Variety just broke the story that Neil Patrick Harris, currently romancing Ms. Amy in Gone Girl will host this year’s Oscars. The wonderfully funny actor is a crowdpleaser and will definitely keep the show entertaining throughout. He’s hosted the Emmys twice, the Tonys and now he’ll add the Oscars to his list, Variety’s Tim Gray says, bringing that much closer to the EGOT. Here he is performing at the Oscars in 2010. Last year’s show brought the highest ratings in 14 years.
Neil Patrick Harris to Class up the Oscars!
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My technical category predictions
Documentary Feature
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Keepin on Keepin On
Life Itself
Rich Hill
20,000 Days on Earth
Production Design
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Interstellar
Mr. Turner
Selma
Costume Design
Birdman
Mr. Turner
Selma
Theory of Everything
Unbroken
Cinematography
Birdman
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
Into the Woods
Unbroken
Film Editing
Birdman
Boyhood
Foxcatcher
Interstellar
Whiplash
Makeup and Hairstyling
Foxcatcher
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Hobbit: the Battle of the Five Armies
Original Score
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross-Gone Girl
Hans Zimmer-Interstellar
The Imitation Game
Alexandre Desplat-Unbroken
Alexandre Desplat-The Grand Budapest Hotel
Original Song
Lost Stars-Begin Again
The Boxtrolls Song-The Boxtrolls
Everything is Awesome-The Lego Movie
Something’s So Right-The Muppets Most Wanted
Sound Editing
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Guardians of the Galaxy
Godzilla
Interstellar
Noah
Sound Mixing
Fury
Godzilla
Guardians of the Galaxy
Interstellar
The Imitation Game
Visual Effects
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Interstellar
Maleficent
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Joe, you’ve got DuVernay for best director but not Selma for best picture?
My Predictions for the Oscars in the big 10 Categories
Best Picture
Birdman
Boyhood
Foxcatcher
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
Mr. Turner
Theory of Everything
Unbroken
Whiplash
Director
Alejandre Gonazlez Innaritu for Birdman
Mike Leigh for Mr. Turner
Richard Linklater for Boyhood
Christopher Nolan for Interstellar
Ava DeVuray for Selma
Lead Actor
Steve Carrell in Foxcatcher
Benedict Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game
Micheal Keaton in Birdman
Bill Murray in St. Vincent
Eddie Redmayne in Theory of Everything
Lead Actress
Amy Adams in Big Eyes
Felicity Jones in Theory of Everything
Julianne Moore in Still Alice
Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon in Wild
Supporting Actor
Richard Armitage in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Edward Norton in Birdman
Mark Ruffalo in Foxcatcher
JK Simmons in Whiplash
Tom Wilkinson in Selma
Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette in Boyhood
Jessica Chastain in Interstellar
Meryl Streep in Into the Woods
Emma Stone in Birdman
Katherine Waterson in Inherent Vice
Original Screenplay
Birdman
Boyhood
Interstellar
Mr. Turner
Whiplash
Adapted Screenplay
Gone Girl
The Imitation Game
Theory of Everything
Unbroken
Wild
Animated Feature
Big Hero 6
How to Train Your Dragon 2
The Lego Movie
Song of the Sea
The Tale of the Princess Kuyaga
Foreign Language Film
Ida
Mommy
Two Days One Week
Wild Tales
The Wonders
And Neil Patrick Harris hosting the Oscars. I’m nuetral about it. He’s going to be good and his catering to a younger audience rather than older audience so except those Marvel movies to be nominated in the technical categories. He was great with the tonys, pretty good at the emmys and I think he will bring out a big musical number and then start the awards.
OT: For those interested, EW has put out a great article on Interstellar. Here it is.
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/10/16/interstellar-christopher-nolan-anne-hathaway/
Bryce, who cares?
Bob, he could sing Sugar Daddy to Harvey Weinstein lol
I’d tune in for that.