Nat has posted his first of the year Oscar charts to get the party started right. Many of the films listed here for Best Pic have not yet been seen but still some Oscar predictors like to get their stuff out early to see whether or not they can play the guessing game to its finality. It always makes me nervous to do this – It’s hard to predict films one hasn’t yet seen, or films others haven’t seen. But all in all, we’re getting pretty good at the game. We will really know what Oscar is going to look like once Summer rolls around to a close. Any films so far seem headed for the Big Show? Hard to say. We will know more in a few months. But if you want to dive in early, head on over to Nat’s site.
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Completely missing Selma. Oyelowo, Wilkinson, Roth, Nivola, Ribisi produced by last years 12 Years winner and getting a big push from Paramount. All about MLK from two well liked Minority Sundance winners with the backing of Brad Pitt and Oprah. It’ll make noise for the cast and producer lineup alone.
Art Direction
Big Eyes
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Interstellar
Into the Woods
Mr. Turner
Cinematography
Foxcatcher
Gone Girl
The Homesman
Interstellar
Mr. Turner
Costume Design
Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Hobbit: The Battle of the 5 Armies
Into the Woods
Mr. Turner
Film Editing
Foxcatcher
Gone Girl
The Homesman
Interstellar
Unbroken
Animated Feature
Big Hero 6
The Boxtrolls
How to Train Your Dragon 2
The Lego Movie
The Princess Kuyaga
Documentary Feature
The Case Against 8
The Green Prince
Life Itself
Return to Home
Rich Hill
Makeup
Foxcatcher
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Interstellar
Original Score
Marco Beltrami for The Homesman
Alexandre Desplat for The Grand Budapest Hotel
Mychel Dyenna for Foxcatcher
Stephen Sondheim for Interstellar
Hans Zimmer for Interstellar
Original Song
Annie
The Hobbit: The Battle of the 5 Armies
Into the Woods
The Lego Movie
Sound Editing
Edge of Tommorrow
Godzilla
The Hobbit: The Battle of the 5 Armies
Interstellar
Maleficent
Sound Mixing
Godzilla
Gone Girl
Interstellar
Maleficent
Unbroken
Visual Effects
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Godzilla
The Hobbit: The Battle of 5 Armies
Interstellar
Maleficent
Best picture
Big eyes
Foxcatcher
Gone girl
The grand Budapest hotel
The Homesman
The hobbit the battle of the 5 armies
The imitation game
Interstellar
Mr. Turner
Unbroken
Director
David fincher for gone girl
Tommy Lee Jones for the Homesman
Mike Leigh for Mr. Turner
Bennett miller for foxcatcher
Christopher Nolan for interstellar
Actor
Chadwick boseman in get on up
Steve carrell in foxcatcher
Benedict cumberbatch in the imitation game
Tommy Lee Jones in the Homesman
Timothy spall in Mr. Turner
Actress
Amy Adams in big eyes
Jessica chastain in a most violent year
Rosemund pike in gone girl
Shailene woodley in the fault in our stars
Reese witherspoon in wild
Supporting actor
Richard armitage in the hobbit battle of the five armies
John Lithgow in love is strange
Mark ruffalo in foxcatcher
Chaning Tatum in foxcatcher
Jk Simmons in whiplash
Supporting actress
Patricia arquette in boyhood
Viola Davis in the disappearance of Eleanor Rigsby
Lesley Manville in Mr. Turner
Tilda swinton in the grand Budapest hotel
Emma Watson in noah
Adapted screenplay
Foxcatcher
Gone girl
The imitation game
The monuments men
Unbroken
Original screenplay
Big eyes
Birdman
The Homesman
Interstellar
Mr. Turner
David, I hadn’t heard of that movie but I just went to imdb to look it up. It strangely sounds like Half Nelson. A teacher with a drug problem, even the poster on the page looks somewhat similar to Half Nelson’s poster of Gosling standing in front of his chalkboard.
A movie that could be a dark horse, that finally after 2 yrs got a release date is Nick Cassavetes ‘Yellow’ comes out Aug 9
If I had known you were going to announce here when Nate posted it I wouldn´t have checked The Film Experience daily. Not offense to Nate, I love his blog and his podcast.
Birdman’s getting that big if buzz?
So, apparently Boyhood isn’t even a blip on his radar?
“to maximize AMPAS/prestige friendliness”
Well, the same Academy nominated Milk, Brokeback Mountain, and The Kids Are All Right in this category in recent years. If The Imitation Game is good enough, I see little chance that it will miss out on a BP nomination.
I love Nathaniel’s blog.
But I’m also really looking forward to seeing Whiplash. I’ve heard this is one to see. Plus, I’m a fan of Miles Teller.
I think at this point the only five I’m willing to go out on a limb for to predict as Best Picture nominees are:
Foxcatcher – Bennett Miller
Gone Girl – David Fincher
Inherent Vice – Paul Thomas Anderson
Interstellar – Christopher Nolan
Unbroken – Angelina Jolie
But a lot of the others look to be the ones that many others will eventually start listing themselves.
Nate is a hack
No, no, no, no, no, NO! There’s no way you take me down that road again! I’m done with the Oscars once and for all! I want to live and enjoy life, watch the films I like for pleasure or for culture, and get rid of this awful obsession of who’s going to get in and what are the first reactions from test screenings? and what do the critics say? Can it be saved by BO? How many precursor noms did it get? and does that mean it’s a lock or an outsider? Never Again!
I fear Weinstein has de-gayed the character and dumbed down Graham Moore’s brilliant, simmering, lean-but-not-light script, you know, to maximize AMPAS/prestige friendliness — so yeah, sounds like a good bet for the Oscars, more so once you consider all the talent behind and in front of the camera. Still though…not sure why Kiera Knightley is in this movie AT ALL?…Like, based in history, that role shouldn’t attract such a leading actress…unless -again- it’s been Weinstein-ized — so yeah, good bet for the Oscars. Low expectations for an actual good film.