Has another year of film passed by yet again so seemingly effortlessly and ever so graciously? Why yes, yes it has! It’s been a fun one, you guys. I already gave you my 2013 movie picks (which I’m sad to see some of them not make this list, like: no Rush? No Frances Ha? Did they forget all about The Iceman? And I mean, COME ON!: no Emma Thompson?), and here are my probably way too thought out and over-analytically put together Oscar predictions (*= category where I did not see every film, **= category I did not see any film).
Best Picture
– Captain Phillips
– Gravity
– 12 Years A Slave
– Philomena
– American Hustle
– Her
– Nebraska
– The Wolf of Wall Street
– Dallas Buyers Club
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
Actress
– Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
– Sandra Bullock, Gravity
– Judi Dench, Philomena
– Amy Adams, American Hustle
– Meryl Streep, August: Osage County
Directing
– Gravity
– Steve McQueen, 12 Years A Slave
– Nebraska
– American Hustle
– The Wolf of Wall Street
Supporting Actor
– Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
– Bradley Cooper, American Hustle
– Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
– Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
– Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street
Supporting Actress
– Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine
– Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
– Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave
– Julie Roberts, August: Osage County
– June Squibb, Nebraska
Documentary Feature*
– The Act of Killing
– Cutie and the Boxer
– Dirty Wars
– The Square
– 20 Feet From Stardom
Adapted Screenplay
– Before Midnight
– Captain Phillips
– Philomena
– 12 Years A Slave
– The Wolf of Wall Street
Original Screenplay
– American Hustle
– Blue Jasmine
– Dallas Buyers Club
– Her
– Nebraska
Foreign Language**
– The Great Beauty
– The Hunt
– The Broken Circle Breakdown
– The Missing Picture
– Omar
Cinematography
– Grandmaster
– Gravity
– The Great Gatsby
– The Invisible Woman
– 12 Years A Slave
Animated Feature*
– The Croods
– Despicable Me 2
– Frozen
– Ernest & Celestine
– The Wind Rises
Costume Design
– American Hustle
– The Grandmaster
– The Great Gatsby
– The Invisible Woman
– 12 Years a Slave
Makeup / Hair
– Dallas Buyers Club
– Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
– The Lone Ranger
Original Score
– John Williams, “The Book Thief”
– Steven Price, “Gravity”
– William Butler and Owen Pallett, “Her”
– Alexandre Desplat, “Philomena”
– Thomas Newman, “Saving Mr. Banks”
Original Song*
– Music by Bruce Broughton; Lyric by Dennis Spiegel, “Alone Yet Not Alone” from “Alone Yet Not Alone”
– Music and Lyric by Pharrell Williams, “Happy” from “Despicable Me 2”
– Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, “Let it Go,” from “Frozen”
– Music by Karen O; Lyric by Karen O and Spike Jonze, “The Moon Song,” from “Her”
– Music by Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen; Lyric by Paul Hewson, “Oridinary Love,” from “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom”
Production Design
– American Hustle
– Gravity
– The Great Gatsby
– Her
– 12 Years a Slave
Documentary Short Subject**
– “CaveDigger”
– “Facing Fear”
– “Karma Has No Walls”
– “The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life”
– “Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hill”
Film Editing
– American Hustle
– Captain Phillips
– Dallas Buyers Club
– Gravity
– 12 Years a Slave
Live Action Short**
– “Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me)”
– “Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything)”
– “Helium”
– “Pitaako Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?)”
– “The Voorman Problem”
Sound Editing
– All is Lost
– Captain Phillips
– Gravity
– The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
– Lone Survivor
Sound Mixing
– Captain Phillips
– Gravity
– The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
– Inside Llewyn Davis
– Lone Survivor
Visual Effects
– Gravity
– The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
– The Lone Ranger
– Iron Man 3
– Star Trek Into Darkness
(source: The Washington Post; photo via Hypable)