Here are my predictions for this year’s Oscars, with 1 indicating my first choice, 2 if that doesn’t win, and P is my personal preference of what I would pick if I was voting.
Best Picture
“American Sniper”
1 “Birdman”
2 “Boyhood”
“The Grand Budapest Hotel”
“The Imitation Game”
“Selma”
“The Theory of Everything”
P “Whiplash”
Best Actor
Steve Carell, “Foxcatcher”
Bradley Cooper, “American Sniper”
Benedict Cumberbatch, “The Imitation Game”
2 Michael Keaton, “Birdman”
1P Eddie Redmayne, “The Theory of Everything”
Best Actress
Marion Cotillard, “Two Days, One Night”
Felicity Jones, “The Theory of Everything”
1P Julianne Moore, “Still Alice”
Rosamund Pike, “Gone Girl”
2 Reese Witherspoon, “Wild”
Best Supporting Actor
Robert Duvall, “The Judge”
Ethan Hawke, “Boyhood”
2 Edward Norton, “Birdman”
Mark Ruffalo, “Foxcatcher”
1P J.K. Simmons, “Whiplash”
Best Supporting Actress
1 Patricia Arquette, “Boyhood”
Laura Dern, “Wild”
Keira Knightley, “The Imitation Game”
2P Emma Stone, “Birdman”
Meryl Streep, “Into the Woods”
Best Director
2 Alejandro González Iñárritu, “Birdman”
1 Richard Linklater, “Boyhood”
Bennet Miller, “Foxcatcher”
P Wes Anderson, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Morten Tydlum, “The Imitation Game”
Best Adapted Screenplay
American Sniper
2 The Imitation Game
Inherent Vice
The Theory of Everything
1P Whiplash
Best Original Screenplay
1 Ida
2 Leviathan
P Tangerines
Timbuktu
Wild Tales
Best Documentary Feature
1 Citizenfour
2P Finding Vivian Maier
Last Days in Vietnam
Virunga
Salt of the Earth
Best Animated Feature
2P “Big Hero 6”
“The Boxtrolls”
1 “How to Train Your Dragon 2”
“Song of the Sea”
“The Tale of the Princess Kaguya”
Film Editing
“American Sniper”
1 “Boyhood”
“The Grand Budapest Hotel”
“The Imitation Game”
2P “Whiplash”
Best Song
2 Everything is Awesome “The Lego Movie”
1 Glory “Selma”
Grateful “Beyond the Lights”
“Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me”
P Lost Stars “Begin Again”
Best Original Score
2P The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
Mr. Turner
1 The Theory of Everything
Best Cinematography
1 Birdman
2P The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ida
Mr. Turner
Unbroken
Costume Design
1P The Grand Budapest Hotel
Inherent Vice
2 Into the Woods
Maleficent
Mr. Turner
Makeup and Hairstyling
Foxcatcher
1 The Grand Budapest Hotel
2P Guardians of the Galaxy
Production Design
1 “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
“The Imitation Game”
“Interstellar”
2 “Into the Woods”
“Mr. Turner”
Sound Editing
1 “American Sniper”
“Birdman”
“The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies”
2P “Interstellar”
“Unbroken”
Sound Mixing
2 “American Sniper”
“Birdman”
“Interstellar”
“Unbroken”
1P “Whiplash”
Visual Effects
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
P Guardians of the Galaxy
1 Interstellar
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Short Film, Live Action
Aya
2 Boogaloo and Graham
Butter Lamp
Parvaneh
1 The Phone Call
Short Film, Animated
1 The Bigger Picture
The Dam Keeper
2 Feast
P Me and my Moulton
A Single Life
Documentary Short Subject
1 Crisis Hotline
Johanna
Our Curse
The Reaper
2 White Earth
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