The 85th annual Academy Awards airs live on Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. ET and with the ceremony being only days away, many reports are making final predictions for the night's biggest winners in the categories of acting, cinematography, directing and more.

In the category of Best Picture and based on data such as box office gross, audience ratings and critical ratings, The Huffington Post predicted that the Ben Affleck-directed film Argo will take home the honor with a 93.7 percent chance. Fellow nominees include Lincoln, Silver Lining Playbook , Life of Pie, Les Miserables, Zero Dark Thirty, Django Unchained, Beasts of the Southern Wild and Amour. 

Argo grossed in the box office -- with data compilation based on how much a movie earned in theaters in the U.S. week-by-week since it opened -- $128 million. Out of all the nominees in the category Lincoln grossed the most - $177 million - and is up for the most Oscar nominations, but fell in terms of audience ratings, which the Post concluded after measuring Rotten Tomatoes user reviews. NBC News also predicted that Argo will take home the honor.

Best Actress Nominees at The Oscars 2013 Photo Slideshow: Who Will Win the Award on February 24? 

MTV called the Best Actress "by far the most contentious of the major categories," but added that Jennifer Lawrence has a good shot at taking home the award. The Silver Linings Playbook star faces competition in the category mostly from Zero Dark Thirty actress Jessica Chastain. While both actresses took home awards at the Golden Globes this year, Lawrence took the Screen Actors Guild Award over Chastain. Lawrence's talked about performance as Tiffany in her film and her "screen legacy make her a threat worth factoring."

The news report added about Zero Dark Thirty, "as many sensationalized news stories predicted, the controversy surrounding the film's depiction of torture and what the sequences do or do not imply seems to have impacted its awards presence."

CBS' Bill Wine agreed that the Best Actress award will likely go to Lawrence, adding that his "theoretical vote would go to her as well, for her remarkably winning" performance in the film alongside Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro. 

On Monday, Indiewire posted its prediction that Day-Lewis will win the Best Actor award because it is "hard to image anyone not voting" for the actor's "remarkable" work portraying the 16th president of the United States. If he wins the respective award, he will become the first actor ever to win three Oscars in this category. Day-Lewis is up against Cooper, Hugh Jackman for Les Miserables, Joaquin Phoenix for The Master and Denzel Washington for Flight. 

Policymic agreed that Day-Lewis will take home the award, as well as The New York Times.

For a full list of the Academy Award nominees, click here.

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