Our Final Predictions for the 2015 Oscar Nominations
The nominations for the 2015 Oscars will be announced at 5:30am PST, 8:30am EST and 1.30pm GMT on Thursday 15th January. For the first ever time, all 24 categories will be announced live, by directors J.J. Abrams, Alfonso Cuaron and actor Chris Pine with Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. There will be a live stream of the announcements on The Oscars website.
Over the past few weeks we have been predicting our own nominations for categories such as Best Film, Best Actor/Actress, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor/Actress. With the nominations tomorrow morning, it's time for us to lock down our predictions for the top 10 categories.
Best documentary
• The Overnighters
• CitizenFour
• The Case Against 8
• Life Itself
• Last Days in Vietnam
Best animated Feature film
• The LEGO Movie
• The Boxtrolls
• How to Train Your Dragon 2
• Big Hero 6
• The Tale of Princess Kaguya
BEst original screenplay
• Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr, Armando Bo (Birdman)
• Richard Linklater (Boyhood)
• Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
• E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman (Foxcatcher)
• Dan Gilroy (Nightcrawler)
best adapted screenplay
• Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl)
• Graham Moore (The Imitation Game)
• Anthony McCarten (The Theory of Everything)
• Damien Chazelle (Whiplash)
• Jason Hall (American Sniper)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
• Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)
• Rene Russo (Nightcrawler)
• Emma Stone (Birdman)
• Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game)
• Meryl Streep (Into the Woods)
BEST supporting actor
• Ethan Hawke (Boyhood)
• J.K. Simmons (Whiplash)
• Mark Ruffalo (Foxcatcher)
• Edward Norton (Birdman)
• Steve Carell (Foxcatcher)
Best DIRECTOR
• Richard Linklater (Boyhood)
• Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Birdman)
• Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game)
• Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
• Damien Chazelle (Whiplash)
BEST ACTRESS
• Julianne Moore (Still Alice)
• Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)
• Reese Witherspoon (Wild)
• Jennifer Aniston (Cake)
• Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything)
BEST ACTOR
• Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything)
• Michael Keaton (Birdman)
• Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game)
• Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler)
• David Oyelowo (Selma)
best picture of the year
The Academy can nominate between a minimum of 5 or a maximum of 10 movies for this category. We believe they will nominate a total of eight, which are;
• Boyhood
• Birdman
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Foxcatcher
• Whiplash
• Selma
• The Theory of Everything
• The Imitation Game
If the Academy decide to nominate 9 or even 10 movies, the best bets would be;
• Nightcrawler(9th nominee)
• American Sniper (10th nominee)
