** I have not seen 12 Years A
Slave, Her, or Philomena or any of the foreign movies, documentaries, or documentary shorts (who has really??) So I left the stupid categories out of this....
Top 5 Films of the Year:
1) Gravity
2) Prisoners
3) American Hustle
4) Nebraska
5) Captain Phillips
Best Picture:
“Gravity”
“12 Years a Slave”
“Philomena”
“American Hustle”
“Her”
“Nebraska”
“The Wolf of Wall Street”
“Dallas Buyers Club”
Who will win? 12 Years A Slave
Who should win? Gravity
Best Actor:
Christian Bale, “American Hustle”
Bruce Dern, “Nebraska”
Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Wolf of
Wall Street”
Chiwetel Ejiofor, “12 Years a
Slave”
Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas
Buyers Club”
Who will win? Matthew McConaughey
Who should win? Matthew McConaughey (although honorable mention to Tom Hanks in Captain Phillips)
Best Actress:
Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine”
Sandra Bullock, “Gravity”
Judi Dench, “Philomena”
Amy Adams, “American Hustle”
Meryl Streep, “August: Osage
County”
Who will win? - Cate
Blanchett
Who should win? – Sandra Bullock
Best Supporting Actor:
Barkhad Abdi, “Captain Phillips”
Bradley Cooper, “American Hustle”
Michael Fassbender, “12 Years a
Slave”
Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Jonah Hill, “Wolf of Wall Street”
Who will win? Jared Leto
Who should win? Bradley Cooper
Best Supporting Actress:
Sally Hawkins, “Blue Jasmine”
Jennifer Lawrence, “American
Hustle”
Lupita Nyong’o, “12 Years a
Slave”
Julia Roberts, “August: Osage
County”
June Squibb, “Nebraska”
Who will win? Lupita Nyong’o
Who should win? June Squibb
Directing
Alfonso CuarĂ³n, “Gravity”
Steve McQueen, “12 Years A Slave”
Alexander Payne, “Nebraska”
David O. Russell, “American
Hustle”
Martin Scorsese, “The Wolf of
Wall Street”
Who will win? Alfonso Cuaron
Who should win? Alfonso Cuaron
Writing, adapted screenplay
“Before Midnight”
“Captain Phillips”
“Philomena”
“12 Years a Slave”
“The Wolf of Wall Street”
Who will win? 12 Years a Slave
Who should win? I don’t know
Writing, original screenplay
“American Hustle”
“Blue Jasmine”
“Dallas Buyers Club”
“Her”
“Nebraska”
Who will win? American Hustle
Who should win? Blue Jasmine
Cinematography
“The Grandmaster”
“Gravity”
“Inside Llewyn Davis”
“Nebraska”
“Prisoners”
Who will win? Gravity
Who should win? Gravity
Animated feature film
“The Croods”
“Despicable Me 2”
“Frozen”
“Ernest & Celestine”
“The Wind Rises”
Who will win? Frozen
Who should win? Despicable Me 2
Costume design
“American Hustle”
“The Grandmaster”
“The Great Gatsby”
“The Invisible Woman”
“12 Years a Slave”
Who will win? The Great Gatsby
Who should win? American Hustle
Makeup and hairstyling
“Dallas Buyers Club”
“Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa”
“The Lone Ranger”
Who will win? Dallas Buyers Club
Who should win? Jackass (PLEASE, IF JACKASS COULD WIN AN OSCAR!)
Music, original score
John Williams, “The Book Thief”
Steven Price, “Gravity”
William Butler and Owen Pallett,
“Her”
Alexandre Desplat, “Philomena”
Thomas Newman, “Saving Mr. Banks”
Who will win? Her
Who should win? Her (Because William Butler is AKA Win Butler, AKA
the frontman for Arcade Fire)
Music, original song
Music by Bruce Broughton; Lyric
by Dennis Spiegel, “Alone Yet Not Alone” from “Alone Yet Not Alone”
Music and Lyric by Pharrell
Williams, “Happy” from “Despicable Me 2”
Music and Lyric by Kristen
Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, “Let it Go,” from “Frozen”
Music by Karen O; Lyric by Karen
O and Spike Jonze, “The Moon Song,” from “Her”
Music by Paul Hewson, Dave Evans,
Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen; Lyric by Paul Hewson, “Oridinary Love,” from
“Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom”
Who will win? Mandela (Paul
Hewson = Bono)
Who should win? Despicable Me 2
(Pharrell Williams)
Production design
“American Hustle”
“Gravity”
“The Great Gatsby”
“Her”
“12 Years a Slave”
Who will win? Gatsby
Who should win? Gatsby
Film Editing
“American Hustle”
“Captain Phillips”
“Dallas Buyers Club”
“Gravity”
“12 Years a Slave”
Who will win? Gravity
Who should win? Captain Phillips
Sound editing
“All Is Lost”
“Captain Phillips”
“Gravity”
“The Hobbit: The Desolation of
Smaug”
“Lone Survivor”
Sound mixing
“Captain Phillips”
“Gravity”
“The Hobbit: The Desolation of
Smaug”
“Inside Llewyn Davis”
“Lone Survivor”
Give both sound categories to Gravity and it does deserve it
Visual effects
“Gravity”
“The Hobbit: The Desolation of
Smaug”
“The Lone Ranger”
“Iron Man 3”
“Star Trek Into Darkness”
Who will win? Gravity
Who should win? Gravity
Final Tally:
Gravity takes home: 5
American Hustle takes home: 2
12 Years A Slave takes home: 3
Dallas Buyer’s Club: 2