87th annual Oscars: Predictions

The 87th Oscars

Tad’s Predictions

      The time is here for my predictions of this year’s Oscar movies.  As always, I focus on my favorite categories of Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Director.

Best Picture:

• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Boyhood
• American Sniper
• The Imitation Game
• Selma
• Theory of Everything
• Whiplash
• Birdman

The battle this year will be between Birdman and Boyhood.  I thought Birdman had the lock on it, but Boyhood has been getting a lot of buzz lately.  

Tad’s Prediction:  Birdman

Best Actor

• Steve Carrell
• Bradley Cooper
• Benedict Cumberbatch
• Michael Keaton
• Eddie Redmayne

This one will be between Michael Keaton for Birdman or Eddie Redmayne for Theory of Everything. I think after a long career, it is Keaton's time

Tad’s Prediction: Michael Keaton

Best Actress

• Marion Cottilard
• Felicity Jones
• Julliane Moore
• Rosemund Pike
• Reese Witherspoon

This one was a challenge for me.  Reese Witherspoon and Rosemund Pike are both strong contenders, but Julianne Moore is getting the buzz for Still Alice

Tad’s Prediction: Julianne Moore

Best Supporting Actor

• Robert Duvall
• Ethan Hawke
• Ed Norton
• Mark Ruffalo
• JK Simmons

No contest: JK Simmons for Whiplash

Tad’s Prediction: JK Simmons

Best Supporting Actress

• Meryl Streep
• Patricia Arquette
• Kiera Knightly
• Emma Stone
• Laura Dern

You can never discount Meryl Streep in an Academy race, but Boyhood will be recognized somehow this night.   

Tad’s Prediction:  Patrica Arquette

Best Director

• Alejandro G. Iñárritu
• Richard Linklater
• Bennett Miller
• Wes Anderson
• Morton Tyldum

This could go many ways, but Birdman was such a unique and talked about film, I think it is going to go that way

Tad’s Prediction: Alejandro G. Iñárritu