Oscar Nomination Predictions (as requested by nobody)

As usual, I'm ignoring the documentary, foreign film, and short film categories.

Best Picture

·       Boyhood

·       Birdman

·       Selma

·       The Imitation Game

·       Gone Girl

·       Whiplash

·       Foxcatcher

·       Grand Budapest Hotel

·       The Theory of Everything

·       Unbroken

Alternate: A Most Violent Year

Dark Horse: Nightcrawler

No Chance: Winter’s Tale

Obligatory Oscar Predictions

Best Picture

• American Hustle

Best Director

•  Alfonso Cuaron: Gravity

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Cate Blanchett: Blue Jasmine

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Matthew McConaughy: Dallas Buyer's Club

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Lupita Nyong'o: 12 Years a Slave 

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

•  Jared Leto: Dallas Buyer's Club

Best Original Screenplay

• Her
  

Best Adapted Screenplay

• 12 Years a Slave
  

Best Documentary (feature)

• The Square

Best Animated Feature Film

• Frozen

Best Foreign Language Film

• The Hunt

Best Film Editing

• Captain Philips

Best Production Design

•  The Great Gatsby

Best Cinematography

• Gravity

Best Costume

• American Hustle

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• Dallas Buyer's Club

Best Visual Effects

• Gravity

Best Original Score

• Steven Price: Gravity

Best Original Song

• "Let it Go": Frozen 

Best Sound Mixing

• Gravity

Best Sound Editing

• Gravity

Best Short Film (live action)

•  Helium

Best Documentary (short)

• The Lady in Number 6

Best Short Film (animated)

• Get a Horse

Another Year, Another Round of Oscar Nominations Predictions

Best Picture:

• 12 Years a Slave
• Gravity
• Captain Phillips
• American Hustle
• Nebraska
• The Wolf of Wall Street
• Lee Daniel's The Butler
• Her
• Dallas Buyer's Club
• Blue Jasmine

• Alternates: Inside Llewyn Davis, Saving Mr. Banks, Fruitvale Station
• It would be cool if this got picked: Frozen

Early Oscar Nomination Predictions Because Why Not?

Best Picture:  

• 12 Years a Slave   
• Gravity 
• Captain Phillips 
• Saving Mr. Banks 
• The Wolf of Wall Street 
• Nebraska 
• Lee Daniels’ The Butler 
• Inside Llewyn Davis American Hustle
• Her 
• Fruitvale Station

Alternates: Inside Llewyn Davis, August: Osage County, Blue Jasmine

Sleepers: Before Midnight, Philomena

Dark Horse: The Place Beyond the Pines Frozen

Should have just released a slideshow

I know Bryan Singer has said that this is supposed to be a character trailer, and that the lack of action in this trailer is because of the unfinished visual effects, but several things:

1.  The first minute of this trailer is almost entirely made up of characters standing still and either looking at the camera or looking at other characters.
       a. This is similar to the terrible Ender's Game teaser trailer.

2. How can it be a character trailer when we learn almost nothing about a lot of the characters shown on screen?
       a. Does the marketing team really thing people are going to get SUPER EXCITED over a two second shot of Bishop looking at the camera while walking foward?

3. If you can't put in a lot of action in your superhero movie trailer, why not make the trailer shorter? Shaving off thirty seconds would have been an improvement.

4.  Hey, who wants to see a SUPER SERIOUS and DARK superhero movie?
    (not me)

5. I know why Wolverine keeps being the main character of these movies ($$$$$$$$$$) but ugggggghhhhhh.

6. When will trailer makers stop using Journey to the Line as trailer music?

Ryan Gosling wants you to sit down

RIP Roger Ebert