Best Picture
This year's race is between three: Boyhood, Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel. Birdman may win all the guilds prior to the Oscars, but I sense that Boyhood is pulling a Braveheart upset.
WINNER: BIRDMAN (0/1)
Best Actor in a Leading Role
It would be really cool to see Michael Keaton win, but really Balem Abrasax is played by an Oscar winner.
WINNER: EDDIE REDMAYNE (1/2)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Carrying that Alec Baldwin's wife goodluck charm, Julianne Moore is finally getting her long-deserved Oscar in a marathon win just like Cate Blanchett won last year: with no competition.
WINNER: JULIANNE MOORE (2/3)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Another shoo-in, J.K. Simmons is going to be the winner for his turn in Whiplash. I'd see him win for playing J.J. Jameson too though.
WINNER: J.K. SIMMONS (3/4)
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Another category with no competition, my grown-up Alabama Patricia Arquette is going to win for her 12-year-portrayal of a mom in Boyhood.
WINNER: PATRICIA ARQUETTE (4/5)
Best Director
By far, the hardest prediction to make. I'm going to follow the guild and pick Alejandro G. Inarritu for his stellar direction.
WINNER: ALEJANDRO G. INARRITU (5/6)
Best Adapted Screenplay
If only Gone Girl's here, I'd hand it to Gillian Flynn right away. But then we're stuck with Graham King's The Imitation Game.
WINNER: THE IMITATION GAME (6/7)
Best Original Screenplay
As much as I loved Boyhood, it felt like Best Screenplay Improvisation. So, I'm happy to give it to Wes Anderson for his grand Grand Budapest Hotel.
WINNER: BIRDMAN (6/8)
Best Animated Feature
This probably got old, The Lego Movie should've been nominated and won. Yet I'm also totally fine to see it go to How to Train Your Dragon 2.
WINNER: BIG HERO 6 (6/9)
Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki for Birdman. But Dick Poop--Dick Pope can come on to the stage too.
WINNER: BIRDMAN (7/10)
Best Production Design
I hate to say this but Interstellar will lose to The Grand Budapest Hotel
WINNER: THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (8/11)
Best Costume Design
Into the Woods may have better costumes but they are like Bad Grandpa to Dallas Buyers Club here. So, another win for The Grand Budapest Hotel.
WINNER: THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (9/12)
Best Make-up
The Grand Budapest Hotel is gonna be having a really big night.
WINNER: THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (10/13)
Best Editing
Whiplash gained some support late in the game but Boyhood is still winning.
WINNER: WHIPLASH (10/14)
Best Original Score
Sadly Hans Zimmer's Interstellar is not as good as Johann Johannson's The Theory of Everything
WINNER: THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (10/15)
Best Original Song
White guilt chooses Glory from Selma
WINNER: SELMA (11/16)
Best Visual Effects
This be Interstellar's only award of the night.
WINNER: INTERSTELLAR (12/17)
My predictions were off by five categories, I quite understand four of them but most outraged by Big Hero 6's win over How to Train Your Dragon 2. About the show itself, it was pretty okay I guess. Maybe we put too much expectations on Neil Patrick Harris but he carried the show pretty adequately. Some highlights:
- Opening number is very Neil Patrick Harris
- All the best picture nominees are winners! Very fair
- Not enough wins for Boyhood tho
- Best speeches of the night were Patricia Arquette, JK Simmons and Graham Moore
- Meryl Streep shouting in support to Patricia Arquette is one of the best things of the night
- Everything is Awesome song is so good.
- I kept wandering whether Keira Knightley would surprise us by singing with Adam Levine
- Adele Dazeem and Gom Gazingo!
- John Travolta: Creep of the night.
- That House of Cards trailer tho
- Neil's prediction envelope is hilarious, I hope that's a real stunt
So, recap
The Grand Budapest Hotel 4 wins
Birdman 4 wins
Whiplash 3 wins
Interstellar 1 win
American Sniper 1 win
Boyhood 1 win
The Theory of Everything 1 win
The Imitation Game 1 win
Selma 1 win
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