Thursday, February 19, 2015

My Oscar Wishlist 2015

After the debacle of 2014, I have decided I will not be boastful about my predictions. This year, I humbly give you...my wishlist for the Oscars. (These are the nominees I hope will win this Sunday, not the ones I think will win) (I don't think I can make this any clearer) (NOT predictions, wishes)



Best Picture - Birdman; Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole, Producers

Director- Boyhood; Richard Linklater

Actor - Eddie Redmayne;  The Theory of Everything

Supporting Actor - J.K. Simmons; Whiplash

Actress - Rosamund Pike;Gone Girl

Supporting Actress - Patricia Arquette; Boyhood

Animated Feature - How to Train Your Dragon 2; Dean DeBlois and Bonnie Arnold

Adapted Screenplay – Whiplash; Damien Chazelle

Original Screenplay – Boyhood; Richard Linklater

Cinematography – Birdman; Emmanuel Lubezki

Costume Design - The Grand Budapest Hotel; Milena Canonero

Film Editing – Boyhood; Sandra Adair

Foreign Language Film – Leviathan, Russia

Makeup and Hairstyling - The Grand Budapest Hotel; Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier

Original Score - The Grand Budapest Hotel; Alexandre Desplat

Original Song - Lost Stars; Begin Again (Music and Lyric by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois)

Production Design - The Grand Budapest Hotel; (Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock)

Sound Editing – Birdman; Martín Hernández and Aaron Glascock

Sound Mixing – Whiplash; Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley


Visual Effects – Interstellar; Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher

*I have not included some categories like short live action film, short documentary, short animation and a few others for a lack of knowledge about the nominees.

**The only prediction I am willing to make is Neil Patrick Harris making a '12 Years A Slave' joke about Linklater's Boyhood

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