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Oscar Predictions Update

Yes, folks, it's time again to examine the Oscar race, as it currently stands -- I'm making my predictions based on early wins (like the Gotham Awards and the National Board of Review) and nominations (like the Screen Actors Guild Awards and the Golden Globe Awards).

Best Picture
1. Boyhood
2. Birdman
3. Gone Girl
4. The Imitation Game
5. Selma
6. The Theory of Everything
7. The Grand Budapest Hotel
8. A Most Violent Year
9. Nightcrawler
10. Whiplash

Best Director
1. Richard Linklater -- Boyhood
2. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu -- Birdman
3. David Fincher -- Gone Girl
4. Wes Anderson -- The Grand Budapest Hotel
5. Morten Tyldum -- The Imitation Game

Best Actor
1. Michael Keaton -- Birdman
2. Benedict Cumberbatch -- The Imitation Game
3. Eddie Redmayne -- The Theory of Everything
4. David Oyelowo -- Selma
5. Steve Carell -- Foxcatcher

Best Actress
1. Julianne Moore -- Still Alice
2. Rosamund Pike -- Gone Girl
3. Felicity Jones -- Theory of Everything
4. Reese Witherspoon -- Wild
5. Jennifer Aniston  -- Cake

Best Supporting Actor
1. J.K. Simmons -- Whiplash
2. Edward Norton -- Birdman
3. Ethan Hawke -- Boyhood
4. Mark Ruffalo -- Foxcatcher
5. Robert Duvall -- The Judge

Best Supporting Actress
1. Patricia Arquette -- Boyhood
2. Jessica Chastain -- A Most Violent Year
3. Keira Knightley -- The Imitation Game
4. Emma Stone -- Birdman
5. Meryl Streep -- Into the Woods

Best Editing
1. Boyhood
2. Birdman
3. Gone Girl
4. The Grand Budapest Hotel
5. Interstellar

Best Adapted Screenplay
1. Gone Girl
2. The Imitation Game
3. Wild
4. The Theory of Everything
5. Unbroken

Best Original Screenplay
1. Boyhood
2. Birdman
3. The Grand Budapest Hotel
4. Whiplash
5. Nightcrawler

Best Animated Feature Film
1. The Lego Movie
2. How to Train Your Dragon 2
3. The Tale of the Princess Kagua
4. Big Hero 6
5. The Book of Life

Best Documentary Feature Film
1. Citizenfour
2. Life Itself
3. Jodorowsky's Dune
4. Last Days in Vietnam
5. The Overnighters

Best Foreign Language Film
1. Ida
2. Force Majeure
3. Two Days, One Night
4. Leviathan
5. Wild Tales

Best Cinematography
1. Birdman
2. Interstellar
3. The Grand Budapest Hotel
4. Unbroken
5. Mr. Turner

Best Visual Effects
1. Interstellar
2. Guardians of the Galaxy
3. The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies
4. Edge of Tomorrow
5. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Best Original Score
1. Alexandre Desplat -- The Imitation Game
2. Johann Johansson -- The Theory of Everything
3. Hans Zimmer -- Interstellar
4. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross -- Gone Girl
5. Mica Levi -- Under the Skin

Best Original Song
1. "Glory" -- Selma
2. "Yellow Flicker Beat" -- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I
3. "Everything is Awesome" -- The Lego Movie
4. "Big Eyes" -- Big Eyes
5. "Lost Stars" -- Begin Again

Best Costume Design
1. The Grand Budapest Hotel
2. Into the Woods
3. Maleficent
4. Inherent Vice
5. Mr. Turner

Best Production Design
1. The Grand Budapest Hotel
2. Into the Woods
3. Snowpiercer
4. Birdman
5. Interstellar

Best Make-up/Hairstyling
1. Guardians of the Galaxy
2. Into the Woods
3. Foxcatcher
4. The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies
5. Maleficent


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