Academy Awards 2013 Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay nominees predictions: 3rd ROUND

• BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. Mark Boal for Zero Dark Thirty
2. Quentin Tarantino for Django Unchained
3. Paul Thomas Anderson for The Master
4. Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola for Moonrise Kingdom
5. Rian Johnson for Looper

6. Michael Haneke for Amour
7. John Gatins for Flight
8. Reid Carolin for Magic Mike

• BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. Chris Terrio (screenplay); Joshuah Bearman (article) - Argo

2. David O. Russell (screenplay); Matthew Quick (novel) - Silver Linings Playbook

3. Tony Kushner (screenplay); Doris Kearns Goodwin (book) (in part) - Lincoln

4. Stephen Chbosky (screenplay & novel) - The Perks of Being a Wallflower

5. David Magee (screenplay); Yann Martel (novel) - Life of Pi

6. Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin (screenplay); Lucy Alibar (stage play) - Beasts of the Southern Wild

7. William Nicholson (screenplay), Claude-Michel Schönberg & Alain Boublil (book), Victor Hugo (novel) - Les Misérables

8. Ol Parker (screenplay); Deborah Moggach (novel) - The Best Exoctic Marigold Hotel