If internet chatter is any indicator, James Franco, Natalie Portman and The King’s Speech are going to be among the big Oscar winners Sunday, according to social media monitoring firm Meltwater.

Things didn’t go so well for Meltwater when they took a similar stab at the Grammys two weeks ago, so we’re impressed they want to get right back up on the horse.

Social media monitoring isn’t so much predicting as it is, in the best case, showing how well-aligned the thinking of stakeholders is with an uninvested rooting section. Meltwater didn’t go out on a limb much with such Grammy picks as pop ‘tw...