Saturday, January 11, 2014

My Oscar Nomination Predictions (2013 Films)

It's a tough process, but here are my predictions for this year's Oscar nominations (films released in 2013) with wildcards only in the major categories:

Best Picture
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyer’s Club
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Saving Mr. Banks
The Wolf of Wall Street

Wildcard – Fruitvale Station

Best Director
Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity)
Steven McQueen (12 Years a Slave)
David O. Russell (American Hustle)
Alexander Payne (Nebraska)
Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips)

Wildcard – Martin Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street)

Best Actor
Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)
Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyer’s Club)
Robert Redford (All is Lost)
Bruce Dern (Nebraska)
Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)

Wildcard - Tom Hanks (Captain Phillips)

Best Actress
Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
Sandra Bullock (Gravity)
Judi Dench (Philomena)
Emma Thompson (Saving Mr. Banks)
Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)

Wildcard - Amy Adams (American Hustle)

Best Supporting Actor
Jared Leto (Dallas Buyer’s Club)
Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)
Bradley Cooper (American Hustle)
Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)
Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street)

Wildcard – Daniel Bruhl (Rush)

Best Supporting Actress
Oprah Winfrey (The Butler)
Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)
Lupita Nyongo (12 Years a Slave)
Octavia Spencer (Fruitvale Station)
Julia Roberts (August: Osage County)

Wildcard –June Squibb (Nebraska)

Best Original Screenplay
Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell (American Hustle)
Woody Allen (Blue Jasmine)
Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack (Dallas Buyers Club)
Bob Nelson (Nebraska)
Spike Jonze (Her)

Wildcard – Joel and Ethan Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis)

Best Adapted Screenplay
John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave
Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke & Richard Linklater, Before Midnight
Terence Winter, The Wolf of Wall Street
Billy Ray,
 Captain Phillips
Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope, 
Philomena

Wildcard – Peter Berg (Lone Survivor)

Best Animated Film
Frozen
The Wind Rises
Ernest and Celestine
Monsters University
Despicable Me 2

Wildcard –The Croods

Best Foreign Film
Denmark, The Hunt, Thomas Vinterberg, director
Italy, The Great Beauty, Paolo Sorrentino, director
Belgium, The Broken Circle Breakdown, Felix van Groeningen, director
Hong Kong, The Grandmaster, Wong Kar-wai, director
Palestine, Omar, Hany Abu-Assad, director

Best Documentary Feature
Stories We Tell
The Act of Killing
20 Feet From Stardom
Blackfish
The Square

Best Production Design
12 Years a Slave
Gravity
The Great Gatsby
Saving Mr. Banks
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Best Cinematography
Gravity
Prisoners
Captain Phillips
Inside Llewyn Davis
12 Years a Slave

Best Costume Design
12 Years a Slave
The Book Thief
The Great Gatsby
American Hustle
The Invisible Woman

Best Editing
The Wolf of Wall Street
12 Years a Slave
Rush
Gravity
American Hustle

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
The Great Gatsby
American Hustle
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Best Score
Gravity
Saving Mr. Banks
The Book Thief
All is Lost
12 Years a Slave

Best Song
"Ordinary Love" (Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom)
"So You Know What It's Like" (Short Term 12)
“The Moon Song” (Her)
“Let It Go” (Frozen)
"Young and Beautiful" (The Great Gatsby)

Best Sound Editing
All is Lost
Oblivion
Rush
12 Years a Slave
Gravity

Best Sound Mixing
Gravity
Captain Phillips
Rush
Oblivion
Inside Llewyn Davis

Best Visual Effects
World War Z
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Pacific Rim
Iron Man 3

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