2014 Oscar Nominations & Predictions

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We are in the midst of the awards season! That means lots of glamorous shots of talented actors and many predictions. There are many worthy candidates in all categories thus making it hard to predict the winners. The Oscars will be aired on 2nd March 2014; if you are a UK resident, like me, you can watch the red carpet live on Sky Movies Oscars (a new Sky channel made especially for the awards ceremony) and Sky Living from 11:30pm to 1:30am. The awards ceremony will only be available on British TV on Sky Movies Oscars from 1:30am till 4:00am. Unfortunately, being a student, my halls does not fund Sky so I shall be catching up on the results the following morning.



And the nominees are...
(I have highlighted whom I predict will win in red)

Best Picture:
American Hustle
Captain Phillips 
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
12 Years A Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Actor in a Leading Role:
Christian Bale (American Hustle)
Bruce Dern (Nebraska)
Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years A Slave)
Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)

Best Actress in a Leading Role:
Amy Adams (American Hustle)
Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
Sandra Bullock (Gravity)
Judi Dench (Philomena)
Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role:
Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)
Bradley Cooper (American Hustle)
Michael Fassbender (12 Years A Slave)
Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role:
Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine)
Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)
Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years A Slave)
Julia Roberts (August: Osage County)
June Squibb (Nebraska)

Best Animated Feature:
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Ernest & Celestine
Frozen
The Wind Rises

Best Cinematography:
The Grandmaster
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Prisoners

Best Costume Design:
American Hustle (Michael Wilkinson)
The Grandmaster (William Chang Suk Ping)
The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin)
The Invisible Woman (Michael O'Connor)
12 Years A Slave (Patricia Norris)

Best Director:
David O'Russell (American Hustle)
Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity)
Alexander Payne (Nebraska)
Steve McQueen (12 Years A Slave)
Martin Scorcese (The Wolf of Wall Street)

Best Documentary Feature:
The Act of Killing
Cutie and the Boxer
Dirty Wars
The Square
20 Feet From Stardom

Best Documentary Short:
CaveDigger
Facing Fear
Karama Has No Walls
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall

Best Film Editing:
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity 
12 Years A Slave

Best Foreign Language Film:
The Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium)
The Great Beauty (Italy)
The Hunt (Denmark)
The Missing Picture (Cambodia)
Omar (Palestine)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling:
Dallas Buyers Club
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
The Lone Ranger

Best Original Score:
John Williams (The Book Thief)
Steven Price (Gravity)
William Butler, Owen Pallett (Her)
Alexandre Desplat (Philomena)
Thomas Newman (Saving Mr. Banks)

Best Original Song:
Alone Yet Not Alone (Alone Yet Not Alone)
Happy (Despicable Me 2)
Let It Go (Frozen)
The Moon Song (Her)
Ordinary Love (Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom)

Best Production Design:
American Hustle
Gravity
The Great Gatsby
Her
12 Years A Slave

Best Animated Short Film:
Feral
Get A Horse!
Mr. Hublot
Possessions
Room on a Broom

Best Live Action Short Film:
Aquel No Era Yo [That Wasn't Me]
Avant Que De Tout Perdre [Just Before Losing Everything]
Helium
Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? [Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?]
The Voorman Problem

Best Sound Editing:
All Is Lost
Captain Phillips
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Lone Survivor

Best Sound Mixing:
Captain Phillips 
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Inside Llewyn Davis
Lone Survivor

Best Visual Effects:
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
The Lone Ranger
Star Trek Into Darkness

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Before Midnight 
Captain Phillips
Philomena
12 Years A Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Original Screenplay:
American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
Dallas Buyers Club
Her 
Nebraska

Clearly from the nominations the frontrunners appear to be American Hustle, Dallas Buyers Club, 12 Years A Slave, Gravity, The Wolf of Wall Street, Blue Jasmine and Captain Phillips but it will certainly be a close call for all categories.

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Watch this space...