Oscar Predictions

Its that time of the year were cinephiles gather around their televisions to cheer on their favorite movies only to leave the night incredibly enraged.  Here are my predictions for this years oscars, as well as who I think should win.

Oscar for Actor in a Leading Role.

Who should win: Chiwetel Ejifor (12 Years a Slave), One of the most demanding roles I can remember an actor take on in recent memory.

Who will win: Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club), All the momentum seems to be moving his way in what has been a career changing year that started with his role in Mud. 

Oscar for Actress in a Leading Role.

Who should win: Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine),  she was brilliant in Blue Jasmine as a neurotic middle aged mess.

Who will win: Sandra Bullock (Gravity), There's a chance that Woody Allen's controversy could rub off on Blanchett.

Oscar for Actor in a Supporting Role.

Who should win: Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave), He brings the devil himself alive in his role as the slave master Epps.

Who will win: Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club),  Leto did a great job in his transformative role, in a category that's hard to pick from this year I would be fine with a Leto win.

Oscar for Actress in a Supporting Role.

Who should win: Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave) with a role just as demanding Chiwetel's, Lupita gives a performance that will be hard to forget in her first ever on-screen role.  I also gotta give June Squibb some love for her role in Nebraska, she was one of the best parts of the film.

Who will win: Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle), she is the apple of the Academy's eye.

Oscar for Best Cinematography.

Who should win: Gravity, amazing and fluid camera movements make the cinematography dazzling.

Who will win: Gravity, One of the more sure bets of the night.

Oscar for Costume Design.

Who should win: 12 Years a Slave, wonderful period costume design.

Who will win: American Hustle, people are in love with the tacky 70's outfits.

Oscar for Best Directing.

Who should win: Steve Mcqueen (12 Years a Slave), every decision made in how to make this movie looks like the right decision, probably the win I'm rooting for the most since Mcqueen has a chance to become the first black director to ever win the award.

Who will win: Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity),  He's been winning nearly all the directing awards, I won't be mad I just want Mcqueen to win so badly.

Oscar for Film Editing.

Who should win: 12 Years a Slave, the pacing of the film always seems right and never draws attention to itself.

Who will win: Captain Phillips, "The editing creates so much tension, man" - some kid in my film class.

Oscar for Makeup and Hairstyling.

Who should win: Dallas Buyers Club, cause who the fuck else are they going to give it to.

Who will win: Dallas Buyer Club, if The Lone Ranger wins for its racist makeup I will riot.

Oscar for Best Original Music Score.

Who should win: Steven Price (Gravity).

Who will win: Steven Price (Gravity), The music is part of what makes this movie so Engulfing.

Oscar for Best Original Song.

Who should win: "The Moon Song" by Karen O (Her), I love this song soo much

Who will win: "Let It Go" (Frozen), the fact that a song from Inside Llewyn Davis didn't get nominated is a travesty

Oscar for Best Production Design.

Who should win: Her, The movies use of color is incredible.

Who will win: American Hustle, again the Academy won't be able to resist tacky 70's production design.

Oscar Short Film - Live Action

Who should win: Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything), this film is so incredibly intense and puts you in the moment.

Who will win: The Voorman Problem, Its got the star power with Martin Freeman playing the main character.

Oscar for Sound Editing

Who should win: Gravity.

Who will win: Gravity, again where is Inside Llewyn Davis?

Oscar for Sound Mixing.

Who should win: Inside Llewyn Davis, Hey finally found it in this category.

Who will win: Gravity.

Oscar for Visual Effects.

Who should win: Gravity, Ooooo so pretty.

Who will win: and this years Gravity award for Visual Effects goes to Gravity.

Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Who should win: 12 Years a Slave.

Who will win: Philomena, I think this will be one of the surprises of the night.

Oscar for Best Original Screenplay

Who should win: Her, an incredible concept that Jonze is able to pull off and make believable.

Who will win: Her, its the favorite and all signs point to it winning.

Oscar for Best Picture

Who should win: 12 Years a Slave, Certainly one of the best movies I have ever seen.

Who will win: 12 Years a Slave, For once I think the Academy will make the right call, but I have a crippling fear that American Hustle might sneak in for the win.

So with the Oscar just a few hours away it's time to roll out the oscar predictions.

Oscar for Actor in a Leading Role.

Who should win: Daniel Day-Lewis, His acting in Lincoln was phenomenal and from what I here he used some pretty extreme methods in order to get in to character for the movie.

Who will win: Daniel Day-Lewis This is one of the most sure bets of the night.

Oscar for Actress in a Leading Role.

Who should win: Jessica Chastain, she made Zero Dark Thirty her movie and was a big part of what made that movie work.

Who will win: Emmanuelle Riva, I don't think the Academy will pass up a chance to be this pretentious .

Oscar for Actor in a Supporting Role.

Who should win: Christoph Waltz, His biggest competition wasn't even nominated, Waltz was awesome in Django should be an easy win.

Who will win: Christoph Waltz, the Academy loves Waltz and he put on a great performance.

Oscar for Actress in a Supporting Role.

Who should win: Helen Hunt, had a good performance, this category is one of the weaker categories of the year.

Who will win: Anne Hathaway, I'm Against Les Mis getting award recognition, but I wouldn't have any quarrels with Anne Hathaway winning.  For the little amount of time she was on-screen she stole the show, a close second in my book.

Oscar for Best Cinematography.

Who should win: Lincoln, It didn't have any beautiful visuals or amazing landscapes to really on, this movie looked beautiful even though it was a dialogue driven movie.

Who will win: Life of Pi, The Academy won't be able to resist all of the sparkly objects.

Oscar for Costume Design.

Who should win: Anna Karenina, Extravagant costumes that contributed to the great mise en scene in the movie

Who will win: Les Miserables, it's not like it has a ton of competition.  I mean Snow White and the Huntsman got nominated in this category, come on Academy get you shit together, what is this the people's choice awards?

Oscar for Best Directing.

Who should win: Lincoln, Steven Spielberg.  This category had a ridiculous amount of snubs, Spielberg wasn't the best this year, but he's the best of the nominees.

Who will win: Lincoln, Steven Spielberg.  He's got the Oscar pedigree.

Oscar for Film Editing.

Who should win: Zero Dark Thirty, the editing did a great job of adding tension and the progression of the movie was seamless.

Who will win: Argo, Eh whatever.

Best Foreign Language Film.

Who should win: No, Chile.  Honestly the only movie I've seen in this category is Amour and wasn't a fan of it.  I've seen the trailer for NO and I love the movie's premise and I'm fairly certain it's not worse then Amour.

Who will win: Amour, book it.

Oscar for Makeup and Hairstyling.

Who should win: The Hobbit an Unexpected Journey, Make-Up is great.  BUT HOW DID CLOUD ATLAS NOT GET NOMINATED?  We'll save that conversation for another day.

Who will win: Les Miserables, While accepting this award they should have to thank the mud that they made their actors role around, to make them look dirty.

Oscar for Best Original Music Score.

Who should win: John Williams, Lincoln.  You can just feel the vast amount of emotion in this score.

Who will win: Mychael Danna, The Academy will love the "bollywoodish" sounding score.

Oscar for Best Original Song.

Who should win: Skyfall, "Skyfall" by Adele.

Who will win: Skyfall, "Skyfall" by Adele.  It'll win because Adele.

Oscar for Best Production Design.

Who should win: Lincoln, It did a great job of recreating the 19th century and bring it to the screen

Who will win: Les Miserables, some of the Production Design looked a little ridiculous, let's hope it doesn't win.

Oscar Short Film - Animated

Who should win: Head over Heels, Incredibly clever and a sweet short.

Who will win: Paperman, It's incredibly endearing, plus it's disney the kings of Animation.

Oscar Short Film - Live Action

Who should win: Henry, It's a much better and psychological version of Amour.

Who will win: The Buzkashi Boys, All the shorts were really good in my opinion, I don't think I would have a problem with any of the 5 nominees winning it.

Oscar for Sound Editing

Who should win: Django Unchained, I don't think there is anyone in the industry cares and focuses on sound as much a Quentin Tarantino.

Who will win: Django Unchained, just taking a shot in the dark.  It makes sense to me, so why not the Academy too? Right?

Oscar for Sound Mixing.

Who should win: Lincoln, I don't really have a compelling argument......

Who will win: Les Miserables, ugh.

Oscar for Visual Effects.

Who should win: Life of Pi, The effects are beautiful and it would be nice to see a movie win this award without using big explosions

Who will win: Life of Pi, I could tell that the Tiger was CGI, but apparently a lot of other people couldn't....

Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Who should win: Beasts of the Southern Wild, such a great and unique story, which you don't see to often.

Who will win: Argo, Oh boy another movie about how America and the CIA are awesome.

Oscar for Best Original Screenplay

Who should win: Django Unchained, there are some laughs and the dialogue seems genuine to the time period.

Who will win: Amour, there goes the Academy showing off how pretentious they can be again.


Oscar for Best Picture

Who should win: Django Unchained, stylish, witty, and tackles extremely tough subject matter.  Django is everything I want in a movie and more.

Who will win: Argo, It's been surging recently, and Affleck's fellow directors are gonna trying to stick to the academy for not giving him that director nom.  Unfortunately in the midst of all that they forget that they're supposed to pick the best movie.



* categories not mentioned Animated Feature, Documentary Feature and Documentary Short