Oscar Predictions 2014

[HarmonicGenerator]

The Oscars are on tomorrow night, and I remember I did a bit of a predictions sweepstake last year to see which UKFFer best knew the whims of the Academy. Seemed like a bit of fun and it got a little bit of discussion going as well, so let's try it again this year.

 

If you delete all the losing nominees from your picks so just the category and your winning prediction are left, it'll be loads easier to read and if you want to put any thoughts about the films or performances in with that as well, that'll be great because it'll inspire that little bit of discussion again, too.

 

The winner is the person who manages to correctly predict the highest number of winners. They win a jpeg of an Oscar, probably.

 

So, "let's take a look at the nominees."

 

Best Picture:

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Dallas Buyers Club

Gravity

Her

Nebraska

Philomena

12 Years a Slave

The Wolf of Wall Street

 

Best Actor in a Leading Role:

Christian Bale (American Hustle)

Bruce Dern (Nebraska)

Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)

Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)

Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)

 

Best Actress in a Leading Role:

Amy Adams (American Hustle)

Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)

Sandra Bullock (Gravity)

Judi Dench (Philomena)

Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)

 

Best Actor in a Supporting Role:

Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)

Bradley Cooper (American Hustle)

Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)

Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street)

Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

 

Best Actress in a Supporting Role:

Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine)

Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)

Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave)

Julia Roberts (August: Osage County)

June Squibb (Nebraska)

 

Best Animated Feature:

The Croods

Despicable Me 2

Ernest & Celestine

Frozen

The Wind Rises

 

Best Cinematography:

The Grandmaster

Gravity

Inside Llewyn Davis

Nebraska

Prisoners

 

Best Costume Design:

American Hustle

The Grandmaster

The Great Gatsby

The Invisible Woman

12 Years a Slave

 

Best Directing:

David O. Russell - American Hustle

Alfonso Cuaron - Gravity

Alexander Payne - Nebraska

Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave

Martin Scorsese - The Wolf of Wall Street

 

Best Documentary Feature:

The Act of Killing

Cutie and the Boxer

Dirty Wars

The Square

20 Feet from Stardom

 

Best Documentary Short:

CaveDigger

Facing Fear

Karama Has No Walls

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life

Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall

 

Best Film Editing:

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Dallas Buyers Club

Gravity

12 Years a Slave

 

Best Foreign Language Film:

The Broken Circle Breakdown

The Great Beauty

The Hunt

The Missing Picture

Omar

 

Best Makeup and Hairstyling:

Dallas Buyers Club

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa

The Lone Ranger

 

Best Original Score:

The Book Thief

Gravity

Her

Philomena

Saving Mr. Banks

 

Best Original Song:

Happy (Despicable Me 2)

Let It Go (Frozen)

The Moon Song (Her)

Ordinary Love (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom)

 

Best Production Design:

American Hustle

Gravity

The Great Gatsby

Her

12 Years a Slave

 

Best Animated Short Film:

Feral

Get a Horse!

Mr. Hublot

Possessions

Room on the Broom

 

Best Live Action Short Film:

Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me)

Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything)

Helium

Pit

[The Cum Doctor]

Best Picture:

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Dallas Buyers Club

Gravity

Her

Nebraska

Philomena

12 Years a Slave

The Wolf of Wall Street

 

Best Actor in a Leading Role:

Christian Bale (American Hustle)

Bruce Dern (Nebraska)

Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)

Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)

Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)

 

Best Actress in a Leading Role:

Amy Adams (American Hustle)

Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)

Sandra Bullock (Gravity)

Judi Dench (Philomena)

Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)

 

Best Actor in a Supporting Role:

Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)

Bradley Cooper (American Hustle)

Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)

Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street)

Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

 

Best Actress in a Supporting Role:

Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine)

Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)

Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave)

Julia Roberts (August: Osage County)

June Squibb (Nebraska)

 

Best Animated Feature:

The Croods

Despicable Me 2

Ernest & Celestine

Frozen

The Wind Rises

 

Best Cinematography:

The Grandmaster

Gravity

Inside Llewyn Davis

Nebraska

Prisoners

 

Best Costume Design:

American Hustle

The Grandmaster

The Great Gatsby

The Invisible Woman

12 Years a Slave

 

Best Directing:

American Hustle

Gravity

Nebraska

12 Years a Slave

The Wolf of Wall Street

 

Best Documentary Feature:

The Act of Killing

Cutie and the Boxer

Dirty Wars

The Square

20 Feet from Stardom

 

Best Documentary Short:

CaveDigger

Facing Fear

Karama Has No Walls

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life

Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall

 

Best Film Editing:

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Dallas Buyers Club

Gravity

12 Years a Slave

 

Best Foreign Language Film:

The Broken Circle Breakdown

The Great Beauty

The Hunt

The Missing Picture

Omar

 

Best Makeup and Hairstyling:

Dallas Buyers Club

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa

The Lone Ranger

 

Best Original Score:

The Book Thief

Gravity

Her

Philomena

Saving Mr. Banks

 

Best Original Song:

Happy (Despicable Me 2)

Let It Go (Frozen)

The Moon Song (Her)

Ordinary Love (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom)

 

Best Production Design:

American Hustle

Gravity

The Great Gatsby

Her

12 Years a Slave

 

Best Animated Short Film:

Feral

Get a Horse!

Mr. Hublot

Possessions

Room on the Broom

 

Best Live Action Short Film:

Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me)

Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything)

Helium

Pit

[HarmonicGenerator]

My picks.

 

Best Picture:

12 Years a Slave. It shouldn't be anything else.

 

Best Actor in a Leading Role:

Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club). I haven't seen Dallas Buyers Club, and I have a hard time thinking anyone could be better than Ejiofor was in 12 Years... - or Tom Hanks in Captain Phillips, for that matter. But this 'McConnaissance' story has to end with an Oscar win. It's the right Hollywood ending. And I'm fine with that. It's a really strong category this year, I wouldn't mind DiCaprio winning either, it's about time he got one.

 

Best Actress in a Leading Role:

Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine). The recent stories about Woody Allen don't seem to have deterred anyone from giving her all the awards. She bloody deserves them too, she's fantastic as Jasmine.

 

Best Actor in a Supporting Role:

Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club). Personally, I wouldn't be able to see past Fassbender, but the momentum seems to be with Leto.

 

Best Actress in a Supporting Role:

Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle). If Hustle's getting any of the acting awards, it'll get this one. Lupita Nyong'o would be a fine choice too, and I wouldn't mind Sally Hawkins getting some recognition either.

 

Best Animated Feature:

Frozen. Though The Wind Rises has Miyazaki involvement so you can't discount it.

 

Best Cinematography:

Gravity. All the way.

 

Best Costume Design:

American Hustle. I find it hard to look past Gatsby for this one, but the Hustle costumes do stand out.

 

Best Directing:

Alfonso Cuaron - Gravity. He's got the vision, and this'll be the consolation for it not getting any of the other major awards.

 

Best Documentary Feature:

The Act of Killing. Harvey Weinstein's pushing 20 Feet From Stardom, though...

 

Best Documentary Short:

CaveDigger because it has the best name.

 

Best Film Editing:

12 Years a Slave. Captain Phillips and Gravity could both win this one, too, but 12 Years is ... I think 'unflinching' is probably the right word. That hanging scene... the edit couldn't have come at any other moment.

 

Best Foreign Language Film:

The Great Beauty

 

Best Makeup and Hairstyling:

Dallas Buyers Club

 

Best Original Score:

Gravity. I liked Saving Mr Banks' score but it's not a contender anywhere else on Sunday. Her could be a dark horse.

 

Best Original Song:

Let It Go (Frozen). I haven't heard it but there's usually about 5 or 6 articles a day about this song on Buzzfeed so it must be popular.

 

Best Production Design:

Her. It's a perfectly realised world, so different and yet not that different, it got the balance exactly right for the film.

 

Best Animated Short Film:

Get a Horse! It's a sweep for Disney!

 

Best Live Action Short Film:

The Voorman Problem

 

Best Sound Editing:

Captain Phillips

 

Best Sound Mixing:

Inside Llewyn Davis because it should bloody get something.

 

Best Visual Effects:

Gravity. As great as Smaug looked, it can't be anything else this year.

 

Best Adapted Screenplay:

Philomena. I'd have picked Wolf of Wall Street myself, but 506 fucks might be a few too many for an Oscar win. I'm happy to be wrong though!

 

Best Original Screenplay:

American Hustle because I probably haven't predicted it enough times yet. Dallas Buyers Club and Her are both contenders as well, but it's probably a Hustle-y sort of category, this one.

[LaGoosh]

Best Picture:

12 Years a Slave

 

Best Actor in a Leading Role:

Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)

 

Best Actress in a Leading Role:

Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)

 

Best Actor in a Supporting Role:

Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street)

 

Best Actress in a Supporting Role:

Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave)

 

Best Animated Feature:

Frozen

 

Best Cinematography:

Gravity

 

Best Costume Design:

The Great Gatsby

 

Best Directing:

Martin Scorsese - The Wolf of Wall Street

 

Best Documentary Feature:

The Act of Killing

 

Best Film Editing:

Gravity

 

Best Makeup and Hairstyling:

Dallas Buyers Club

 

Best Original Score:

Philomena

 

Best Original Song:

Let It Go (Frozen)

 

Best Production Design:

Gravity

 

Best Sound Editing:

Gravity

 

Best Sound Mixing:

Captain Phillips

 

Best Visual Effects:

Gravity

 

Best Adapted Screenplay:

The Wolf of Wall Street

 

Best Original Screenplay:

Dallas Buyers Club

[ultimo the great]

Best Picture:

12 Years a Slave

 

Want to see win: Nebraska

 

My order

Nebraska

Dallas Buyers Club

Gravity

Philomena

Captain Phillips

12 Years a Slave

American Hustle

Her

 

Watching tomorrow

The Wolf of Wall Street

 

Best Actor in a Leading Role:

Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)

 

Want: but very happy to see McConaughey win

Bruce Dern (Nebraska)

 

Best Actress in a Leading Role:

Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)

 

Want:

Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)

 

Best Actor in a Supporting Role:

Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

 

Want: i don't like him but the performance is flawless

Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

 

Best Actress in a Supporting Role:

Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)

 

Want:

June Squibb (Nebraska)

 

Best Animated Feature: (Only seen 2 watching Frozen tomorrow)

Frozen

 

Want: haven't seen it but it would be great to see Miyazaki retire on a high

The Wind Rises

 

Best Cinematography:

Gravity

 

Want: Nebraska

 

Best Costume Design:

The Great Gatsby

 

Best Directing: (the anyone but McQueen award)

Alfonso Cuaron - Gravity

 

Want:

Alexander Payne - Nebraska

 

Best Documentary Feature:

The Act of Killing

 

Best Documentary Short:

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life

 

Best Film Editing:

Gravity

 

Best Foreign Language Film: (Only seen 2 might watch The Hunt tonight)

The Great Beauty

 

Want:

The Broken Circle Breakdown

 

Best Makeup and Hairstyling:

Dallas Buyers Club

 

Best Original Score:

Gravity

 

Best Original Song:

Let It Go (Frozen)

 

Best Production Design:

Gravity

 

Best Animated Short Film:

Mr. Hublot

 

Best Live Action Short Film:

Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me)

 

Best Sound Editing:

Gravity

 

Best Sound Mixing:

Gravity

 

Best Visual Effects:

Gravity

 

Best Adapted Screenplay:

Captain Phillips

 

Best Original Screenplay:

Nebraska

[HarmonicGenerator]

Anyone but McQueen? Why's that, ultimo?

[ultimo the great]

Have you never seen him interviewed? he's an insufferable, humourless wanker. Completely full of himself.

 

I thought it was just me but have seen quite a lot of hate for him from film bloggers and critics.

[I Bent My Wookie]

Best Picture:

Nebraska - Its probably my most out there pic, but I loved it. Just everything about how it was filmed and directed stood out for me. As a film I did think 12 Years A Slave was excellently made but I don't think its a stand out film of its generation, more a stand out topic delved into astonishingly well.

 

Best Actor in a Leading Role:

Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club) - The guy is having such a great career revival, and is starting to really become not a ballache to sit and watch, perfect ending to that.

 

Best Actress in a Leading Role:

Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine) - I'd love Dench to win, but I feel Blanchett was marginally better than the other nominees.

 

 

Best Actor in a Supporting Role:

Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips) - For his first proper acting job, what an amazing start and what better accolade to collect. Can't see past him. Though Leto probably does.

 

Best Actress in a Supporting Role:

Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle) - The Oscar's darling was the best part of Hustle for me.

 

 

Best Animated Feature:

Frozen

 

Best Cinematography:

Gravity

 

Best Costume Design:

American Hustle

 

Best Directing:

Alexander Payne - Nebraska

 

Best Documentary Feature:

The Act of Killing

 

Best Documentary Short:

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life - Having watched this its so bitter sweet the lady this was about (Alice Herz-Sommer) died last week and her story will now be pushed to such a bigger audience.

 

Best Film Editing:

Gravity

 

Best Foreign Language Film:

The Great Beauty

 

Best Makeup and Hairstyling:

Dallas Buyers Club

 

Best Original Score:

Her

 

Best Original Song:

Let It Go (Frozen)

 

Best Production Design:

The Great Gatsby

 

Best Animated Short Film:

Get a Horse!

 

Best Live Action Short Film:

Helium

 

Best Sound Editing:

All Is Lost

 

Best Sound Mixing:

Inside Llewyn Davis

 

Best Visual Effects:

Gravity

 

Best Adapted Screenplay:

Philomena

 

Best Original Screenplay:

Dallas Buyers Club

[HarmonicGenerator]

Have you never seen him interviewed? he's an insufferable, humourless wanker. Completely full of himself.

 

I thought it was just me but have seen quite a lot of hate for him from film bloggers and critics.

 

I can't say I have, but I remember reading he's a former Turner prize winner so it doesn't surprise me if that's the case.

 

Not to say all Turner prize winners are full of themselves... But they probably are.

[niff]

Best Picture:

12 Years a Slave

 

Best Actor in a Leading Role:

Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)

 

Best Actress in a Leading Role:

Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)

 

Best Actor in a Supporting Role:

Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

 

Best Actress in a Supporting Role:

Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave)

 

Best Animated Feature:

Frozen

 

 

Best Cinematography:

Gravity

 

Best Costume Design:

The Great Gatsby

 

Best Directing:

Alfonso Cuaron - Gravityk

 

Best Documentary Feature:

The Act of Killing

 

Best Documentary Short:

Karama Has No Walls

 

Best Film Editing:

American Hustle

 

Best Foreign Language Film:

Omar

 

Best Makeup and Hairstyling:

Dallas Buyers Club

 

Best Original Score:

Her

 

 

Best Original Song:

Happy (Despicable Me 2)

 

 

Best Production Design

Her

 

Best Animated Short Film:

Mr. Hublot

 

Best Live Action Short Film:

Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me)

 

Best Sound Editing:

Captain Phillips

 

 

Best Sound Mixing:

Captain Phillips

 

Best Visual Effects

Gravity

 

Best Adapted Screenplay:

Before Midnight

 

Best Original Screenplay:

Her

[Keith Houchen]

Have you never seen him interviewed? he's an insufferable, humourless wanker. Completely full of himself.

 

I thought it was just me but have seen quite a lot of hate for him from film bloggers and critics.

 

I can't say I have, but I remember reading he's a former Turner prize winner so it doesn't surprise me if that's the case.

 

Not to say all Turner prize winners are full of themselves... But they probably are.

Went to a Q+A with him after a screening of Shame. He was sound, especially putting up with nearly every question being a reworded version of "How can I be in one of your films"

[HarmonicGenerator]

Have you never seen him interviewed? he's an insufferable, humourless wanker. Completely full of himself.

 

I thought it was just me but have seen quite a lot of hate for him from film bloggers and critics.

 

I can't say I have, but I remember reading he's a former Turner prize winner so it doesn't surprise me if that's the case.

 

Not to say all Turner prize winners are full of themselves... But they probably are.

Went to a Q+A with him after a screening of Shame. He was sound, especially putting up with nearly every question being a reworded version of "How can I be in one of your films"

 

What was his answer to that one?

[Keith Houchen]

It was every fucking question. He just said speak to casting agents about twenty times. Really ruined the whole thing, was hoping for a lot more from it to be honest.

[Lion_of_the_Midlands]

Best Picture:

 

12 Years a Slave

 

 

Best Actor

 

Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)

 

Best Actress in a Leading Role:

 

Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)

 

 

Best Actor in a Supporting Role:

 

Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

 

Best Actress in a Supporting Role:

 

Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave)

 

 

Best Animated Feature:

 

Frozen

 

 

Best Cinematography:

 

Gravity

 

 

Best Costume Design:

 

The Great Gatsby

 

 

Best Directing:

 

Alfonso Cuaron - Gravity

 

 

Best Documentary Feature:

 

The Act of Killing

 

 

Best Documentary Short:

 

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life

 

 

Best Film Editing:

 

Gravity

 

 

Best Foreign Language Film:

 

The Great Beauty

 

 

Best Makeup and Hairstyling:

 

Dallas Buyers Club

 

Best Original Score:

 

Gravity

 

 

Best Original Song:

 

Let It Go (Frozen)

 

 

Best Production Design:

 

The Great Gatsby

 

 

Best Animated Short Film:

 

Get a Horse!

 

 

Best Live Action Short Film:

 

The Voorman Problem

 

Best Sound Editing:

 

Gravity

 

 

Best Sound Mixing:

 

Gravity

 

 

Best Visual Effects:

 

Gravity

 

 

Best Adapted Screenplay:

 

12 Years a Slave

 

 

Best Original Screenplay:

 

Her

[Keith Houchen]

I haven't seen it and I'm sure he's brilliant but I really hope Jared Leto doesn't win. The fans of his band are unbearable at the best of times.