Wednesday 13 January 2016

2015 Academy Awards Nominations - Predictions

With the Oscar nominations a little over 24 hours away (always one of my favourite events of the year), I may as well try my hand at prognosticating (though not having seen most of the contenders, I'm likely to be way out)...




Best Picture
  • Bridge of Spies
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • The Martian 
  • The Revenant
  • Spotlight
 If more than five:
  • The Big Short
  • Straight Outta Compton
  • Carol
  • Inside Out
  • Sicario
Should be nominated: Inside Out

Best Director
  • Adam McKay - The Big Short
  • George Miller - Mad Max: Fury Road
  • Ridley Scott - The Martian 
  • Alejandro Gonzalez Inaritu - The Revenant
  • Thomas McCarthy - Spotlight

Best Actor
  • Steve Carell - The Big Short
  • Bryan Cranston - Trumbo
  • Matt Damon - The Martian 
  • Leonardo DiCaprio - The Revenant
  • Michael Fassbender - Steve Jobs

Best Actress
  • Cate Blanchett - Carol
  • Brie Larson - Room 
  • Charlotte Rampling - 45 Years
  • Saorise Ronan - Brooklyn 
  • Alicia Vikander - The Danish Girl

Best Supporting Actress
  • Jennifer Jason Leigh - The Hateful Eight
  • Rachel McAdams - Spotlight
  • Kristen Stewart - Clouds of Sils Maria
  • Alicia Vikander - Ex Machina
  • Kate Winslet - Steve Jobs

Best Supporting Actor
  • Christian Bale - The Big Short
  • Paul Dano - Love and Mercy
  • Idris Elba - Beasts of No Nation
  • Mark Rylance - Bridge of Spies
  • Sylvester Stallone - Creed

Best Original Screenplay
  • Bridge of Spies
  • The Hateful Eight
  • Inside Out
  • Spotlight
  • Straight Outta Compton

Best Adapted Screenplay
  • The Big Short
  • Carol 
  • The Martian
  • Room
  • Steve Jobs

Best Animated Feature
  • Anomalisa
  • Boy and the World
  • Inside Out
  •  The Peanuts Movie
  • Shaun the Sheep

Best Foreign Language Film
  • Embrace of the Serpent
  • Mustang
  • Son of Saul
  • Viva
  • A War

Best Documentary Feature
  • Amy
  • Cartel Land
  • Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief 
  • The Look of Silence
  • Where to Invade Next

Best Art Direction
  • Bridge of Spies
  • Brooklyn
  • Carol
  • The Danish Girl
  • Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Cinematography
  • Bridge of Spies 
  • Carol
  • The Danish Girl
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • The Revenant

Best Costume Design
  • Brooklyn
  • Carol
  • Cinderella
  • The Danish Girl 
  • Sufragette

Best Film Editing
  • The Big Short
  • Bridge of Spies 
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • The Martian
  • The Revenent
If documentaries got their due: Kurt Cobain: A Montage of Heck

Best Makeup and Hair
  • Black Mass
  • Mr Holmes
  • The Revenant

Best Original Score
  • Carol
  • The Hateful Eight
  • Inside Out 
  • The Revenant
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Original Song
  • “See You Again” - Furious 7
  • "Til It Happens To You" - The Hunting Ground 
  • "Feels Like Summer" - Shaun the Sheep
  • “Writing’s On The Wall”  - Spectre
  • "Simple Song #3" - Youth

Best Sound Editing
  • Bridge of Spies 
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • The Martian
  • The Revenent
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Sound Mixing
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • The Revenent
  • Sicario
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens
  • Straight Outta Compton

Best Visual Effects
  • Jurassic World 
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • The Martian
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens
  • The Walk

Most common themes in the Australian media 
  1. Australian's George Miller and Cate Blanchett nominated/snubbed for Oscar nominations
  2. Star Wars misses out on Best Picture nomination despite huge box office
  3. Leonardo DiCaprio has a chance to win his first Oscar 

2 comments:

  1. I love the most common themes in Australian media at the end. :-)

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  2. 'twas the easiest categoy to predict :)

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