Well folks, it’s that time of the year again, the time
of the year where the academy awards nominees are announced, and everyone on
the internet bitches about the fact that it’s mostly old white dudes doing all
the voting. My opinion on it? By the time I make movies that good that’ll
probably have changed, so I don’t care. Besides 2014 was such a shit year I
honestly think this’ll be the least memorable awards year yet by default.
Anyways, getting to the heart of the matter, the way
this is going to work is like this: I’m going to post the nominees in every
category (don’t worry I’ll post the more interesting ones first) and choose
which one I think either will win, or deserve to win and why, and comments on a
few others as well. So let’s get started.
Best Picture
American Sniper
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Selma – Truthfully it’s a coin flip between this and
The Imitation Game, but if I had to pick a solid choice I’d go with Selma, it’s
the kind of thing the academy likes and it’s actually a really good film.
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash – I liked Whiplash, I’m shocked it got
nominated.
Best Director
Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alejandro González Iñárritu –
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Richard Linklater – Boyhood:
This is one for me wouldn’t surprise me either way.
Bennett Miller – Foxcatcher:
Foxcatcher may not have been a favorite of mine despite being a really good
film, but I honestly think he did the best job.
Morten Tyldum – The Imitation
Game
Best Actor
Steve Carrell – Foxcatcher as
John Eleuthère du Pont: Steve Carrell should win. Without a doubt in my mind.
Bradley Cooper – American Sniper
as Chris Kyle
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation
Game as Alan Turing
Michael Keaton – Birdman or
(The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Riggan Thomson: Michael Keaton as a man
whose career went flat after a superhero film, what a stretch /s (don’t get me
wrong though he was actually really good I’m just being a dick.)
Eddie Redmayne – The Theory
of Everything as Stephen Hawking
Best Actress
Marion Cotillard – Two Days,
One Night as Sandra Bya
Felicity Jones – The Theory
of Everything as Janet Wilde Hawking
Julianne Moore – Still Alice
as Dr. Alice Howland
Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl as
Amy Elliot-Dunne: I honestly want Rosamund Pike to win mostly because hers was
the only role where it feels like she wasn’t trying to get an Oscar. What I’m
saying is, it feels the most honest.
Reese Witherspoon – Wild as
Cheryl Strayed
Best Supporting Actor
Robert Duvall – The Judge
Ethan Hawke – Boyhood
Edward Norton – Birdman: I really want Norton to win
this…..
Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher: …But I feel like Ruffalo is
the one that will win it.
JK Simmons – Whiplash
Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood: Since I can’t make up my
mind, I’m just gonna say 33% chance
Laura Dern – Wild 33% chance
Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game 34% chance
Emma Stone – Birdman: I liked Emma Stone in this, but
she really one gets one really great scene.
Meryl Streep – Into the Woods: Obligatory Meryl Streep
Nomination is Obligatory
Best Original Screenplay
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone,
Alexander Dinelaris, Jr and Armando Bo – Birdman
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
E Max Frye and Dan Futterman – Foxcatcher: The
Realistic Choice
Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness – The Grand Budapest
Hotel
Dan Gilroy – Nightcrawler: The Idealistic Choice
Best Adapted Screenplay
Jason Hall – American Sniper
Graham Moore – The Imitation Game: 50% Chance
Paul Thomas Anderson – Inherent Vice: I still have to
see it, but I’ve been told it’s really good so it gets my Idealistic vote.
Anthony McCarten – The Theory of Everything: 50%
Chance
Damien Chazelle – Whiplash
Best Foreign Film
Ida
Leviathan
Tangerines
Timbuktu
Wild Tales
Yeah, I got no idea so your guess is as good as mine.
Best Documentary
CitizenFour – Regrettably, this will probably win
mostly because people will NOT SHUT UP ABOUT IT!
Finding Vivian Maier
Last Days in Vietnam
The Salt of the Earth
Virunga
Best Animation
Big Hero 6 – This is the one I want to win, and realistically
the most likely option as foreign animation rarely wins.
The Boxtrolls
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Song of the Sea
The Tale of Princess Kaguya
Best Original Song
Everything Is Awesome (music and lyric by Shawn
Patterson, performed by Tegan & Sara feat The Lonely Island) – The Lego Movie:
This should win mostly to make up for let it go winning last year.
Glory (music and lyric by John Stephens and Lonnie
Lynn, performed by Common and John Legend) – Selma
Grateful (music and lyric by Diane Warren, performed
by Rita Ora) – Beyond the Lights
I’m Not Going to Miss You (music, lyric and
performance by Glen Campbell) – Glen Campbell ... I’ll Be Me
Lost Stars (music and lyric by Gregg
Alexander and Danielle Brisebois, performed by Adam Levine) – Begin Again
Best Documentary Short
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
Joanna
Our Curse
The Reaper
White Earth
No idea.
Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki – Birdman: This one, mostly because
the fact that it looks really great, especially since they made it to look like
it was one long shot.
Robert Yeoman – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski – Ida
Dick Pope – Mr Turner
Roger Deakins – Unbroken
Best Editing
Joel Cox and Gary D Roach – American Sniper
Sandra Adair – Boyhood
Barney Pilling – The Grand Budapest Hotel
William Goldenberg – The Imitation Game
Tom Cross – Whiplash
Honestly, this one is hard to call, but I know for
sure that American Sniper is the least likely to win.
Best Sound Editing
Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman – American Sniper
Martin Hernández and Aaron Glascock – Birdman
Brent Burge and Jason Canovas – The Hobbit: The Battle
of the Five Armies
Richard King – Interstellar
Becky Sullivan and Andrew DeCristofaro – Unbroken
Again, hard to call, but I think it’ll either be
Interstellar or The Hobbit.
Best Sound Mixing
John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin – American
Sniper
Jon Taylor, Frank A Montaño and Thomas Varga – Birdman
Gary A Rizzo, Gregg Landaker and Mark Weingarten –
Interstellar
Jon Taylor, Frank A Montaño and David Lee – Unbroken
Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley – Whiplash
I’d say, either Birdman or Interstellar
Best makeup and hair
Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard – Foxcatcher
Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier – The Grand Budapest
Hotel
Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou and David White – Guardians
of the Galaxy: Yeah this one should win. You should know why.
Best original score
Alexandre Desplat – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alexandre Desplat – The Imitation Game
Hans Zimmer – Interstellar
Gary Yershon – Mr Turner
Jóhann Jóhannsson – The Theory of Everything
Once again, no idea. I’m worse at this than I thought.
Best production design
Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock – The Grand Budapest
Hotel
Maria Djurkovic and Tatiana Macdonald – The Imitation
Game
Nathan Crowley and Gary Fettis – Interstellar
Dennis Gassner and Anna Pinnock – Into the Woods
Suzie Davies and Charlotte Watts – Mr Turner
Either Grand Budapest or Into the Woods.
Best visual effects
Dan Deleeuw, Russell Earl, Bryan Grill and Dan Sudick
– Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett and Erik
Winquist – Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner
and Paul Corbould – Guardians of the Galaxy
Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott
Fisher – Interstellar
Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie and Cameron
Waldbauer – X-Men: Days of Future Past
I’d be happy if any of these won except for
Interstellar
Best costume design
Milena Canonero – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Mark Bridges – Inherent Vice
Colleen Atwood – Into the Woods
Anna B Sheppard and Jane Clive – Maleficent
Jacqueline Durran – Mr Turner
I wanna say Grand Budapest, but they’ll probably give
it to Maleficent
Best short film (animated)
The Bigger Picture
The Dam Keeper
Feast – As the only one I saw, I’d go with this one
Me and My Moulton
A Single Life
Best short
Aya
Boogaloo and Graham
Butter Lamp
Parvaneh
The Phone Call
No idea.
So yeah, that’s the list and my choices. That took
longer than I thought, we should return to our regular thing probably tomorrow.
Until then I’ll see you folks at the movies.
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