This is a complete list of our predicted winners at the 2014 Academy Awards.
Like anyone who’s been covering what’s become, as the party line goes, “the closest Best Picture race in recent memory,” I’ve gone through many mental rewrites of this top-prize breakdown.
In the absence of a de facto Best Picture frontrunner, the Oscar here usually goes to the slickest contender.
I don’t expect you to read this, and you have every right not to.
This upcoming Sunday, the collective nightmare known as awards season will be effectively over.
If this year’s Best Actor race is all about which nominee brandishes the most compelling story, then Christian Bale faces some mighty long odds.
To shove the elephant out of the room right off the bat, two actually relevant things are working against Woody Allen’s chances for a win here.
If you ask me, though, it’s easily the most repellant of all 24 lineups, and one of the more shameful nominee crops in recent Academy history.
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall is the category’s most formally interesting nominee.
Sadly, unlike Tiny Fey and Amy Poehler, we can’t all get what we hope for.
Our ballot here will look much different from Oscar’s.
In a year replete with great trash, American Hustle is the crown princess of the bunch.
Contrary to the curious, outspoken beliefs of some, we prefer to celebrate movies around these parts.
If Macklemore’s so-called advocacy is of questionable healthiness, then the woeful Dallas Buyers Club is downright toxic.
Aside from the ethics of 3D, it’s undeniable that Catching Fire will be at an economic disadvantage without it, losing as much as $4 per ticket in some cases.
A buzzworthy turn overshadowing a movie’s failings is a trend this Oscar season.
It would certainly make sense to see Paul Greengrass among shoo-ins like Steve McQueen and Alfonso Cuarón.
On the visual front, it seems highly unlikely that Bruno Delbonnel will be passed over in the Cinematography field.
Vallée attempts a gritty approach to the inspired-by-true-events, issue-driven biopic formula.
Perhaps Matthew McConnaughey’s gifts as an actor will help form a template for narrow-minded bigots.