86th Oscar Lead Actress Updates (2013-2014 Awards Season) (10/30/2013)

Former nominees and winners are currently the frontrunners for the Lead Actress race, but there are several newcomers just below the surface. Can any of them break through for a nomination? Will love for Gravity drive Sandra Bullock to a second win over the critically acclaimed performance of Cate Blanchett in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine? Or will Meryl Streep or Judi Dench blow past them all?

1. Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine (Predicted Winner)

2. Sandra Bullock in Gravity

3. Meryl Streep in August: Osage County

4. Judi Dench in Philomena

5. Emma Thompson in Saving Mr. Banks

Alternates:

6. Amy Adams in American Hustle

7. Adele Exarchopoulos in Blue Is The Warmest Color

8. Julie Delpy in Before Midnight

9. Kate Winslet in Labor Day

10. Julia Roberts in August: Osage County (if voters don’t buy the “supporting” campaign)

11. Brie Larson in Short Term 12

12. Berenice Bejo in The Past

13. Greta Gerwig in Frances Ha

14. Shailene Woodley in The Spectacular Now

15. Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Enough Said

16. Carey Mulligan in The Great Gatsby

17. Paulina Garcia in Gloria

18. Rooney Mara in Ain’t Them Bodies Saints

19. Jennifer Hudson in Black Nativity

20. Melissa McCarthy in The Heat

21. Sophie Nelisse in The Book Thief

22. Felicity Jones in The Invisible Woman

23. Emma Watson in The Bling Ring (if voters don’t buy the “supporting” campaign)

24. Robin Weigart in Concussion

25. Naomi Watts in Diana

26. Andrea Riseborough in Shadow Dancer

27. Ziyi Zhang in The Grandmaster

28. Audrey Tautou in Therese

29. Amanda Seyfried in Lovelace

30. Amy Seimetz in Upstream Color

31. Lake Bell in In A World…

32. Angela Bassett in Black Nativity (if pushed lead)

33. Scarlett Johansson in Don Jon

34. Kathryn Hahn in Afternoon Delight

35. Nora Aunor in Thy Womb

36. Amy Acker in Much Ado About Nothing

37. Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

38. Waad Mohammed in Wadjda

39. Saoirse Ronan in How I Live Now

40. Naomi Watts in Sunlight Jr.

41. Rachel McAdams in About Time

42. Christa Theret in Renoir

43. Elizabeth Olsen in Therese

44. Rinko Kikuchi in Pacific Rim

45.Elizabeth Olsen in Oldboy

46. Tilda Swinton in Only Lovers Left Alive

47. Michelle Pfeiffer in The Family

48. Alice Lowe in Sightseers

49. Katie Chang in The Bling Ring

50. Sandra Bullock in The Heat

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86th Oscar Lead Actor Updates (2013-2014 Awards Season) (10/23/13)

The lead actor category usually sticks with the largest names, and this year may be no exception. WIth stars like Robert Redford, Tom Hanks and Bruce Dern in the mix, the youngsters are probably just going to have to wait. Hopefully, though, the 36 year old Chiwetel Ejiofor will be able to grab the final award out of their cold, aging hands!

1. Chiwetel Ejiofor in Twelve Years A Slave (Predicted Winner)

2. Robert Redford in All Is Lost

3. Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club

4. Tom Hanks in Captain Phillips

5. Bruce Dern in Nebraska

Alternates:

6. Michael B. Jordan in Fruitvale Station

7. Forest Whitaker in The Butler

8. Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf Of Wall Street

9. Oscar Isaac in Inside Llewyn Davis

10. Joaquin Phoenix in Her

11. Christian Bale in American Hustle

12. Hugh Jackman in Prisoners

13. Idris Elba in Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom

14. Ethan Hawke in Before Midnight

15. Michael Fassbender in The Counselor

16. Mads Mikkelsen in The Hunt

17. Daniel Bruhl in Rush (if the voters don’t buy the “supporting” campaign)

18. Dane DeHaan in Kill Your Darlings (if pushed lead)

19. Leonardo DiCaprio in The Great Gatsby

20. Ralph Fiennes in The Invisible Woman

21. Ben Stiller in The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty

22. Casey Affleck in Ain’t Them Bodies Saints

23. Miles Teller in The Spectacular Now

24. Jacob Latimore in Black Nativity

25. Benedict Cumberbatch in The Fifth Estate

26. Chris Hemsworth in Rush

27. Christian Bale in Out Of The Furnace

28. Josh Brolin in Labor Day

29. Ryan Gosling in The Place Beyond The Pines

30. Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Don Jon

31. Daniel Radcliffe in Kill Your Darlings

32. Chadwick Boseman in 42

33. Steve Coogan in Philomena

34. Mark Wahlberg in Lone Survivor

35. Tye Sheridan in Mud

36. Will Forte in Nebraska

37. Tahar Rahim in The Past

38. James Gandolfini in Enough Said

39. Josh Brolin in Oldboy

40. Alec Baldwin in Blue Jasmine (if voters buy the “lead” campaign)

41. Michel Bouquet in Renoir

42. Terence Stamp in Unfinished Song

43. Chris O’Dowd in The Sapphires

44. Tony Leung in The Grandmaster

45. Michael Shannon in The Iceman

46. Paul Rudd in Prince Avalanche

47. Ryan Gosling in Only God Forgives

48. Paul Giamatti in All Is Bright

49. Liam James in The Way Way Back

50. James Franco in Oz The Great And Powerful

As always, check the Tracker Pages in the upper right hand corner of this blog for the most updated predictions in all categories!    

See Lead Actor predictions for other years HERE.

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86th Oscar Best Picture Updates (2013-2014 Awards Season) (10/16/13)

I’ve been away from the Oscar game for a while, but instead of crying over spilled milk, let’s see if I can get back on track. More categories will be coming over the next few weeks, but Best Picture seems like a good place to start again.

As luck would have it, I saw two of my top five films over the past two weekends (Gravity and Captain Phillips), and my predicted winner is opening this weekend in the form of Steve McQueen’s Twelve Years A Slave. You know that I’ll be first in line!

So without further ado, here’s what I’m predicting at the moment:

1. Twelve Years A Slave (Predicted Winner)

2. Gravity

3. American Hustle

4. Captain Phillips

5. Saving Mr. Banks

6. Inside Llewyn Davis

7. Fruitvale Station

8. Nebraska

9. The Butler

10. The Monuments Men

Alternates:

11. August: Osage County

12. The Wolf Of Wall Street

13. Blue Jasmine

14. Her

15. Philomena

16. The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty

17. Rush

18. Before Midnight

19. All Is Lost

20. Blue Is The Warmest Color

21. Prisoners

22. Labor Day

23. Dallas Buyers Club

24. The Counselor

25. The Book Thief

26. The Great Gatsby

27. Enough Said

28. The Place Beyond The Pines

29. The Fifth Estate

30. The Past

31. Out Of The Furnace

32. Mud

33. Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom

34. Oz The Great And Powerful

35. The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug

36. Ain’t Them Bodies Saints

37. Stories We Tell

38. The Way Way Back

39. Elysium

40. Frances Ha

41. Renoir

42. 42

43. The Grandmaster

44. Much Ado About Nothing

45. Black Nativity

46. The Spectacular Now

47. The Bling Ring

48. Lone Survivor

49. The Lone Ranger

50. Short Term 12

As always, check the Tracker Pages in the upper right hand corner of this blog for the most updated predictions in all categories.    

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