The high production value of the recreated 1920s sets of "The Great Gatsby" could be the spoiler in this tight race. Part of my reasoning for my prediction in this category is my confidence, or at least until recently, in the Best Picture category. If "12 Years a Slave" wins Best…
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…
Will Roger Deakins finally lose his title as Oscars biggest loser in the Best Cinematography category? I think that many pundits are overestimated that lock that Emmanuel Lubezki for "Gravity" is in this race. While I agree that he is pretty much the frontrunner, I do think that there is room for an…
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…
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…
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…
"Let it Go" from Disney's Frozen is the undisputed frontrunner for Best Original Song. Before I give you my predictions for Best Original Song, I have to give a startling statistic. In the last ten years, the winner of the Golden Globe for Best Original Song only repeated at the Oscars…
