It’s all come down to this, ladies and gentlemen. All of my analysis and hypotheticals, my opinion pieces and shots in the dark, they’re all just dust in the wind now. Yes, tomorrow morning the Academy will finally unveil their Oscar nominations. I’ve been trying to accurately predict these nominations for almost a full year now, so one would think it should be a piece of cake, right? Alas, this season has been as hard to read in certain categories as ever, so the Academy Award nomination announcement has as much suspense as ever, going into the big event in the morning. That being said, I’ve settled on my final picks, which you can see below.
There’s a couple of things that I’ll say before the predictions. One is that I stuck with ten nominees in Best Picture, knowing full well that there’s probably only going to be nine. Why? Well, it seems like there’s 11 films in contention, so that allowed me to hedge my bets, if you will. Also, you’ll see that I’ve back away from a few contenders here and there (like Interstellar), while going almost all in on a couple of others (like American Sniper and Nightcrawler). One other note is that I’m just including one next in line pick, just to let you know what was close in my head. In any event, it’s all just foreplay. The real fun is still to come in the morning…
Here it is, the moment of truth. My final Academy Award predictions:
BEST PICTURE
1. Boyhood
2. Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance
3. The Imitation Game
4. Selma
5. The Grand Budapest Hotel
6. The Theory of Everything
7. American Sniper
8. Whiplash
9. Gone Girl
10. Nightcrawler
Next in line/just missed the cut: Foxcatcher
BEST DIRECTOR
1. Richard Linklater – Boyhood
2. Alejandro González Iñárritu – Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance
3. Ava DuVernay – Selma
4. Morten Tyldum – The Imitation Game
5. Clint Eastwood – American Sniper
Next in line/just missed the cut: Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
BEST ACTOR
1. Michael Keaton – Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance
2. Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything
3. Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game
4. David Oyelowo – Selma
5. Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler
Next in line/just missed the cut: Steve Carell – Foxcatcher
BEST ACTRESS
1. Julianne Moore – Still Alice
2. Jennifer Aniston – Cake
3. Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl
4. Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything
5. Reese Witherspoon – Wild
Next in line/just missed the cut: [...]
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