Academy Awards Predictions

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The Oscar season has just started. What films do you think will be nominated and/or win the Academy Awards. I want to see everyone's predictions before the films come out and then, later on, after they do.

Best Picture:
Boyhood
Foxcatcher
Gone Girl
The Imitation Game
Inherent ice
Interstellar
Nightcrawler
Unbroken
Wild

Maybes:
American Sniper
Big Eyes
Birdman
Into the Woods
Selma

Best Director:
Angelina Jolie - Unbroken
Christopher Nolan - Interstellar
David Fincher - Gone Girl
Richard Linklater - Boyhood

Maybes:
Clint Eastwood - American Sniper
Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Actor:
Benedict Cumberbatch - The Imitation Game
Jack O'Connell - Unbroken
Joaquin Phoenix - Inherent Vice
Matthew McConaughey - Interstellar
Steve Carell - Foxcatcher

Maybes:
Ben Affleck - Gone Girl
Eddie Redmayne - The Theory of Everything
Jake Gyllenhaal - Nightcrawler
Ralph Fiennes - The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Actress:
Amy Adams - Big Eyes
Jessica Chastain - A Most Violent Year OR The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby
Marion Cotillard - The Immigrant
Reese Witherspoon - Wild
Rosamund Pike - Gone Girl

Maybes:
Felicity Jones - The Theory of Everything
Shailene Woodley - The Fault In Our Stars

Best Supporting Actor:
Edward Norton - Birdman
Ethan Hawke - Boyhood
John Goodman - The Gambler
Miyavi - Unbroken
Tom Wilkinson - Selma

Maybes:
Christoph Waltz - Big Eyes
Michael Caine - Interstellar

Best Supporting Actress:
Kiera Knightley - The Imitation Game
Jessica Chastain - Interstellar
Laura Dern - Wild
Meryl Streep - Into the Woods (of course)
Patricia Arquette - Boyhood

Maybes:
Emma Thompson - Annie
Tilda Swinton - Snowpiercer

Best Animated Feature:
Big Hero 6
The Book of Life
How to Train Your Dragon 2
The Lego Movie
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I couldn't decide which one

Best Original Screenplay:
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo - Birdman
Dan Futterman and E. Max Frye - Foxcatcher
JC Chandor - A Most Violent Year
Richard Linklater - Boyhood
Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Andrew Bovell - A Most Wanted Man
Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl
Graham Moore - The Imitation Game
Joel/Ethan Coen, Richard LaGravenese, William Nicholson - Unbroken
Paul Thomas Anderson - Inherent Vice

I'm thinking "Gone Girl" will win "Best Picture", and "Best Adapted Screenplay".

I hope Emma Thompson or Keira Knightley will win. (I can't help it, I have a severe weakness for Brits----besides, I think both of these women are BRILLIANT in anything they do!)

Anytime Meryl Streep is up for an Oscar, I hope she wins 'cause I want her to beat Katherine Hepburn's record of 4 wins.

I think Juaquin Phoenix should win 'cause he was sooooo robbed from a win for "Walk the Line".

I also want John Goodman to win because I think he is one of thee MOST under-appreciated actors!

I predict that the least qualified movie will win Best Picture like always.

Best Picture:
Birdman
Boyhood
Gone Girl
Unbroken
Big Eyes
Interstellar
The Imitation Game
Wild
Foxcatcher
Into The Woods

I'm pretty sure Unbroken and Gone Girl will be the two that steal all of the wins this year. Meryl Streep has been nominated eighteen times. I think they just nominate her pretty much any time she's in a movie, so predictable.

Best Director:
Richard Linklater- Boyhood
David Fincher- Gone Girl
Bennett Miller- Foxcatcher
Christopher Nolan- Interstellar
Angelina Jolie- Unbroken

Best Actor:
Benedict Cumberbatch- The Imitation Game
Steve Carell- Foxcatcher
Michael Keaton- Birdman
Jake Gyllenhaal- Nightcrawler
Joaquin Phoenix- Inherent Vice

Best Actress:
Meryl Streep- Into The Woods
Reese Witherspoon- Wild
Amy Adams- Big Eyes
Anne Hathaway- Interstellar
Rosamund Pike- Gone Girl

I really want Boyhood to win. It was fantastic. I'm also pulling for Interstellar, Inherent Vice, and the Theory of Everything, even though I haven't seen them yet.

I really hope it won't get snubbed because it came out so early in the year, same for Grand Budapest. Before Midnight didn't even get a nod last year and Moonrise Kingdom in 2012 was only nominated for best original screenplay. So unfair.

Richard Linklater deserves an Oscar. IMO, this could be his year for a win.

@ Russian K12: I'm hoping Boyhood for this year won't end up how The Butler did for last year; completely shut out, even though The Butler didn't stand a chance
against 12 Years A Slave.

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Best Supporting Actor:
Josh Brolin- Inherent Vice
Ethan Hawke- Boyhood
Mark Ruffalo- Foxcatcher
Matthew Goode- The Imitation Game
Edward Norton- Birdman

Best Supporting Actress:
Laura Dern- Wild
Jessica Chastain- Interstellar
Vanessa Redgrave- Foxcatcher
Keira Knightley- The Imitation Game
Emily Blunt- Into The Woods

Best Animated Feature:
The Lego Movie
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
The Boxtrolls
The Book Of Life
Big Hero 6