2014 Oscar Predictions and Hopefuls

2014 Oscar Predictions and Hopefuls

Best Sound Editing


·      Gravity


·      Captain Phillips


·      All Is Lost


·      The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug


·      Lone Survivor   

Want to Win: Lone Survivor

Will Win: Lone Survivor

Best Sound Mixing
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·      Gravity

·      Captain Phillips


·      The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug


·      Inside Llewyn Davis


·      Lone Survivor

Want to Win: Lone Survivor/ Inside Llewyn Davis

Will Win: Lone Survivor

Best Visual Effects


·      Gravity


·      The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug


·      Iron Man 3


·      The Lone Ranger


·      Star Trek Into Darkness

Want to Win: Gravity

Will Win: Gravity

Best Cinematography


·      Gravity


·      The Grandmaster


·      Inside Llewyn Davis


·      Nebraska


·      Prisoners

Want to Win: Prisoners/ Inside Llewyn Davis

Will Win: Gravity

Best Original Screenplay


·      American Hustle 


·      Blue Jasmine 


·      Dallas Buyers Club 


·      Her 


·      Nebraska

Want to Win: Her

Will Win: Her 
        


Best Adapted Screenplay


·      12 Years a Slave  


·      Before Midnight 


·      Captain Phillips

·      Philomena 


·      The Wolf of Wall Street

Want to Win: The Wolf of Wall Street

Will Win: 12 Years a Slave

Best Supporting Actress


·      Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle 


·      Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine

·      Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave 


·      Julia Roberts, August: Osage County


·      June Squibb, Nebraska

Want to Win: Jennifer Lawrence

Will Win: Lupita Nyong’o

Best Supporting Actor


·      Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips 


·      Bradley Cooper, American Hustle


·      Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave 


·      Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street


·      Jared Leto, Dallas Buyer's Club

Want to Win: Jared Leto, Jonah Hill, Bradley Cooper

Will Win: Jared Leto

This was a tough category to pick my favorite.

Best Actress


·      Amy Adams, American Hustle 


·      Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine 


·      Sandra Bullock, Gravity 


·      Judi Dench, Philomena

·      Meryl Streep, August: Osage County

Want to Win: Amy Adams

Will Win: Cate Blanchett

Best Actor


·      Christian Bale, American Hustle

·      Bruce Dern, Nebraska


·      Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street 


·      Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave

·      Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyer's Club

Want to Win: Matthew McConaughey, Leonardo Dicaprio, Christian Bale

Will Win: Matthew McConaughey

Best Director


·      Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity 


·      David O. Russell, American Hustle

·      Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave


·      Alexander Payne, Nebraska 


·      Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street

Want to Win: Alfonso Cuarón

Will Win: Alfonso Cuarón

Best Picture


·      12 Years a Slave

·      American Hustle

·      Gravity

·      The Wolf of Wall Street

·      Dallas Buyers Club

·      Her

·      Nebraska

·      Philomena

·      Captain Phillips

Want to Win: I’d be ok with 6 of them but if I can only choose one I’d pick American Hustle.

Will Win: 12 Years a Slave

Hope you enjoyed my picks. I realize these are not all of the categories but I figured I’d stick with the major ones. Let me know your picks or thoughts.

P.S. I finally saw Inside Llewyn Davis today and I can’t believe it was left out of the best picture race.