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