All the cool kids are doing it, so here’s my 2014 Oscar predictions:
Best Picture: 12 Years a Slave
Best Director: Alfonso Cuarón for Gravity
Best Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio for The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine
Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto for Dallas Buyers Club
Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Lawrence for American Hustle
Best Original Screenplay: Her: Spike Jonze
Best Adapted Screenplay: 12 Years a Slave: John Ridley
Best Animated Feature Film: Frozen
Best Foreign Language Film: The Great Beauty: Paolo Sorrentino(Italy)
Cinematography: Gravity: Emmanuel Lubezki
Editing: American Hustle: Alan Baumgarten, Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers
Production Design: American Hustle: Judy Becker, Heather Loeffler
Costume Design: American Hustle: Michael Wilkinson
Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Dallas Buyers Club: Adruitha Lee, Robin Mathews
Original Score: Gravity: Steven Price
Original Song: Frozen: Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez(“Let It Go”)
Best Sound Mixing: Gravity: Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead, Chris Munro
Best Sound Editing: Gravity: Glenn Freemantle
Best Visual Effects: Gravity: Timothy Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk, Neil Corbould
Best Documentary Feature: The Act of Killing: Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sørensen
Best Documentary Short: The Lady In Number 6: Malcolm Clarke, Carl Freed
Best Animated Short: Possessions: Shuhei Morita
Best Live Action Short: Helium: Anders Walter
Some of these are “no brainers” IMO (NO WAY is Cuarón losing, and Frozen is a shoo-in) and others… well, they could go either way (DiCaprio and McConaughey are neck and neck in most predictions). We’ll see how I do come Sunday!