AnksReview: 2015 Oscar Prediction

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Well now we have Oscar Night this Sunday 22nd February in LA and it's time for AnksReview Oscar prediction. Last two weeks I was in kind of movie marathon to watch most of nominated movies and I am happy to cover all the movies which was nominated in popular category. Academy Awards it self has it's rigorous process to select movies through various screenings and voting process, though I still feel a lot of great movies or personalities deserved to be on certain category, so I am not starting that debate and just giving my prediction based on nominated movies and personalities.

2014 was a great year with lots of amazing movies from almost every possible genre however I am seeing some of the great work is been missing from popular category. All nomination has it's fair place though I feel movie like Nightcrawler, Gone Girl, Big Eyes are not in nomination.

So here is the list of all my prediction also mentioned some alternate winners. Let's see how close I am with Oscar's judgement.

Best Picture

AnksReview Winner: Birdmand

• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – {Predicted Winner}
• American Sniper 
• Boyhood 
• The Grand Budapest Hotel 
• The Imitation Game
• Selma 
• The Theory of Everything
• Whiplash

Alternate Option: Boyhood

Best Directing

AnksReview Winner: Alejandro González Iñárritu

• Alejandro González Iñárritu – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) {Predicted Winner}
• Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Richard Linklater – Boyhood
• Bennett Miller – Foxcatcher
• Morten Tyldum – The Imitation Game

Alternate Option: Richard Linklater (Boyhood)

Best Actor

AnksReview Winner: Michael Keaton (Birdman)

• Michael Keaton – Birdman as Riggan Thomson / Birdman {Predicted Winner}
• Steve Carell – Foxcatcher as John Eleuthère du Pont
• Bradley Cooper – American Sniper as Chris Kyle
• Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game as Alan Turing
• Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking

  Alternate Option: Eddie Remayne 

Best Actress

AnksReview Winner: Julliane Moore (Still Alice)

• Julianne Moore – Still Alice as Dr. Alice Howland {Predicted Winner}
• Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night as Sandra Bya
• Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything as Jane Wilde Hawking
• Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl as Amy Elliott-Dunne
• Reese Witherspoon – Wild as Cheryl Strayed

Best Supporting Actor

AnksReview Winner: J.K. Simmons (Whiplash)

• J. K. Simmons – Whiplash as Terence Fletcher {Predicted Winner}
• Robert Duvall – The Judge as Judge Joseph Palmer
• Ethan Hawke – Boyhood as Mason Evans, Sr.
• Edward Norton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Mike Shiner
• Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher as Dave Schultz

 Alternate Option: Well for me this category was very difficult to decide as each and ever nominees are best here, my personal favorite as second option is - Edard Norton in Birdman

Best Supporting Actress

AnksReview Winner: Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)

• Patricia Arquette – Boyhood as Olivia Evans {Predicted Winner}
• Laura Dern – Wild as Barbara "Bobbi" Grey
• Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game as Joan Clarke
• Emma Stone – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Sam Thomson
• Meryl Streep – Into the Woods as The Witch

Alternate Option: Emma Stone - Birdman

Best Animated Feature Film

AnksReview winner: How To Train Your Dragon 2

• How to Train Your Dragon 2 {Predicted Winner}
• Big Hero 6
• The Boxtrolls
• Song of the Sea
• The Tale of the Princess Kaguya

Best Original Screen Play:

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

Best Adapted Screen Play: 

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

Best Cinematography: 

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

Best Editing: 

Whiplash - Tom Cross

Best Visual Effects: 

Interstellar - Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher

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