Oscar Roundup 2012: Anna Karenina, Life of Pi, and Skyfall win at Art Director's Guil

At the Art Director's Guild (ADG) awards tonight three films took home the top honors.  The ADG break down their nominees and winners into three categories: Period Film, Fantasy Film, and Contemporary Film.  This years nominees in each category were as follows:

Period Film
Anna Karenina
Argo
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Lincoln 

Fantasy Film
Cloud Atlas
The Dark Knight Rises 
Life of Pi
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Prometheus

Contemporary Film
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Flight
The Impossible 
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty

The winners in each category were, Anna Karenina, Life of Pi, and Skyfall.  The first two winners have a shot at taking Oscar gold, but since the Academy rarely recognizes contemporary art direction Skyfall did not even make the cut as one of the nominees.

The Oscar nominees would fit within the Best Production Design Category, and the nominees are:

Anna Karenina
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln 

Come Oscar time this is is actually going to be a hard category to predict, Anna Karenina and Life of Pi both have their own merits, but this race is between these two films.  Look for Pi to have Hugo like wins, sweeping most of the technical races.