Best Actress is an open and shut category. Julianne Moore (Still Alice) was the early frontrunner, even when it was for a different film. Either way, whether she was in the running for Still Alice or A Map to the Stars, it looked like she would finally win her Oscar. She has everything: a pure Oscar bait role, a performance…
The Oscar for Best Animated Feature is usually won in a walk. Frozen, Up, Toy Story 3 were all the frontrunners from close to the beginning of Oscar season and pulled it out all the way to the end. The only year in recent memory that the race was unclear was in 2012 when Brave…
Will "The Square" surprise Oscar pundits and win Best Documentary Feature? Since the beginning of the race for Best Documentary Feature, it looked like The Act of Killing would take the Oscar. However, this category is one that often goes a different way from the consensus. Of course there have been times,…
Terrence Winter could be a potential consolation prize for "The Wolf of Wall Street" Since the beginning of this Oscar race I found this category to be one of the easiest to predict. However, recently I feel like there could be an upset in the works. John Ridley for 12 Years a…
"Captain Phillips" is a potential spoiler in this key Oscar category. Like most technical categories this year, it looks like Gravity is going to take the award easily. However, I feel as if this is also a category that they may use to award a Best Picture nominee that might not win…
I'm not going to speak to the manner of Phillip Seymour Hoffman's death. I find that unnecessary. I am going to speak about his accomplishments in his 46 years of life that ended too early today. He is one of the greatest actors of this century. He brought us such memorable roles as Truman Capote,…
Although "The Wind Rises" has a shot at taking the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, it is "Frozen's" race to lose. Since the inception of the Best Animated Feature categories, Disney has reaped 7 nominations, however has not won. This year may change that statistic. Frozen, which is being cited as…
Can "20 Feet from Stardom" take down frontrunner "The Act of Killing" for Best Documentary Feature When it comes to Oscar predictions, the consensus tends to be right. However, there are rare cases where I think the consensus is wrong. Such is the case with Best Documentary Feature. Almost every media…
The lavish 1920s costumes of "The Great Gatsby" are a shoo-in for Best Costume Design Predicting the winner for Best Costume Design is pretty easy, the movie with the most "apparent" costumes is often crowned the winner. The more flash, glitter, and fabric, the better. This year that goes The Great Gatsby. The…
"Her" is probably in a distant second place to "Gravity" in the race for Best Original Score Unlike Best Original Song, the winner for Best Original Score at the Golden Globes and Oscars tend to match up. In the past ten years the two awards have agreed on the winner seven…
