Monday, February 16, 2015

If I Picked the Academy Awards...


boyhood
Well I have held out long enough, I still have not seen Mommy, it was only in Boston one week. I will also not get to see Goodbye to Language in 3D in Boston, which will hamper the spirit of Goddard's film.  With that said listed below are nominees, and * would indicate my personal winners.

I have tinkered with this list for a while, and being snow bound I thought about the ten films, which impacted me the most this year.  I think there should be a basic 10 nominees, 6 directing, screenplay, and acting nominees, but maybe that's a cop out on my part, but I can make the rules here. I would also like to see the casting director get a "best ensemble" award, for putting together the best cast in a film.

Best Picture
Boyhood*
Gone Girl
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Inherent Vice
Love is Strange
Mr. Turner
Selma
Stranger by the Lake
Two Days One Night 
Under the Skin

Best Director
Wes Anderson-The Grand Budapest Hotel
David Fincher-Gone Girl 
Ava DuVarney-Selma  
Jonathan Glazer-Under the Skin
Alain Guiraudie-Stranger by the Lake
Richard Linklater-Boyhood*

Best Actor
Ralph Fiennes-The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jake Gyllenhaal-Nightcrawler
Michael Keaton- Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
John Lithgow-Love is Strange
David Oyelwo-Selma
Timothy Spall –Mr. Turner*

Best Actress
Marion Cotillard-Two Days, One Night
Essie Davis-The Babadook   
Gugu Mbatha-Raw-Beyond the Lights
Rosamund Pike-Gone Girl*
Jenny Slate-Obvious Child
Tessa Thompson-Dear White People 

Best Supporting Actor
Riz Ahmed-Nightcrawler
Josh Brolin-Inherent Vice*
Ethan Hawke-Boyhood
Edward Norton- Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Mark Ruffalo-Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons-Whiplash

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette-Boyhood*
Jessica Chastain-A Most Violent Year
Carrie Coon-Gone Girl
Agata Kulesza-Ida
Rene Russo-Nightcrawler
Tilda Swinton-Snowpiercer

Best Adapted Screenplay
Gone Girl –Gillian Flynn*
Inherent Vice-Paul Thomas Anderson
Snowpiercer-Joon Ho Bong, Kelly Masterson
Under the Skin-Walter Campbell
Winter Sleep-Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Best Original Screenplay
Boyhood-Richard Linklater
The Grand Budapest Hotel-Wes Anderson*
Love is Strange-Ira Sachs, Mauricio Zacharias
Selma-Paul Webb
Stranger by the Lake-Alain Guiraudie
Two Days, One Night-Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne

Best Foreign Language Film
Force Majeur
Ida
Leviathan 
Stranger by the Lake*
Two Days one Night

Best Animated Feature
Big Hero Six
The Boxtrolls
The Lego Movie*
Song of the Sea
The Tale of Princess Kaguya

Best Ensemble (Casting Award)
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Foxcatcher*
Gone Girl
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Inherent Vice

Best Costume Design
Belle
The Grand Budapest Hotel*
Inherent Vice
The Immigrant
Mr. Turner

Best Cinematography
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Mr. Turner*
Stranger by the Lake
Under the Skin

Best Film Editing
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Boyhood*
Edge of Tomorrow
Gone Girl
Whiplash

Best Original Score
Gone Girl –Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
The Grand Budapest Hotel-Alexandre Desplat
Only Lovers Left Alive-Jim Jarmusch, Carter Logan, Shane Stoneback, Jozef van Wissem
A Most Violent Year-Alex Ebert
Under the Skin-Mica Levi*

Best Original Song
Begin Again-"Lost Stars"-Music and Lyric by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois
Beyond the Lights-"Grateful"-Music and Lyrics by Diane Warren
“Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me-"I’m Not Gonna Miss You”-Music and Lyric by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond

The Lego Movie-"Everything is Awesome-Music and Lyrics by Shawn Patterson
Selma-"Glory"-Music and Lyrics by John Legend and Common*

Best Production Design
The Grand Budapest Hotel*
Interstellar
Mr. Turner
Only Lovers Left Alive
Snowpiercer

Best Sound Mixing
Fury
Guardians of the Galaxy
Into the Woods
Under the Skin*
Whiplash

Best Sound Editing
Fury
Guardians of the Galaxy
Interstellar
Snowpiercer
Whiplash*

Best Visual Effects
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes*
Guardians of the Galaxy
Interstellar
Snowpiercer
X-Men: Days of Future Past 

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