The Golden Satellites usually look like fantasy football to me. But their Best Picture nominations in the last few years have 6 or 7 that match Oscar. Make of that what you will. Here they are. Last year, 12 Years a Slave, Gravity and American Hustle led the nominations. The year before it was Les Miserables, Lincoln, Life of Pi and Argo.
Looks like it breaks down this way:
Birdman – 10
Imitation Game – 8
Boyhood – 7
Gone Girl – 7
Whiplash – 5
Selma – 4
Budapest Hotel – 3
Interstellar – 3
Foxcatcher – 2
Actor in a Motion Picture
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game, The Weinstein Co.
Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything, Focus Features
Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler, Open Road
Michael Keaton, Birdman, Fox Searchlight
Miles Teller, Whiplash, Sony Pictures Classics
Steve Carell, Foxcatcher, Sony Pictures Classics
David Oyelowo, Selma, Paramount
Actor in a Supporting Role
J.K. Simmons, Whiplash, Sony Pictures Classics
Edward Norton, Birdman, Fox Searchlight
Ethan Hawke, Boyhood, IFC Films
Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher, Sony Pictures Classics
Robert Duvall, The Judge, Warner Bros.
Andy Serkis, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Fox
Actress in a Motion Picture
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl, Fox
Anne Dorval, Mommy, Roadside Attractions
Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything, Focus Features
Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Belle, Fox Searchlight
Julianne Moore, Still Alice, Sony Pictures Classics
Reese Witherspoon, Wild, Fox Searchlight
Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night, IFC Films
Actress in a Supporting Role
Emma Stone, Birdman, Fox Searchlight
Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game, The Weinstein Co.
Laura Dern, Wild, Fox Searchlight
Tilda Swinton, Snowpiercer, The Weinstein Co.
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood, IFC Films
Katherine Waterston, Inherent Vice, Warner Bros.
Art Direction & Production Design
George DeTitta Jr., Kevin Thompson, Stephen H. Carter, Birdman, Fox Searchlight
Andrew Menzies, Peter Russell, Fury, Sony
Debra Schutt, Mark Friedberg, Noah, Paramount
Dylan Cole, Frank Walsh, Gary Freeman, Maleficent, Disney
Adam Stockhausen, Anna Pinnock, Stephan Gessler, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Fox Searchlight
Maria Djurkovic, Nick Dent, The Imitation Game, The Weinstein Co.
Best Ensemble
Into the Woods, Disney
Cinematography
Hoyte Van Hoytema, F.S.F., N.S.C., Interstellar, Paramount
Dick Pope, BSC, Mr. Turner, Sony Pictures Classics
Emmanuel Lubezki, ASC, AMC, Birdman, Fox Searchlight
Robert Elswit, Inherent Vice, Warner Bros.
Benoît Delhomme, The Theory of Everything, Focus Features
Jeff Cronenweth, ASC, Gone Girl, Fox
Costume Design
Anushia Nieradzik, Belle, Fox Searchlight
Milena Canonero, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Fox Searchlight
Colleen Atwood, Into the Woods, Disney
Anna B. Sheppard, Maleficent, Disney
Michael Wilkinson, Noah, Paramount
Anais Romand, Saint Laurent, Sony Pictures Classics
Director
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Birdman, Fox Searchlight
Damien Chazelle, Whiplash, Sony Pictures Classics
Richard Linklater, Boyhood, IFC Films
David Fincher, Gone Girl, Fox
Morten Tyldum, The Imitation Game, The Weinstein Co.
Ava DuVernay, Selma, Paramount
Film Editing
Sandra Adair, Boyhood, IFC Films
Gary Roach, Joel Cox, American Sniper, Warner Bros.
Douglas Crise, Stephen Mirrione, ACE, Birdman, Fox Searchlight
William Goldenberg, A.C.E., The Imitation Game, The Weinstein Co.
Dody Dorn, ACE, Jay Cassidy, ACE, Fury, Sony
Stan Salfas, ACE, William Hoy, ACE, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Fox
Motion Picture
Whiplash, Sony Pictures Classics
The Imitation Game, The Weinstein Co.
The Theory of Everything, Focus Features
Mr. Turner, Sony Pictures Classics
Selma, Paramount
Gone Girl, Fox
Birdman, Fox Searchlight
Love is Strange, Sony Pictures Classics
Boyhood, IFC Films
The Grand Budapest Hotel, Fox Searchlight
Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media
Big Hero 6, Disney
Song of the Sea, GKIDS
The Boxtrolls, Focus Features
The Lego Movie, Warner Bros.
Wrinkles, GKIDS
The Book of Life, Fox
How to Train Your Dragon 2, Fox
Motion Picture, Documentary
Red Army, Sony Pictures Classics
Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq, Koch Lorber Films
Art and Craft, Oscilloscope Pictures
Citizenfour, Radius-TWC
Finding Vivian Maier, IFC Films
Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me, Area23a
Jodorowsky’s Dune, Sony Pictures Classics
Keep On Keepin’ On, Radius-TWC
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles, Cohen Media Group
Virunga, Netflix
Motion Picture, International Film
Greece, Little England,
Israel, Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem,
Poland, Ida,
Sweden, Force Majeure,
Russia, Leviathan,
Canada, Mommy,
Estonia, Tangerine,
Mauritania, Timbuktu,
Argentina, Wild Tales,
Belgium, Two Days, One Night, IFC Films
Original Score
Antonio Sanchez, Birdman, Fox Searchlight
Alexandre Desplat, The Imitation Game, The Weinstein Co.
Thomas Newman, The Judge, Warner Bros.
Steven Price, Fury, Sony
Hans Zimmer, Interstellar, Paramount
Atticus Ross, Trent Reznor, Gone Girl, Fox
Original Song
“Everything is Awesome”, The Lego Movie, Warner Bros.
“I’m Not Gonna Miss You”, Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me, Area23a
“Split the Difference”, Boyhood, IFC Films
“We Will Not Go”, Virunga, Netflix
“I’ll Get What You Want”, Muppets Most Wanted, Disney
“What Is Love”, 127 Hours, Rio 2, Fox
Screenplay, Adapted
Paul Thomas Anderson, Inherent Vice, Warner Bros.
Graham Moore, The Imitation Game, The Weinstein Co.
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, Fox
Anthony McCarten, The Theory of Everything, Focus Features
Jason Hall, American Sniper, Warner Bros.
Cheryl Strayed, Nick Hornby, Wild, Fox Searchlight
Screenplay, Original
Paul Webb, Selma, Paramount
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo, Nicolas Giabone, Birdman, Fox Searchlight
Richard Linklater, Boyhood, IFC Films
Ira Sachs, Mauricio Zacharias, Love is Strange, Sony Pictures Classics
Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler, Open Road
Christopher Miller, Phil Lord, The Lego Movie, Warner Bros.
Sound (Editing and Mixing)
Craig Henighan, Ken Ishii, C.A.S., Skip Lievsay, Noah, Paramount
Erik Aadahl, Ethan Van Der Ryn, Peter J. Devlin, C.A.S., Transformers: Age of Extinction, Paramount
Anna Behlmer, Mark Holding, Taeyoung Choi, Terry Porter, Snowpiercer, The Weinstein Co.
Ben Wilkins, Craig Mann, Thomas Curley, Whiplash, Sony Pictures Classics
Blake Leyh, John Casali, Michael Keller, Michael Prestwoood Smith, Renee Tondelli, Into the Woods, Disney
Ren Klyce, Steve Cantamessa, Gone Girl, Fox
Visual Effects
Eric Durst, Snowpiercer, The Weinstein Co.
Stephane Ceretti, Guardians of the Galaxy, Disney
Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter, Paul Franklin, Scott Fisher, Interstellar, Paramount
Ben Snow, Burt Dalton, Dan Schrecker, Marc Chu, Noah, Paramount
John Frazier, Patrick Tubach, Scott Benza, Scott Farrar, A.S.C., Transformers: Age of Extinction, Paramount
Dan Lemmon, Joe Letteri, Matt Kutcher, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes