2014 Academy Award Choices and Predictions, Part I

It’s been a decent year for movies, and the Academy will announce the 2014 Oscar nominations on Thursday, January 15th at 5:30am. Here’s what I would vote for if I was a member of the Academy:

Best Picture
Annie
Big Hero 6
Cesar Chavez
Divergent
Gimmie Shelter
God’s Not Dead
Guardians of the Galaxy
The LEGO Movie
Muppets Most Wanted
Unbroken

Best Director
Harold Cronk – God’s Not Dead
David Fincher – Gone Girl
Angelia Jolie – Unbroken
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller – The LEGO Movie
Richard Linklater - Boyhood

Best Actor
Ben Affleck – Gone Girl
Ellar Coltrane – Boyhood
Ansel Elgort – The Fault in Our Stars
Chris Evans – Snowpiercer
Jack O'Connell – Unbroken

Best Actress
Cameron Diaz – Sex Tape
Rosemund Pike – Gone Girl
Quvenzhané Wallis – Annie
Shailene Woodley – Divergent
Shailene Woodley – The Fault in Our Stars

Best Supporting Actor
Ethan Hawke – Boyhood
Josh Hutcherson – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
Om Puri – The Hundred-Foot Journey
Kevin Sorbo - God’s Not Dead
John TurturroExodus: Gods and Kings

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
Emily Blunt – Into the Woods
Carrie Coon – Gone Girl
Kelly Reilly – Heaven is for Real
Tilda Swinton – Snowpiercer

Best Original Screenplay
Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon – God’s Not Dead
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller – The LEGO Movie
Jorge Gutierrez and Doug Langdale – The Book of Life
Richard Linklater – Boyhood 
Keir Pearson – Cesar Chavez

Best Adapted Screenplay
James Bobin and Nicholas Stoller – Muppets Most Wanted
Gillian Flynn – Gone Girl
James Gunn and Nicole Perlman – Guardians of the Galaxy
Steve James – Life Itself
Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber – The Fault in Our Stars

However, things don’t always pan out like planned. Here are my actual predictions of who will be nominated:

Best Picture
American Sniper
Boyhood
Birdman
Gone Girl
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Nightcrawler
Selma
The Theory of Everything

Best Director
Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Clint Eastwood – American Sniper
David Fincher – Gone Girl
Alejandro Iñárritu – Birdman
Richard Linklater – Boyhood

Best Actor
Steve Carell – Foxcatcher
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game
Michael Keaton – Birdman
David OyelowoSelma
Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything

Best Actress
Jennifer Aniston – Cake
Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything
Julianne Moore – Still Alice
Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon – Wild

Best Supporting Actor
Robert Duvall – The Judge
Ethan Hawke – Boyhood
Edward Norton – Birdman
Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons – Whiplash

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
Jessica Chastain – A Most Violent Year
Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game
Emma Stone – Birdman
Meryl Streep – Into the Woods

Original Screenplay
Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Dan Gilroy – Nightcrawler
Alejandro Inarritu – Birdman
Richard Linklater – Boyhood 
Phil Lord & Christopher Miller – The LEGO Movie

Adapted Screenplay
Paul Anderson – Inherent Vice
Gillian Flynn – Gone Girl
Jason Hall – American Sniper
Nick Hornby – Wild
Graham Moore – The Imitation Game

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