Well the Toronto Film Festival has ended, and though I have barely paid attention to this or Telluride it seems like I should update my Oscar predictions.
-The Imitation Game came away with the Audience Award at Toronto and as the Weinstein Company’s best hope at Best Picture, you can assure this will affect the race in a big way. The only other major thing of note from Toronto was that Julianne Moore seems to have a Best Actress contender on her hands and though I was tempted to throw her in the lineup, lets give it another festival before then. Anyways here are my Oscar predictions.
Best Picture
- Foxcatcher
- Unbroken
- Birdman
- The Imitation Game
- Interstellar
- Gone Girl
- Fury
- Boyhood
- Selma
Best Director
- Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher
- Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Birdman
- Angelina Jolie, Unbroken
- David Fincher, Gone Girl
- Christopher Nolan, Interstellar
Best Actor
- Michael Keaton, Birdman
- Steve Carell, Foxcatcher
- Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
- Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything
- David Oyelowo, Selma
Dropped: Brad Pitt, Fury
Best Actress
- Amy Adams, Big Eyes
- Reese Witherspoon, Wild
- Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything
- Rosemund Pike, Gone Girl
- Meryl Streep, Into the Woods
Dropped: Hilary Swank, The Homesman
Best Supporting Actress
- Anna Kendrick, Into the Woods
- Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
- Emily Blunt, Into the Woods
- Kiera Knightley, The Imitation Game
- Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year
Dropped: Rosemund Pike (moved to lead)
Best Supporting Actor
- J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
- Tom Wilkinson, Selma
- Logan Lerman, Fury
- Takamasa Ishihara, Unbroken
- Edward Norton, Birdman
Dropped: Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher
Best Original Screenplay
- Foxcatcher
- Birdman
- Boyhood
- Interstellar
- Selma
Dropped: Mr. Turner
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Unbroken
- The Imitation Game
- Gone Girl
- The Theory of Everything
- Wild
Dropped: Foxcatcher (moved to original)
Best Animated Feature
- The Lego Movie
- The Boxtrolls
- How to Train Your Dragon 2
- Big Hero 6
- The Book of Life
Film Editing
- Interstellar
- Unbroken
- Foxcatcher
- Fury
- Gone Girl
Production Design
- Into the Woods
- Interstellar
- Unbroken
- Fury
- The Imitation Game
Cinematography
- Unbroken
- Interstellar
- Foxcatcher
- Fury
- Into the Woods
Costume Design
- Into the Woods
- Mr. Turner
- Maleficent
- Big Eyes
- The Imitation Game
Dropped: Selma
Makeup and Hairstyling
- Into the Woods
- Foxcatcher
- Unbroken
Visual Effects
- Interstellar
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
- Godzilla
- Marvel’s The Guardians of the Galaxy
- Edge of Tomorrow
Sound Editing
- Interstellar
- Godzilla
- Into the Woods
- Fury
- Unbroken
Sound Mixing
- Interstellar
- Into the Woods
- Fury
- Godzilla
- Unbroken
Original Score
- Unbroken
- Interstellar
- Big Eyes
- Fury
- Gone Girl
Original Song
- Begin Again
- The Lego Movie
- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
- Big Hero 6