02 March 2014

Academy Awards - 2014


Do you really think there will be all that many surprises tonight, other than not hearing 12 Years A Slave’s name all that much? Gravity will be a force to be reckoned with. Dallas Buyers Club will sweep the acting categories. Here’s how I predict the voting will go, along with a few comments.

As Always,
theJOE

PICTURE / ACTING CATEGORIES
Best Picture: Gravity
Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
Best Actor: Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club (although I’d vote for Bale)
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle (she’ll win, but the award should go to Sally Hawkins)



OTHER CATEGORIES
Best Adapted Screenplay: 12 Years a Slave
Best Original Screenplay: American Hustle
Best Cinematography: Gravity
Best Film Editing: Gravity
Best Animated Feature: Frozen (Miyazaki deserves it. Again)
Best Costume Design: American Hustle
Best Documentary: 20 Feet From Stardom (if only just to see Darlene Love and Lisa Fischer smile)
Best Foreign Film: The Great Beauty
Best Makeup: Dallas Buyers Club
Best Original Score: Gravity (this will win, although I didn’t care for it. Mark Orton’s score from Nebraska should have received a nom)
Best Original Song: Ordinary Love
Best Production Design: The Great Gatsby (this film should have received way more noms that it actually did, particularly for Directing and Editing)
Best Sound Editing: Gravity
Best Sound Mixing: Gravity
Best Visual Effects: Gravity
Best Documentary Short Subject: Lady in No. 6: Music Saved My Life
Best Animated Short: Get A Horse!
Best Live Action Short: Just Before Losing Everything  

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