Oscar Predictions Update: Black Friday Edition

Not going to bore you all with a lot of info, here are my updated Oscar predictions. The goal this round: be as ruthless as a Black Friday shopper.

Best Picture

1. Boyhood
2. The Imitation Game
3. Birdman
4. Selma
5. The Theory of Everything
6. Unbroken
7. Whiplash
8. Foxcatcher
9. Interstellar

Dropped: Gone Girl

Best Director

1. Richard Linklater, Boyhood
2. Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Birdman
3. Ava DuVernay, Selma
4. Morten Tyldum, The Imitation Game
5. Christopher Nolan, Interstellar

Dropped: Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher, Angelina Jolie, Unbroken

Best Actor

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

Best Actress

1. Julianne Moore, Still Alice
2. Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything
3. Rosemund Pike, Gone Girl
4. Reese Witherspoon, Wild
5. Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Belle

Dropped: Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year (Moved back to Supporting)

Best Supporting Actress

1. Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
2. Meryl Streep, Into the Woods
3. Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year
4. Kiera Knightley, The Imitation Game
5. Emma Stone, Birdman

Dropped: Anna Kendrick, Into the Woods

Best Supporting Actor

1. J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
2. Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher
3. Edward Norton, Birdman
4. Tom Wilkinson, Selma
5. Ethan Hawke, Boyhood

Dropped: Miyavi, Unbroken

Best Original Screenplay

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

Dropped: Interstellar

Best Adapted Screenplay

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

Best Animated Feature

1. The Lego Movie
2. Big Hero 6
3. How to Train Your Dragon 2
4. The Boxtrolls
5. Song of the Sea

Film Editing

1. Interstellar
2. Birdman
3. Unbroken
4. Boyhood
5. Gone Girl

Dropped: Foxcatcher

Production Design

1. Into the Woods
2. Exodus: Gods and Kings
3. Interstellar
4. Unbroken
5. Fury

Dropped: The Imitation Game

Cinematography

1. Unbroken
2. Birdman
3. Interstellar
4. Selma
5. Into the Woods

Dropped: Foxcatcher

Costume Design

1. Into the Woods
2. Mr. Turner
3. Maleficent
4. Exodus: Gods and Kings
5. The Imitation Game

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. Guardians of the Galaxy
5. Edge of Tomorrow

Sound Editing

1. Interstellar
2. Godzilla
3. Fury
4. Unbroken
5. American Sniper

Dropped: Into the Woods

Sound Mixing

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

Original Score

1. Unbroken
2. Interstellar
3. The Imitation Game
4. Foxcatcher
5. Gone Girl

Original Song

1. Begin Again
2. Selma
3. Unbroken
4. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
5. Muppets Most Wanted

Dropped: Big Hero 6

Documentary Feature

1. Citizenfour
2. Tales of the Grim Sleeper
3. Life Itself
4. Finding Vivian Maier
5. Red Army

Dropped: Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, The Salt of the Earth

Foreign Language Film

1. Ida
2. Winter’s Sleep
3. Wild Tales
4. Mommy
5. Force Majeure

Dropped: Leviathan