game (except Beasts of the Southern Wild--they have zero chance of winning any Oscars).

We'll know within several hours how well I did this year. I suspect my results in the Top 8 will not be as high as I am accustomed.

Celebrity Friday: Victor Garber Thinks Everyone Knows He's Gay

Victor Garber has been one of my favorite actors since he played the father of the main character Sydney Bristow (played by Ben Affleck's wife Jennifer Garner) on Alias,  J.J. Abrams' first foray into television.

You may also remember him as the architect in James Cameron's Titanic (he is the one who tell Kate Winslet's character that the lifeboats only have the capacity to carry half the people who are on board the doomed ship). recently he is getting noticed as the pivotal role of the Canadian ambassador in Affleck's Argo (which last Sunday won the Golden Globe for Best Director and Best Film--Drama).

One of my blog friends, Greg in Hollywood did an interview with Garber which got interesting:

I just decided to ask him: “Wikipedia lists Rainer Andreesen as your partner. I wondered if that’s something that’s public, that you’ve confirmed.”

He seemed surprised by the question but said: ‘I don’t really talk about it but everybody knows.”

Garber then added: “He’s going to be out here with me for the SAG Awards.”

So in the end, our chat ended up being a bit more interesting than I thought it would be!

Interesting contrast between Garber's coming out and Jodie Foster. Then again it is probably not too fair to compare the two since Jodie is a 2-time Oscar-winning actress and has generally been in more and higher-profile films than Garber.