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

  1. Foxcatcher
  2. Unbroken
  3. Birdman
  4. The Imitation Game
  5. Interstellar
  6. Gone Girl
  7. Fury
  8. Boyhood
  9. Selma

Best Director

  1. Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher
  2. Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Birdman
  3. Angelina Jolie, Unbroken
  4. David Fincher, Gone Girl
  5. Christopher Nolan, Interstellar

Best Actor

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

Dropped: Brad Pitt, Fury

Best Actress

  1. Amy Adams, Big Eyes
  2. Reese Witherspoon, Wild
  3. Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything
  4. Rosemund Pike, Gone Girl
  5. Meryl Streep, Into the Woods

Dropped: Hilary Swank, The Homesman

Best Supporting Actress

  1. Anna Kendrick, Into the Woods
  2. Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
  3. Emily Blunt, Into the Woods
  4. Kiera Knightley, The Imitation Game
  5. Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year

Dropped: Rosemund Pike (moved to lead)

Best Supporting Actor

  1. J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
  2. Tom Wilkinson, Selma
  3. Logan Lerman, Fury
  4. Takamasa Ishihara, Unbroken
  5. Edward Norton, Birdman

Dropped: Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher

Best Original Screenplay

  1. Foxcatcher
  2. Birdman
  3. Boyhood
  4. Interstellar
  5. Selma

Dropped: Mr. Turner

Best Adapted Screenplay

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

Dropped: Foxcatcher (moved to original)

Best Animated Feature

  1. The Lego Movie
  2. The Boxtrolls
  3. How to Train Your Dragon 2
  4. Big Hero 6
  5. The Book of Life

Film Editing

  1. Interstellar
  2. Unbroken
  3. Foxcatcher
  4. Fury
  5. Gone Girl

Production Design

  1. Into the Woods
  2. Interstellar
  3. Unbroken
  4. Fury
  5. The Imitation Game

Cinematography

  1. Unbroken
  2. Interstellar
  3. Foxcatcher
  4. Fury
  5. Into the Woods

Costume Design

  1. Into the Woods
  2. Mr. Turner
  3. Maleficent
  4. Big Eyes
  5. The Imitation Game

Dropped: Selma

Makeup and Hairstyling

  1. Into the Woods
  2. Foxcatcher
  3. Unbroken

Visual Effects

  1. Interstellar
  2. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
  3. Godzilla
  4. Marvel’s The Guardians of the Galaxy
  5. Edge of Tomorrow

Sound Editing

  1. Interstellar
  2. Godzilla
  3. Into the Woods
  4. Fury
  5. Unbroken

Sound Mixing

  1. Interstellar
  2. Into the Woods
  3. Fury
  4. Godzilla
  5. Unbroken

Original Score

  1. Unbroken
  2. Interstellar
  3. Big Eyes
  4. Fury
  5. Gone Girl

Original Song

  1. Begin Again
  2. The Lego Movie
  3. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
  4. Big Hero 6