Awards Commentary
2015 Oscar Predictions
It's been a pretty boring awards year, but here are my predictions for the winners in some of the major categories.
Best Picture: Boyhood
Best Director: Richard Linklaker for Boyhood
Best Actor: Michael Keaton in Birdman
Best Actress: Julianne Moore in Still Alice
Best Supporting Actor: J.K. Simmons in Whiplash
Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette in Boyhood
Best Original Screenplay: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Imitation Game
Best Animated Film: How To Train Your Dragon 2
2015 Oscar Results
Turns out all of the original predictions ended up being wrong and, tied with a few upsets, that really turned my predictions off bigtime.
Best Picture WINNER: Birdman
Best Director WINNER: Alejandro Gonzalev Inarritu for Birdman
Best Actor WINNER: Eddie Redmayne for The Theory of Everything
Best Actrss WINNER: Julianne Moore for Still Alice
Best Supporting Actor WINNER: J.K. Simmons for Whiplash
Best Supporting Actress WINNER: Patricia Arquette for Boyhood
Best Original Screenplay WINNER: Birdman
Best Adapted Screenplay WINNER: The Imitation Game
Best Animated Film WINNER: Big Hero 6
Discussion on 2015's results...
Well, I guess it's only fitting that my first year of doing this, I would go 4/9 (the red highlight indicates an incorrect prediction) . I guess it was just Birdman's night (with the exception of Best Actor). My only qualm about this year's results is in the Best Animated Film category, where the academy went from snubbing The Lego Movie (an aggregious sin, especially considering the lack of competition) to giving the award out to the mediocre and unoriginal Big Hero 6 (a far worse sin). I mean, it was a fun film but there was no creativity at all and everything felt been-there-done-that. While I wasn't as enamored by How To Train Your Dragon 2 as everybody else seemed to be, I still thought it was far better than Big Hero 6 and a win for it would have allowed the academy to redeem itself for not giving the win to the original How To Train Your Dragon. What a wasted opportunity.