After the debacle of 2014, I have decided I will not be boastful about my predictions. This year, I humbly give you...my wishlist for the Oscars. (These are the nominees I hope will win this Sunday, not the ones I think will win) (I don't think I can make this any clearer) (NOT predictions, wishes)
Best Picture - Birdman; Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher
and James W. Skotchdopole, Producers
Director- Boyhood; Richard Linklater
Actor - Eddie Redmayne; The Theory of Everything
Supporting Actor - J.K. Simmons; Whiplash
Actress - Rosamund Pike;Gone Girl
Supporting Actress - Patricia Arquette; Boyhood
Animated Feature - How to Train Your Dragon 2; Dean DeBlois
and Bonnie Arnold
Adapted Screenplay – Whiplash; Damien Chazelle
Original Screenplay – Boyhood; Richard Linklater
Cinematography – Birdman; Emmanuel Lubezki
Costume Design - The Grand Budapest Hotel; Milena Canonero
Film Editing – Boyhood; Sandra Adair
Foreign Language Film – Leviathan, Russia
Makeup and Hairstyling - The Grand Budapest Hotel; Frances
Hannon and Mark Coulier
Original Score - The Grand Budapest Hotel; Alexandre Desplat
Original Song - Lost Stars; Begin Again (Music and Lyric by
Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois)
Production Design - The Grand Budapest Hotel; (Production
Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock)
Sound Editing – Birdman; Martín Hernández and Aaron Glascock
Sound Mixing – Whiplash; Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas
Curley
Visual Effects – Interstellar; Paul Franklin, Andrew
Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher
*I have not included some categories like short live action film, short documentary, short animation and a few others for a lack of knowledge about the nominees.
**The only prediction I am willing to make is Neil Patrick Harris making a '12 Years A Slave' joke about Linklater's Boyhood
