Oscar Nomination Prediction

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Oscar Nomination will be announced on 16 Jan, 2014. Before that you may watch the possible movies, It's a arranged post, specially for me and all film buffs.



Best Picture

Absolute Locks:

1. Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, In Theaters)

2. 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, In Theaters)

3. American Hustle (David O. Russell, In Theaters)

4. Nebraska (Alexander Payne, In Theaters)



Battling It Out For Whatever Slots We End Up Having Left:

5. Captain Phillips (Paul Greengrass, In Theaters)

6. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen, In Theaters)

7. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, December 25)

8. Her (Spike Jonze, December 18)

9. Saving Mr. Banks (John Lee Hancock, In Theaters)

10. Dallas Buyers Club (Jean-Marc Vallee, In Theaters)

11. Philomena (Stephen Frears, In Theaters)



Long Shots, But Possible:

12. Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen, In Theaters)

13. August: Osage County (John Wells, December 25)

14. Lee Daniels' The Butler (Lee Daniels, In Theaters)









Best Director

Locks:

1. Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity

2. Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave



Six Contenders, Three Slots:

3. Paul Greengrass, Captain Phillips

4. Alexander Payne, Nebraska

5. Spike Jonze, Her

6. David O. Russell, American Hustle

7. Joel & Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis

8. Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street



Long Shots At Best

9. John Lee Hancock, Saving Mr. Banks

10. Woody Allen, Blue Jasmine

11. Lee Daniels, Lee Daniels' The Butler

12. JC Chandor, All Is Lost









Best Actor

Seemingly Locks, But There's Just So Much Competition:

1. Chiwetel Ejiofer (12 Years a Slave)

2. Bruce Dern (Nebraska)

3. Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)



Eight Men, Five Slots:

4. Tom Hanks (Captain Phillips)

5. Robert Redford (All Is Lost)

6. Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)

7. Christian Bale (American Hustle)

8. Forest Whitaker (The Butler)

9. Joaquin Phoenix (Her)

10. Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis)



Simply Too Crowded For Them:

11. Michael B. Jordan (Fruitvale Station)

12. Idris Elba (Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom)

13. Christian Bale (Out of the Furnace)

14. Hugh Jackman (Prisoners)

15. Daniel Radcliffe (Kill Your Darlings)









Best Actress

This Has Got To Be The Five, Right?

1. Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)

2. Sandra Bullock (Gravity)

3. Emma Thompson (Saving Mr. Banks)

4. Judi Dench (Philomena)

5. Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)



The Only Real Threat To Break Through:

6. Amy Adams (American Hustle)



Long Shots:

7. Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue is the Warmest Color)

8. Brie Larson (Short Term 12)

9. Kate Winslet (Labor Day)

10. Julie Delpy (Before Midnight)

11. Greta Gerwig (Frances Ha)

12. Berenice Bejo (The Past)







Best Original Screenplay

These Four Look Pretty Solid...

1. Bob Nelson, Nebraska

2. Spike Jonze, Her

3. Joel & Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis

4. David O. Russell and Eric Singer, American Hustle



Battling It Out For The Last Slot:

5. Woody Allen, Blue Jasmine

6. Nicole Holofcener, Enough Said

7. Alfonso Cuaron and Jonas Cuaron, Gravity

8. Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith, Saving Mr. Banks

9. Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale Station

10. Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack, Dallas Buyers Club



Probably Too Crowded For Them:

11. Jeff Nichols, Mud

12. Aaron Guzikowski, Prisoners

13. Danny Strong, Lee Daniels' The Butler

14. Asghar Farhadi, The Past

15. Noah Baumbach & Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha







Best Adapted Screenplay

The Locks:

1. John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave

2. Terence Winter, The Wolf of Wall Street



Fighting It Out For The Last 3 Slots:

3. Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke & Richard Linklater, Before Midnight

4. Billy Ray, Captain Phillips

5. Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope, Philomena

6. Tracy Letts, August: Osage County



Long Shots, But Who Knows (This Category Is Very Weak Compared To Original Screenplay):

7. Ghalia Lacroix and Abdellatif Kechiche, Blue Is The Warmest Color

8. Daniel Cretton, Short Term 12

9. Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, The Spectacular Now

10. Jason Reitman, Labor Day







Best Foreign Language Film

Predicting This Category Is Next To Impossible, But Here's Out Best Guess For The Final 5:

1. Saudi Arabia - Wadjda, directed by Haifaa al-Mansour (Arabic)

2. Denmark - The Hunt, directed by Thomas Vinterberg (Danish)

3. Italy - The Great Beauty, directed by Paolo Sorrentino (Italian)

4. Chile - Gloria, directed by Sebastian Lelio (Spanish)

5. Iran - The Past, directed by Asghar Farhadi (French, Persian)



Next In Line:

6. Canada - Gabrielle, directed by Louise Archambault (French)

7. Belgium - The Broken Circle Breakdown, directed by Felix Van Groeningen (Dutch)

8. Singapore - Ilo Ilo, directed by Anthony Chen (Mandarin, Hokkien, English, Tagalog)

9. Australia - The Rocket, directed by Kim Mordaunt (Lao)

10. Romania - Child's Pose, directed by Calin Peter Netzer (Romanian)



Could Easily Be Them Too:

11. Israel - Bethlehem, directed by Yuval Adler (Hebrew, Arabic)

12. Brazil - Neighbouring Sounds, directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho (Portuguese, Mandarin)

13. Cambodia - The Missing Picture, directed by Rithy Panh (French)

14. Germany - Two Lives, directed by Georg Maas (German)

15. Hong Kong - The Grandmaster, directed by Wong Kar-wai (Cantonese, Mandarin)









Best Cinematography

Looking Pretty Solid:

1. Emmanuel Lubezki, Gravity

2. Sean Bobbitt, 12 Years a Slave

3. Bruno Delbonnel, Inside Llewyn Davis



Good Bets To Join Them:

4. Phedon Papamichael, Nebraska

5. Hoyte Van Hoytema, Her

6. Anthony Dod Mantle, Rush

7. Roger Deakins, Prisoners

8. Barry Ackroyd, Captain Phillips

9. Frank G. DeMarco, All Is Lost



Longer Shots, But Who Knows:

10. John Schwartzman, Saving Mr. Banks

11. Simon Duggan, The Great Gatsby

12. Philippe Le Sourd, The Grandmaster





Best Production Design

Strong Possibilities From What We've Seen:

1. Adam Stochausen & Alice Baker, 12 Years a Slave

2. Catherine Martin & Beverly Dunn, The Great Gatsby

3. Jess Gonchor & Susan Bode, Inside Llewyn Davis

4. Michael Corenblith & Susan Benjamin, Saving Mr. Banks

5. Dan Hennah & Ra Vincent, The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug



Bubbling Under:

6. K.K. Barrett & Gene Serdena, Her

7. Andy Nicholson & Rosie Goodwin, Gravity

8. Maria Djurkovic & Tatiana Macdonald, The Invisible Woman

9. Robert Stromberg & Nancy Haigh, Oz: The Great and Powerful



Long Shots:

10. Judy Becker & Heather Loeffler, American Hustle

11. Jeff Mann & Regina Graves, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

12. Tim Galvin & Diane Lederman, Lee Daniels' The Butler



Best Original Score

Safe Bets:

1. Steven Price, Gravity

2. Hans Zimmer, 12 Years a Slave



Good Possibilities:

3. John Williams, The Book Thief

4. Randy Newman, Monster's University

5. Alex Ebert, All Is Lost

6. Thomas Newman, Saving Mr. Banks



7. Alex Ebert, All Is Lost

8. Arcade Fire & Owen Pallett, Her

9. Hans Zimmer, Rush

10. Mark Orton, Nebraska



Longer Shots, But Who Knows:

11. Alexandre Desplat, Philomena

12. Howard Shore, The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug

13. Carter Burwell, August: Osage County

14. Rodrigo Leão, Lee Daniels' The Butler

15. Dickon Hinchliffe, Out of the Furnace



Best Original Song

The Frontrunner:

1. "Let It Go" (Frozen, Robert Lopez & Kristen Anderson-Lopez)



The Populist Option, Though We Know The Academy Doesn't Always Go There (and the Globes Already Didn't):

2. "Young & Beautiful" (The Great Gatsby, Lana Del Rey)



Might Be Tough, But We're Maintaining Hope:

3. "So You Know What It's Like" (Short Term 12 - Keith Stanfield)



All Definite Possibilities:

4. "Ordinary Love" (Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, U2)

5. "Sweeter Than Fiction" (One Chance, Taylor Swift)

6. "In The Middle of the Night" (Lee Daniels' The Butler, Fantastia Barrino)

7. "The Moon Song" (Her, Karen O)

8. "You and I Ain't Nothing No More" (Lee Daniels' The Butler, Gladys Knight & Lenny Kravitz)

9. "Happy" (Despicable Me 2, Pharrell Williams)

10. "$100 Bill" (The Great Gatsby, Jay-Z)

11. "Rise Up" (Epic, Beyonce Knowles)

12. "Amen" (All Is Lost, Alex Ebert)

13. "I See Fire" (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Ed Sheeran)

14. "Just a Cloudy Day" (Despicable Me 2, Pharrell Williams)

15. "Atlas" (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Coldplay)



Best Visual Effects

Lock (and Likely Winner):

1. Gravity



Strong Bets

2. The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug

3. Pacific Rim

4. Star Trek Into Darkness

5. Iron Man 3



Definite Possibilities:

6. World War Z

7. Oblivion

8. Elysium

9. The Lone Ranger

10. Thor: The Dark World

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