Academy Award Predictions

Hey All, with the Annual Academy Awards coming up shortly Mike and I thought we would have a guess as to what we think will come out trumps. We have highlighted below both what we think deserves to win and what we think will, in reality, win. Sometimes this is both and we will make note of it by colouring the row in both colours.

And so, for the sheer fun of it, here are our thoughts:

Yellow is for what we think will win
Green is for what we would like to win

Best Picture
American Hustle - Guys Prediticion is a little different to Mike's on this one
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her- Mike's prediction
Nebraska
Philomena
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Actor
Christian Bale, American Hustle
Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club

Best Actress
Amy Adams, American Hustle
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Judi Dench, Philomena
Meryl Streep, August: Osage County

Best Supporting Actor
Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
Bradley Cooper, American Hustle - With Guy's prediciton of best picture I think this will win
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave - Mike is pretty sure Fassbender will win too, and I hope he does
Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

Best Supporting Actress
Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts, August: Osage County
June Squibb, Nebraska

Best Director
David O. Russell, American Hustle
Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity - Mike's wish here for best director
Alexander Payne, Nebraska
Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave - Guy's wish here for Steve to finally get one
Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Adapted Screenplay
Before Midnight - Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
Captain Phillips - Billy Ray
Philomena - Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
12 Years a Slave - John Ridley
The Wolf of Wall Street - Terence Winter

Best Original Screenplay
American Hustle - Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
Blue Jasmine - Woody Allen
Dallas Buyers Club - Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack
Her - Spike Jonze
Nebraska - Bob Nelson

Best Production Design
American Hustle
Gravity
The Great Gatsby
Her
12 Years a Slave

Best Cinematography
The Grandmaster
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Prisoners

Best Visual Effects
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
The Lone Ranger
Star Trek Into Darkness

So lets see how it plays out on March the 2nd. Please note we have only tried to guess those categories we know enough about, and have in fact not seen all the movies in them either, which makes it a bit hard. But with knowledge of how these awards have been given out in the past we feel we can make a pretty sure bet given what we know about them.

How about you? Do you agree or disagree?