Oscar predictions, Pinoy Films, and thoughts on movies. Also with stuff on TV, music, literature, gaming, anime and other things that catch my fancy. Thus the name Otaku.
12 Years a Slave Short Term 12 Her American Hustle Rush Before Midnight Dallas Buyers Club Stories We Tell BEST DIRECTOR ALFONSO CUARON (GRAVITY) Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) David O. Russell (American Hustle) Spike Jonze (Her) Ron Howard (Rush) Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips) Destin Cretton (Short Term 12) Jean-Marc Vallee (Dallas Buyers Club) Jeff Nichols (Mud) Martin Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street) BEST ACTOR LEONARDO DICAPRIO (THE WOLF OF WALL STREET)
Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) Tom Hanks (Captain Phillips) Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club) Hugh Jackman (Prisoners) Christian Bale (American Hustle) Joaquin Phoenix (Her) Joel Torre (OTJ: On the Job) Robert Redford (All Is Lost) Leonardo DiCaprio (The Great Gatsby) BEST ACTRESS
CATE BLANCHETT (BLUE JASMINE) Meryl Streep (August: Osage County) Emma Thompson (Saving Mr. Banks) Julie Delpy (Before Midnight) Sandra Bullock (Gravity) Amy Adams (American Hustle) Zhang Ziyi (The Grandmaster) Adele Exarchopoulos (Blue is the Warmest Color) Brie Larson (Short Term 12) Judi Dench (Philomena) BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR JARED LETO (DALLAS BUYERS CLUB) Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave) Matthew McConaughey (Mud) Jake Gyllenhaal (Prisoners) Chris Cooper (August: Osage County) James Franco (Spring Breakers) Bradley Cooper (American Hustle) Barkhad Abid (Captain Phillips) Tom Hanks (Saving Mr. Banks) Xavier Samuel (Adore) BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS LUPITA NYONG'O (12 YEARS A SLAVE) Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle) Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine) Julianne Nicholson (August: Osage County) Sarah Paulson (12 Years a Slave) Margo Martindale (August: Osage County) Lea Seydoux (Blue is the Warmest Color) Jennifer Garner (Dallas Buyers Club) Oprah Winfrey (The Butler) June Squibb (Nebraska) BEST SCREENPLAY HER (SPIKE JONZE) 12 Years a Slave (John Ridley) Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy) Short Term 12 (Destin Cretton) American Hustle (Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell) BEST ART DIRECTION THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG 12 Years a Slave The Great Gatsby Gravity Her BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY THE GRANDMASTER (PHILIPPE LE SOURD) Graviity (Emmanuel Lubezki) Rush (Anthony Dod Mantle) 12 Years a Slave (Sean Bobbit) Mud (Adam Stone) BEST COSTUME DESIGN THE GREAT GATSBY (CATHERINE MARTIN) American Hustle (Michael Wilkinson) 12 Years a Slave (Patricia Norris) Thor: The Dark World (Alexandra Byrne) The Grandmaster (William Chang) BEST EDITING GRAVITY (ALFONSO CUARON, MARK SANGER) Rush (Dan Hanley, Mike Hill) Her (Jeff Buchanan, Eric Zumbrunnen) 12 Years a Slave (Joe Walker) American Hustle (Alan Baumgarten, Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers) BEST MAKEUP DALLAS BUYERS CLUB The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug The Great Gatsby 12 Years a Slave Thor: The Dark World BEST SCORE PACIFIC RIM (RAMIN DJAWADI) Gravity (Steven Price) Frozen (Christophe Beck) Ain't Them Bodies Saints (Daniel Hart) All Is Lost (Alex Ebert) BEST SONG "LET IT GO" (FROZEN) "Love is an Open Door" (Frozen) "For the First Time in Forever" (Frozen) "I See Fire" (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug) "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?" (Frozen) BEST VISUAL EFFECTS PACIFIC RIM Gravity Thor: The Dark World Iron Man 3 Star Trek Into Darkness BEST CAMEO PERFORMANCE XENIA KALOGEROPOULOU (BEFORE MIDNIGHT) Matthew McConaughey (The Wolf of Wall Street) Kristen Wiig (Her) Alfre Woodard (12 Years a Slave) Chris Evans (Thor: The Dark World) BEST ENSEMBLE AMERICAN HUSTLE August: Osage County 12 Years a Slave Prisoners The Worlds End
BEST PICTURE 12 YEARS A SLAVE* DIRECTING ALFONSO CUARON (GRAVITY)* ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE CATE BLANCHETT (BLUE JASMINE)* ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY (DALLAS BUYERS CLUB)* ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE LUPITA NYONG'O (12 YEARS A SLAVE)* ACTOR IN SUPPORTING ROLE JARED LETO (DALLAS BUYERS CLUB)* WRITING, ADAPTED SCREENPLAY JOHN RIDLEY (12 YEARS A SLAVE)* WRITING, ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SPIKE JONZE (HER) Predicted: American Hustle ANIMATED FEATURE FILM CHRIS BUCK, JENNIFER LEE (FROZEN)* DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM 20 FEET FROM STARDOM Predicted: The Act of Killing DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT "THE LADY IN NUMBER 6: MUSIC SAVED MY LIFE"* FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM THE GREAT BEAUTY (ITALY)* SHORT FILM, ANIMATED "MR. HULBOT" Predicted: "Get a Horse!" CINEMATOGRAPHY EMMANUEL LUBEZKI (GRAVITY)* COSTUME DESIGN CATHERINE MARTIN (THE GREAT GATSBY) Predicted: 12 Years a Slave FILM EDITING ALFONSO CUARON, MARK SANGER (GRAVITY)* MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING DALLAS BUYERS CLUB* MUSIC, ORIGINAL SCORE STEVEN PRICE (GRAVITY)* MUSIC, ORIGINAL SONG "LET IT GO" (FROZEN)* PRODUCTION DESIGN CATHERINE, BEVERLEY DUNN (THE GREAT GATSBY)* SOUND EDITING GRAVITY* SOUND MIXING GRAVITY* VISUAL EFFECTS GRAVITY* SCORE: 18/22
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.
