Tomorrow evening a nervous Jacki Weaver will sit in her Los Angeles hostel apartment with the TV on and phone neighboring.
After months of hype, award wins, award snubs, kilometres of red carpet and eight warm-up award shows along the US including the Golden Globes and Broadcast Film Critics Association galas, the 63-year-old Australian actress will eventually discover if she is an Oscar candidate.
Nicole Kidman, Geoffrey Rush, Peter Weir and a handful of other Australians are likewise in the running for nominations.
In the eleventh hour Weaver has become superstitious.
"I calculate we are jinxing it talking about it too many," the actress smiled in an interview with AAP.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences traditionally holds its nomination ceremony at an inconvenient period for Australians and Californians to appease the heavy population pedestal on the east coast of the US.
When the Academy unveils the nominees at its Beverly Hills headquarters it will be 5.38am on Tuesday
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It will be 12.38am on Wednesday in Weaver's family town of Sydney.
In New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington DC
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Weaver is expected to be appointed for a best supporting actress Oscar for her chilling performance as Janine "Smurf" Cody in the Australian guilt drama, Animal Kingdom.
Since landing in the US two weeks ago Weaver's publicity campaign has been led along a team at Sony Classic Pictures
forgiving&rdquo, the North American distributor of Animal Kingdom, and a publicist has lined up a congratulation/commiseration call as soon as the nominations are revealed.
"She has inquired me to be {awake|awake} and she will shriek me as presently as she hears," Weaver said.
Six weeks ago Weaver and Kidman, for Rabbit Hole
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If Weaver or Kidman miss out on an Oscar nomination, 14-year-old American novice Hailee Steinfeld, star of western re-make True Grit, could be the reason.
It is up to the 5,755 voting members of the Academy to decide if an actor/actress is nominated in the guide or supporting category and emulating Steinfeld's tour de compel performance upstaging her Oscar winning co-stars Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon in True Grit, pundits are unsure what category she will appear in.
Rush, a best player Oscar in 1997 for Shine, will possible end up with 2 Oscar nominations this week for The King's Speech.
Rush is a sure bet for a supporting actor nod for playing an Australian speech therapist in The King's Speech. As a maker of The King's Speech, Rush will also be in the running if the film is, as expected, nominated for best picture.
A week ago The Social Network appeared to be unbeatable for best picture, snapping up each major reviewer award and the Golden Globe
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The PGA victor has gone on to win the best picture Oscar the elapse three years. Many PGA members are Oscar voters.
In other categories, Australia's Lee Smith is almost definite to elect up the third Oscar nomination of his career for editing the Christopher Nolan-Leonardo DiCaprio sci-fi thriller Inception.
Another Australian practiced of Oscar ceremonies, mentor Peter Weir, has went the Hollywood gifts gathering scene in recent weeks in the wish of snaring nominations for his current epic, The Way Back, but the membrane has failed to generate many rewards heat. Smith also amended The Way Back and dissimilar Aussie and Oscar winner, Russell Boyd, was the cinematographer.
Adelaide's Sia Furler has a large shot at one Oscar nomination in the elemental melody classification for Bound apt You, a song she penned with Christina Aguilera because the melodious Burlesque.
Sydney-made Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of GaHoole has an outside shot in the animation feature film category, with Toy Story 3, Despicable Me, How to Train Your Dragon, The Illusionist and Tangled the favourites.
The Oscar winners will be announced at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards ceremony held at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre on February 27.