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Blackfilm’s Oscar Prediction<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

February 22, 2015<\/p>\n

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Here are my predictions for the\u00a087h Academy Awards, which\u00a0will be held on Sunday, February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood<\/p>\n

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu\u2019s \u201cBirdman\u201d and Wes Anderson\u2019s \u201cThe Grand Budapest Hotel\u201d led the pack with nine nominations each, including best picture.<\/p>\n

Hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, the Oscars\u00a0will televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.<\/p>\n

Best Picture<\/strong>
\nAmerican Sniper \u2013 Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar,Bradley Cooper and Peter Morgan
\nBirdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) \u2013 Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole<\/strong>
\nBoyhood \u2013 Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland
\nThe Grand Budapest Hotel \u2013 Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson
\nThe Imitation Game \u2013 Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky and Teddy Schwarzman
\nSelma \u2013 Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner
\nThe Theory of Everything \u2013 Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce andAnthony McCarten
\nWhiplash \u2013 Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook and David Lancaster<\/p>\n

Best Director<\/strong>
\nWes Anderson \u2013 The Grand Budapest Hotel
\nAlejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu \u2013 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)<\/strong>
\nRichard Linklater \u2013 Boyhood
\nBennett Miller \u2013 Foxcatcher
\nMorten Tyldum \u2013 The Imitation Game<\/p>\n

Best Actor<\/strong>
\nSteve Carell \u2013 Foxcatcher as John Eleuth\u00e8re du Pont
\nBradley Cooper \u2013 American Sniper as Chris Kyle
\nBenedict Cumberbatch \u2013 The Imitation Game as Alan Turing
\nMichael Keaton \u2013 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)as Riggan Thomson \/ Birdman
\nEddie Redmayne \u2013 The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking<\/strong><\/p>\n

Best Actress<\/strong>
\nMarion Cotillard \u2013 Two Days, One Night as Sandra Bya
\nFelicity Jones \u2013 The Theory of Everything as Jane Wilde Hawking
\nJulianne Moore \u2013 Still Alice as Dr. Alice Howland<\/strong>
\nRosamund Pike \u2013 Gone Girl as Amy Elliott-Dunne
\nReese Witherspoon \u2013 Wild as Cheryl Strayed<\/p>\n

Best Supporting Actor<\/strong>
\nRobert Duvall \u2013 The Judge as Judge Joseph Palmer
\nEthan Hawke \u2013 Boyhood as Mason Evans, Sr.
\nEdward Norton \u2013 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)as Mike Shiner
\nMark Ruffalo \u2013 Foxcatcher as Dave Schultz
\nJ. K. Simmons \u2013 Whiplash as Terence Fletcher<\/strong><\/p>\n

Best Supporting Actress<\/strong>
\nPatricia Arquette \u2013 Boyhood as Olivia Evans<\/strong>
\nLaura Dern \u2013 Wild as Barbara \u201cBobbi\u201d Grey
\nKeira Knightley \u2013 The Imitation Game as Joan Clarke
\nEmma Stone \u2013 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Sam Thomson
\nMeryl Streep \u2013 Into the Woods as The Witch<\/p>\n

Best Original Screenplay<\/strong>
\nBirdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) \u2013 Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu, Nicol\u00e1s Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. and Armando Bo<\/strong>
\nBoyhood \u2013 Richard Linklater
\nFoxcatcher \u2013 E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman
\nThe Grand Budapest Hotel \u2013 Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness
\nNightcrawler \u2013 Dan Gilroy<\/p>\n

Best Adapted Screenplay<\/strong>
\nAmerican Sniper \u2013 Jason Hall from American Sniper by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice
\nThe Imitation Game \u2013 Graham Moore from Alan Turing: The Enigmaby Andrew Hodges<\/strong>
\nInherent Vice \u2013 Paul Thomas Anderson from Inherent Vice byThomas Pynchon
\nThe Theory of Everything \u2013 Anthony McCarten from Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Wilde Hawking
\nWhiplash \u2013 Damien Chazelle from his short film of the same name<\/p>\n

Best Animated Feature Film<\/strong>
\nBig Hero 6 \u2013 Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli
\nThe Boxtrolls \u2013 Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable and Travis Knight
\nHow to Train Your Dragon 2 \u2013 Dean DeBlois and Bonnie Arnold<\/strong>
\nSong of the Sea \u2013 Tomm Moore and Paul Young
\nThe Tale of the Princess Kaguya \u2013 Isao Takahata and Yoshiaki Nishimura<\/p>\n

Best Foreign Language Film<\/strong>
\nIda (Poland) in Polish \u2013 Pawel Pawlikowski<\/strong>
\nLeviathan (Russia) in Russian \u2013 Andrey Zvyagintsev
\nTangerines (Estonia) in Estonian and Russian \u2013 Zaza Urushadze
\nTimbuktu (Mauritania) in French \u2013 Abderrahmane Sissako
\nWild Tales (Argentina) in Spanish \u2013 Dami\u00e1n Szifr\u00f3n<\/p>\n

Best Documentary \u2013 Feature<\/strong>
\nCitizenfour \u2013 Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutsky<\/strong>
\nFinding Vivian Maier \u2013 John Maloof and Charlie Siskel
\nLast Days in Vietnam \u2013 Rory Kennedy and Keven McAlester
\nThe Salt of the Earth \u2013 Wim Wenders, L\u00e9lia Wanick Salgado and David Rosier
\nVirunga \u2013 Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara<\/p>\n

Best Documentary Short Film<\/strong>
\n\u201cCrisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1\u201d Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry<\/strong>
\n\u201cJoanna\u201d Aneta Kopacz
\n\u201cOur Curse\u201d Tomasz Sliwinski and Maciej Slesicki
\n\u201cThe Reaper (La Parka)\u201d Gabriel Serra Arguello
\n\u201cWhite Earth\u201d J. Christian Jensen<\/p>\n

Best Cinematography<\/strong>
\nBirdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) \u2013 Emmanuel Lubezki<\/strong>
\nThe Grand Budapest Hotel \u2013 Robert Yeoman
\nIda \u2013 Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski
\nMr. Turner \u2013 Dick Pope
\nUnbroken \u2013 Roger Deakins<\/p>\n

Best Film Editing<\/strong>
\nAmerican Sniper \u2013 Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach
\nBoyhood \u2013 Sandra Adair<\/strong>
\nThe Grand Budapest Hotel \u2013 Barney Pilling
\nThe Imitation Game \u2013 William Goldenberg
\nWhiplash \u2013 Tom Cross<\/p>\n

Best Costume Design<\/strong>
\nThe Grand Budapest Hotel \u2013 Milena Canonero<\/strong>
\nInherent Vice \u2013 Mark Bridges
\nInto the Woods \u2013 Colleen Atwood
\nMaleficent \u2013 Anna B. Sheppard
\nMr. Turner \u2013 Jacqueline Durran<\/p>\n

Best Makeup and Hairstyling<\/strong>
\nFoxcatcher \u2013 Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard
\nThe Grand Budapest Hotel \u2013 Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier<\/strong>
\nGuardians of the Galaxy \u2013 Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou and David White<\/p>\n

Best Original Score<\/strong>
\nThe Grand Budapest Hotel \u2013 Alexandre Desplat
\nThe Imitation Game \u2013 Alexandre Desplat
\nInterstellar \u2013 Hans Zimmer
\nMr. Turner \u2013 Gary Yershon
\nThe Theory of Everything \u2013 J\u00f3hann J\u00f3hannsson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Best Original Song<\/strong>
\n\u201cEverything Is Awesome\u201d from The Lego Movie \u2013 Music and Lyric byShawn Patterson
\n\u201cGlory\u201d from Selma \u2013 Music and Lyric by John Legend and Common<\/strong>
\n\u201cGrateful\u201d from Beyond the Lights \u2013 Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
\n\u201cI\u2019m Not Gonna Miss You\u201d from Glen Campbell: I\u2019ll Be Me \u2013 Music and Lyric by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond
\n\u201cLost Stars\u201d from Begin Again \u2013 Music and Lyric by Gregg Alexanderand Danielle Brisebois<\/p>\n

Best Sound Editing<\/strong>
\nAmerican Sniper \u2013 Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman<\/strong>
\nBirdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) \u2013 Martin Hern\u00e1ndez and Aaron Glascock
\nThe Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies \u2013 Brent Burge and Jason Canovas
\nInterstellar \u2013 Richard King
\nUnbroken \u2013 Becky Sullivan and Andrew DeCristofaro<\/p>\n

Best Sound Mixing<\/strong>
\nAmerican Sniper \u2013 John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin
\nBirdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) \u2013 Jon Taylor,Frank A. Monta\u00f1o and Thomas Varga
\nInterstellar \u2013 Gary A. Rizzo, Gregg Landaker and Mark Weingarten
\nUnbroken \u2013 Jon Taylor, Frank A. Monta\u00f1o and David Lee
\nWhiplash \u2013 Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley<\/strong><\/p>\n

Best Production Design<\/strong>
\nThe Grand Budapest Hotel \u2013 Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)<\/strong>
\nThe Imitation Game \u2013 Maria Djurkovic (Production Design); Tatiana Macdonald (Set Decoration)
\nInterstellar \u2013 Nathan Crowley (Production Design); Gary Fettis (Set Decoration)
\nInto the Woods \u2013 Dennis Gassner (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)
\nMr. Turner \u2013 Suzie Davies (Production Design); Charlotte Watts (Set Decoration)<\/p>\n

Best Visual Effects<\/strong>
\nCaptain America: The Winter Soldier \u2013 Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl,Bryan Grill and Dan Sudick
\nDawn of the Planet of the Apes \u2013 Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett and Erik Winquist
\nGuardians of the Galaxy \u2013 Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi,Jonathan Fawkner and Paul Corbould
\nInterstellar \u2013 Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher<\/strong>
\nX-Men: Days of Future Past \u2013 Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie and Cameron Waldbauer<\/p>\n

Best Animated Short Film<\/strong>
\n\u201cThe Bigger Picture\u201d Daisy Jacobs and Christopher Hees
\n\u201cThe Dam Keeper\u201d Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi
\n\u201cFeast\u201d Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed
\n\u201cMe and My Moulton\u201d Torill Kove
\n\u201cA Single Life\u201d Joris Oprins<\/p>\n

Best Live Action Short Film<\/strong>
\n\u201cAya\u201d Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis
\n\u201cBoogaloo and Graham\u201d Michael Lennox and Ronan Blaney
\n\u201cButter Lamp (La Lampe Au Beurre De Yak)\u201d Hu Wei and Julien F\u00e9ret
\n\u201cParvaneh\u201d Talkhon Hamzavi and Stefan Eichenberger
\n\u201cThe Phone Call\u201d Mat Kirkby and James Lucas<\/strong><\/p>\n

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