UNCLE OSCAR PREDICTIONS: ACADEMY AWARDS 2015

UNCLE OSCAR PREDICTIONS: ACADEMY AWARDS 2015 

It has been a long journey. I have packed all my stuff and I’m ready to go!!!

Neil is at the Dolby waiting for me!

I thought it would be easier but every year Movies surprise me.

I’m in love with this hot Golden Statuette since forever, I don’t remember a time, a moment a second in which I didn’t try to connect every single movie to an Oscar nomination or a Golden Globe o a BAFTA a SAG and others.

Like every year I try like everyone to predict the winner but every year it seems more and more difficult.

I have tried to one name from each category and here are Uncle Oscar’ predictions.

Remember, I do love long careers!

Here you can find not only MY PREDICTIONS but how I’ve listed every single category.

enjoy and stay tuned 

Best Picture

1.Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Lesher, and James W. Skotchdopole

2.Boyhood – Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland

3.American Sniper – Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper, and Peter Morgan

4.The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales, and Jeremy Dawson

5.The Imitation Game – Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, and Teddy Schwarzman

6.The Theory of Everything – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, and Anthony McCarten

7.Whiplash – Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook, and David Lancaster

8.Selma – Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner

Best Directing

1.Richard Linklater – Boyhood

2.Alejandro González Iñárritu – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)Wes

3.Bennett Miller – Foxcatcher

4.Morten Tyldum – The Imitation Game

5.Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Actor

1.Michael Keaton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Riggan Thomson / Birdman

2Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking

3.Bradley Cooper – American Sniper as Chris Kyle

4.Steve Carell – Foxcatcher as John Eleuthère du Pont

5.Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game as Alan Turing

Best Actress

1.Julianne Moore – Still Alice as Dr. Alice Howland

2.Reese Witherspoon – Wild as Cheryl Strayed

3.Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl as Amy Elliott-Dunne

4.Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night as Sandra Bya

5.Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything as Jane Wilde Hawking

Best Supporting Actor

1.J. K. Simmons – Whiplash as Terence Fletcher

2.Edward Norton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Mike Shiner

3.Robert Duvall – The Judge as Judge Joseph Palmer

4.Ethan Hawke – Boyhood as Mason Evans, Sr.

5.Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher as Dave Schultz

Best Supporting Actress

1.Patricia Arquette – Boyhood as Olivia Evans

2.Laura Dern – Wild as Barbara "Bobbi" Grey

3.Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game as Joan Clarke

4.Emma Stone – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Sam Thomson

5.Meryl Streep – Into the Woods as The Witch

Best Original Screenplay

1.Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. and Armando Bo

2.Boyhood – Richard Linklater

3.The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness

4.Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy

5.Foxcatcher – E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman

Best Adapted Screenplay

1.The Imitation Game – Graham Moore from Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges

2.American Sniper – Jason Hall from American Sniper by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice

3.Whiplash – Damien Chazelle from his short film of the same name

4.Inherent Vice – Paul Thomas Anderson from Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon

5.The Theory of Everything – Anthony McCarten from Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Wilde Hawking

Best Animated Feature Film

1.How to Train Your Dragon 2 – Dean DeBlois and Bonnie Arnold

2.Big Hero 6 – Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli

3.The Boxtrolls – Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable and Travis Knight

4.Song of the Sea – Tomm Moore and Paul Young

5.The Tale of the Princess Kaguya – Isao Takahata and Yoshiaki Nishimura

Best Foreign Language Film

1.Leviathan (Russia) in Russian – Andrey Zvyagintsev

2.Ida (Poland) in Polish  – Paweł Pawlikowski

3.Tangerines (Estonia) in Estonian and Russian – Zaza Urushadze

4.Timbuktu (Mauritania) in French  – Abderrahmane Sissako

5.Wild Tales (Argentina) in Spanish  – Damián Szifrón

Best Documentary – Feature

1.Virunga – Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara

2.Citizenfour – Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutsky

3.Last Days in Vietnam – Rory Kennedy and Keven McAlester

4.Finding Vivian Maier – John Maloof and Charlie Siskel

5.The Salt of the Earth – Wim Wenders, Lélia Wanick Salgado and David Rosier

Best Documentary – Short Subject

1.Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 – Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry

2.Joanna – Aneta Kopacz

3.Our Curse – Tomasz Śliwiński and Maciej Ślesicki

4.The Reaper (La Parka) – Gabriel Serra Arguello

5.White Earth – J. Christian Jensen

Best Live Action Short Film

1.The Phone Call – Mat Kirkby and James Lucas

2.Aya – Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis

3.Boogaloo and Graham – Michael Lennox and Ronan Blaney

4.Butter Lamp (La Lampe au beurre de yak) – Hu Wei and Julien Féret

5.Parvaneh – Talkhon Hamzavi and Stefan Eichenberger

Best Animated Short Film

1.The Dam Keeper – Robert Kondo and Daisuke Tsutsumi

2.Feast – Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed

3.The Bigger Picture – Daisy Jacobs and Christopher Hees

4.Me and My Moulton – Torill Kove

5.A Single Life – Joris Oprins

Best Original Score

1.The Theory of Everything – Jóhann Jóhannsson

2.The Grand Budapest Hotel – Alexandre Desplat

3.The Imitation Game – Alexandre Desplat

4.Interstellar – Hans Zimmer

5.Mr. Turner – Gary Yershon

Best Original Song

1."Glory" from Selma – Music and Lyric by John Legend and Common

2."I'm Not Gonna Miss You" from Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me – Music and Lyric by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond

3."Everything Is Awesome" from The Lego Movie – Music and Lyric by Shawn Patterson

4."Lost Stars" from Begin Again – Music and Lyric by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois 5."Grateful" from Beyond the Lights – Music and Lyric by Diane Warren

Best Sound Editing

1.American Sniper – Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman

2.Unbroken – Becky Sullivan and Andrew DeCristofaro

3.Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Martin Hernández and Aaron Glascock

4.The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Brent Burge and Jason Canovas

5.Interstellar – Richard King

Best Sound Mixing

1.Whiplash – Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley

2.American Sniper – John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin

3.Unbroken – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and David Lee

4.Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and Thomas Varga

5.Interstellar – Gary A. Rizzo, Gregg Landaker and Mark Weingarten

Best Production Design

1.The Grand Budapest Hotel – Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)

2.Interstellar – Nathan Crowley (Production Design); Gary Fettis (Set Decoration)

3.The Imitation Game – Maria Djurkovic (Production Design); Tatiana Macdonald (Set Decoration)

4.Into the Woods – Dennis Gassner (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)

5.Mr. Turner – Suzie Davies (Production Design); Charlotte Watts (Set Decoration)

Best Cinematography

1.Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Emmanuel Lubezki

2.Unbroken – Roger Deakins

3.The Grand Budapest Hotel – Robert Yeoman

4.Ida – Łukasz Żal and Ryszard Lenczewski

5.Mr. Turner – Dick Pope

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

1.Guardians of the Galaxy – Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou and David White

2.Foxcatcher – Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard

3.The Grand Budapest Hotel – Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier

Best Costume Design

1.The Grand Budapest Hotel – Milena Canonero

2.Maleficent – Anna B. Sheppard

3.Into the Woods – Colleen Atwood

4.Inherent Vice – Mark Bridges

5.Mr. Turner – Jacqueline Durran

Best Film Editing

1.American Sniper – Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach

2.Boyhood – Sandra Adair

3.The Grand Budapest Hotel – Barney Pilling

4.The Imitation Game – William Goldenberg

5.Whiplash – Tom Cross

Best Visual Effects

1.Guardians of the Galaxy – Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner and Paul Corbould

2.Interstellar – Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher

3.Captain America: The Winter Soldier – Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Bryan Grill and Dan Sudick

4.Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett and Erik Winquist

5.X-Men: Days of Future Past – Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie and Cameron Waldbauer

Academy Honorary Awards

Jean-Claude Carrière

Hayao Miyazaki

Maureen O'Hara