Comments on: Premature Oscar Predictions: The 2015 Best Picture Contenders

By: AClown

AClown — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:04:43 +0000

"Guessing about next year's award ceremonies without seeing the films: Because Hollywood awards really are that shallow!"

By: shark

shark — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:04:43 +0000

I'm not sure why you've sort of discounted Fury. All indications are that the studio wants it to be an Oscar play, and I've heard the script is quite good.

By: Meh.

Meh. — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:04:43 +0000

The Rover? David MichÃ´d's Animal Kingdom was pretty much a masterpiece and from the looks of it, a reinvented Pattinson and the ever brilliant Guy Pearce are likely to make for a pretty terrific ride.

By: ek

ek — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:04:43 +0000

no…ye called four of the best pictures

By: lookfar

lookfar — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:04:43 +0000

What about the immigrant?

By: NewYorker

NewYorker — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:04:43 +0000

awesome list. my early best picture predictions are
Big Eyes(oscars love the weinsteins)
Foxcatcher
Gone Girl
Inherent Vice
Intersteller
Into The Woods
Men, Women, Children(maybe it will makeup for Young Adult & Labor Day for getting snub)
Wild(just because dallas buyer's club & 127 hours were nominated for best picture)
Unbroken

By: C

Sun, 22 May 2016 03:04:43 +0000

It's Adele Dazeem. With a D. Do you all ever fact check anything?

By: Brett

Brett — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:04:42 +0000

Best Picture:
Gone Girl
X-Men Days of Future Past
The Cobbler
Interstellar
Noah
Exodus
Jersey Boys
Boyhood
Rob the Mob
Inherent Vice
The Hundred-Foot Journey
If I Stay
Get on Up
Birdman
Draft Day
McFarland
Million Dollar Arm
Hobbit 3
Child 44
Into the Woods
Annie
Paddington
Big Eyes
The Giver
The Search
A Most Violent Year
A Most Wanted Man
Unbroken
Foxcatcher
Fury
True Story
Knight of Cups
Imagine
Far From the Madding Crowd
The Fault in our Stars
Love is Strange
The Judge
Grace of Monaco
Veronica Mars
The Immigrant
Serena
The Good Lie
Wild
The Drop
When the Game Stands Tall
Trash
Transcendence

Best Actor:
Adam Sandler (The Cobbler/Men Women and Children)
Matthew McConaughey (Interstellar)
Christian Bale (Exodus)
Steve Carrell (Foxcatcher)
Joaquin Phoenix (Inherent Vice)
Russell Crowe (Noah)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (Maggie)
Michael Keaton (Birdman)
Tom Hardy (The Drop/Child 44)
Tobey Maguire (Pawn Sacrifice)
Michael Pitt (Rob the Mob)
Jack O'Connell (Unbroken)
John Lloyd Young (Jersey Boys)
Chadewick Boseman (Get on Up)
Ben Affleck (Gone Girl)
Colin Firth (The Railway Man)
Jeff Bridges (The Giver)
Kevin Costner (Draft Day/McFarland)
Jon Hamm (Million Dollar Arm)
Brad Pitt (Fury)
Phillip Seymour Hoffman (A Most Wanted Man)
Al Pacino (Imagine)
Alfred Molina (Love is Strange)
Robert Downey Jr (The Judge)
Ethan Hawke (Boyhood)
Bradley Cooper (Serena)
Jim Caviezel (When the Game Stands Tall)
Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game)
Johnny Depp (Transcendence)

Best Actress:
Meryl Streep (Into the Woods)
Jennifer Lawrence (Serena)
Amy Adams (Big Eyes)
Chloe Grace Moretz (If I Stay)
Quvenzhanai Wallis (Annie)
Angelina Jolie (Maleficent)
Reese Witherspoon (Wild/The Good Lie)
Rooney Mara (Trash)
Natalie Portman (Jane Got a Gun)
Melissa McCarthy (Tammy)
Helen Mirren (The Hundred Foot Journey)
Nicole Kidman (Grace of Monaco)
Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars)
Halle Berry (Frankie and Alice
Shailene Woodley (The Fault in our Stars)
Rachel McCadams (A Most Wanted Man)
Emma Stone (Magic in the Moonlight)
Jessica Chastain (A Most Violent Year)
Mila Kunis (Jupiter Ascending)
Berenice Bejo (The Search)
Marrion Cottiliard (The Immigrant)

Best Supporting Actor:
Christopher Walken (Jersey Boys)
Gary Oldman (Child 44)
Andy Serkis (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)
Joel Edgerton (Exodus)
Owen Wilson (Inherent Vice)
Neil Patrick Harris (Gone Girl)
Shia Labeouf (Fury)
Aaron Paul (Exodus)
Garrett Hedlund (Unbroken)
Johnny Depp (Into the Woods)
Christoph Waltz (Big Eyes)
Willem Dafoe (A Most Wanted Man)
John Lithgow (Love is Strange)
Nat Wolff (The Fault in our Stars)
Ray Romano (Rob the Mob)
Alan Arkin (Million Dollar Arm)
Frank Langella (Draft Day/Grace of Monaco)
Josh Brolin (Inherent Vice)
Channing Tatum (Foxcatcher)
Mark Ruffallo (Foxcatcher)
Michael Sheen (Far From the Madding Crowd)
Dustin Hoffman (Imagine)
Martin Sheen (Trash)
Robert Duvall (The Judge)
Jamie Foxx (Annie)
Joaquin Phoenix (The Immigrant

Best Supporting Actress:
Anna Kendrick (Into the Woods)
Jennifer Garner (Draft Day)
Laura Dern (When the Game Stands Tall)
Viola Davis (Get on Up)
Noomi Rapace (The Drop/Child 44)
Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)
Vera Farmiga (The Judge)
Melissa Leo (The Judge)
Maria Bello (McFarland)
Sigourney Weaver (Exodus)
Cameron Diaz (Annie)
Emma Watson (Noah)

Best Director:
Michel Hazanaviscious (The Search)
Clint Eastwood (Jersey Boys)
Christopher Nolan (Interstellar)
David Fincher (Gone Girl)
Ridley Scott (Exodus)
Darren Aronofsky (Noah)
Bryan Singer (X-Men Days of Future Past)
Peter Jackson (Hobbit 3)
J.C. Chandor (A Most Violent Year)
Stephen Daldry (Trash)
Paul Thomas Anderson (Inherent Vice)
James Grey (The Immigrant)
Angelina Jolie (Unbroken)
Tim Burton (Big Eyes)
Bennett Miller (Foxcatcher)
Terrence Mallick (Knight of Cups)
Rob Marshall (Into the Woods)
Will Gluck (Annie)
David Ayer (Fury)
David Dobkin (The Judge)

Best Original Screenplay:
Magic in the Moonlight
The Judge
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Interstellar
The Cobbler
Knight of Cups
Fury
The Good Lie
Draft Day
Tammy
Men, Women, and Children
Birdman
St. Vincent De Van Nuys
The Search

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Unbroken
Paddington
Hobbit 3
X-Men Days of Future Past
Get on Up
Jersey Boys
Gone Girl
Into the Woods
Annie
Million Dollar Arm
Noah
Exodus
McFarland
The Giver
The Hundred Foot Journey
Foxcatcher
Big Eyes
A Most Violent Year

Best Animated Feature:
The Lego Movie
Home
Mr. Peabody and Sherman
How to Train your Dragon 2
The Legend of Oz: Dorothy's Return
The Boxtrolls
Big Hero 6
more obscure animated movies

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:04:42 +0000

I came out of sundance this year seeing a great amount of solid Oscar-worthy films. Boyhood was already mentioned but WHIPLASH, THE DOUBLE, THE SKELETON TWINS, KUMMIKO THE TREASURE HUNTER, and INFINITLY POLAR BEAR were all phenomenal narrative films that caught my attention (I'll be VERY surprised if Ruffalo doesn't at least pick up an ISA nomination for Polar Bear).

By: Paolo

Paolo — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:04:42 +0000

Aronofsky's 'Noah'?

By: Brett

Brett — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:04:42 +0000

What about Maggie starring Arnie? Yeah it doesn't sound Best Picture worthy, but it's different from Arnold's other movies, it could get him a Best Actor nomination

By: Parker

Parker — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:04:42 +0000

Oh, two upcoming Witherspoon movies are on the list – where is Poya?:D

Go, Reese, both IV and Wild look like unique projects.

I hope she will get an other nomination, but that's true – amazing performances from actresses here or there – Adams absolutely deserves an Oscar award.

By: Leonardo

Leonardo — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:04:42 +0000

Maybe i'm just burn out because the awards were just 4 days ago, but i can't think of any other "left-field" choices for this, maybe "Locke", "Enemy", "The Voices", and "The Double" but only for Acting and some Technical categories.

By: Andre

Andre — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:04:42 +0000

I have a strong feeling that Cumberbatch and Amy Adams gonna win as best actor and actress next year

By: cirkusfolk

cirkusfolk — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:04:42 +0000

I may have missed it but did u guys mention Cameron Crowe's untitled film? It had a December 25th release date and stars the two time in a row nominee, Bradley Cooper. I know his last film, We Bought a Zoo, had the same Christmas release but got ignored (unjustly IMO). Still I think he can score another Jerry Maguire type hit.

By: lee

lee — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:04:42 +0000

Is it such a good thing that the Oscars have become so predictable you can guess the nominations in February? I'm hoping the studios wise up and realise that there's money to be had releasing quality movies throughout the year; The Godfather was released in March, Annie Hall April, Chinatown January, Silence of the Lambs in February.

By: Vince

Vince — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:04:42 +0000

WHIPLASH?

JK Simmons for best supporting actor?

By: dan

dan — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:04:42 +0000

Can see interstellar, A Most Violent Year, Foxcatcher and Big Eyes being big players. And i hope they will be, Steve Carell in Foxcatcher is going to be very interesting to see. J C Chandor is on a roll and I hope AMVY is going to be great, maybe some nods for Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac. interstellar might be the one this year, I'm just a bit more sceptical about Nolan's films than most people (Memento is still my favourite). Big Eyes i think will get Amy Adams an Oscar, I hate the notion that someone is "owed" an Oscar but it will really be her time if she's nominated and she'll deserve it.

i can't see inherent vice challenging, except maybe acting nominations because that's the only part of The Master that the Academy had to admit was incredible. Vice is just going to be too weird for the Oscars.

I'd also love Jeff Nichol's Midnight Special (if that comes out in 2014) to get attention, but Nichols seems to go under the radar all the time, despite having made the incredible Take Shelter and Mud.

Also maybe Boyhood has a good chance this year? I think Richard Linklater is owed some love.

By: That Kid

That Kid — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:04:42 +0000

Gosh, I totally forgot about "Carol" but that's probably the safest bet in acting nominations. "Foxcatcher" is my early favorite thanks to Bennett Miller.

By: Marko

Marko — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:04:42 +0000

Remember last year when you guys thought Man of Steel could be a contender?

By: JCS

JCS — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:04:42 +0000

Also Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby has probably good chances for few noms

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:04:42 +0000

Trash isn't an awards play. It's much more of a genre film and it is opening early in the year.

By: benutty

benutty — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:04:42 +0000

The Homesman is going to destroy.

By: Max

Max — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:04:42 +0000

My Early Predictions:

Exodus
Foxcatcher
Fury
Gone Girl
Inherent Vice
Interstellar
Into the Woods
Kill the Messenger
A Most Violent Year
Unbroken

By: ruh

ruh — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:04:42 +0000

transformers 4. by far the best movie ever made