Thursday, January 16, 2014

Nominations for the 86th Academy Awards

BEST PICTURE
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

8/9. Predicted Inside Llewyn Davis and Saving Mr. Banks instead of Philomena.

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)

4/5. Predicted Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips) instead of Payne.

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Amy Adams (American Hustle)
Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
Sandra Bullock (Gravity)
Judi Dench (Philomena)
Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)

4/5. Predicted Emma Thompson (Saving Mr. Banks) instead of Adams.

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)

4/5. Predicted Tom Hanks (Captain Phillips) instead of Bale.

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)

4/5. Predicted Oprah Winfrey (The Butler) instead of Hawkins.

ACTOR IN 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)

4/5. Predicted Daniel Bruhl (Rush) instead of Hill.

WRITING, ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke (Before Midnight)
Billy Ray (Captain Phillips)
Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope (Philomena)
Steve McQueen, John Ridley (12 Years a Slave)
Terence Winter (The Wolf of Wall Street)

4/5. Predicted August: Osage County instead of The Wolf of Wall Street.

WRITING, ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Eric Singer, David O. Russell (American Hustle)
Woody Allen (Blue Jasmine)
Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack (Dallas Buyers Club)
Spike Jonze (Her)
Bob Nelson (Nebraska)

4/5. Predicted Inside Llewyn Davis instead of Dallas Buyers Club.

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco, Kristine Belson (The Croods)
Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin, Chris Meledandri (Despicable Me 2)
Benjamin Renner, Didier Brunner (Ernest & Celestine)
Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho (Frozen)
Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki (The Wind Rises)

4/5. Predicted Monsters University instead of Ernest & Celestine.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
The Act of Killing
Cutie and the Boxer
Dirty Wars
The Square
20 Feet from Stardom

2/5. Predicted Blackfish, God Loves Uganda, and The Stories We Tell instead of Cutie and the Boxer, Dirty Wars, and The Square.

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
"Cave Digger"
"Facing Fear"
"Karama Has No Walls"
"The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life"
"Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall"

No predictions.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium)
The Great Beauty (Italy)
The Hunt (Denmark)
The Missing Picture (Cambodia)
Omar (Palestine)

2/5. Predicted Two Lives, The Grandmaster, and The Notebook instead of The Great Beauty, The Missing Picture, and Omar.

SHORT FILM, ANIMATED
"Feral"
"Get a Horse!"
"Mr. Hublot"
"Possessions"
"Room on the Broom"

No predictions.

SHORT FILM, LIVE ACTION
"Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me)"
"Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything)"
"Helium"
"Pitaako Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?"
"The Voorman Problem"

No predictions.

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Philippe Le Sourd (The Grandmaster)
Emmanuel Lubezki (Gravity)
Bruno Delbonnel (Inside Llewyn Davis)
Phedon Papamichael (Nebraska)
Roger A. Deakins (Prisoners)

1/5. Predicted American Hustle, Captain Phillips, 12 Years a Slave, and The Wolf of Wall Street instead of The Grandmaster, Inside Llewyn Davis, Nebraska, and Prisoners.

COSTUME DESIGN
Michael Wilkinson (American Hustle)
William Chang Suk Ping (The Grandmaster)
Catherine Martin (The Great Gatsby)
Michael O'Connor (The Invisible Woman)
Patricia Norris (12 Years a Slave)

4/5. Predicted The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug instead of The Invisible Woman.

FILM EDITING
Jay Cassidy (American Hustle)
Christopher Rouse (Captain Phillips)
John Mac McMurphy, Martin Pensa (Dallas Buyers Club)
Alfonso Cuaron, Mark Sanger (Gravity)
Joe Walker (12 Years a Slave)

4/5. Predicted The Wolf of Wall Street instead of Dallas Buyers Club.

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Dallas Buyers Club
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
The Lone Ranger

1/3. Predicted American Hustle and The Great Gatsby instead of Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa and The Lone Ranger.

MUSIC, ORIGINAL SCORE
John Williams (The Book Thief)
Steven Price (Gravity)
William Butler, Owen Pallett (Her)
Alexandre Desplat (Philomena)
Thomas Newman (Saving Mr. Banks)

3/5. Predicted All Is Lost and 12 Years a Slave instead of Her and Philomena.

MUSIC, ORIGINAL SONG
"Alone Yet Not Alone" (Alone Yet Not Alone)
"Happy" (Despicable Me 2)
"Let It Go" (Frozen)
"The Moon Song" (Her)
"Ordinary Love" (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom)

2/5. Predicted "In the Middle of the Night," "Young and Beautiful," and "I See Fire" instead of "Alone Yet Not Alone," "Happy," and "The Moon Song."

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Judy Becker, Heather Loeffler (American Hustle)
Andy Nicholson, Rosie Goodwin, Joanne Woollard (Gravity)
Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn (The Great Gatsby)
K.K. Barrett, Gene Serdena (Her)
Adam Stockhausen, Alice Baker (12 Years a Slave)

3/5. Predicted The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and Saving Mr. Banks instead of Gravity and Her.

SOUND EDITING
Steve Boeddeker, Richard Hymns (All Is Lost)
Oliver Tarney (Captain Phillips)
Glenn Freemantle (Gravity)
Brent Burge (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug)
Wylie Stateman (Lone Survivor)

2/5. Predicted Man of Steel, Pacific Rim, and Rush instead of All Is Lost, Captain Phillips, and Lone Survivor.

SOUND MIXING
Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith, Chris Munro (Captain Phillips)
Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead, Chris Munro (Gravity)
Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, Tony Johnson (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug)
Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff, Peter F. Kurland (Inside Llewyn Davis)
Andy Koyama, Beau Borders, David Brownlow (Lone Survivor)

1/5. Predicted American Hustle, Frozen, Rush, and 12 Years a Slave instead of Captain Phillips, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Inside Llewyn Davis, and Lone Survivor.

VISUAL EFFECTS
Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, Neil Corbould (Gravity)
Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, Eric Reynolds (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug)
Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash, Dan Sudick (Iron Man 3)
Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams, John Frazier (The Lone Ranger)
Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann, Burt Dalton (Star Trek Into Darkness)

4/5. Predicted Pacific Rim instead of The Lone Ranger.